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» NYT Book Review: Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump » NYT Book Review: Jennifer Senior reviews Jaroslav Kalfar’s Spaceman of Bohemia » NYT Book Review profiles V.E. Schwab, whose A Conjuring of Light ranks on this week’s published fiction hardcover bestseller list Wed 08 Mar —
» The Verge: Andrew Liptak on how Science fiction would be unrecognizable without women: To grow, the genre must embrace more and different voices » Washington Post: Everdeen Mason reviews Kim Stanley Robinson, Emma Newman, and anthology The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories » San Francisco Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews horror novel Universal Harvester by John Darnielle » LA Review of Books: Alison Sperling reviews Weinstock & Sederholm’s The Age of Lovecraft Fri 03 Mar —
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» NY Times: Andy Weir’s Best Seller ‘The Martian’ Gets a Classroom-Friendly Makeover, i.e., an authorized classroom edition with the dirty words toned down » Bangladesh Daily Star: Science fiction pulls in young readers at the Ekushey book fair » New Scientist: Lavie Tidhar, In China, this is science fiction’s golden age Fri 24 Feb —
» New York Times: John Williams revisits Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, in light of the current political situation » Foreign Policy: How China Became a Sci-Fi Powerhouse » Boing Boing’s Sci-Fi Sundays: Amazing Science Fiction, April 1958 » Bend Bulletin: Everdeen Mason’s Best science fiction, fantasy books to read in February reviews Kameron Hurley, Vic James, Matt Wallace Thu 16 Feb —
» NY Times: Winston Churchill Wrote of Alien Life in a Lost Essay » Portland 90.7 FM’s David Naimon interviews Ursula K. Le Guin » David Langford’s Ansible 355 and Ansible 355 1/2 with Tom Shippey’s funeral tribute to Peter Weston » Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology » Boing Boing: Kameron Hurley: What Will Sink Our Generation Ships? The Death of Wonder » Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Norman Spinrad’s The People’s Police [subscription site] » NDTV Gadgets 360: Pranay Parab reviews Nnedi Okorafor’s Binti: Home » National Post: ‘We’re all living in science-fiction now’: Screenwriter Elan Mastai explains the improbability of our lives, Terra Arnone on Mastai’s All Our Wrong Todays » The Verge: Andrew Liptak reviews Kameron Hurley’s The Stars Are Legion » Chicago Tribune: Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kameron Hurley, Peter S. Beagle, Norman Spinrad » Recode: Want to understand the future? Read science fiction, John Markoff says. 
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 Fri 14 Apr 8:03 amThe 2016 Aurealis Awards winners, recognizing the best in Australian speculative fiction, were announced April 14, 2017.
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Thu 13 Apr 12:00 pmFinalists for the 2017 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction (the Eugie Award), which “honors stories that are irreplaceable, that inspire,...
 
Kinuko Y. Craft: Light & ShadowSunday 16 April 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview
One of the benefits I get from doing covers is, I get to read. The main thing I like about what I do is that I'm away from reality and the real world where I live, in a make believe one — a land of someone else's imagination — as long as the project lasts. I need that to survive. Periodicals: mid-AprilSaturday 15 April 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Spotlight on: Jeffrey Alan Love, ArtistFriday 14 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue
My first job in SF/F, I think, was working for Irene Gallo for Tor.com, an absolutely wonderful website which has revolutionized short fiction and art in the SF/F field. I couldn't have asked for a better first job. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kameron HurleyThursday 13 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
While the raw template may be space opera, The Stars Are Legion draws enthusiastically and effectively on a number of mythological and horror traditions as well. Spotlight on: Paul Lewin, ArtistWednesday 12 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue
Coming from the perspective of a fine artist, there are only a handful of cover projects that I've been involved with over the years. Without a doubt, though, the most interesting one has been with Seven Stories Press and the reissuing of Octavia Butler's books Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. New Books : 11 AprilTuesday 11 April 2017 | Monitor
Allen Steele's Avengers of the Moon, Elizabeth Moon's Cold Welcome, Gwyneth Jones' Proof of Concept, and titles by Anderson, Beal, Durst, Farland, Maberry, Mason, Pollock, Smith, and Smythe
This Week's BestsellersMonday 10 April 2017 | Monitor
Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer debuts on two lists.
Kameron Hurley: How to Write a Book in a MonthSunday 9 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue.
We all want to learn how to write books faster. The pace of the news cycle today has heated up to such an extent that for those of us who aren't in the 1% of writers, if we don't come out with a book a year, it feels like the world has forgotten us amid the buzz of ever more intensifying world horror. Periodicals: early AprilSaturday 8 April 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Apex, Aphelion, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Forever, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, and Nightmare
Russell Letson reviews Ken MacLeodFriday 7 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Ken MacLeod's new trilogy-in-progress bears the overall title The Corporation Wars, with US print editions of the first two volumes, Dissidence and Insurgence, appearing just a month apart late in 2016. (The third, Emergence, is due out later this year.) The story is told from a variety of viewpoints and features a mixture of motifs: the post-human condition, interstellar colonization, and space combat, along with familiar MacLeodian discussions about political systems and revolution. Locus Bestsellers, AprilThursday 6 April 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by James S.A. Corey's Babylon's Ashes, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, and Alexander Freed's Rogue One.
Liz Bourke reviews Charles StrossWednesday 5 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Empire Games is the start of a new trilogy, set in the world of his Merchant Princes novels (six books, now released as three omnibus editions), but several years on from the nuclear events that punctuated those novels. New Books : 4 AprilTuesday 4 April 2017 | Monitor
John Kessel's The Moon and the Other, Omar El Akkad's American War, Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns, Neil Clarke's The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume Two, and titles by Cherryh, Dolkart, Emrys, Flint & Barber, Jacka, Jennings, Lawrence, Lee, Matthews, Neuvel, North, O'Keefe, Priest, and Yatsuhashi
This Week's BestsellersMonday 3 April 2017 | Monitor
John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire debuts on two lists.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AprilSunday 2 April 2017 | Magazine
April New and Notable books include Edmund Gordon's The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography, George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, and titles by Bledsoe, Carey, Donnelly, Nix, Palmer, Pratt, Rosetti & Rayyan, Schwab, and Spinrad.
Back to the Retrofuture, Version 2.0: A Review of Ghost in the Shell
Saturday 1 April 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Ghost in the Shell is most definitely a film worth seeing, and no one who buys a ticket will feel cheated afterwards; they may especially appreciate the film, as I did, as an unusually artful rendering of all the things that people used to worry about in the 1980s. Still, like me, they may also conclude that the film just wasn’t their cup of tea. April 2017 Table of ContentsSaturday 1 April 2017 | Magazine
The April issue features an interview with Kinuko Y. Craft and spotlights of artists Paul Lewin, Jeffrey Alan Love, and Rovina Cai, an obituary and appreciations for Susan Casper, a column by Kameron Hurley, a report on SF in Portugal, and reviews of short fiction and books by John Kessel, Brian Staveley, Robert Charles Wilson, Alex Wells, and many others.
Periodicals: late MarchFriday 31 March 2017 | Monitor
Fourth issue of new quarterly 'zine Into the Ruins, and March issues and content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Fireside, Persistent Visions, Strange Horizons, Terraform, and Tor.com
Liz Bourke reviews Lara Elena DonnellyThursday 30 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
Amberlough isn't a cheerful book, but it has an amazing voice. Its spy-thriller twists and ever-growing tension combine to provide an extraordinarily entertaining ride. And I have to say: if this is her debut? I can't wait to see what Donnelly does next. John Langan reviews Silvia Moreno-GarciaWednesday 29 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
With Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia demonstrates that there is always more to be done with familiar figures such as the vampire, and that in the hands of a talented writer, the creatures can rise to new (un)life. New Books : 28 MarchTuesday 28 March 2017 | Monitor
Ian McDonald's Luna: Wolf Moon and titles by Eves, McDermott, Sapkowski, Taylor, and Westerfeld
This Week's BestsellersMonday 27 March 2017 | Monitor
A new edition of Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140, and Andrzej Sapowski's The Lady of the Lake debut.
Classics In Reprint: MarchSunday 26 March 2017 | Monitor
The seventh volume of Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, a 50th-anniversary edition of Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, and new editions of novels by Richard Bowes and Tanith Lee
Mutiny of the Unknown Alien Slime: A Review of Life
Saturday 25 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
From one perspective, Life represents yet another example of a recent Hollywood trend that I find heartening — a renewed interest in realistic depictions of humanity's probable future in space. ... Regrettably, however, Life ultimately becomes a conventional, and sometimes silly, horror film. Russell Letson reviews Cory DoctorowFriday 24 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
For all of its engagement with What's Happenin' Now, Baby, Walkaway feels like good old-fashioned science fiction: part thrill-ride, part warning, part all-night political wrangle with your really smart college roommate. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Cat SparksThursday 23 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
[Her] fine first novel Lotus Blue, set in a far future Australian wasteland, is as evocative of Terry Dowling's Rynosseros stories, with their neat sandships, or even of David R. Bunch's surreal Moderan stories, as it is of George Miller's monster truck rallies. Paul Di Filippo reviews Caitlín R. KiernanWednesday 22 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The heterogeneous tales assembled in this collection display Kiernan's large but tightly interlocked range of interests. Outsiders, art, the elements, transcendence, sex, love, failure, responsibility. New Books : 21 MarchTuesday 21 March 2017 | Monitor
John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire, Mishell Baker's Phantom Pains, and titles by Allan, Asher, Clarke, Cornell, Fujii, Lebbon, Strickland & Miller, and Weis & Krammes
This Week's BestsellersMonday 20 March 2017 | Monitor
Patricia Briggs' Silence Fallen, Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, and Anne Bishop's Etched in Bone debut.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Kim Stanley RobinsonSunday 19 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This book is amiable, humorous, good-natured, optimistic, in love with the quotidian and with the crazy quilt adaptive existence that life under stress assumes. Robinson gives us a host of fascinating, interlocking plots, and some of them have global resonance. Periodicals: mid-MarchSaturday 18 March 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Perihelion, and Uncanny
New in Paperback: February - MarchFriday 17 March 2017 | Monitor
Robert J. Sawyer's Quantum Night, Allen Steele's Arkwright, and titles by Abercrombie, Brennan, Das, Lawrence, Locke, Oyeyemi, Staveley, Straub, Tremblay, and Valente
Adrienne Martini reviews Carrie VaughnThursday 16 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Carrie Vaughn's Martians Abroad clearly shares DNA with Heinlein's juveniles, and is, the author states, and homage to Podkayne of Mars. Paul Di Filippo reviews Paul La FargeThursday 15 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Put most simplistically, it's a novel examining the friendship between H. P. Lovecraft and his teenage pal, Robert Barlow, who became HPL's literary executor. But it's also much more than that, as we shall see. New Books : 14 MarchTuesday 14 March 2017 | Monitor
Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and titles by Fletcher, Helmreich, Knaak, Murad & Shurin, Neumeier, Newman, and Xue
This Week's BestsellersMonday 13 March 2017 | Monitor
Kristen Britain's Firebrand debuts; George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo and Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology rank #1 or #2 on four lists.
Jane Yolen: Accidental NovelistSunday 12 March 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
Children's books and young-adult books and fantasy have this in common: the best are written like poems. They have metaphor, they have astonishing lyrical prose, and they work on multiple levels. They are a gateway drug to beautiful literature, and shouldn't be dismissed.
Bungle in the Jungle: A Review of Kong: Skull Island
Saturday 11 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Kong: Skull Island actually begins quite promisingly, as we are introduced to a diverse and generally appealing cast of characters, and they gather together to journey to the mysterious Skull Island and confront the enormous, and initially hostile, King Kong. ... Unfortunately, the film devolves into an iterative, and increasingly unpleasant, series of variations on the two basic set pieces observed in all giant monster movies: humans vs. monster, and monster vs. monster. Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through December 2017Friday 10 March 2017 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's March issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Locus Bestsellers, MarchThursday 9 March 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by James S.A. Corey's Babylon's Ashes, Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, and James Luceno's Star Wars: Catalyst.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Ken LiuWednesday 8 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
The Wall of Storms is a far more complex and rewarding novel than The Grace of Kings — unusual for the middle book in a series, and equally unusual is that it can be appreciated largely as a standalone. New Books : 7 MarchTuesday 7 March 2017 | Monitor
Paul La Farge's The Night Ocean, Ada Palmer's Seven Surrenders, Jaroslav Kalfar's Spaceman of Bohemia, Cat Sparks' Lotus Blue, and titles by Bailey & Schmidt, Bishop, Bledsoe, Briggs, Butler, Christopher, Claycomb, Fortune, Hamilton, Henderson, Maresca, McClellan, McGuire, Rieder, and Wells
Langan reviews Pinborough: They Say a Girl Died Here OnceMonday 6 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
The family at the heart of They Say a Girl Died Here Once, Sarah Pinborough's excellent new novel, is in retreat. Three years prior to the book's opening, Anna, its teenaged protagonist, was slipped a date-rape drug at a party.... This Week's BestsellersMonday 6 March 2017 | Monitor
V.E. Schwab's A Conjuring of Light and Chuck Wendig's Empire's End: Aftermath debut; George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo and Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology rank #1 and #2 on three lists.
John Joseph Adams: The Stars His DestinationSunday 5 March 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
Having read The Stars My Destination, I went on a quest to find more books like it, and ultimately that's what led to me becoming an editor — to driving myself to find things that would challenge me as a reader and change the way I read. Periodicals: early MarchSaturday 4 March 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Clarkesworld, Forever, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Mythis Delirium, Nightmare, and Shimmer
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MarchFriday 3 March 2017 | Magazine
March New and Notable books include Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes and titles by Bond, Brust & White, Datlow, Delany, Dyer, Hand, Matthews, McGuire, Okorafor, Stross, and Vaughn
Cory Doctorow: The Jubilee: Fill Your BootsThursday 2 March 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's March Issue.
Technology hints at another model, one that hybridizes the pre-industrial rhythms of work and play and the super-modern ability to use computers to solve otherwise transcendentally hard logistics and coordination problems. Paul Di Filippo reviews Elan MastaiThursday 16 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The first thing to note is that although Mastai might very well have been raised outside strict genre borders, he exhibits a playful fluency with, and is creatively savvy about, all the genre appurtenances and furniture. His does not make a single misstep with his speculations or language. March 2017 Table of ContentsWednesday 1 March 2017 | Magazine
The March issue features interviews with Jane Yolen and John Joseph Adams, listings of forthcoming books through December 2017, a column by Cory Doctorow, an obituary with appreciations for Edward Bryant, and reviews of short fiction and books by Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lara Elena Donnelly, Henry Kuttner, Shaun Tan, and many others.
New Books : 28 FebruaryTuesday 28 February 2017 | Monitor
Rob Latham's Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings, the US edition of Alastair Reynolds' Revenger, and titles by Britain, Broaddus, Dawidziak, Hoover, Kadrey, Kiernan, Lewis, Marr, Martinez, Millet, Nix, Skovron, and Wendig
This Week's BestsellersMonday 27 February 2017 | Monitor
George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo debuts at #1 on three lists; Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology is #2 on the same three lists.
Periodicals: late FebruarySunday 26 February 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Analog and Asimov's (its 40th-anniversary issue), and February content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Classics In Reprint: FebruarySaturday 25 February 2017 | Monitor
New editions of books by William Gibson, K.W. Jeter, Philip Francis Nowlan, and Michael Swanwick
Liz Bourke reviews BookburnersFriday 24 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Bookburners Season 1 might top 200,000 words, but it reaches that total in 16 novelette-to-short-novella-length episodes. Structurally, then, it's a lot more like a television show than a serial novel — as it's intended to be. A supernatural copshow/caper/spies and intrigue television show, with added complicated team dynamics. Rich Horton reviews Short FictionThursday 23 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
F&SF for November/December features a rare and welcome appearance from Gardner Dozois, whose fame as an editor should not cause us to forget how good his fiction is... Faren Miller reviews S. Jae-JonesWednesday 22 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Historically, "The Earl-King" (Der Erlkönig), "Unfinished Symphony", the title piece, and more are works by Franz Schubert. Jae-Jones plays her own games by reimagining and recasting him as the heroine's young violin-virtuoso brother (not a composer in his own right), while still invoking the full passion of the time when Baroque gave way to early Romantic — and the world changed. New Books : 21 FebruaryTuesday 21 February 2017 | Monitor
Meg Elison's The Book of Etta, Michael Tolkin's NK3, and titles by Dayton, Dornbusch, Eames, Hogan, Lyons, Schwab, and Sharp
This Week's BestsellersMonday 20 February 2017 | Monitor
Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology rank #1 on two print lists.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Nnedi OkoraforSunday 19 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
Binti: Home opens about a year after that earlier story began as a quiet coming-of-age story, turned suddenly into a survival adventure, and ended with Binti playing a key role in a kind of revolution. Periodicals: mid-FebruarySaturday 18 February 2017 | Monitor
New issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex, Aphelion, Aurealis, Forever, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Mothership Zeta, and Perihelion
Paul Di Filippo reviews Elan MastaiThursday 16 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The first thing to note is that although Mastai might very well have been raised outside strict genre borders, he exhibits a playful fluency with, and is creatively savvy about, all the genre appurtenances and furniture. His does not make a single misstep with his speculations or language. Paul Di Filippo reviews Richard KadreyWednesday 15 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Lastly, and possibly the biggest attraction of the book, is the sheer language. Like S. J. Perelman writing for the Marx Brothers, combined with Raymond Chandler's propensity for over-the-top similes and metaphors, Kadrey's language pops off the page, whether as dialogue or description. New Books : 14 FebruaryTuesday 14 February 2017 | Monitor
Peter S. Beagle's In Calabria, Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn, George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, and titles by Brodsky, Carey, Danielewski, Duncan, Hand, James, Jordan, Tem, and Wells
This Week's BestsellersMonday 13 February 2017 | Monitor
Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology ranks high on all three Amazon lists.
Alastair Reynolds: Expanding UniverseSunday 12 February 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview
The other seed of Revenger came from when I really fell in love with science fiction, around the time I was 16. That's when I was absolutely besotted with Larry Niven and the Known Space stories... New in Paperback: January - FebruarySaturday 11 February 2017 | Monitor
Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning and titles by Bishop, Briggs, Carriger, Harris, Hines, Jones, Kadrey, Lyris, McAuley, McIntosh, Neuvel, North, Pratchett & Baxter, and Sullivan
Faren Miller reviews Laura EveFriday 10 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
What is myth for the new millennium? In The Graces, Laure Eve confronts what's left of the old with something that might take its place (no galactic empires required). Paul Di Filippo reviews Norman SpinradThursday 9 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Spinrad revels in the juicy, sleazy, all-too-human Machiavellian machinations of all the parties, the rebels and the establishment alike. His ability to chart thrust and counter-thrust is akin to that of some television political strategist following the twists and turns of national affairs. Kameron Hurley: If You Want to Level Up, Get Back to the BasicsWednesday 8 February 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's February Issue.
There are few things, for me, that are as equally depressing and energizing as reading a really great book. Great books are why I got into this business in the first place, which is why I'm often so shocked when I hear from other professional writers that they don't read anymore. New Books : 7 FebruaryTuesday 7 February 2017 | Monitor
Samuel R. Delany's journals In Search of Silence, Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, Kameron Hurley's The Stars Are Legion, Norman Spinrad's The People's Police, and titles by Ambrose, Beaulieu, Blackmoore, Clarke, Datlow, Donnelly, Fischl, Gannon, Harrison, Isaacson, Jae-Jones, Mastai, Sagara, Savory, Spencer, Taylor, and Wallace
This Week's BestsellersMonday 6 February 2017 | Monitor
Terry Goodkind's Death's Mistress and Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology debut; Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is #1 this morning at Amazon.com; Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is #1 at USA Today and Washington Post.
Periodicals: early FebruarySunday 5 February 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Clarkesworld, The Dark, Fireside, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, and Persistent Visions
The Boy Who Fell to Earth: A Review of The Space Between Us
Saturday 4 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Like a NASA rocket slowly rising from the surface, The Space Between Us takes a long time to achieve escape velocity and soar through space; however, if you can endure one of the most boring opening sequences in any film I can recall, and about an hour of trite melodramatic sequences interspersed with inauthentic personal drama, its last thirty minutes are actually quite enjoyable, even moving. Locus Bestsellers, FebruaryFriday 3 February 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Brent Weeks' The Blood Mirror, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, and R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms: Homecoming Book III: Hero
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, FebruaryThursday 2 February 2017 | Magazine
February New and Notable books include Karen Lord's anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean and titles by Arden, Bear, Dellamonica & Berman, Dellamonica, Dennard, Gemmell, Gilman, Heller & Viola, Littlewood, MacLeod, and Pinborough.
February 2017 Table of ContentsWednesday 1 February 2017 | Magazine
The February issue features an interview with Alastair Reynolds and the annual Year in Review with essays by Gary K. Wolfe, Paul Kincaid, Geoff Ryman, Gardner Dozois, and many others; the Locus Recommended Reading List, the Locus Poll and Survey ballot, a column by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and books by Kameron Hurley, S. Jae-Jones, Ian McDonald, Ken MacLeod, and many others.
New Books : 31 JanuaryTuesday 31 January 2017 | Monitor
Nnedi Okorafor's Binti: Home, Thoraiya Dyer's debut novel Crossroads of Canopy, Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes, and titles by Aaronovitch, Gladstone, Goodman, Goodwin, and Shearin
This Week's BestsellersMonday 30 January 2017 | Monitor
Titles by Veronica Roth and Karen Marie Moning debut; George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been #1 on Amazon.com most of the past week; other dystopian titles by Atwood, Bradbury, Huxley, Lewis, and Orwell also rank on Amazon lists.
Spotlight on: Kelly Abbott, Great Jones StreetSunday 29 January 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue
Great Jones Street is the Netflix of Fiction. We mean that seriously, as both a business model and a battle cry. We feature short fiction. We curate. We package it nicely into a great user experience. Periodicals: late JanuarySaturday 28 January 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Black Static and Interzone, and January posts at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Ellen KlagesFriday 27 January 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
Passing Strange may be the most fully developed and richly detailed of all of Klages's stories for adults, but it never feels like it needs to be a longer novel... Classics In Reprint: JanuaryThursday 26 January 2017 | Monitor
New editions of books by Lois McMaster Bujold, David G. Hartwell, William Hope Hodgson, Keith Laumer, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Clark Ashton Smith, and an anthology of short fiction from Hank Davis
Liz Bourke reviews Wesley ChuWednesday 25 January 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2016 issue
The Rise of Io is a messy, scrappy, and yet incredibly fun science fiction thriller with extra body-snatching (more like body-sharing) aliens. New Books : 24 JanuaryTuesday 24 January 2017 | Monitor
Stephen Baxter's Wells sequel The Massacre of Mankind, Ellen Klages' Passing Strange, Tom Toner's The Weight of the World, and titles by Brust & White, Crilley, Goodkind, Kemp, Newman, and Price
This Week's BestsellersMonday 23 January 2017 | Monitor
Susan Dennard's YA fantasy Windwitch debuts on two lists; George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ranks #6 this morning on Amazon.com
Spotlight on: Ellen Kushner, TremontaineSunday 22 January 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue
The other writers have made it more real. The world is already a great big stewpot of periods, books, and cities I love. But I've only explored certain corners of it. A real world is vast and full of complexities and contradictions. Periodicals: mid-JanuarySaturday 21 January 2017 | Monitor
New issues of The Dark, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Adrienne Martini reviews Bob ProehlFriday 20 January 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2016 issue
I thought I knew what Bob Proehl's A Hundred Thousand Worlds would be about before I even cracked the spine. It's about comic book conventions, the blurbs on the back said... New in Paperback: JanuaryThursday 19 January 2017 | Monitor
Joe Hill's The Fireman, Dexter Palmer's Version Control, and titles by Asher, Bara, Dennard, Hemstreet, Kadrey, Marshall, Sanderson, and Schwab
Paul Di Filippo reviews David Brin & Stephen W. PottsWednesday 18 January 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
David Brin's The Transparent Society (1998) surveyed the new technology that is driving us towards more and more disclosure, and drew fresh new conclusions about the issues. Now, still cogitating on the ramifications of these issues, and displaying admirable tenacity and dedication to the cause, Brin offers an anthology of fiction on the topic, featuring a stellar lineup of contributors. New Books : 17 JanuaryTuesday 17 January 2017 | Monitor
Charles Stross' Empire Games, Neil Clarke's anthology Galactic Empires, and titles by Germain, Graham & Land, McDermott, Moning, Roth, Vaughn, and White
This Week's BestsellersMonday 16 January 2017 | Monitor
Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem ranks #53 on Amazon.com this morning, after Obama plugs it in today's NYT
Blake Charlton: Forward & BackwardSunday 15 January 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview
You'd think failing kindergarten would be difficult to do, but I did it rather spectacularly. ... The book went around the class, and soon after that my parents got called in. My teacher said, 'When Blake had the book, he held it upside down when he read from it.' Paul Di Filippo reviews Gordon EklundSaturday 14 January 2017 | Reviews
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Few occasions give more pleasure to a reader than witnessing the unexpected return to print of a long-silent author who once had a rewarding, admirable career. This time around, the satisfaction derives from the appearance of Cosmic Fusion, by Gordon Eklund. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Emmi ItärantaFriday 13 January 2017 | Reviews
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The Weaver, published earlier this year in England under the far more evocative title The City of Woven Streets, is the second novel from the Finnish writer Emmi Itäranta, whose post-apocalyptic SF novel The Memory of Water deservedly gained attention a couple of years ago, largely because of her evocative, lyrical prose (she apparently writes simultaneously in Finnish and English). That prose serves her well in The Weaver... Locus Bestsellers, JanuaryThursday 12 January 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Brent Weeks' The Blood Mirror, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season, and Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Paul Di Filippo reviews Henry KuttnerWednesday 11 January 2017 | Reviews
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Nearly seven hundred pages of fiction by Kuttner from the short span of 1937 to 1940 finds the Golden Age Master even more deft and wide-ranging than in that first volume, Terror in the House... The sure hand and clever wit that would be fully on display under John Campbell's Golden Age guidance appear in stronger and more lasting flashes here. New Books : 10 JanuaryTuesday 10 January 2017 | Monitor
David Brin & Stephen W. Potts' Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World and titles by Arden, Cogman, Dennard, Gilman, Liggett, and McGuire
This Week's BestsellersMonday 9 January 2017 | Monitor
Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Chabon's Moonglow each ranks #1.
Mary Robinette Kowal: The Familiar & the StrangeSunday 8 January 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview
It wasn't really until I started to get into the novel that I buckled down and did some more research and realized how much perceived knowledge I had about the First World War was completely wrong and very American-centric. You watch these war movies, and it's all about the men at the battlefront. I did not realize at all how heavily involved women were in the First World War, and how directly tied it was to suffrage. Electronic Periodicals: early JanuarySaturday 7 January 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Apex, Aurealis, Clarkesworld, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Kaleidotrope, Lightspeed, Mythic Delirium, Nightmare, Shimmer, and Uncanny
Print Periodicals: JanuaryFriday 6 January 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Analog and Asimov's, both now bi-monthly; Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JanuaryThursday 5 January 2017 | Magazine
January New and Notable books include Richard A. Lupoff's Where Memory Hides: A Writer's Life and titles by Beukes, Chabon, Corey, Duchamp, Ellis, Kuttner, MacLeod, Milford, Sanderson, Shusterman, Sterling, Strahan, Kai Ashante Wilson, and Robert Charles Wilson.
Cory Doctorow: It's Time to Short Surveillance and Go Long on FreedomWednesday 4 January 2017 | Perspectives
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Let's say for the sake of argument that you voted for Donald Trump and you're ecstatic that he's taking the White House. New Books : 3 JanuaryTuesday 3 January 2017 | Monitor
A study of American SF films, and titles by Bara, Bedford, Buettner, Flint, Forstchen, Hendee & Hendee, McKinley, Modesitt, Moore, Older, Pratchett, Scalzi, Scull, Jen Williams, and Tad Williams
This Week's BestsellersMonday 2 January 2017 | Monitor
The novelization Rogue One: A Star Wars Story debuts on two lists.
January 2017 Table of ContentsSunday 1 January 2017 | Magazine
The January issue features interviews with Mary Robinette Kowal and Blake Charlton, a column by Cory Doctorow, spotlights on Ellen Kushner and Kelly Abbott, and reviews of short fiction and books by Colson Whitehead, Laure Eve, Ben Aaronovitch, Ellen Klages, Jonathan Strahan and many others.
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