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February -- News Posts
February 2013 Posts:
Thursday 28 February 2013
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Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's and Analog and in anthology Clockwork Phoenix 4
Wednesday 27 February 2013
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Reviews
Special to Locus Online
There are seventeen tales in a book of only 171 pages, so you can immediately discern that Petrushevskaya is in favor of the "short, sharp shock." She believes in getting in first and fast with the Kafka hatchet.
Tuesday 26 February 2013
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Monitor
Ned Beauman's The Teleportation Accident, C. Robert Cargill's Dreams and Shadows, John Joseph Adams' Oz Reimagined, and titles by Adrian, Baggott, Beal, Benson, Carman, Chapman, Dahlquist, Henry, Hughes, Johnson, Knight, Lovegrove, Murphy, Nevill, Newman, Rendahl, and Somers
Monday 25 February 2013
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Monitor
Karen Russell's Vampires in the Lemon Grove and Peter V. Brett's The Daylight War debut.
Sunday 24 January 2013
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Reviews
Special to Locus Online
John Dies at the End is a weird, silly, lightweight, low-budget science fiction comedy. If you're in the mood for that, you'll enjoy it as long as you dial your expectations knob down to modest.
Saturday 23 February 2013
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Monitor
Robert Silverberg's Tales of Majipoor and Paul Witcover's The Emperor of All Things
Friday 22 February 2013
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Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Gorodischer's newest from Small Beer is Trafalgar, and it's pure science fiction. Ten stories are narrated by one Trafalgar Medrano, a lively and likable space merchant...
Thursday 21 February 2013
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Monitor
New editions of Tim Powers' Declare, Robert Silverberg's Lord of Darkness, and titles by Robert Aickman and George R.R. Martin
Wednesday 20 February 2013
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Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Lightspeed, Eclipse Online, Strange Horizons, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Tuesday 19 February 2013
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Monitor
Published today: titles by Adams, Barnes & Due, Cooper, Englehart, Manieri, Marr & Armstrong, Philip, Rawn, and Rees; earlier, Tim Powers' novella Salvage and Demolition and a collection by Tim Pratt
Monday 18 February 2013
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Monitor
George Saunders' Tenth of December remains #1 at Los Angeles Times.
Sunday 17 February 2013
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Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2013 issue
It's Van Pelt's refusal to accept the usual distinctions between normality and strangeness that both gives the book its odd sense of unity — one guiding spirit — and the stories a combined power more than the sum of their parts.
Saturday 16 February 2013
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Monitor
What's in new issues of Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Jupiter, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and SF Site
Friday 15 February 2013
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Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview
I think genre labels are important and useful, especially for critics, readers, and publishers, but they aren't something I spend much time thinking about when I'm writing something.
Thursday 14 February 2013
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Monitor
Ted Kosmatka's The Games and titles by Adams, Barron, Bear, Briggs, Britain, Card, Cooper, Deas, Frater, Hobb, Knight, and Weber
Wednesday 13 February 2013
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Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2013 issue
...What is more striking is the degree to which the novel reveals Lord's insightful familiarity with SF concepts that date back at least to the 1960s, with novels like Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage and especially Le Guin's The Left Hand of Darkness.
Tuesday 12 February 2013
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Monitor
Karen Lord's The Best of All Possible Worlds, Karen Russell's collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove, and titles by Bennett, Bova, Brett, Collomore, Forster, Guibord, Kittredge, Lam, Locke, Meyer, Neill, Roberson, Strom-Martin & Underwood, and Yep
Monday 11 February 2013
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Monitor
Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson's A Memory of Light remains in the top four on four lists.
Sunday 10 February 2013
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Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of F&SF, Interzone, Clarkesworld, Apex Magazine, new 'zine Waylines, and a novella by Crystal Lynn Hilbert
Saturday 9 February 2013
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Monitor
What's in new issues of Black Static, Focus, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Shimmer, Star*Line, and Vector
Friday 8 February 2013
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Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2013 issue
A book about economics shouldn't be as engaging as By Light Alone is, but Roberts is skilled at meshing both idea and character in a way that makes each feel equally vital.
Thursday 7 February 2013
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Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Lois McMaster Bujold's Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, and titles by James Luceno and Karen Traviss
Wednesday 6 February 2013
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Magazine
February New and Notable books include Margo Lanagan's Cracklescape, Walter Jon Williams' The Boolean Gate, Karin Tidbeck's Jagannath, and titles by Bullington, Fenner & Fenner, Gould, Hamilton, Jones, Kaveney, Levithan, and Marr.
Tuesday 5 February 2013
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Monitor
Cory Doctorow's Homeland, the first US edition of J.G. Ballard's autobiography Miracles of Life, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's latest Liaden Universe novel Necessity's Child, and titles by Asher, Blackmoore, Brennan, Carriger, Chadbourn, Chadwick, Decker, Dornbusch, Redick, and Tierney [Kiernan]
Monday 4 February 2013
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Monitor
Kim Harrison's Ever After debuts on three lists.
Sunday 3 February 2013
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Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview
The core of Silently and Very Fast is something that I think underlies a lot of my work: that the most human thing is telling stories. When you can tell a story about yourself, that's the beginning of consciousness. You can see it in little kids, and it's part of why dogs are not conscious.
Saturday 2 February 2013
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Magazine
From Locus Magazine's February 2013 issue. Deadline for voting is April 15, 2013.
Friday 1 February 2013
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Magazine
From Locus Magazine's February 2013 issue
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