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March 2016 Posts: Periodicals: late MarchThursday 31 March 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Black Static, Interzone, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, plus March content at Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Carolyn Cushman reviews Funke, Galenorn, Hines, McGuire, SagaraWednesday 30 March 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2016 issue
Reviews of titles by Cornelia Funke, Yasmine Galenorn, Jim C. Hines, Seanan McGuire, and Michelle Sagara New Books : 29 MarchTuesday 29 March 2016 | Monitor
Titles by Myke Cole, Christopher Fowler, Stella Gemmell, James Lovegrove, and Sam Sykes
This Week's BestsellersMonday 28 March 2016 | Monitor
Cassandra Clare's Lady Midnight and Patricia Briggs' Fire Touched remain high on lists.
Print Periodicals: MarchSunday 27 March 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
"No One Stays Good in This World": A Review of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Saturday 26 March 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
It should be obvious by now that I disliked this film's approach to Superman and Batman and generally did not enjoy watching it; yet, after two hours of routine violence and tedious exposition, there comes a time when this misbegotten film suddenly sputters to life and becomes a satisfying viewing experience — and that is when a third hero, Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), finally appears [and] for the first time in the film, we are presented with a hero that we can actually like. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Carlos HernandezFriday 25 March 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2016 issue
Note to small presses: sometimes introductions and blubs do make a difference. When Carlos Hernandez's debut collection The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria showed up in the mail, the title struck me as almost fatally whimsical, even though it's actually the title of one of the better stories here — but then I noticed a blurb from Christopher Barzak and an introduction by Jeffrey Ford... Classic Reprints: MarchThursday 24 March 2016 | Monitor
New electronic and print editions of works by Katherine Kurtz, Michael Moorcock, Christopher Priest, Clifford D. Simak, and James Tiptree, Jr.
Paul Di Filippo reviews James GunnWednesday 23 March 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
To say that this attitude is antithetical to the current crop of miserabilist, defeatist, cynical, dystopian SF is to state the nakedly obvious. Gunn is bucking the current publishing tide, yet there is nothing forced or labored or disingenuous about this book. He sells the hope. New Books : 22 MarchTuesday 22 March 2016 | Monitor
James Gunn's Transgalactic and titles by Allen, Barron, Brown, Clare, Elliott, Martin, Oyeyemi, Smale, and Tanaka
This Week's BestsellersMonday 21 March 2016 | Monitor
Cassandra Clare's Lady Midnight debuts #1 on three lists; Patricia Briggs' Fire Touched and Anne Bishop's Marked in Flesh also debut.
Adrienne Martini reviews Blythe WoolstonSunday 20 March 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2016 issue
Like Bradbury, whose work Woolston honors both in the title and as a running theme, this author has a knack for finding just the right details to flesh-out a world without bogging down the action in reams of description. ... MARTians is a marvel of linguistic economy. Periodicals: mid-MarchSaturday 19 March 2016 | Monitor
New York Review of Science Fiction's David G. Hartwell In Memoriam issue, plus new issues of Mythic Delirium and Perihelion
Paul Di Filippo reviews R.A. LaffertyFriday 18 March 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Centipede Press is the noble enterprise handling the Complete Stories. They have just issued Volume 3, which is our topic for today. The upside of their output is that each volume is lovingly produced, a luxury item that is a tribute to the artistry of the small press. The downside is that each book is limited to 300 copies... New in Paperback: MarchThursday 17 March 2016 | Monitor
Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings and titles by Abercrombie, Andrews, Christopher, Drake & Lambshead, Higgins, Kadrey, Kowal, Leigh, Modesitt, Patterson, Scull, and Testa
Faren Miller reviews John WrayWednesday 16 March 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2016 issue
It's probably not coincidence (or synchronicity) that John Wray's substantial, genre-busting novel The Lost Time Accidents shares a notion with Marcel Proust's even more massive Remembrance of Things Past, whose French title Á La Recherche Du Temps Perdu could also be rendered into English as "In Search of Lost Time". New Books : 15 MarchTuesday 15 March 2016 | Monitor
Brian Staveley's The Last Mortal Bond and titles by Brown, Evenson, Joshi, Lebbon, Selby, and Tidhar
This Week's BestsellersMonday 14 March 2016 | Monitor
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is #1 on Amazon with pre-publication orders.
Fran Wilde: Magical EngineeringSunday 13 March 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
I realized that I was a worldbuilder, and that my game experience, all of the things I'd been doing with my life, all of the art background, the animation, the visual stuff — I could draw on that and build a world. I'm hoping that at different points in somebody's life — young adult through adult — they can come back to Updraft and say, 'There’s more here,' and that an adult can read it and say, 'That was really fun.' Adrienne Martini reviews Becky ChambersSaturday 12 March 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2016 issue
The first 30 pages of Becky Chambers' Kickstarter-backed novel The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet are catnip for space opera fans, especially those with a bent toward TV shows that portray a spacecraft's crew as a chosen family, like Firefly or Farscape. Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through December 2016Friday 11 March 2016 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's March issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Locus Bestsellers, MarchThursday 10 March 2016 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor's Welcome to Night Vale, Andy Weir's The Martian, and titles by Chuck Wendig and R.A. Salvatore.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Matt RuffWednesday 9 March 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Lovecraft Country is not some ham-handed book-length satire or parody. This goal Ruff meets admirably. He honors all the tropes and special effects and ambiance of the Mythos in new ways that discard the superficial trappings of the 1920s and HPL's crotchets for the more relevant clothing and attitudes of the 1950s. New Books : 8 MarchTuesday 8 March 2016 | Monitor
Ken Liu's The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and titles by Abraham, Bishop, Bonesteel, Briggs, Fallon, Kowal, Marr, Merril, Tompkins, and Valente
This Week's BestsellersMonday 7 March 2016 | Monitor
V.E. Schwab's A Gathering of Shadows debuts on two lists.
Lisa Goldstein: Secret SisterhoodSunday 6 March 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
I like the idea of a sisterhood working in the shadows that influences things, so I came up with the idea of a secret society that one of the time travelers starts in ancient Crete. I wanted to think that there's some force working against all the obvious forces in history, all the wars and oppression. Periodicals: early MarchSaturday 5 March 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, Aurealis, Clarkesworld, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Fireside, Forever, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Shimmer, and Uncanny
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MarchFriday 4 March 2016 | Magazine
March New and Notable books include Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country and titles by Alder, Braunbeck, Bujold, Guran, Kuznia, Lafferty, LaValle, Moreno-Garcia & Stiles, Offutt, Powers, and Wray
Cory Doctorow: Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation EconomiesThursday 3 March 2016 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's March Issue.
The Internet has been trying to figure out how to make reputation work for decades now. Those scores that appear next to Ebay sellers' names and on the profiles of "sharing economy" workers profile pages — Uber, Lyft, Airbnb — attempt to establish a basis for strangers to trust one another. New Books : 1 MarchWednesday 2 March 2016 | Monitor
Robert J. Sawyer's Quantum Night, Sofia Samatar's The Winged Histories, Allen Steele's Arkwright, and titles by Baker, Belcher, Boatman, Brandt, Cady, Caine, de Abaitua, Knaak, Lubar, Lyris, McGuire, Neill, Nelson, Parker, Spoor, Swann, Tieryas, Weber & Presby, and White & Gannon
March 2016 Table of ContentsTuesday 1 March 2016 | Magazine
The March issue features interviews with Lisa Goldstein and Fran Wilde, remembrances of David G. Hartwell, a column by Cory Doctorow, listings of forthcoming books through December 2016, and reviews of short fiction and books by Peter Straub, R.S. Belcher, James Gunn, and many others.
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