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October 2013 Posts: Electronic Periodicals: late OctoberThursday 31 October 2013 | Monitor
What's new online at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Mythic Delirium, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late OctoberWednesday 30 October 2013 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, and Paula Guran's anthology Halloween: Magic, Mystery and the Macabre, with recommendations of stories by Sunny Moraine and Gemma Files
New Books : 29 OctoberTuesday 29 October 2013 | Monitor
Lavie Tidhar's The Violent Century, Richard Kadrey's Dead Set, and titles by Bernobich, Burgess, Chu, Clare & Lewis, Douglas, Gladstone, Hair, Harris, Henry, Hollihan, Holloway, Holzner, Jones, Kent, Lyle, McGugan, Shepherd, and Spring
This Week's BestsellersMonday 28 October 2013 | Monitor
Titles by Stephen R. Donaldson, Veronica Roth, and Neal Shusterman debut on USA Today's list.
Russell Letson reviews Ann Leckie's Ancillary JusticeSunday 27 October 2013 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2013 issue
A revenge-quest intertwined with a set of figure-my-culture puzzles wrapped around a reluctant-buddies adventure-travelogue, climaxing in a series of revelations and action-movie physical confrontations. The complexity and strangeness of the world that generates all this requires a degree of patience at the beginning — there is a large dose of guess-my-world in the book's DNA, and some of the questions one puzzles over are necessarily left unanswered for some time. But patience is rewarded. This is not entry-level SF, and its payoff is correspondingly greater because of that. New Books : October SupplementalSaturday 26 October 2013 | Monitor
S.T. Joshi's The Assaults of Chaos: A Novel about H.P. Lovecraft, anthology Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, and titles by Alexander, Ballantyne, Brozak, Kirkman & Bonansinga, Nevill, Newton, Pierce, and Rought
Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Tales of Jack the RipperFriday 24 October 2013 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2013 issue
Ross Lockhart's Tales of Jack the Ripper is the latest in a succession of anthologies featuring stories on the Jack the Ripper theme. Its 19 selections — poetry and fiction — are a mix of reprints and (mostly) originals that show both the possibilities and limitations of that theme. Classic Reprints: OctoberThursday 24 October 2013 | Monitor
New editions of Michael Bishop's Ancient of Days and other novels by Crowley, Dick & Zelazny, Powers, and Verne; plus omnibuses, collections, and anthologies from Aldiss, Ashley, Blaylock, Blish, Davis, and Moorcock
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Graham Joyce's The Year of the LadybirdWednesday 23 October 2013 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2013 issue
A couple of elements that may seem fantastical, such as the record-smashing heat wave and the locust-like plague of millions of ladybirds, turn out to be well-documented actual events from the summer of 1976, when the novel takes place. As is often the case with Joyce, we come to realize that some events which seem fantastical aren't, and some events which seem real turn out fantastical. New Books : 22 OctoberTuesday 22 October 2013 | Monitor
Dan Simmons' The Abominable, Veronica Roth's Allegiant, and titles by Anthony, Grant, Jones, Marr & Pratt, Pinborough, and Rouaud
This Week's BestsellersMonday 21 October 2013 | Monitor
Dave Eggers' The Circle and Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves debut on lists.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-OctoberSunday 20 October 2013 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of F&SF and Lightspeed and in anthology Rags and Bones, with recommendations of stories by Michael Blumlein, Albert E. Cowdrey, M.K. Hobson, Neil Gaiman, Tim Pratt, and Gene Wolfe
New in Paperback: September - OctoberSaturday 19 October 2013 | Monitor
Joe Abercrombie's Red Country, Joe Hill's NOS4A2, and titles by Anthony, Baxter, Campbell, Carey, del Toro & Hogan, Lackey, Philip, Pratchett, Shinn, and Spoor
Paul Di Filippo reviews K.W. JeterFriday 18 October 2013 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The interesting question now, concerning Fiendish Schemes, released some twenty-five years of steampunkishness onward, is whether Jeter can offer advances on the form. I'm happy to report a triumph. This is state-of-the-art "mad Victorian fantasy." Gwenda Bond reviews Holly BlackThursday 17 October 2013 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2013 issue
In a world filled with more fantasy series than anyone could follow, a satisfying standalone is always an excellent thing to find. Yet here's hoping The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is embraced by so many lovers of dark fantasy and horror, by readers ready for vampires to be truly scary again, that Black is tempted to visit this world again. G. Willow Wilson: Landscape of the ImaginationWednesday 16 October 2013 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview
The beauty of science fiction and fantasy is that the reader can take it on whatever level they're capable of. The reading can be that multifaceted. If somebody wants to read a story as a metaphor for a political situation, or gay rights, or women in history, or whatever, they can do that. But if they don’t want to read it that way, and it's a good standalone story, they don't have to read the deeper meaning into it. New Books : 15 OctoberTuesday 15 October 2013 | Monitor
Wolfgang Jeschke's The Cusanus Game, Stephen R. Donaldson's last Thomas Covenant novel The Last Dark, K.W. Jeter's Fiendish Schemes, Jeff VanderMeer's Wonderbook, and other titles by Barnes, Berman, Cast & Cast, Cole, Connolly, Crilley, Rice, Shusterman, Williams, and Wilson
This Week's BestsellersMonday 14 October 2013 | Monitor
Stephen King's Doctor Sleep is still #1.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Eric Lundgren's The FacadesSunday 13 October 2013 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The accomplished and engaging debut novel of Eric Lundgren basically conflates the absurdist doings of a typical George Saunders story with the homegrown Midwest eccentric ambiance of Garrison Keillor's Lake Woebegone — except that Lundgren's venue of Trude is not a village but a medium-sized city. Electronic Periodicals: early OctoberSaturday 12 October 2013 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Daily SF, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, Perihelion, Quantum Muse, and SF Site
Print Periodicals: early OctoberFriday 11 October 2013 | Monitor
New issues of Black Static, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Focus, Interzone, and Vector
Locus Bestsellers, OctoberThursday 10 October 2013 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Kim Stanley Robinson's 2312, Max Brooks' World War Z, and titles by Troy Denning and Michael A. Stackpole.
Scott Lynch: Mythic LineageWednesday 9 October 2013 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview
I have firm plans for the Gentleman Bastard sequence. Assuming that it continues to be commercially successful enough that my publishers will give me carte blanche to keep going, I would like to follow it with a further seven books, set about 20 years after the end of Inherit the Night, book seven of the current sequence. New Books : 8 OctoberTuesday 8 October 2013 | Monitor
David Eggers' The Circle, Scott Lynch's The Republic of Thieves, Martin & Dozois' anthology Old Mars, a collection by Nnedi Okorafor, and other titles by Adams, Bein, Buehlman, Campbell, Carey, Carlson, Cooper, Dalglish, Dashner, DeLima, Goodman, Guran, Harper, Jobling, Lackey, Marr, McKinley, McMann, Morton, Nye, Shane, Stinson, Strout, and Ward
This Week's BestsellersMonday 7 October 2013 | Monitor
Stephen King's Doctor Sleep is #1 on three lists.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early OctoberSunday 6 October 2013 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Beneath Ceasless Skies, Clarkesworld, Apex, Kaleidotrope, and Strange Horizons, plus Paula Guran's anthology Once Upon a Time, with recommendations of stories by Richard Parks, Nathan Ballingrud, Geoffrey W. Cole, and Rose Lemberg
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