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The May 2009 issue of Locus Magazine is a special "Urban Fantasy" issue: featuring:
T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
May 2009 • Issue 580 • Vol. 62 No. 5
P E O P L E & P U B L I S H I N G
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Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about K.D. Wentworth, Christopher Priest, Michael Crichton, Michael Moorcock, Greg Bear, and many others
M A I N S T O R I E S
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2008 Nebula Awards • Castro and Walton Win 2009 Philip K. Dick Award • J.G. Ballard (1930-2009)
L O C U S L O O K S A T U R B A N F A N T A S Y
An Interview with Kim Harrison: Secret Identity / 6
An Interview with Patricia Briggs: Mercy and Faith / 30 An Interview with Marjorie Liu: Hopeless Romantic / 41 Urban Fantasy by Liza Groen Trombi / 32 In the Beginning... by Ginjer Buchanan / 33 Paranormal Thoughts by Charlaine Harris / 34 The Urban Fantasy Heroine by Kelley Armstrong / 34 Urban Fantasy by Carrie Vaughn / 34 Looking Beyond the Sexy Babe on the Cover – Which Subgenre Is This? by Maryelizabeth Hart / 35 It’s Not About the Monsters by Vicki Pettersson / 36 The Flight of the Bumblebee by Mike Carey / 36 Accidental Urban Fantasist by T.A. Pratt / 38 Our World, Only Better? by Diana Gill / 39 A Reader’s Guide: Recommendations by Carolyn Cushman / 40
C O N V E N T I O N S
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International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
T H E D A T A F I L E
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BSFA Winners • Mighty Meyers • Streets of Discworld • Dave McKean Postage Stamps • Wheel of Time Conclusion • Totally Space Opera • Tessa B. Dick Sues • Starlog Goes Digital • Borders Survives • Dover Loses Goodwill • Amazon News • Google Books Still Embattled • Tolkien Digital Rights • E-Reader News • E-Book Royalities Reduced • Contest News • Announcements • Awards News • Legal News • Book News • Financial News • International Rights • Publications Received • Catalogues Received
C O M M E N T A R Y
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Cory Doctorow: Extreme Geek
L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: March / 44
Books Received: March / 45
British Books Received: February / 53 Bestsellers / 54
O B I T U A R I E S
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J.G. Ballard • Appreciation by Michael Moorcock • Sir Clement Freud • Appreciation by Neil Gaiman • Chester D. Cuthbert • John Kennedy • Michael Cox • Ken Rand • Dave Arneson • Frank Springer • John S. Brooks
E D I T O R I A L M A T T E R S
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April in California • ICFA • Urban Fantasy • Visitors • J.G. Ballard • Sub Changes • Hall of Fame Awards • Looking Ahead
L O C U S L O O K S A T B O O K S
Gardnerspace: Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois
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Federations, John Joseph Adams, ed.; Apex 3/09; Interzone 1-2/09; Subterranean Winter ’09; Asimov’s 4-5/09; F&SF 4-5/09.
Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton
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Weird Tales 11-12/08; Black Static 1-2/09; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/26/09; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/12/09; Apex 2/09; Apex 3/09; Fantasy Magazine 4/09; Fantasy Magazine 5/09; Clarkesworld 4/09; Intergalactic Medicine Show 3/09; We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle; Flurb Spring/Summer ’09; Strange Horizons 3/09; Shadow Unit Season 2; Analog 5/09; Asimov’s 4-5/09.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe
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Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd Century America, Robert Charles Wilson; The Cardboard Universe, Christopher Miller; Genesis, Bernard Beckett; Long Juju Man, Nnedi Okorafor.
Reviews by Faren Miller
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Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales, Greer Gilman; Gullstruck Island (as The Lost Conspiracy in the US), Frances Hardinge; Darkborn, Alison Sinclair; The Red Wolf Conspiracy, Robert V.S. Redick; SHORT TAKES: Fall of Light, Nina Kiriki Hoffman; In the Land of Invented Languages, Arika Okrent.
Reviews by Paul Witcover
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The Babylonian Trilogy, Sébastien Doubinsky; Hylozoic, Rudy Rucker; We Never Talk About My Brother, Peter S. Beagle; Mortal Coils, Eric Nylund.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman
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Magic Strikes, Ilona Andrews; Death’s Daughter, Amber Benson; Thicker Than Water, Mike Carey; Blood from Stone, Laura Anne Gilman; Dead and Gone, Charlaine Harris; The Enchantment Emporium, Tanya Huff; Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun, Victoria Laurie; Rampant, Diana Peterfreund; Spiral Hunt, Margaret Ronald; Mortal Sins, Eileen Wilks.
Reviews by Divers Hands: Rich Horton & Richard A. Lupoff
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Federations, John Joseph Adams, ed.; The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction Volume Three, George Mann, ed.; The Dead Man’s Brother, Roger Zelazny; A Little Intelligence, Robert Silverberg & Randall Garrett.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History
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Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) — Adams, John Joseph, ed. • Federations (Gardner Dozois) Adams, John Joseph, ed. • Federations (Rich Horton) Andrews, Ilona • Magic Strikes (Carolyn Cushman) Beagle, Peter S. • We Never Talk About My Brother (Paul Witcover) Beagle, Peter S. • We Never Talk About My Brother (Rich Horton) Beckett, Bernard • Genesis (Gary K. Wolfe) Benson, Amber • Death's Daughter (Carolyn Cushman) Carey, Mike • Thicker than Water (Carolyn Cushman) Doubinsky, Sébastien • The Babylonian Trilogy (Paul Witcover) Gilman, Greer • Cloud & Ashes: Three Winter’s Tales (Faren Miller) Gilman, Laura Anne • Blood from Stone (Carolyn Cushman) Hardinge, Frances • Gullstruck Island (Faren Miller) Hardinge, Frances • The Lost Conspiracy (Faren Miller) Harris, Charlaine • Dead and Gone (Carolyn Cushman) Hoffman, Nina Kiriki • Fall of Light (Faren Miller) Huff, Tanya • The Enchantment Emporium (Carolyn Cushman) Laurie, Victoria • Ghouls Just Haunt to Have Fun (Carolyn Cushman) Mann, George, ed. • The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume Three (Rich Horton) Miller, Christopher • The Cardboard Universe: A Guide to the World of Phoebus K. Dank (Gary K. Wolfe) Nylund, Eric • Mortal Coils (Paul Witcover) Okorafor-Mbachu, Nnedi • Long Juju Man (Gary K. Wolfe) Okrent, Arika • In the Land of Invented Languages (Faren Miller) Peterfreund, Diana • Rampant (Carolyn Cushman) Redick, Robert V. S. • The Red Wolf Conspiracy (Faren Miller) Ronald, Margaret • Spiral Hunt (Carolyn Cushman) Rucker, Rudy • Hylozoic (Paul Witcover) Silverberg, Robert, & Randall Garrett • A Little Intelligence (Richard A. Lupoff) Sinclair, Alison • Darkborn (Faren Miller) Wilks, Eileen • Mortal Sins (Carolyn Cushman) Wilson, Robert Charles • Julian Comstock (Gary K. Wolfe) Zelazny, Roger • The Dead Man's Brother (Richard A. Lupoff) |
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