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 March 2015 -- News Posts   
March 2015 Posts: New Books : 31 MarchTuesday 31 March 2015 | Monitor
Gavin Smith's A Quantum Mythology and titles by Ballantine & Morris, Brennan, Brett, Fowler, Guran, Pinborough, and Roughgarden
This Week's BestsellersMonday 30 March 2015 | Monitor
Gail Carriger's Prudence debuts on three lists.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late MarchSunday 29 March 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in Interzone, Tor.com, Shimmer, and in John Joseph Adams' anthology Operation Arcana
Periodicals: late MarchSaturday 28 March 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Dreams and Nightmares, and Interzone, and what's new this past month at Daily SF, Strange Horizons, Terraform, and Tor.com
Classic Reprints: February - MarchFriday 27 March 2015 | Monitor
The Essential W.P. Kinsella and titles by Lord Dunsany, Greg Egan, R.A. Lafferty, George R.R. Martin & Lisa Tuttle, and Michael Moorcock
Karen Burnham reviews The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by WomenThursday 26 March 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2015 issue
Alex Dally MacFarland should be commended for putting together such a diversity of voices in one anthology. You'll find established masters here, and very new writers. Paul Di Filippo reviews Jill CimentWednesday 25 March 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Ciment's Act of God is a compact, droll farce, light-hearted and pleasurable as a chocolate truffle, yet with a nugget of hard, somewhat unpalatable truths in the center. It is propelled into motion by a conceit that echoes, in what I am sure is a deliberate way, Jack Finney's classic The Body Snatchers. New Books : 24 MarchTuesday 24 March 2015 | Monitor
Daryl Gregory's Harrison Squared, the US edition of Dan Simmons' The Fifth Heart, and titles by Green, Lloyd, Philip, Robson, and Thompson
This Week's BestsellersMonday 23 March 2015 | Monitor
Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant debuts on two more print lists.
Garth Nix: Back in the Old KingdomSunday 22 March 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
Clariel has been in the works since 1998, just building up in the queue of books to be written. When I was writing Lirael, I made a note about one of the characters and that was the beginning of Clariel. It's been lurking there, just waiting. I only work things out as I need them, typically. People often ask me, 'So you left it for years.' No, it's always been in my head. Periodicals: mid-MarchSaturday 21 March 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
New in Paperback: MarchFriday 20 March 2015 | Monitor
Karl Schroeder's Lockstep and titles by Ambrose, Andrews, Benford & Niven, Bledsoe, Bova, Butcher, Correia, Davidson, Hunt, Leigh, McKiernan, Salyards, Sanderson, and Valente
Faren Miller reviews Sam SykesThursday 19 March 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2015 issue
Sykes may seem like a videogame designer more obsessed with quantity than quality, but here's the rub: this brash, prolific wordsmith has a natural eloquence that grabbed my attention and refused to let go, over the course of almost 600 pages. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-MarchWednesday 18 March 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of Alastair Reynold's short novel Slow Bullets and stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Strange Horizons
New Books : 17 MarchTuesday 17 March 2015 | Monitor
The US edition of Terry Pratchett's collection A Blink of the Screen, and titles by Buchanan, Carriger, Deas, Evans, Liney, Smale, and Teppo
This Week's BestsellersMonday 16 March 2015 | Monitor
Patricia Briggs' Dead Heat and Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant debut strongly on print lists.
Stephanie Burgis: Masks & ShadowsSunday 15 March 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
I can't imagine writing anything without magic because it wouldn't be fun for me. I love the sense of wonder in fantasy. Even in dark fantasy there's a whole opening-yourself-to-wonder when magic is a factor. It gives me a sense of wonder when I write, to have a fantasy element. In general my philosophy of writing is I want to write smart, fun books. I want them to be both. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Neil GaimanSaturday 14 March 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2015 issue
Trigger Warning contains perhaps a half dozen of his strongest short fictions and a handful of rather hasty ones, but by the time we're done with it we feel like we've been celebrating not only Gaiman's considerable imaginative skills, but also those of Gene Wolfe, Jack Vance, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury... Paul Di Filippo reviews Wu Ming-yiFriday 13 March 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The fact that toward the book's end Alice, revitalized, has written a novel titled The Man with the Compound Eyes speaks to the way in which larger cosmic forces flow through all living things, redeeming their inevitable losses, even through such seemingly crass instruments as a horde of seaborne trash. Locus Bestsellers, MarchThursday 12 March 2015 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Patrick Rothfuss' The Slow Regard of Silent Things, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones and Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, Andy Weir's The Martian, and titles by Justin Richards and R.A. Salvatore.
Russell Letson reviews Jack McDevittWednesday 11 March 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2015 issue
Allow me to now propose the McDevitt ramble, which wanders through time more than space, rummaging around in the apparently empty areas of a deep past, retrieving objects and records, reconstructing lost stories, and filling in blank spots. New Books : 10 MarchTuesday 10 March 2015 | Monitor
Dan Simmons' The Fifth Heart, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant, and titles by Adams, Datlow, Hartman, Joshi, Rusch, Tregillis, Valente, and Valentine
This Week's BestsellersMonday 9 March 2015 | Monitor
Neil Gaiman's Trigger Warning is the highest ranking genre hardcover on print lists.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early MarchSunday 8 March 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Lightspeed, Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Unlikely Story, and Diabolical Plots, with recommendations of stories by Vajra Chandrasekera and Chen Qiufan (translated by Ken Liu)
Periodicals: early MarchSaturday 7 March 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, and Nightmare
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MarchFriday 6 March 2015 | Magazine
March New and Notable books include Kelley Armstrong's Forsaken and titles by Black, Elliott, Ellison, Link, Moorcock, Morrow, Mosley, Staveley, and Walton
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through December 2015Thursday 5 March 2015 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's March issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Cory Doctorow: Stability and SurveillanceWednesday 4 March 2015 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's March Issue.
It's hard to overstate just how efficient surveillance has become in the 21st century. Critics of mass Internet surveillance like to compare the NSA and its allied spy services to the Stasi, the secret police of the former East Germany, who were notorious for the pervasive and suffocating blanket of surveillance with which they smothered the country. But the Stasi were engaged in pre-Internet surveillance, and they were very expensive guard labor by modern standards. New Books : 3 MarchTuesday 3 March 2015 | Monitor
John Joseph Adams' Operation Arcana, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois' Old Venus, and titles by Bishop, Briggs, Chan, Cooper, Drake & Lambshead, Leigh, McGuire, Modesitt, Monk, Nelson, and Roy
March Issue Table of ContentsMonday 2 March 2015 | Magazine
March features interviews with Garth Nix and Stephanie Burgis, a new column by Cory Doctorow, lists of forthcoming books through December, awards and publishing news, and reviews of short fiction and books by Neil Gaiman, Sam Sykes, Paul McAuley, Benjamin Percy, Jonatham Lethem, and many others.
This Week's BestsellersMonday 2 March 2015 | Monitor
Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant, to be published tomorrow, is selling well on the Amazon sites.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Ian WeirSunday 1 March 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
That is precisely what Ian Weir has done with Will Starling. He's taken the kind of nascently-pre-Victorian narrative that might have been written by Fielding or Richardson or their slightly later compatriots (the book takes place in 1816), with that mode's picaresque, loquacious, directly-address-the audience-baggy-pants-style, and created a new instance of such. Earlier posts: February 2015 | January 2015 | December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | January 2014 | December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | January | December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | January | December | November | October | September | August | July | June | May | April | March | February | January | December | November | October | September | August | July | June |
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