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May 2014 Posts: New Books : May SupplementalSaturday 31 May 2014 | Monitor
Anthologies Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds and The Book of Silverberg, Alena Graedon's The Word Exchange, Laline Paull's The Bees, and titles by Church, de Lint, Denton, Flint & Gannon, Fox, Fox & Older, Moore, Nix & Williams, Schoen, Thomas, and Williams
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late MayFriday 30 May 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Interzone, Tor.com, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Apex, with recommendations of works by Anna Tambour, Genevieve Valentine, E. Catherine Tobler, Caroline M. Yoachim, and E. Saxey
Periodicals: late MayThursday 29 May 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Bastion, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Interzone, Shimmer, and Weird Tales, plus this month's content at Daily SF, Tor.com, and Strange Horizons
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Nnedi OkoraforWednesday 28 May 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2014 issue
When it was first announced that Nnedi Okorafor's new novel Lagoon would be an alien invasion story set mostly in Lagos, Nigeria, I imagine I'm not the only one who suspected the tone of the book might well be along the lines of "District 9, take that!" New Books : 27 MayTuesday 27 May 2014 | Monitor
J.R.R. Tolkien's Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, Jonathan Strahan's anthology Reach for Infinity, popular titles by Jim Butcher and Cassandra Clare, and other titles by Archer, Coates, Douglas, Durst, Lindskold, Moon, Pettersson, Waggoner, and Zettel
This Week's BestsellersMonday 26 May 2014 | Monitor
Cassandra Clare's City of Heavenly Fire and Jim Butcher's Skin Game both rank high on Amazon lists.
Cynthia Ward reviews Melissa ScottSunday 25 May 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Melissa Scott's new novel, Fairs' Point, is the most recent book in the Astreiant series. The Astreiant books are police procedurals, but with a difference: they're set in a secondary world in which alchemy, necromancy, and astrology are working sciences. New UK Books : April - MaySaturday 24 May 2014 | Monitor
Nnedi Okorafor's Lagoon and titles by Brown, Hardinge, Heitz, Mamatas, Pinborough, and Watson
Faren Miller reviews Robin RiopelleFriday 23 May 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2014 issue
Deadroads is a Novel of Supernatural Suspense with elements of the Western's quest, showdown, and vengeance... Riopelle knows what she's doing. Classic Reprints: MayThursday 22 May 2014 | Monitor
A third volume of Kurt Vonnegut novels from Library of America and new editions of Robert Silverberg's anthology Science Fiction: 101 and titles by Benford, Blish, Cook, Dick, Norton, and Sakurazaka
Paul Di Filippo reviews Stephen BakerWednesday 21 May 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
In the case of Stephen Baker's debut novel, The Boost, whose focal trope is that of brain implants, the impetus for tackling this bit of standard cyberpunk gear — again, used nowadays mostly as off-the-shelf background hardware — is not, I believe, technical progress, but social and cultural events. New Books : 20 MayTuesday 20 May 2014 | Monitor
Jo Walton's My Real Children, Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Eight, Kij Johnson's Nebula Awards Showcase 2014, and titles by Baker, Campbell, Canavan, Cornell, Dalglish, Evan Garriott et al, Hirshberg, Modesitt, Scott, and Wu
This Week's BestsellersMonday 19 May 2014 | Monitor
Titles by Charlaine Harris, Kristen Britain, and Jeff VanderMeer debut.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-MaySunday 18 May 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from new anthology Rogues, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, and from second issue of new electronic 'zine Bastion
"Dinosaur Train Wreck": A Review of Godzilla
Saturday 17 May 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Why is it that American filmmakers, blessed with enormous financial resources, state-of-the-art special effects, and long experience in making successful films, have been consistently unable to make a good Godzilla film, a skill long ago mastered by the Japanese? New in Paperback: MayFriday 16 May 2014 | Monitor
The Best of Connie Willis, Brandon Sanderson's The Rithmatist, and titles by Campbell, Card & Johnston, Eggers, Flint & Spoor, Karpyshyn, Moon, Weber, and Wellington
Periodicals: mid-MayThursday 15 May 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Galaxy's Edge, Jupiter, Lightspeed, Nightmare, On Spec, and Perihelion
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Mary RickertWednesday 14 May 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2014 issue
It may be that love has always been Rickert's major theme, and while it sometimes goes off the rails in decidedly creepy ways in her short fiction, it's never treated cynically, and it's never without real power. That power is what finally drives The Memory Garden... New Books : 13 MayTuesday 13 May 2014 | Monitor
Mary Rickert's first novel The Memory Garden, anthologies from John Joseph Adams and Paula Guran, and novels by Cargill, Malerman, Marmell, McIntosh, Painter, and Wellington
This Week's BestsellersMonday 12 May 2014 | Monitor
Christopher Moore's The Serpent of Venice ranks in the top 10 on two lists.
George Saunders: Irrational SkillsSunday 11 May 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's May Issue interview
What we want in art is to have something go in a way we don't expect, that isn't random, that builds on what we expected, and goes beyond. There's something delicious about that. There's no purpose in it, except the thrill. ... What my students are really training to do is to be that tiny percentage of the population that can actually thrill you with a narrative. That's almost like being a musician or an athlete. It's an irrational or a super-irrational skill set.” Locus Bestsellers, MaySaturday 10 May 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Andy Weir's The Martian, Patricia Briggs' Frost Burned, Jeff VanderMeer's Annihilation, and titles by Kirsten Beyer and R.A. Salvatore
Paul Di Filippo reviews John C. WrightFriday 9 May 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
In this installment of his far-future adventure Wright tries something daring which I'm not certain is a complete success. The entire action of the story takes place in the cloistered environment of the Tombs or, towards the conclusion, on the nearby surface. There's no large canvas, no zipping back and forth among stars and down the centuries, as we have come to expect. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MayThursday 8 May 2014 | Magazine
May New and Notable books include Peter Higgins' Truth and Fear and titles by Brennan, Datlow, Elliott, Gregory, Gunn, Pratchett, Priest, Schroeder, Steele, and VanderMeer & VanderMeer
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early MayWednesday 7 May 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from Analog, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, and The Dark, with recommendedations of works by Timons Esaias, Alexander Jablokov, E. Catherine Tobler, and S.L. Gilbow
New Books : 6 MayTuesday 6 May 2014 | Monitor
Jeff VanderMeer's Authority, Karen Burnham's Greg Egan, and titles by Anderson, Asher, Britain, Campbell, Clarke, Colebatch & Fox, Doyle, Drake, Fletcher, Harris, Hendee, Hulick, Kenemore, Koch, Martinez, McGuire, Raughley, Saulter, Scott, Swann, Ventresca, and Willrich
This Week's BestsellersMonday 5 May 2014 | Monitor
Christopher Moore's The Serpent of Venice debuts on four lists.
Kathleen Ann Goonan: Designing the FutureSunday 4 May 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's May Issue interview
At Georgia Tech, the students' minds are prepared for science fiction because it's one of the top engineering schools in the world. The students' enthusiasm regenerated my interest in science fiction — its history, its long-running conversation, its boldness in bringing important issues to life. Periodicals: early MaySaturday 3 May 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Quantum Muse, and Star*Line
Cory Doctorow: How to Talk to Your Children About Mass SurveillanceFriday 2 May 2014 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's May Issue.
I explained to my daughter that there was a man who was a spy, who discovered that the spies he worked for were breaking the law and spying on everyone, capturing all their e-mails and texts and video-chats and web-clicks. My daughter has figured out how to use a laptop, phone, or tablet to peck out a message to her grandparents... When I told her that the spies were spying on everything, she had some context for it. May Issue Table of ContentsThursday 1 May 2014 | Magazine
The May issue features interviews with authors Kathleen Ann Goonan and George Saunders, lots of publishing news, a new column by Cory Doctorow, an obituary and appreciations of Lucius Shepard, and reviews of short fiction and books by Jo Walton, Jeff VanderMeer, Robert Reed, Steve Rasnic Tem, Shaun Tan, and many others.
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