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 Mon 10 Oct 3:01 pmThe winner for the 2016 Gaylactic Spectrum Award in the novel category was announced at Gaylaxicon 2016, held October 7-9, 2016 in Minneapolis MN, ...
Mon 10 Oct 2:27 pmThe winner of the 2016 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction was announced October 8, 2016.
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Liz Bourke Reviews Fran WildeTuesday 11 October 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2016 issue
After the disruptions of Updraft, the aerial society of the bone towers – where people use human-made wings to travel from place to place, where life is precarious, and where monsters lurk in the clouds below – is on edge. Stability is precarious, and everyone is looking for someone to blame for the continuing problems. Nisi Shawl: A Real MagicianMonday 10 October 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpt from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview
When you’re writing things from a historical viewpoint, you don’t want anachronisms. What you have to watch out for is assuming that one kind of historical viewpoint takes precedence over another. You’ll hear people say, ‘Lovecraft was a racist, but that was just his time.’ No it wasn’t. My grandfather was alive then. There is the axis of time and historicity, but there are plenty of other axes: gender, class, and so on. Faren Miller Reviews Beth CatoSunday 9 October 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2016 issue
Her adventures take some cues from entertainments of the era, evoking the dime novel’s melodrama, perils, and romance – there’s a hot guy here, and everyone has secrets – along with the wild interplay of tragicomedy in opera and operetta... Kameron Hurley: The Mission-Driven Writing CareerFriday 7 October 2016 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's October Issue.
What drives us when we despair? More often than not, it is our personal mission. And if we don’t have one, it can be easy to get stuck in a rut and lose focus and purpose. Paul Di Filippo Reviews Ursula K. Le GuinFriday 7 October 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The first appreciation derives from the sheer level of talent and word-wizardry and world-building that Le Guin exhibits. These stories are constructed so solidly, with such ingenuity and craftsmanship and heart, that they achieve the inevitable rightness and impressiveness of real world things. Rachel Swirsky Reviews Dreaming in the DarkThursday 6 October 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2016 issue
Dann’s choices emphasize impressive prose, sometimes precise and measured, sometimes absurdist, sometimes poetic... Dreaming in the Dark will especially appeal to two groups of readers – those who love words themselves, and those who want an enticing sampler of work by some of Australia’s most talented working writers. This Week's BestsellersTuesday 4 October 2016 | Monitor
Books by Ilona Andrews and Cixin Liu debut.
John Langan Reviews Paul TremblayMonday 3 October 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2016 issue
At least as far back as Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes, moving forward through much of Stephen King’s best work, horror fiction has featured protagonists at or near adolescence. The field has also featured families under stress and threat. Tremblay mines both these veins with skill and compassion, creating a portrait of a small community that bears comparison with the best of Stewart O’Nan’s work. October 2016 Table of ContentsSaturday 1 October 2016 | Magazine
The October issue features interviews with Connie Willis and Nisi Shawl, a column by Kameron Hurley, an obituary of David A. Kyle, and reviews of short fiction and books by Connie Willis, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Chuck Wendig, Naomi Novik, Jennifer Mason-Black, and many others.
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 August 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.
Periodicals: end of AugustWednesday 31 August 2016 | Monitor
August issues and content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New Books : 30 AugustTuesday 30 August 2016 | Monitor
A new Wild Cards mosaic novel edited by George R.R. Martin & Melinda M. Snodgrass, a new Gor novel by John Norman, and titles by Belanger, Black & Clare, Boffard, Brockway, Clark, Davis, Durfee, Estep, McGee, Parks, and Sawyer
This Week's BestsellersMonday 29 August 2016 | Monitor
Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad is still #1; Harry Potter books are selling on Amazon lists; N.K. Jemison's The Obelisk Gate ranks at USA Today
Spotlight on: Kelly Robson, WriterSunday 28 August 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview
I believe science fiction, fantasy, and horror provide a writer with the brightest, truest, and widest spectrum of colors to illustrate the mysteries, contradictions, and untapped potential of human nature. Classics In Reprint: AugustSaturday 27 August 2016 | Monitor
New editions of Murray Constantine's Swastika Night, Ursula K. Le Guin's Always Coming Home, Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time, and titles by Jones, McCammon, and Ness
John Langan reviews Christopher BuehlmanFriday 26 August 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2016 issue
The Suicide Motor Club, the new novel from Christopher Buehlman, is a lean, mean, souped-up, eight cylinder, four-speed race car of a book. Russell Letson reviews Charles StrossThursday 25 August 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2016 issue
This month's theme might be horror and the horrific, with the subtheme "Why am I reading horror when I usually don't much care for it?" ... The Nightmare Stacks is a direct sequel to The Rhesus Chart, which added vampires to the Laundry universe's roster of spooky threats. Paul Di Filippo reviews Michael SwanwickWednesday 24 August 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Ultimately, I think what strikes me most forcefully about Swanwick's fiction, aside from his fresh yet historically resonant conceits, is its elegance and economy. Per the definition of the perfect short story, not a word is extraneous or wasted, not one element of plot inessential. The maximum effects are achieved with the minimum of prose. New Books : 23 AugustTuesday 23 August 2016 | Monitor
Blake Charlton's Spellbreaker and titles by Barnhill, Campbell, Cato, Coles, Klune, Leake, Milford, Nothlit, Scott & Rose, and Thomas
This Week's BestsellersMonday 22 August 2016 | Monitor
Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad ranks #1 and #2 on four lists.
Nancy Kress: Tomorrow's KinSunday 21 August 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview
Scientists have reputations and funding to protect, and can't go out on a limb and make crazy predictions. I’m a science fiction writer. I can go out on all the limbs I want to, and make all the crazy predictions I want. I've written about genetically engineered bio weapons, in two novels and several short stories. That's why he wanted to talk to me. Faren Miller reviews The Big Book of Science FictionSaturday 20 August 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2016 issue
Narratives also run through this anthology (just under the surface). Though presented in order of publication, these stories were chosen for continuing relevance and arranged to interplay like voices in a great conversation: shifting and offering new insights. New in Paperback: AugustFriday 19 August 2016 | Monitor
Aliette de Bodard's The House of Shattered Wings, Neil Gaiman's American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition, Ken Liu's The Grace of Kings, and titles by Aycliffe, Bova, Canavan, Flint & Hunt, Grant, Hair, Holland, Liu, McDevitt, Meluch, Simmons, van Eekhout, and Weber/Zahn/Pope
John Langan reviews Joe HillThursday 18 August 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2016 issue
The Fireman, Joe Hill's big new novel, is a freight train of a book. Long, composed of many sections, it's already in motion on the first page, and it does not let up until the very end. Paul Di Filippo reviews Alvaro Zinos-Amaro and Robert SilverbergWednesday 17 August 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
We veer from the charmingly quotidian — at what hour the newspapers arrive on the Silverberg doorstep — to the loftily metaphysical: what are the meanings of age and time, where is the culture heading? Along the way, Silverberg offers commentary on his peers and literary ancestors... New Books : 16 AugustTuesday 16 August 2016 | Monitor
N.K. Jemisin's The Obelisk Gate, Kij Johnson's The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, collections by Tina Connolly, Carrie Vaughn, and Caroline M. Yoachim, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro's Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg, and titles by Kowal, Marmell, Miyabe, Stokes, and Wendig
This Week's BestsellersMonday 15 August 2016 | Monitor
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child remains #1; titles by Colson Whitehead, Sherrilyn Kenyon, and Orson Scott Card & Aaron Johnston debut.
David D. Levine: Everybody Loves MarsSunday 14 August 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview
Arabella is the fourth novel I wrote, and the first novel I sold. Novel number three is a hard SF YA set on Mars — that one definitely came out of my simulated Mars experience in Utah. Just about the time I was finishing that one up, I was shopping my second novel, and looking for a new agent. The responses I was getting from agents as well as editors was, 'Science fiction just isn't selling.' I was getting this from the editors of science fiction houses! Periodicals: mid-AugustSaturday 13 August 2016 | Monitor
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction publishes a special David Gerrold issue; plus, debut issue of online 'zine Liminal Stories and new issues of Aphelion, Mothership Zeta, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Perihelion, and The Dark
Spotlight on: Sam J. Miller, WriterFriday 12 August 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview
I write speculative fiction because that's how the world looks to me. Life is magic. Human society is horror. The world is science fiction. We carry tiny rectangles in our pockets that can access the sum total of human knowledge! Gary K. Wolfe reviews Nina AllanThursday 11 August 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2016 issue
For all its intricate narrative linkages and loopbacks, The Race presents us with a world which is thoroughly seductive and ominously credible, and a degree of narrative sophistication as impressive as anything I've seen in recent SF. Paul Di Filippo reviews Forrest LeoWednesday 10 August 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Forrest Leo's wonderfully demented and comical debut novel, The Gentleman, lies more towards this hazy end of the steampunk spectrum than elsewhere. You can interpret it as a straight historical novel of a farcical type, along the lines of the Flashman books... But there's enough oddness, including ostensibly supernatural incidents and gadgetry riff of unreality, to push it just over the edge and into steampunk territory. New Books : 9 AugustTuesday 9 August 2016 | Monitor
China Miéville's The Last Days of New Paris, Michael Swanwick's Not So Much, Said the Cat, Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad, and titles by Damico, Foyle, Hearn, Hieber, Kristoff, Mamatas, Swsenson, Wareness, and Wexler
This Week's BestsellersMonday 8 August 2016 | Monitor
J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne's Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is #1 at USA Today
Periodicals: early AugustSunday 7 August 2016 | Monitor
Print issues of Black Static and Interzone, and online issues of Apex, Aurealis, Clarkesworld, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Fireside, Forever, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, and Nightmare
Dawn of Injustice: A Review of Suicide Squad
Saturday 6 August 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
David Ayer's Suicide Squad strikes me as a very meh kind of film — a hodgepodge of characters and moments that work, and characters and moments that don't work, tossed together in a story line that sometimes makes sense and sometimes doesn't. [Still,] in contrast to Batman v Superman, [this film] is truer to both the contents and spirit of the comic books it is adapting... Kameron Hurley: When to Quit Your Day JobFriday 5 August 2016 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's August Issue.
While this is a personal decision that everyone is going to need to make on their own, here are some guidelines I've put together for myself in watching how other authors have managed this over the years. Consider quitting your day job... Locus Bestsellers, AugustThursday 4 August 2016 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Guy Gavriel Kay's Children of Earth and Sky, Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora, Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, and Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AugustWednesday 3 August 2016 | Magazine
August New and Notable books include Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet and titles by Chen, Das, Datlow, Hartley, Hurley, Kay, McKillip, Novik, Powers, Reynolds, Shriver, and Tremblay.
New Books : 2 AugustTuesday 2 August 2016 | Monitor
C.A. Higgins' Supernova and titles by Allen, Boffard, Bradley & Ross, Card & Johnston, Correia & Ringo, Guran, Harper, Hunter, Kenyon, Laine, McGuire, Meadows, Offord, Pinborough, Taylor & Johnson, Tchaikovsky, and Wagers
This Week's BestsellersMonday 1 August 2016 | Monitor
Isolated debuts by Michael J. Sullivan, Sylvain Neuvel, and Gail Carriger
August 2016 Table of ContentsMonday 1 August 2016 | Magazine
The August issue features interviews with Nancy Kress and David D. Levine, a column by Kameron Hurley, reports on Locus Awards Weekend and Readercon with lots of pics, and reviews of short fiction and books by China Miéville, Jennifer Mason-Black, Jonathan Strahan, Matthew M. Bartlett, Walter Jon Williams, and many others.
Comments from the 2016 Locus Poll and SurveySunday 31 July 2016 | Magazine
Here are comments, presented anonymously, submitted by voters in this year's Locus Poll and Survey. Results of the poll were published in the magazine's July issue; survey results will appear in August issue.
Periodicals: late July 2016Saturday 30 July 2016 | Monitor
Issues of Perihelion and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and what's new at Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New Books : end of JulyFriday 29 July 2016 | Monitor
"Magnus opuses" by Agustín de Rojas and Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, and other titles by Jon Hollins, John Kenny, John Langan, and Sarah Tolmie
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Patricia A. McKillipThursday 28 July 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2016 issue
A rare new story collection is something to look forward to, especially when, as with Dreams of Distant Shores, it includes three previously unpublished tales, a long novella all but unavailable since its original 1994 publication, an essay by McKillip on high fantasy, and an appreciative and sharply insightful afterword by Peter Beagle. Paul Di Filippo reviews David D. LevineWednesday 27 July 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This seems to be a "steam engine time" kind of period in publishing, when writers who have focused exclusively on short fiction for many years now step forth with their long-anticipated debut novels. Now comes David Levine's Arabella of Mars, ushering him into hardcovers some twenty years after his first story appeared... New Books : 26 JulyTuesday 26 July 2016 | Monitor
Max Gladstone's Four Roads Cross and titles by Bauers, Black, Craft, Crouch, Merbeth, Nassise, Palecek, and Sebold
This Week's BestsellersMonday 25 July 2016 | Monitor
A new Star Wars novel by Chuck Wendig debuts on four lists.
Periodicals: third week July: Print MagazinesSunday 24 July 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet.
Steady As She Goes: A Review of Star Trek Beyond
Saturday 23 July 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
To a remarkable extent, Star Trek Beyond is a film designed to appeal to aging fans of the original series [yet] also includes ample doses of the explosions, fistfights, and chaotic chases that are said to most entertain young filmgoers, though these scenes invariably bore and confuse this no-longer-young reviewer. It is thus a film that is likely to appeal to a wide variety of audiences, albeit for different reasons. Paul Di Filippo reviews Jeffrey FordFriday 22 July 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Having surveyed and relished the contents of A Natural History of Hell, what can we adduce as Ford's distinctions? A highly controlled mutable style and love of language, which can accommodate the first-person narration of a modern-day drug addict as easily as it contours to the omniscient attention given to a youth of the early twentieth century. Faren Miller reviews Andrea HairstonThursday 21 July 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2016 issue
The glossary at the back of Andrea Hairston's Will Do Magic For Small Change includes words and phrases from African and Native American tribes, plus a smattering of European (mostly German). Hairston deftly weaves all this and more into two powerful linked tales... Paul Di Filippo reviews Douglas Lain's Deserts of FireWednesday 20 July 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Lain's main introduction and his introductions to each segment of the collection contain much wisdom about the relationship between art and war. They could easily be collated together as a valuable essay on the topic. And in fact he addresses my question about how 21st-century wars are different from 20th-century ones and thus alter their own fictional responses. New Books : 19 JulyTuesday 19 July 2016 | Monitor
Jeffrey Ford's A Natural History of Hell, the US edition of Nina Allan's The Race, and titles by Carriger, Guran, Jones, Olson, Power, Revis, Schultz, and Turtledove
This Week's BestsellersMonday 18 July 2016 | Monitor
Ben H. Winters' Underground Airlines cracks the New York Times list.
Joe Hill: All in the CultSunday 17 July 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's July Issue interview
For the longest time there has been this fight about what has more value, genre fiction or literary fiction. The truth is, we won the battle. We won it a decade ago, if not longer. Science fiction, fantasy, and horror elements are all over mainstream literature and have been for years and years. The people who don't like it are the Donald Trumps of genre fiction: they want to build a wall between us and the rest of the world. I can't be in favor of some kind of walled city state where science fiction and fantasy meet. I don't want it. New in Paperback: JulySaturday 16 July 2016 | Monitor
Greg Bear's Killing Titan, Jim Butcher's The Aeronaut's Windlass, Becky Chambers' The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown, Charles Stross' The Annihilation Score, and titles by Beaulieu, Blake, Forstchen, Gratz, Greenwood, Maguire, and Martinez
Classics In Reprint: JulyFriday 15 July 2016 | Monitor
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's massive The Big Book of Science Fiction, collections by Ben Bova, Alastair Reynolds, and Clifford D. Simak, and an anthology from Paula Guran
Adrienne Martini reviews Hugh HoweyThursday 14 July 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2016 issue
Hugh Howey's Beacon 23 started as a novel-in-installments, with each of the mostly freestanding parts released individually. Only after you'd completed the set could you see the full story of a space-age lighthouse keeper who came back from the interstellar war deeply damaged. John Langan reviews Gemma FilesWednesday 13 July 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2016 issue
There's a cache of lost films at the center of Experimental Film, the fine, compelling novel by Gemma Files. The movies were made in the early years of the 20th century by a woman who herself went missing during what should have been a routine train journey to Toronto.... New Books : 12 JulyTuesday 12 July 2016 | Monitor
Anthologies from Jonathan Strahan, Douglas Lain, and Jacob Weisman, and titles by Bakker, Chu, Das, Davidson, Gratz, Haley, Henry, Kane, Levine, MacNaughton, Taylor, and Walton
This Week's BestsellersMonday 11 July 2016 | Monitor
A new edition of L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth ranks #1 at Publishers Weekly.
Peter Straub: Interior DarknessSunday 10 July 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's July Issue interview
My ideas about narrative have certainly changed with time, and my whole stance toward it has changed, as would have to happen in any long engagement with a subject. I don't want to write the same kind of books I did when I started. Really, I can't. I like reading novels that go from the beginning to the end. I like reading novels that don't break the frame. I like novels that have endings one cannot anticipate, novels with jolting revelations. Periodicals: second week JulySaturday 9 July 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, Forever, Intergalactic Medicine Show, MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, The Dark, and Uncanny
Locus Bestsellers, JulyFriday 8 July 2016 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Robert J. Sawyer's Quantum Night, Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem, and Christopher L. Bennett's Star Trek Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: Live by the Code.
Gardner Dozois reviews Short FictionThursday 7 July 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2016 issue
The April/May Double Issue of Asimov's is a substantial one, full of good stories, almost all of them core SF. The best story here is also the most ambitious one: "Flight from the Ages" by Derek Künsken, a story taking place over a timespan of billions of years... Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JulyWednesday 6 July 2016 | Magazine
July New and Notable books include Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Seats, Kameron Hurley's The Geek Feminist Revolution, and titles by Baxter & Reynolds, Clarke, Hearn, Hill, Lee, Saulter, and Strahan
New Books : 5 JulyTuesday 5 July 2016 | Monitor
Gardner Dozois' Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-third Annual Collection, Ben H. Winters' Underground Airlines, and titles by Amish, Bond, Caine, Daniel, Helms, Kuhn, Lee & Miller, Martinez, Milán, Orwin, Palmatier, Powers, Ryan, Schwab, Snodgrass, Verne St. John, Williams, and Wilson
This Week's BestsellersMonday 4 July 2016 | Monitor
Stephen King's End of Watch dominates; Sherrilyn Kenyon's Born of Legend debuts.
Cory Doctorow: Peak IndifferenceSunday 3 July 2016 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's July Issue.
From Ashley Madison to Office of Personnel Management, the future is clear: every couple weeks, from now on and for the foreseeable, a couple million people whose lives were just destroyed by a data breach will sheepishly show up on privacy advocates' doorsteps, ashen-faced like smokers who’ve just received cancer diagnoses, saying, "I guess you were right. What do we do?" Periodicals: early JulySaturday 2 July 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Clarkesworld, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Shimmer
July 2016 Table of ContentsFriday 1 July 2016 | Magazine
The July issue features interviews with Peter Straub and Joe Hill, a column by Cory Doctorow, complete results of this year's Locus Awards and Poll, reports on the Nebula Conference and WisCon, and reviews of short fiction and books by Nina Allan, Dan Vyleta, Charles Stross, Joe Hill, Guy Gavriel Kay, and many others.
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Tue 16 AugToday is the release day of my new book, Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg, so it seems appropriate to say a few words about it in this space.
The word “enwonderment” is not a real word; it’s one that Bob Silverberg made up in the 90s. In one of the conversations in this bo...
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Mon 08 AugThe odds are against you. Most Kickstarter projects fail, and the publishing category is near the top of that list, with nearly 70 percent of campaigns not reaching their funding goals. Unsurprisingly first-time novelists have it the toughest. There are a ton of articles detailing why it’s a terr...
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