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May 2016 Posts: New Books : 31 MayTuesday 31 May 2016 | Monitor
Eleanor Arnason's Hwarhath Stories, Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Streets, Kameron Hurley's The Geek Feminist Revolution, Manu Saadia's Trekonomics, and titles by Brooks, Esslemont, Guran, Hairston, Peek, Sawyer, Shepherd, and Sniegoski
This Week's BestsellersMonday 30 May 2016 | Monitor
Joe Hill's The Fireman debuts strongly on four lists.
Periodicals: late MaySunday 29 May 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Interzone and Black Static, and what's new in May at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
"Alice the Great and Powerful": A Review of Alice Through the Looking Glass
Saturday 28 May 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The visual effects are regularly creative and engaging, and there are lines here and there that might make you laugh, but overall, anyone looking for 153 minutes of entertainment on this Memorial Day weekend would be best advised to read, or reread, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) instead of watching this film, which borrows its title but none of its unique wit and charm. Russell Letson reviews Zachary BrownFriday 27 May 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2016 issue
As with recent work by Greg Bear, Ann Leckie, and Linda Nagata, Brown's picture of future soldiering and the context in which it operates leavens traditional respect for the fighting man and woman with a recognition of the ambiguities, ironies, failures, and outright criminalities of warfare. This becomes the central non-combat feature of Brown's second book, Titan's Fall... New UK Books : MayThursday 26 May 2016 | Monitor
May UK books not (yet) published in the US are Ken MacLeod's The Corporation Wars: Dissidence and titles by Stephen Deas, Naomi Foyle, Peter Newman, and Sue Tingey.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Stephen Baxter & Alastair ReynoldsWednesday 25 May 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The voice of The Medusa Chronicles is utterly organic and seamless, a blend of Baxter's and Reynolds' distinct styles which emulates Clarke's to a high degree, without affectations or pastiche. New Books : 24 MayTuesday 24 May 2016 | Monitor
Justin Cronin's The City of Mirrors and titles by Brooks, Grimes, Mann, and Marshall
This Week's BestsellersMonday 23 May 2016 | Monitor
Don DeLillo's Zero K debuts on two more print lists.
Molly Tanzer: Ghosts 'n' ShitSunday 22 May 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's May Issue interview
Actually, every novel I write, and maybe every single short story I write, too, is about power exchange. Who has power, who doesn't have it, and how does that affect them and their sense of self? What do people do with the power they get? Do they cling to it? Do they give it away? That's Vermilion. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Madeline AshbySaturday 21 May 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2016 issue
As a brutal murder mystery in a very detailed and convincing SF setting, Company Town never falters in its pacing, and introduces its more SFnal complications with considerable skill. Gardner Dozois reviews Short FictionFriday 20 May 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2016 issue
Clarkesworld is off to a good start in 2016, with two strong issues in January and February. The best story in the January Clarkesworld is Rich Larson’s "Extraction Request", a viscerally powerful, disturbing, at times even horrific, bit of military SF.... New in Paperback: April - MayThursday 19 May 2016 | Monitor
Paul Tremblay's Stoker Award winner A Head Full of Ghosts, Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora, Nnedi Okorafor's The Book of Phoenix, Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, and titles by Barker, Bledsoe, Bova, Brooks, Cambias, Campbell, Chu, Conroy, Corey, Gilman, Gladstone, Haydon, Maas, Moore, Reed, Stirling, Weber, West, and Zahn
Paul Di Filippo reviews Frank HerbertWednesday 18 May 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
As Kevin J. Anderson reveals in his introduction, these four books were composed after the success of Herbert's first novel, The Dragon in the Sea (1956). They are finished product, deemed fully polished by Herbert at the time. But unable to place any of them, even with the help of agents, he moved ahead to Dune, serialized beginning in 1963, and the rest is history, with these novels languishing. Consequently, these books reflect the vintage era of their composition. New Books : 17 MayTuesday 17 May 2016 | Monitor
Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Ten, Joe Hill's The Fireman, and titles by Ashby, Castle, Denning, Divya, Hemstreet, Howard, Ingram, Irvine, North, Sapkowski, and Van Young
This Week's BestsellersMonday 16 May 2016 | Monitor
Debuting this week are titles by Sarah J. Maas, Claudia Gray, Don DeLillo, Charlaine Harris, and Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Guy Gavriel Kay: JourneyingSunday 15 May 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's May Issue interview
The rhythm of a long novel is different from the rhythm of a 150-page novel. When you mention not showing too much of a character the first time you see them, to me that seems obvious. I've got a lot of room. I want to keep you around for a while. I want you to discover, as I discovered, more about these people. Periodicals: mid-MaySaturday 14 May 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Mythic Delirium, and Perihelion
Russell Letson reviews Judith MerrilFriday 13 May 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2016 issue
Between 1956 and 1969, Merril produced a body of commentary that explored and explained the field of science fiction and fantasy even as it was changing around her and her readers. She was not an academic critic but an anthologist, reviewer, and working SF writer.... Locus Bestsellers, MayThursday 12 May 2016 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Pierce Brown's Morning Star, Andy Weir's The Martian, V.E. Schwab's A Darker Shade of Magic, and Paul S. Kemp's Star Wars: Lords of the Sith
Paul Di Filippo reviews Matthew CheneyWednesday 11 May 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
A well-wrought and substantial and invigorating contribution to this Belle Epoque now arrives in the form of Matthew Cheney's first solo book of fiction, Blood. His name has previously appeared on anthologies as an editor, but all the while, since at least the days of his "Getting a Date for Amelia" (2001), he has been amassing macabre and odd tales in various periodicals, with finally enough, over a score, to fill a volume. New Books : 10 MayTuesday 10 May 2016 | Monitor
Guy Gavriel Kay's Children of Earth and Sky, Lavie Tidhar's Central Station, first novels by Ada Palmer, Martin Seay, and Anna Smaill, and other titles by Jones, Kearney, Lebbon, Palmer, Saulter, Stiefvater, and Teppo
This Week's BestsellersMonday 9 May 2016 | Monitor
Maggie Stiefvater's The Raven King debuts on two lists.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MaySunday 8 May 2016 | Magazine
May New and Notable books include Ken Liu's The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories and titles by Abraham, Brennan, Brown, Burgis, Carey, Gunn, Kasturi & Stueart, Kowal, Oliver & Moore, Parker, Reeve, and Staveley
Periodicals: early MaySaturday 7 May 2016 | Monitor
Issues of Apex, Aphelion, Clarkesworld, Fireside, Forever, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, Shimmer, The Dark, and Uncanny
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Lavie TidharFriday 6 May 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2016 issue
Tidhar has been writing a quieter, rather lovely series of tales that are both more lyrical in style and more directly engaged with particular SF traditions than the high-wire acts of his more transgressive novels. Detailing the lives of an interlinked group of characters who live and work around a massive spaceport called Central Station in a future Tel Aviv, these stories, apparently with some revisions, are now assembled... Print Periodicals: April - MayThursday 5 May 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, and F&SF
Cory Doctorow: Peace In Our TimeWednesday 4 May 2016 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's May Issue.
E-books continue to be a source of bitter controversy that divides publishers from two of their most potentially useful allies: writers' groups and libraries. Below, I'll present two thought experiments for how libraries and writers' groups could find common cause with the Big Five publishers, using tech projects that would make a better world for writers, readers, literature, and culture. New Books : 3 MayTuesday 3 May 2016 | Monitor
Don DeLillo's Zero K, Mercedes Lackey's Nebula Awards Showcase 2016, the US edition of Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree, and titles by Asher, Campbell, Chu, Coe, Danker, Farland, Flint, Harris, Hendee, Jensen, Kenyon, Koch, Lockwood, Maas, Moore, Oates, Posey, Strydom, Wells, and Wilde
This Week's BestsellersMonday 2 May 2016 | Monitor
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child remains the highest-ranking genre book on general lists.
May 2016 Table of ContentsSunday 1 May 2016 | Magazine
The May issue features interviews with Guy Gavriel Kay and Molly Tanzer, a column by Cory Doctorow, a report on the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, and reviews of short fiction and books by Guy Gavriel Kay, Peter Newman, Eleanor Arnason, Glen Hirshberg, Mishell Baker, and many others.
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