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The October 2009 issue of Locus Magazine features:
T a b l e o f C o n t e n t s
October 2009 • Issue 585 • Vol. 63 No. 4
I N T E R V I E W S
Connie Willis: All Clear / 6
David J. Schwartz: Cynics and Believers / 84
A N T I C I P A T I O N : T H E 6 7 T H W O R L D
S C I E N C E F I C T I O N C O N V E N T I O N / 5
Report by Amelia Beamer • Report on the WSFS Business Meeting by Cheryl Morgan & Kevin Standlee
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 Frederik Pohl, J.G. Ballard, J.R.R. Tolkien, Diana Wynne Jones, Howard Waldrop, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, Robert J. Sawyer, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, and many others
M A I N S T O R I E S
/ 10
Writers of the Future 25th Anniversary • 2009 (Emperor) Norton Awards • Spectrum Exhibition Opening • Google Settlement News • Discworld Convention
T H E D A T A F I L E
/ 11
Disney to Buy Marvel • Rebellion Buys Solaris • DC Entertainment • Lord of the Rings Settlement • F&SF’s Long Contest • B&N Rediscovers • Google Goes Print • Amazon News • E-Reader Wars Heat Up • Meyer Boosts Brontë • Merz & Nasisse Go Mobile • Awards News • Publishing News • Worldcons News • Announcements • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Publications Received • Catalogues Received
L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: August / 44
Books Received: August / 45
British Books Received: July / 56 Bestsellers / 58
C O R R E C T I O N S
/ 64
E D I T O R I A L M A T T E R S
/ 65
Non-Profit News • Discworld and WOTF • To Mind Meld, or Not to Mind Meld • Visitors • This Issue/Next Issue • World Fantasy
O B I T U A R I E S
/ 66
Donald M. Grant • Anne J. Braude • Gene Van Troyer • Appreciations for Charles N. Brown by Guy Gavriel Kay, Ellen Datlow, and Grania Davis
L O C U S L O O K S A T B O O K S
Gardnerspace: Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois
/ 13
Interzone 223; Analog 10/09; Talebones Summer ’09; Realms of Fantasy 4/09; The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Three: This Mortal Mountain, Roger Zelazny; The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Four: Last Exit to Babylon, Roger Zelazny; The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson: Volume 2: The Queen of Air and Darkness, Poul Anderson; Wireless, Charles Stross.
Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton
/ 15
F&SF 10-11/09; Subterranean Spring ’09; Tor.com 8/09; Abyss and Apex 3rd Quarter ’09; Farrago’s Wainscot 7/09; Black Static 8-9/09; New Genre #6; Clarkesworld 9/09; Strange Horizons 7/09; Strange Horizons 8/09.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe
/ 17
Chronic City, Jonathan Lethem; Leviathan, Scott Westerfeld; Canticle, Ken Scholes; Four Freedoms, John Crowley; Fugue State, Brian Evenson.
Reviews by Faren Miller
/ 19
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Gordon Van Gelder, ed.; Harbinger, Jack Skillingstead; Fire, Kristin Cashore; Child of Fire, Harry Connolly; No Doors, No Windows, Joe Schreiber.
Reviews by Russell Letson
/ 21
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, eds.; The Quiet War, Paul McAuley.
Reviews by Adrienne Martini / 25
Ice Song, Kirsten Imani Kasai; Liar, Justine Larbalestier; Makers, Cory Doctorow; Boneshaker, Cherie Priest.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman
/ 27
Fire, Kristin Cashore; Skin Deep, Mark Del Franco; Vampire Sunrise, Carole Nelson Douglas; Girl Genius: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones, Phil Foglio & Kaja Foglio; Bitter Night, Diana Pharaoh Francis; Walking Dead, C.E. Murphy; Vanished, Kat Richardson; Cast in Silence, Michelle Sagara; The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen, Delia Sherman.
Reviews by Divers Hands: Tim Pratt & Amelia Beamer / 29
The Red Tree, Caitlín R. Kiernan; The Harlequin and the Train, Paul G. Tremblay; The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg: Volume Four: Trips 1972-1973, Robert Silverberg; Other Spaces, Other Times: A Life Spent in the Future, Robert Silverberg.
Yesterday's Tomorrows: Graham Sleight
/ 31
The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 1: Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter, Hal Clement; The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 2: Music of Many Spheres, Hal Clement The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 3: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton, Hal Clement.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History
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15, 17, 21, 29
Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) — Anderson, Poul • The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, Volume 2: The Queen of Air and Darkness (Gardner Dozois) Cashore, Kristin • Fire (Carolyn Cushman) Cashore, Kristin • Fire (Faren Miller) Clement, Hal • The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 1: Trio for Slide Rule and Typewriter (Graham Sleight) Clement, Hal • The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 3: Variations on a Theme by Sir Isaac Newton (Graham Sleight) Clement, Hal • The Essential Hal Clement, Volume 2: Music of Many Spheres (Graham Sleight) Connolly, Harry • Child of Fire (Faren Miller) Crowley, John • Four Freedoms (Gary K. Wolfe) Del Franco, Mark • Skin Deep (Carolyn Cushman) Doctorow, Cory • Makers (Adrienne Martini) Douglas, Carole Nelson • Vampire Sunrise (Carolyn Cushman) Evenson, Brian • Fugue State (Gary K. Wolfe) Foglio, Phil, & Kaja Foglio • Girl Genius: Agatha Heterodyne and the Chapel of Bones (Carolyn Cushman) Francis, Diana Pharaoh • Bitter Night (Carolyn Cushman) Kasai, Kirsten Imani • Ice Song (Adrienne Martini) Kiernan, Caitlín R. • The Red Tree (Tim Pratt) Larbalestier, Justine • Liar (Adrienne Martini) Lethem, Jonathan • Chronic City (Gary K. Wolfe) Martin, George R. R., & Gardner Dozois, eds. • Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance (Russell Letson) McAuley, Paul • The Quiet War (Russell Letson) McAuley, Paul • The Quiet War (Russell Letson) Murphy, C. E. • Walking Dead (Carolyn Cushman) Priest, Cherie • Boneshaker (Adrienne Martini) Richardson, Kat • Vanished (Carolyn Cushman) Sagara, Michelle • Cast in Silence (Carolyn Cushman) Scholes, Ken • Canticle (Gary K. Wolfe) Schreiber, Joe • No Doors, No Windows (Faren Miller) Sherman, Delia • The Magic Mirror of the Mermaid Queen (Carolyn Cushman) Silverberg, Robert • Other Spaces, Other Times (Amelia Beamer) Silverberg, Robert • Trips: The Collected Stories, Volume Four (Amelia Beamer) Skillingstead, Jack • Harbinger (Faren Miller) Stross, Charles • Wireless (Gardner Dozois) Tremblay, Paul G. • The Harlequin and the Train (Tim Pratt) Van Gelder, Gordon, ed. • The Very Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Faren Miller) Westerfeld, Scott • Leviathan (Gary K. Wolfe) Zelazny, Roger • The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Four: Last Exit to Babylon (Gardner Dozois) Zelazny, Roger • The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny: Volume Three: This Mortal Mountain (Gardner Dozois) |
October 2009 Issue
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