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September 2013 Posts: This Week's BestsellersMonday 30 September 2013 | Monitor
Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge debuts on three lists.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late SeptemberSunday 29 September 2013 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Asimov's, Analog, The Dark, Tor.com, Unlikely Story, and Mythic Delirium, with recommendations of stories by Ian R. MacLeod, Gregory Norman Bossert, Daniel Hatch, Dale Bailey, and Mark Rigney
Periodicals: late SeptemberSaturday 28 September 2013 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, On Spec, and Shimmer, plus new online at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Perihelion SF, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New Books : September SupplementalFriday 27 September 2013 | Monitor
Paolo Bacigalupi's Zombie Baseball Beatdown, John Scalzi's The Mallet of Loving Correction, Gary Westfahl's William Gibson, and titles by Bardugo, Boston, Datlow, Fforde, Hellard & Thomas, Holt, Kiernan, Klima et al., Lovegrove, Maberry, McClure, Melton, Wasserman, and Zettel
Spotlight on Betsy Mitchell of Open Road MediaThursday 26 September 2013 | Perspectives
What we do is match up book fans with authors they may not know but will very likely enjoy, using every means of finding readers available to the modern online marketer. The process is so different from what I learned in pre-internet times!
Faren Miller reviews J.M. SidorovaWednesday 25 August 2013 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2013 issue
Even if The Age of Ice sometimes strains patience or belief with its vast wealth of detail, on the whole Alexander's sharp observations — and the author's ability to plunge him into the thick of things, fraught with emotions far more intense than ennui — display a remarkable power. New Books : 24 SeptemberTuesday 24 September 2013 | Monitor
Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, Stephen Baxter's Proxima, Steven Brust & Skyler White's The Incrementalists, Brandon Sanderson's Steelheart, and titles by Adams, Holloway, James, Littlewood, Mansbach, Schwab, Siegel,
Willrich, and Wooding
This Week's BestsellersMonday 23 September 2013 | Monitor
Stephen King's Doctor Sleep is #1 at Amazon.com.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Michael Blumlein's What the Doctor OrderedSunday 22 September 2013 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Blumlein's prefered mode is fabulism, a blend of the Three Faces of Fantastika — Fantasy, Horror, and Science Fiction. Laid of course atop a foundation of actinic naturalism. The ratios shift and flow from story to story. Tone varies from downright scary to wistfully melancholy to surreally absurd. Classic Reprints: SeptemberSaturday 21 September 2013 | Monitor
The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Volume Eight and new editions of works by Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Dan Simmons, and Jo Walton
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-SeptemberFriday 20 September 2013 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Interzone, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, On Spec, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet; with recommendations of stories by Greg Kurzawa, Sean McMullen, M Bennardo, Meda Kahn, and Lillian Wheeler
Spotlight on Luis Ortiz, PublisherThursday 19 September 2013 | Perspectives
I don't buy into the "Amazon taking over the world" thinking. I believe that in the long run Amazon will stumble in the publishing arena. I do know that e-books make it a lot easier for publishers to sell directly to readers without a middleman and I don't know why the big publishers are not doing more of this.
Cecelia Holland reviews Kim Stanley Robinson's ShamanWednesday 18 September 2013 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2013 issue
Stan Robinson has always been a writer of huge ambition — he owns Mars, after all — and in taking on this theme, he has another huge purpose: not to tell us what this most ancient of human worlds was, but somehow, through the act of fiction, to make us remember. New Books : 17 SeptemberTuesday 17 September 2013 | Monitor
Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge, a children's picture book by Neil Gaiman, and titles by Armstrong, Black, Cummings, de la Cruz & Johnston, Di Filipo, Duncan, Gibson, Hawke, Kristoff, Lalumière, Modesitt, Moyer, Stiefvater, Sullivan, Thomas, and Werlin
This Week's BestsellersMonday 16 September 2013 | Monitor
Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Styxx debut on print lists; also, titles by S.M. Stirling, Seanan McGuire, and J.K. Rowling
Jack Skillingstead: Ups & DownsSunday 15 September 2013 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview
I'm always obsessed with meaning. I veer back and forth. Sometimes I think, 'Of course, everything in life has meaning.' If nothing has meaning, things are pretty bleak. My point of interest with it is, 'Does it matter what's true, or does it only matter what you believe?' New in Paperback: August - SeptemberSaturday 14 September 2013 | Monitor
Iain M. Banks' The Hydrogen Sonata, Lois McMaster Bujold's Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance, Cory Doctorow's Pirate Cinema, and titles by Bennett, Buehlman , Butcher, Card, Carson, Lee & Miller, Levithan, Maberry, Smith, Stirling, and Weeks
Paul Di Filippo reviews James Gunn's TranscendentalFriday 13 September 2013 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Gunn has issued a novel that equals or tops his earlier landmark, earning, I think, a permanent rank in the extended canon of our genre. It is wise, exciting, clever, surprising, hip and au courant (or perhaps timeless is a better word). Its technical craftsmanship is subtle and awe-inspiring. Locus Bestsellers, SeptemberThursday 12 September 2013 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, James S.A. Corey's Abaddon's Gate, and titles by Daniel Wallace and R.A. Salvatore
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early SeptemberWednesday 11 September 2013 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Subterranean, Clarkesworld, Apex, and anthology Glitter and Mayhem; with recommendations of stories by Ted Chiang, James Patrick Kelly, Ian Tregellis, Amal El-Mohtar, and Alan deNiro.
New Books : 10 SeptemberTuesday 10 September 2013 | Monitor
Patrick Ness' More Than This, Kim Newman's Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard, anthologies from Steve Berman and Paula Guran, and other titles by David Barnett, Joel Shepherd, and Rick Yancey
This Week's BestsellersMonday 9 September 2013 | Monitor
John Jackson Miller's Star Wars novel Kenobi debuts on three lists.
Nalo Hopkinson: As Magic DoesSunday 8 September 2013 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview
Despite what some people think, I know exactly how the magic works in the book. I thought it out very carefully. But I was telling the story through the eyes of somebody who is only half aware of the magic, who has lived with some version of that magic all her life anyway, and so doesn't find it all that weird. Electronic Periodicals: early SeptemberSaturday 7 September 2013 | Monitor
The New York Review of Science Fiction celebrates its 300th issue; Omni Reboot debuts; plus, what's new at Apex, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Ideomancer, Indian SF, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Quantum Muse, SF Site, and Subterranean
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through June 2014Friday 6 September 2013 | Resources
Selected titles from Locus Magazine's September issue listings are arranged here by month.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, SeptemberThursday 5 September 2013 | Magazine
September New and Notable books include art books Spectrum Fantastic Art Live! 2 and Exposé 11 and titles by Datlow, Dozois, Guran, Kadrey, Lansdale, McIntosh, Novik, Shea, Shirley, Sidorova, and Stross.
New Books : 4 SeptemberWednesday 4 September 2013 | Monitor
Kim Stanley Robinson's Shaman, Laird Barron's The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All and Other Stories, Nancy Farmer's The Lord of Opium, and titles by Barnes, Bond, Drake, Gilman, Hill, Jonach, Kenyon, Masterton, McGuire, Merz, Millar, Rawlik, Rees, Reichert, Ringo, Scull, Stirling, and Williams
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 3 September 2013 | Monitor
Terry Goodkind's The Third Kingdom and Samantha Shannon's The Bone Season debut strongly on print lists.
Cory Doctorow: Libraries and E-booksMonday 2 September 2013 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's September Issue.
While I was in Chicago, I sat down with some of the ALA strategists to talk about how libraries are getting a raw deal on e-books. When libraries want to buy an e-book from the publisher, they find themselves paying as much as five times the price you or I pay for the same book. September Issue Table of ContentsSunday 1 September 2013 | Magazine
The September issue features interviews with Nalo Hopkinson and Jack Skillingstead, a new column by Cory Doctorow, listings of forthcoming books through June 2014, spotlights on Betsy Mitchell and Luis Ortiz, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Kim Stanley Robinson, Paul McAuley, Stephen P. Kiernan, Marcus Sedgwick, Seanan McGuire, and many others.
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