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September 2016 Posts: Periodicals: late SeptemberFriday 30 September 2016 | Monitor
September content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Notable New UK Books : August - SeptemberThursday 29 September 2016 | Monitor
Stephen Baxter's Obelisk, Peter F. Hamilton's Night Without Stars, Christopher Priest's The Gradual, Alastair Reynolds' Revenger, Connie Willis' Crosstalk, and titles by Barclay, Gibson, and Heitz
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Drowned WorldsWednesday 28 September 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2016 issue
For all the recurring iconic images that populate Drowned Worlds, each story manages to become its own human-scale drama, evoking at its best not only a profound sense of loss, but a sort of cultural and global PTSD that may be getting pretty close to inevitable. New Books : 27 SeptemberTuesday 27 September 2016 | Monitor
The US edition of Christopher Priest's The Gradual, the final volume of Lian Hearn's The Tale of Shikanoko, and titles by Bardugo, Carson, Dees & Flippin, Lindsey, Westerfeld/Lanagan/Biancotti, and Wilde
This Week's BestsellersMonday 26 September 2016 | Monitor
Books by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson and Alan Moore debut.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Alexander WeinsteinSunday 25 September 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
With his debut volume, Children of the New World, Alexander Weinstein is the latest creator to venture down such a path, and a fine job he does. Coming from outside the genre precincts, he nonetheless exhibits an intimate familiarity and dexterity with all of SF's toolkit, as well as the ability to insert some subtle homages to past landmarks of SF. Classics In Reprint: SeptemberSaturday 24 September 2016 | Monitor
Kristine Kathryn Rusch's anthology Women of Futures Past, the first Library of America volume by Ursula K. Le Guin, and collections by Robert Silverberg and Clark Ashton Smith
Faren Miller reviews Jennifer Mason-BackFriday 23 September 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2016 issue
A powerful debut novel, Jennifer Mason-Black's Devil and the Bluebird begins with a teenager's memories of what had been her mother's guitar, as she stands at a dirt crossroad on a chilly, moonless night with the instrument strapped to her back, hoping to make a deal with something like a devil. Paul Di Filippo reviews Brian Lee DurfeeThursday 22 September 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
I can affirm that the debut novel by Brian Lee Durfee, The Forgetting Moon, while not necessarily breaking new ground, provides plenty of well-crafted spectacle, thrills, suspense, blood, thunder and general sense of wonder. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kij JohnsonWednesday 21 September 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2016 issue
Now here comes the ever-inventive Kij Johnson with The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, which among other things addresses the almost complete absence of women in HPL's tales — and in particular The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, whose plot it inverts in ingenious ways... New Books : 20 SeptemberTuesday 20 September 2016 | Monitor
Cixin Liu's Death's End, K.M. Szpara's Transcendent: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, and titles by Andrews, Cluess, Durst, Evenson, Latham, Porter, Priest, Simmons, and Turner
This Week's BestsellersMonday 19 September 2016 | Monitor
Three Harry Potter-related e-books by J.K. Rowling debut.
Charles Stross: Future VisionSunday 18 September 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpt from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview
What makes something work as near-future SF is that the author has to be paying attention to the background. There's an awful lot of stories that CNN, Fox, NBC, just don't carry — or the BBC for that matter. You have to read widely around the technological trends, and the climatological issues. At this stage, denying climate change is futile and stupid. What are the consequences? ...A lot of this stuff is interconnected. Periodicals: mid-SeptemberSaturday 17 September 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Apex, Aphelion, Asimov's, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Perihelion, and Uncanny
New in Paperback: SeptemberFriday 16 September 2016 | Monitor
Ian McDonald's Luna: New Moon, Fran Wilde's Updraft, Michael Swanwick's Chasing the Phoenix, Alastair Reynolds' Poseidon's Wake, and titles by Card, Conroy, Correia, Czerneda, Donaldson, Erikson, Friedman, Older, Pratchett, Stirling, and Weber
Paul Di Filippo reviews Women of Futures PastThursday 15 September 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This book needs to be slotted onto your shelves amongst all the other seminal anthologies that seek to limn the greatness of our field. Its judiciously and intelligently selected table of contents both entertains and instructs. Rusch has done important, masterful work here, and redressed a huge esthetic and moral imbalance. Faren Miller reviews Mary Robinette KowalWednesday 14 September 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2016 issue
Mary Robinette Kowal had her own ways of finding gritty truths in the course of her five "Glamourist Histories"... When she turns to a mixture of spycraft and spiritualism in Ghost Talkers, this apparent standalone is even more brutally direct about the horrific death tolls of Britain's Great War (World War One), showing its ghosts as they see themselves in their last moments. New Books : 13 SeptemberTuesday 13 September 2016 | Monitor
Alan Moore's Jerusalem and titles by Anderson, Arnopp, Brennan, Herbert & Anderson, Hogan, Kurtz, Lovegrove, Martinez, Poole, Sherman, and Taylor
This Week's BestsellersMonday 12 September 2016 | Monitor
The Underground Railroad and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child continue to dominate lists.
Eleanor Arnason: UnfoldingSunday 11 September 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview
I read a lot projections of the future, and people never factor in enough. They project a population of nine billion, but they don't factor in the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — famine, war, disease, and death due to climate change. All they're doing is a projection of where we've been. Science fiction, when it's good, will pick up a whole bunch of these ideas at once. Rich Horton reviews Short FictionSaturday 10 September 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2016 issue
Lavie Tidhar offers perhaps the best novella of the year in the July/August F&SF. "The Vanishing Kind" is set in London in the 1950s, but in an alternate London where the Nazis won WWII, and are in control in England. ... Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through June 2017Friday 9 September 2016 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's September issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Locus Bestsellers, SeptemberThursday 8 Septembeer 2016 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Justin Cronin's The City of Mirrors, John Scalzi's The End of All Things, Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, and Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews China MiévilleWednesday 7 September 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2016 issue
These thoughts are occasioned by China Miéville's new novella The Last Days of New Paris, which makes brilliant use of both the political and imagistic aspects of Surrealism — he even has creatures from Surrealist paintings and collages stomping around the Paris of 1950... New Books : 6 SeptemberTuesday 6 September 2016 | Monitor
Nisi Shawl's Everfair, Peter S. Beagle's Summerlong, and titles by Alexander, Beaulieu, Bennett, Black, Bledsoe, Clark, Cogman, Cox, Czerneda, Flint & Carrico, Johansen, Maas, McGuire, Remic, Spencer, Steinmetz, and Stirling
This Week's BestsellersMonday 5 September 2016 | Monitor
Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad is still #1; Sarah J. Maas' Empire of Storms, published tomorrow, is selling well on Amazon sites.
Cory Doctorow: The Privacy Wars Are About to Get A Whole Lot WorseSunday 4 September 2016 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's September Issue.
The best way to secure data is never to collect it in the first place. Data that is collected is likely to leak. Data that is collected and retained is certain to leak. A house that can be controlled by voice and gesture is a house with a camera and a microphone covering every inch of its floorplan. Periodicals: early SeptemberSaturday 3 September 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Clarkesworld, Fireside, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, and Shimmer
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, SeptemberFriday 2 September 2016 | Magazine
September New and Notable books include Michael Bishop's Joel-Brock the Brave and the Valorous Smalls and titles by Bakker, Berman, Guran, Hairston, Horton, Jemisin, Mamatas, Strahan, Swanwick, the VanderMeers, Wagers, Walton, and Weisman
September 2016 Table of ContentsThursday 1 September 2016 | Magazine
The September issue features interviews with Charles Stross and Eleanor Arnason, a column by Cory Doctorow, lists of forthcoming books through June 2017, and reviews of short fiction and books by Christopher Priest, Beth Cato, Paul Tremblay, Peter S. Beagle, and many others.
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