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December 2013 Posts: New Books : 31 DecemberTuesday 31 December 2013 | Monitor
Titles by Adams, Alexander, Perry, Powell, Prineas, Remic, Shearin, Snyder, Taylor, Wendig, and Williams
This Week's BestsellersMonday 30 December 2013 | Monitor
Highest ranking titles remain Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, and Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
Lois Tilton's 2013 Reviews in ReviewSunday 29 December 2013 | Reviews
Looking back at the year's best stories from print and electronic 'zines and a few anthologies
Electronic Periodicals: late DecemberSaturday 28 December 2013 | Monitor
What's new online at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Perihelion SF, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late DecemberFriday 27 December 2013 | Reviews
Reviews of the last issue of Electric Velocipede, a novella by Greer Gilman, and stories online at Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Strange Horizons
New Books : December SupplementalThursday 26 December 2013 | Monitor
J.A. Pitts' Bravado's House of Blues and other titles by Amish, E.C. Blake, Joseph R.G. DeMarco, and Nick Mamatas
Kameron Hurley: Making Excuses for Science FictionWednesday 25 December 2013 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's December Issue.
Telling people who don't read science fiction and fantasy that I write it is still awkward. My mom used to tell people I wrote "novels like Stephen King," even though I can't watch a movie more supernaturally terrifying than Ghostbusters without enduring fierce nightmares, insomnia, and night sweats. I prefer corporeal, knife-wielding villains I can hit in the face. New Books : 24 DecemberTuesday 24 December 2013 | Monitor
Brian Aldiss' Comfort Zone and John Meaney's Resonance
This Week's BestsellersMonday 23 December 2013 | Monitor
Dean Koontz' Innocence debuts on three lists.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Nnedi OkoraforSunday 22 December 2013 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2013 issue
Her first story collection, Kabu Kabu, gives us a chance to visit those and other worlds, some parodic, some folkloric, some horrific, by bringing together 21 pieces of short fiction, fully a third of which are original to the collection. New in Paperback: November - DecemberSaturday 21 December 2013 | Monitor
Gregory Benford & Larry Niven's Bowl of Heaven, Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross' The Rapture of the Nerds, and titles by Bertin, Bledsoe, Dietz, Drake, Fallon, Lamplighter, Ringo & Sear, Scalzi, Turtledove, and Wright
Paul Di Filippo reviews Jean-Christophe ValtatFriday 20 December 2013 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Valtat's language is always stunning, baroque without being clotted. To realize that English is his second tongue is daunting to us mere monolinguists. His dialogue sparkles and the wry observations of his characters are very amusing. One wants to quote endlessly. Gwenda Bond reviews Ursula DubosarskyThursday 19 December 2013 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2013 issue
Which brings us to the brief but powerful The Golden Day, which is built around an understated, creeping sense of dread worthy of any horror novel. Eleven little girls in a class at a girls' school in 1960s Australia are taken on a short day trip by their beloved free spirit of a teacher, Miss Renshaw... Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-DecemberWednesday 18 December 2013 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from 2014 issues of F&SF, Asimov's, and Analog, with a recommendation of a story by Derek Künsken
New Books : 17 DecemberTuesday 17 December 2013 | Monitor
Dean Koontz' Innocence and titles by Fowler, Holt, Horwood, Lackey, and Resnick
This Week's BestsellersMonday 16 December 2013 | Monitor
George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois' anthology Dangerous Women debuts on two lists
Paul Di Filippo reviews Jyrki Vainonen and Leena KrohnSunday 15 December 2013 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Cheeky Frawg Books' two newest titles reflect the VanderMeers' smart and wide-ranging curatorial talents, which have stretched to Finland to bring back English translations of fascinating work by Jyrki Vainonen and Leena Krohn. (And the several deft translators involved here are due big thanks.) Print Periodicals: DecemberSaturday 14 December 2013 | Monitor
MIT Technology Review's special issue Twelve Tomorrows, plus new issues of Albedo One, Analog, Asimov's, Black Static, Crimewave, Interzone, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through September 2014Friday 13 December 2013 | Resources
Selected titles from Locus Magazine's December issue listings are arranged here by month.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Peter WattsThursday 12 December 2013 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2013 issue
Watts argues in the Afterword to his new collection Beyond the Rift that he's really an optimist, that he can't really write villains, that his sometimes dystopic worldview is something he's inherited rather than invented, and he's right on all counts. Hugh Howey: Artisanal PublishingWednesday 11 December 2013 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview
The real story of self-publishing is the people you never hear about who are making a full-time living. I have friends that I watched go from publishing their first book, in the past few years, and now they're making six figures. You've never heard their names. New Books : 10 DecemberTuesday 10 December 2013 | Monitor
David G. Hartwell's Year's Best SF 18 and titles by Fultz, Koyanagi, Masterton, and Pinborough
This Week's BestsellersMonday 9 December 2013 | Monitor
Highest ranking titles remain Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, and Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early DecemberSunday 8 December 2013 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from new issues of Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Apex, and of individual stories by Yoon Ha Lee, Pat Cadigan, and Caitlín R Kiernan
Electronic Periodicals: early DecemberSaturday 7 December 2013 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Ideomancer, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, and SF Site
Locus Bestsellers, DecemberFriday 6 December 2013 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by S.M. Stirling's The Given Sacrifice, Jim Butcher's Cold Days, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and titles by Ian Doescher and R.A. Salvatore.
Tanya Huff: BuilderThursday 5 December 2013 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview
I believe that there's two types of writers: the brick-layer and the house-framer. Brick-layers have to get every brick in the right position, or three rows up, the wall falls down. That's the way I write and, usually, if I find myself not able to move forward it's because something's wrong a few rows down.... Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, DecemberWednesday 4 December 2013 | Magazine
December New and Notable books include Jeff VanderMeer's Wonderbook, Mira Grant's Parasite, Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu, Kabu, and other titles by Bowes, Hartwell & Nielsen Hayden, Howey, Jeschke, Jones, Kadrey, Marr & Pratt, Strahan, and Wilson
New Books : 3 DecemberTuesday 3 December 2013 | Monitor
George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois' anthology Dangerous Women, Caitlín R. Kiernan's The Ape's Wife and Other Stories, and other titles by Abraham, Bova, Conroy, Dalglish, Dietz, Gwynne, Hunter & Price, Koch, Lackey, Lansdale, Marmell, Niven, Pinborough, Ross, Tettensor, Tregillis, and Turtledove
This Week's BestsellersMonday 2 December 2013 | Monitor
Stephen King's 11/22/63 is #13 on USA Today's list.
December Issue Table of ContentsSunday 1 December 2013 | Magazine
The December issue features interviews with Tanya Huff and Hugh Howey, coverage and photos of World Fantasy Convention, lists of forthcoming books through September 2014, commentary by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and new books by David G. Hartwell, Kim Newman, John Barnes, Max Barry, Nicola Griffith, and many others.
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