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 June 2016 -- News Posts   
June 2016 Posts: Periodicals: late JuneThursday 30 June 2016 | Monitor
New issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and Perihelion, and what's new the month at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Classic Reprints: May - JuneWednesday 29 June 2016 | Monitor
New editions of works by Stephen Baxter, Greg Bear, Ted Chiang, Fred Hoyle, Michael Moorcock, Clark Ashton Smith, Walter S. Tevis, and John Wyndham
New Books : 28 JuneTuesday 28 June 2016 | Monitor
Charles Stross' The Nightmare Stacks, E. Catherine Tobler's The Kraken Sea, Eliot Fintushel's Zen City, a book about Philip K. Dick, an anthology of the First Women of Science Fiction, and titles by Christian & Buchanan, Heitz, Kadrey, Kroese, Lore, Niven & Barnes, Schutt & Finch, Skovron, Sullivan, and Valentine
This Week's BestsellersMonday 27 June 2016 | Monitor
Stephen King's End of Watch remains #1 on three lists.
John Langan reviews Stephen Graham JonesSunday 26 June 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2016 issue
For some time, now, Stephen Graham Jones has been writing fiction that boldly engages familiar horror tropes, from demonic possession, to the serial killer, to the zombie, in the process compiling one of the more impressive and interesting bibliographies in recent memory. Now, in Mongrels, his excellent, exuberant new novel, he turns his attention to the werewolf.
The Fogeys of July: A Review of Independence Day: Resurgence
Saturday 25 June 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Although I was bored and appalled by the original Independence Day (1996), and utterly baffled by its tremendous popularity, I somehow found its belated sequel to be surprisingly engaging, even moving, despite some obvious issues in its logic and plausibility. Perhaps it is simply a better film than its precursor, the theory that merits some extended exploration. Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through March 2017Friday 24 June 2016 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's June issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Three Small Press BooksThursday 23 June 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Reviews of titles by Darren Speegle, Tim Powers, Robert Silverberg, and H.L. Gold & Floyd C. Gold Russell Letson reviews C.J. CherryhWednesday 22 June 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2016 issue
Visitor is the 17th entry in C.J. Cherryh's long-running (since 1994) Foreigner Universe series and the middle volume of its sixth sub-trilogy. The crucial elements of Visitor are rooted in events in the fifth volume, Explorer (2002), during which the precariously balanced alliance of lost humans and their host species, the atevi, encounter a third spacegoing species, the maybe-warlike kyo, and establish a fragile and partial détente... New Books : 21 JuneTuesday 21 June 2016 | Monitor
Paul Tremblay's Disappearance at Devil's Rock, debut novels by Curtis C. Chen, Rachel Dunne, Daniel Godfrey, Christopher B. Husberg, and Aditi Khorana, and other titles by Grant, Haydon, Hickman & Garriott, Kenyon, Shriver, Wallace, and Zelitch
This Week's BestsellersMonday 20 June 2016 | Monitor
Stephen King's End of Watch ranks #1 on four lists.
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling: Depth and Heart (part 2)Sunday 19 June 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's June Issue interview
Terri Windling: I like stories where you can tell the writer is really invested in it. It's not just a clever idea they are toying with or think will sell; it's a story they need to tell. I really like stories that have depth and heart to them. Not necessarily positive stories; they can be very dark, but always multi-layered, with something going on beyond surface cleverness. New in Paperback: JuneSaturday 18 June 2016 | Monitor
China Miéville's Three Moments of an Explosion, John Scalzi's The End of All Things, and titles by Fortune, Green, Harris, Lackey, Lawrence, Lee & Miller, Milán, Ryan, Testa, Wendig, and Wexler
Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Year's Best Weird FictionFriday 17 June 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2016 issue
The most refreshing aspects of Year's Best Weird Fiction: Volume Two are the same as for the other year's-best compilations — the overwhelming majority of its contributors are writers who have come to editor and reader attention mostly within the past decade, and the quality of the work they are publishing in books and magazines that are predominantly niche markets is indisputable. Paul Di Filippo reviews Alastair ReynoldsThursday 16 June 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
If the baseline necessity for any SF story is to have both the science and the mimetic humanity be integral to and integrated within the tale, then Reynolds's work can stand as a prime instance of pure, archetypical SF. His novums contour and shape the human experiences and reactions within the world of his creations, and vice versa. Rich Horton reviews Short FictionWednesday 15 June 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2016 issue
Analog leads off April with a fine story by Maggie Clark, "Seven Ways of Looking at the Sun-Worshippers of Yul-Katan". It's told by a woman native to the planet Yul-Katan, where the people worship the sun. New Books : 14 JuneTuesday 14 June 2016 | Monitor
Yoon Ha Lee's debut novel Ninefox Gambit, Naomi Novik's final Temeraire novel League of Dragons, Patricia A. McKillip's collection Dreams of Distant Shores, and titles by Anderson, Cogman, Hartley, Humphrey, Lam, Martin, Pratchett & Baxter, Remic, Warom, and Zieja
This Week's BestsellersMonday 13 June 2016 | Monitor
Justin Cronin's The City of Mirrors debuts at #1 on one more list.
Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling: Depth and Heart (part 1)Sunday 12 June 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's June Issue interview
Ellen Datlow: The reason I got into horror was so it wouldn't conflict with Omni. I was supposed to be buying science fiction and some fantasy for Omni, but I was not supposed to buy horror. My first original horror anthology was Blood Is Not Enough... Periodicals: second week JuneSaturday 11 June 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Apex, Asimov's, and The New York Review of Science Fiction
Faren Miller reviews Lian HearnFriday 10 June 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2016 issue
Emperor of the Eight Islands, first of four volumes in Lian Hearn's "The Tale of Shikanoko" (all scheduled for this year), is a fantasy set in medieval Japan and inspired by some of its "warrior tales." It draws on the pseudonymous author's fascination with the country and culture, which led her to study them, and live there for a time. Paul Di Filippo reviews Michael BishopThursday 9 June 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This fine, funny, affecting book — which also happens to serve as a satire on the excesses of capitalism — shows us an author still at the top of his game, intent on extending his reach into new realms while reaffirming his core themes and values from a career as extensive as the tendrils of the Sporangium itself. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Guy Gavriel KayWednesday 8 June 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2016 issue
In the brief acknowledgments at the end of his magnificent new novel Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay mentions that his fictional Renaissance city of Obravic is an "amalgam," and it occurs to me that this is as good a word as any for Kay's much-discussed technique of combining history and fantasy... New Books : 7 JuneTuesday 7 June 2016 | Monitor
Stephen King's End of Watch, Stephen Baxter & Alastair Reynolds' The Medusa Chronicles, Michael Bishop's Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls, year's-best anthologies from David Afsharirad, Neil Clarke, Ellen Datlow, and Rich Horton, and other titles by Cooper, Dolkart, Dozois, Drake, Durbin, Green, Kashina, Lackey, Lawrence, Nye, Older, Rakunas, Schmidt, Taylor, and Tilahun
This Week's BestsellersMonday 6 June 2016 | Monitor
Justin Cronin's The City of Mirrors debuts at #1 on three lists.
Kameron Hurley: Hard Publishing Truths: Relationships MatterSunday 5 June 2016 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's June Issue.
The myth of the meritocracy runs deep in publishing. "Just write a good book!" is offered up as the singular cure to all of a writer’s worries about the financial success of their title. But writing a good book is no more a magical recipe for success than "working hard" is a guarantee one will retain gainful employment. Periodicals: early JuneSaturday 4 June 2016 | Monitor
Lightspeed publishes a special double "People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!" SF issue; plus new issues of Clarkesworld, Forever, GigaNotoSaurus, and Nightmare
Locus Bestsellers, JuneFriday 3 June 2016 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Patricia Briggs' Fire Touched, Seanan McGuire's Chaos Choreography, Naomi Novik's Uprooted, and Christie Golden's Star Wars: Dark Disciple.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JuneThursday 2 June 2016 | Magazine
June New and Notable books include Sylvain Neuvel's Sleeping Giants and titles by Aiken, Ashby, Asher, Hardinge, Howard, Kadrey, Lackey, North, Olde Heuvelt, Palmer, Parker, Tidhar, and Underwood
June 2016 Table of ContentsWednesday 1 June 2016 | Magazine
The June issue features interviews with Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, a column by Kameron Hurley, lists of forthcoming books through March 2017, and reviews of short fiction and books by Ada Palmer, Andrea Hairston, Madeline Ashby, Philip Reeve, and many others.
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