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April 2014 Posts: Gary K. Wolfe reviews Simon IngsWednesday 30 April 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2014 issue
While it's easy to read the headlong future of the novel as apocalyptic, Wolves is a good deal more complex than that, and its balance of an almost ruthless insight into character with speculations on the technology of perception calls to mind few other writers, perhaps M. John Harrison most closely. New Books : 29 AprilTuesday 29 April 2014 | Monitor
The US edition of Shaun Tan's picture book Rules of Summer, plus titles by Aguirre, Chan, de Pierres, Kowal, Ochse, Posey, Rawn, Sebold, and Sparks
This Week's BestsellersMonday 28 April 2014 | Monitor
Brandon Sanderson's Words of Radiance is the highest ranking adult genre hardcover this week.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late AprilSunday 27 April 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Lightspeed, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, and Strange Horizons, with recommendedations of works by Carmen Maria Machado, Alex Dally MacFarlane, Malcolm Cross, Kai Ashante Wilson, and Dale Bailey
New UK Books : March - AprilSaturday 26 April 2014 | Monitor
David Wingrove's The Empire of Time and titles by Alder, Clarke, Dalton, Fforde, Fowler, Gwynne, Patrick, Saulter, and Torday
Periodicals: late AprilFriday 25 April 2014 | Monitor
New issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Subterranean, plus this month's new content at Tor.com and Strange Horizons
New Books : April SupplementalThursday 24 April 2014 | Monitor
Gregory Benford's The Galactic Center Companion and titles by Adams & Howey, Finch, Harte, Lackey & Martin, Maas, and Moore
Russell Letson reviews Daryl GregoryWednesday 23 April 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2014 issue
This is a real science-fiction crime thriller: the old evils and insanities are all there, given new twists by the double-edged blades of science and technology. And, like the best crime and SF novels, those moral and philosophical questions linger, after the mere whodunnit puzzles have been solved. New Books : 22 AprilTuesday 22 April 2014 | Monitor
Daryl Gregory's Afterparty, David Ramirez's The Forever Watch, a posthumous novel by Dianna Wynne Jones, and titles by Bach, Lackey & Edghill, Lukyanenko, Moore, Newman, Powell, and Trahan
This Week's BestsellersMonday 21 April 2014 | Monitor
David Weber & Eric Flint's Cauldron of Ghosts and Laini Taylor's Dreams of Gods & Monsters debut on lists.
New in Paperback: AprilSunday 20 April 2014 | Monitor
Guy Gavriel Kay's River of Stars, Robert J. Sawyer's Red Planet Blues, and titles by Cherryh, Daniel & Drake, Harris, Knight, Kowal, Marco, Modesitt, and Rawn
"The Colossus of Northern California": A Review of Transcendence
Saturday 19 April 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
I can quickly say that Transcendence passed the Westfahl test for successful entertainment — I never looked at my watch — and it could be briefly described as a polished redaction of a familiar science fiction trope, the harmful results of separating the human mind from the human body. This venerable cautionary tale is founded on assumptions about human nature that are at best medieval: the brain provides our reasoning ability, while the body is the source of our emotions. Classic Reprints: AprilFriday 18 April 2014 | Monitor
A new collection of early work by Jack Vance, SF Gateway omnibuses by Burroughs, Compton, and Cooper, and other titles by Chandler, Jordan, and Lumley
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-AprilThursday 17 April 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Subterranean, F&SF, and Kaleidotrope
Paul Di Filippo reviews Robert Moore WilliamsWednesday 16 April 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Sometimes reading these humus authors delivers a certain kind of modest, unique pleasure otherwise unobtainable. With them, you don't confront the pressure of being worthy of their masterpieces. They labored in quiet and without expectations or constraints, rewarded so long as they delivered on time. ... By any standard, the forgotten Robert Moore Williams was one such figure. New Books : 15 AprilTuesday 15 April 2014 | Monitor
Hal Duncan's Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions, essays on ecology and SF edited by Gerry Canavan & Kim Stanley Robinson, Ellen Datlow's Lovecraft's Monsters, The Art of Ian Miller, and novels by Asher, Bova, Cameron, Davidson, Edwards, Riopelle, and Sullivan
This Week's BestsellersMonday 14 April 2014 | Monitor
Ian Doescher's Williams Shakespeare's The Empire Striketh Back ranks on three lists.
Amish: Humility of a WitnessSunday 13 April 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview
My book was rejected by every publisher I sent it to. One publisher explained in very clear terms why the book had no hope. ... So I'm self-published. Periodicals: mid-AprilSaturday 12 April 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Kaleidotrope, Mythic Delirium (the final print issue), The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Tim Pratt reviews Alan DeNiroFriday 11 April 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2014 issue
DeNiro never over-explains, and we rarely learn more about the strange worlds he shows us than what the viewpoint characters know or bother to speculate about, and since angels with flying guns, telepathic aliens, and immense monsters that eat mountains are all everyday occurrences for those characters, there's plenty of ambiguity and unexplained strangeness. Locus Bestsellers, AprilThursday 10 April 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by L.E. Modesitt, Jr.'s Rex Regis, George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, and titles by Dayton Ward and Oliver Bowden.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Robert BuettnerWednesday 9 April 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Buettner carries forward nobly a kind of core SF tale pioneered by writers such as Anderson, Gordon Dickson, Christopher Anvil, James Schmitz, and C. J. Cherryh, offering entertainment aplenty with thoughtful meditations on how humanity can get along with itself — or not! New Books : 8 AprilTuesday 8 April 2014 | Monitor
US editions of Christopher Priest's The Adjacent and Pratchett & Briggs' Turtle Recall, Benford & Niven's Shipstar, Laini Taylor's Dreams of Gods & Monsters, and other titles by Armstrong, Bear, Buettner, Jones, Lebbon, Reese, Shepherd, Weber & Flint, and Wilson & Adams
This Week's BestsellersMonday 7 April 2014 | Monitor
Split mass market editions of Stephen King's Under the Dome debut.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early AprilSunday 6 April 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Clarkesworld, and Apex Magazine
Periodicals: early AprilSaturday 5 April 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Analog, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, Lightspeed, Mythic Delirium, Nightmare, and Quantum Muse
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AprilFriday 4 April 2014 | Magazine
April New and Notable books include Robert Reed's The Memory of Sky, collections by Adam-Troy Castro and Pen Peek, and other novels by Carson, Lafferty, McDonald, Sanderson, Tierney, Weber, and Williams
Daryl Gregory: The NuminousThursday 3 April 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview
When you grow up in a religion like I did, there are some people you believe are better off — become better people — once they've 'found Jesus,' because of this belief system. Why would you want to take that away from them? In science fiction, of course, we would argue that you need a life without any illusions because that's the stronger choice, but I wanted to have it both ways in the book. New Books : 2 AprilWednesday 2 April 2014 | Monitor
Hal Duncan's collection Scruffians!, the first US edition of Chris Beckett's Clarke Award winner Dark Eden, and titles by Addison, Ahlborn, Benulis, Cherryh, Fisher, Flewelling, Gilman, Harris & Kelner, Hughes, Jensen, Kenyon, Knight, Martin, Monk, Schoon, and Takami
April Issue Table of ContentsTuesday 1 April 2014 | Magazine
The April issue features interviews with authors Daryl Gregory and Amish, lots of publishing news, a report about SF in Brazil, a commentary by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and books by Simon Ings, Daryl Gregory, Gregory Benford & Larry Niven, Chuck Palahniuk, Seanan McGuire, and many others.
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