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The March 2009 issue of Locus Magazine features:
T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
March 2009 • Issue 578 • Vol. 62 No. 3
I N T E R V I E W S
Michael Swanwick: God Reached Down and Flicked a Switch / 6
Ken Scholes: Ambushed by Story / 64
P E O P L E & P U B L I S H I N G
/ 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Tom Deitz, Karl Schroeder, Nicola Griffith, Joss Whedon, Gene Wolfe, Iain Banks, J.R.R. Tolkien, and many others
M A I N S T O R I E S
/ 5 & 10
Gaiman Wins Newbery Award • Realms of Fantasy Folds • Inaugural SFWA Solstice Awards • HarperCollins Restructures • Distribution Woes • Wildside, Prime, and Juno Split
T H E D A T A F I L E
/ 11
Wheatland Suspended • The Return of Lapine • King’s Kindle Story • Google Settlement Site Up • Haikasoru • Manga Sales Drop • Diamond Raises Bar on Comics • Clarke Award Longlist • Book World Folds • PW Problems • Expo Updates • Publishers Lose 1200 in 2008 • Kay Becomes Original Penguin • POD Publishers Combine • Baen Contest • Kindle Audio Brouhaha • Announcements • Publishing News • Digital Publishing News • Financial News
C O M M E N T A R Y
/ 25
Cory Doctorow: In Praise of the Sales Force
F O R T H C O M I N G B O O K S
US Forthcoming Books / 28
British Forthcoming Books / 38
I N T E R N A T I O N A L
/ 44
International Report from India
L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: January / 46
Books Received: January / 47
British Books Received: December / 54 Bestsellers / 56
O B I T U A R I E S
/ 78
John Updike • Richard Alexander Steuart Gordon • Alfred A. Knopf Jr. • Lino Aldani
E D I T O R I A L M A T T E R S
/ 62
Weather • Visitors • John Updike • More Publishing Disasters • Dieting • Worldcons • Books, Books, Books • Locus Poll & Survey • Proofreading • This Issue/Next Issue • Gong Hei Fat Choy • Travel
L O C U S L E T T E R S
/ 63
Frederik Pohl • Mike Ashley • Robert Laughlin
L O C U S L O O K S A T B O O K S
Gardnerspace: Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois
/ 12
F&SF 1/09; F&SF 2/09; Asimov’s 1/09; Asimov’s 2/09; Subterranean Winter ’09; Tor.com; The West Pier Gazette and Other Stories, Quercus One, Paul Brazier, ed.; Clarksworld 1/09.
Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton
/ 13
Asimov’s 3/09; F&SF 3/09; Jim Baen’s Universe 2/09; Strange Horizons 1/09; Fantasy Magazine 2/09; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/09; Clarkesworld 1/09; Clarkesworld 2/09; Lace and Blade 2, Deborah J. Ross, ed.; Seven for a Secret, Elizabeth Bear; Distances, Vandana Singh.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe
/ 15
This Is Not a Game, Walter Jon Williams; Buyout, Alexander Irvine; We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle; SHORT TAKE: The Other in the Mirror, Philip José Farmer.
Reviews by Faren Miller
/ 17
The Adamantine Palace, Stephen Deas; Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (in Australia as The Two Pearls of Wisdom), Alison Goodman; Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente; The Painted Man (in the US as The Warded Man), Peter V. Brett; Spell Games, T.A. Pratt; SHORT TAKE: Seven for a Secret, Elizabeth Bear.
Reviews by Russell Letson
/ 19
Escape from Hell, Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle; Coyote Horizon, Allen Steele.
Reviews by Paul Witcover / 21
Storm From the Shadows, David Weber; Shadow of the Scorpion, Neal Asher; Seeds of Earth, Michael Cobley.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman
/ 23
Persistence of Memory, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes; Bone Crossed, Patricia Briggs; Unfallen Dead, Mark del Franco; You Are So Undead to Me, Stacey Jay; Longeye, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller; Phenomenal Girl 5, A.J. Menden; Starclimber, Kenneth Oppel; Hope’s Folly, Linnea Sinclair; Living with Ghosts, Kari Sperring; Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand, Carrie Vaughn; Kitty Raises Hell, Carrie Vaughn.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History
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13, 15, 17, 19
Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) — Asher, Neal • Shadow of the Scorpion (Paul Witcover) Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia • Persistence of Memory (Carolyn Cushman) Beagle, Peter S. • We Never Talk About My Brother (Gary K. Wolfe) Bear, Elizabeth • Seven for a Secret (Faren Miller) Bear, Elizabeth • Seven for a Secret (Rich Horton) Brazier, Paul, ed. • The West Pier Gazette and Other Stories, Quercus One (Gardner Dozois) Brett, Peter V. • The Painted Man (Faren Miller) Brett, Peter V. • The Warded Man (Faren Miller) Briggs, Patricia • Bone Crossed (Carolyn Cushman) Cobley, Michael • The Seeds of Earth (Paul Witcover) Deas, Stephen • The Adamantine Palace (Faren Miller) Del Franco, Mark • Unfallen Dead (Carolyn Cushman) Farmer, Philip José • The Other in the Mirror (Gary K. Wolfe) Goodman, Alison • Eon: Dragoneye Reborn (Faren Miller) Goodman, Alison • The Two Pearls of Wisdom (Faren Miller) Irvine, Alexander C. • Buyout (Gary K. Wolfe) Jay, Stacey • You Are So Undead to Me (Carolyn Cushman) Lee, Sharon, & Steve Miller • Longeye (Carolyn Cushman) Menden, A. J. • Phenomenal Girl 5 (Carolyn Cushman) Niven, Larry, & Jerry Pournelle • Escape from Hell (Russell Letson) Oppel, Kenneth • Starclimber (Carolyn Cushman) Pratt, T. A. • Spell Games (Faren Miller) Ross, Deborah J. • Lace and Blade 2 (Rich Horton) Sinclair, Linnea • Hope's Folly (Carolyn Cushman) Singh, Vandana • Distances (Rich Horton) Sperring, Kari • Living with Ghosts (Carolyn Cushman) Steele, Allen • Coyote Horizon (Russell Letson) Valente, Catherynne M. • Palimpsest (Faren Miller) Vaughn, Carrie • Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand (Carolyn Cushman) Vaughn, Carrie • Kitty Raises Hell (Carolyn Cushman) Weber, David • Storm from the Shadows (Paul Witcover) Williams, Walter Jon • This Is Not a Game (Gary K. Wolfe) |
March 2009 Issue
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