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» Breaking News: John W. Campbell Memorial Award finalists » Huffington Post: The 13 Of The Weirdest Short Stories Ever Written, by Ann VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer » Boing Boing: Flowchart: what is Weird fiction? – from Stephen Graham Jones » Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Adam Nevill, Karen Lord, and others » Media Bistro: The Most Read Books in the World: INFOGRAPHIC » Texas Public Radio interviews Robert J. Sawyer about Triggers Sun 06 May —
» Dave Langford’s Ansible 298 » NYT Book Review: Neil Gaiman: By the Book Tue 01 May —
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» Eugene OR Register-Guard profiles Kate Wilhelm: “Although she’s had her work published by most of the ‘Big Six publishers’, her books from now on will appear under the auspices of InfinityBox Press…” » SF Signal: Winnipeg Science Fiction Association Announces Creation of the A.E. Van Vogt Award, the ‘AEVVA’, to “spotlight the best in Canadian Science Fiction Writing” » The Verge: They make us this way: Paolo Bacigalupi’s ‘The Drowned Cities’ “stands out as one of the most brutal pieces of YA fiction in recent years” » Globe and Mail: Philip K. Dick’s salesman as everyman » Guardian: Is science fiction literature’s first international language? Thu 26 Apr —
» NPR: Seth Grahame-Smith on Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes » Guardian: Credible science fiction needs arts and sciences collaboration, say authors, namely Alastair Reynolds, Ken MacLeod, Geoff Ryman, Justina Robson, Simon Ings, and Paul McAuley Sun 22 Apr —
» LA Times: Susan Carpenter reviews Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Drowned Cities – “Simultaneously fascinating and terrifying” » NY Times: Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film may be about scientology; partly inspired by L. Ron Hubbard’s early life » LA Times’ Book Prizes include Stephen King’s 11/22/63 in the mystery/thriller category » Ellen Datlow’s photos from KGB reading with Scott Lynch and Elizabeth Bear Tue 17 Apr —
» Concatenation’s Summer 2012 posting is up with news (including a plug for Locus’s Kickstarter campaign), articles, and lots of reviews » Byte: Jerry Pournelle On Computers And Science Fiction » OregonLive.com: Science fiction author Jay Lake fights cancer one blog post at a time » Naples News: Ben Bova on Box-office flop brings back blockbuster memories: “They say that the golden age of science fiction is around 15 years old. For me, it was ‘A Princess of Mars.’” » Gizmodo: Neal Stephenson’s Project Hieroglyph Could Be The Best Thing To Happen To Science Fiction In Over 50 Years Sat 14 Apr —
» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Brian Francis Slattery » Bruce Sterling on his new book Mai più senza Torino, written with Jasmina Tesanovic, in Italian » University of Virginia student wins book-collecting contest for his collection of R.A. Lafferty » Meanwhile at Grantville Gazette, Bud Webster’s latest Past Masters column, on R.A. Lafferty, with bibliography » Midnight Echo is holding a subscription drive Sun 08 Apr —
» Dave Langford’s Ansible 297 » NY Times Book Review: Joshua Hammer reviews Matt Ruff’s The Mirage; also, Jonathan Liu reviews John Barnes’ Losers in Space » Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Nancy Kress, Ian Watson, Ian Sales, Kim Newman » Daily Mail: Harry Ritchie reviews Ken MacLeod, Juli Zeh, Gemma Malley » Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews J.-H. Rosny aine’s Three Science Fiction Novellas: From Prehistory to the End of Mankind » Barnes & Noble: Paul Di Filippo reviews Elizabeth Hand’s Available Dark » Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden and Robert J. Sawyer » Publishers Weekly: Cory Doctorow on A Whip to Beat Us With » Ellen Datlow’s photos from World Horror Con and the Stoker Awards » HBO’s Game of Thrones wins a Peabody Award – more at Huffington Post Tue 27 Mar —
» Slate: J.K. Rowling Just Transformed Book Publishing – Potter ebooks run on all major e-readers and tablets » Guardian: Keith Brooke reviews T.C. McCarthy’s Exogene — also reviewed by Wired’s GeekDad » Washington Post: Michael Dirda asks Hunger Games vs. John Carter: Are critics wrong? » Washington Post: Jeff Greenfield reviews Matt Ruff’s The Mirage » io9: China’s most popular science fiction is about a world ruled by China   
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Reading Notes – Swanwick, McDevitt, Okorafor
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Michael Swanwick’s Dancing with Bears – A very rich stew, and complex, with the point of view bouncing between half a dozen or so separate characters or situations, sometimes all within a ...
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 Tue 15 May 4:38 pmMexican author Carlos Fuentes, 83, died May 15, 2012 in Mexico City.
Fuentes frequently wrote in the magical realist vein, and even wrote occasiona...
Tue 15 May 12:59 pmPhotographer, fan, artist, and occasional SF writer Jay Kay Klein, 80, died May 13, 2012 in a Syracuse NY hospice. He had esophageal cancer.
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New Books : 15 MayTuesday 15 May 2012 | Monitor
Released today: China Miéville's Railsea, Nancy Kress' collection Fountain of Age, Garth Nix's A Confusion of Princes, and titles by Carey, Mamatas & Washington, and Matthews; earlier, titles by Baker, Clare, Cook, DiTerlizzi, Fenn, King, Kontis, Mandelo, and Salaam
This Week's BestsellersMonday 14 May 2012 | Monitor
Charlaine Harris' Deadlocked is #1 on three lists; titles by Sherrilyn Kenyon, Veronica Roth, and Kristin Cashore also debut.
Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Karl Edward WagnerSunday 13 May 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2012 issue
Karl Edward Wagner was among the most talented writers of the generation that helped to put horror on the popular fiction map in the 1970s and '80s. The contents of these two volumes — 35 stories — span 20 years and are arranged largely in chronological order of their publication. New in Paperback: MaySaturday 12 May 2012 | Monitor
Vernor Vinge's The Children of the Sky, Neal Stephenson's Reamde, Karl Schroeder's The Sunless Countries, Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland..., and other titles by Bernobich, Campbell, Carey, Correia, de Lint, Erikson, Millet, Ringo, Sinclair, Steele, Stirling, Tregillis, Weis & Krammes, and White & Gannon
Paul Di Filippo reviews Gary Westfahl's The Spacesuit FilmFriday 11 May 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Westfahl's deeply considered, deeply researched survey of cinematic depictions of our species in space, using the talismanic icon of the spacesuit, crystallizes just how far our attitudes toward space exploration have come in the past century, and how far they have to go, and in which direction. Locus Bestsellers, MayThursday 10 May 2012 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Robin Hobb's City of Dragons, Orson Scott Card's Shadows in Flight, Patricia Briggs' River Marked, China Miéville's Embassytown, Greg Cox' Star Trek: The Rings of Time, and William C. Dietz' Mass Effect: Deception
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early MayWednesday 9 May 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Clarkesworld, Apex Magazine, GigaNotoSaurus, Redstone SF, Mirror Dance, and Bourbon Penn
New Books : 8 MayTuesday 8 May 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Ann & Jeff VanderMeer's The Weird and Ysabeau S. Wilce's Flora's Fury; earlier, Veronica Roth's Insurgent, collections and nonfiction by Mandelo, Moorcock, Pearlman, Rucker, and Webster, novels by Burton, Griffin, Howarth, and McPherson, and an anthology from Horton & Wallace.
This Week's BestsellersMonday 7 May 2012 | Monitor
Stephen King's The Wind Through the Keyhole is #1 on three lists; Kevin Hearne's Tricked also debuts.
Howard Waldrop & Lawrence Person review The AvengersSunday 6 May 2012 | Reviews
Our only disagreement is just how much we love this film: Howard thinks The Avengers is the best Marvel superhero film ever made, while Lawrence thinks it's the best live-action superhero film ever made.
Periodicals: early MaySaturday 5 May 2012 | Monitor
What's new with Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Fireside Magazine, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Redstone SF, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MayFriday 4 May 2012 | Magazine
May New and Notable books include The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson and friends, collections of classic works by Robert Sheckley, Jack Vance, and Kurt Vonnegut, and novels by Bear, Cherryh, Hopkinson, Johnson, Kiernan, King, Kress, McGuire, Moore, and Powers.
Cory Doctorow: A Prose By Any Other NameThursday 3 May 2012 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's May Issue.
The more I thought about writing stories with "borrowed" titles, the more interesting it all got. Every time I thought about a famous title — one I hated, one I loved, one I had mixed feelings about — I found my subconscious simmering and then bubbling over with ideas. May Issue Table of ContentsWednesday 2 May 2012 | Magazine
The May issue has interviews with Seanan McGuire and Nick Mamatas, reports from this year’s Williamson Lectureship and the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, a new column by Cory Doctorow, and reviews of new books by Kim Stanley Robinson, China Miéville, Naomi Novik, C.J. Cherryh, Kristin Cashore, Charlaine Harris, and many others.
New Books : 1 MayTuesday 1 May 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Paolo Bacigalupi's The Drowned Cities, Laird Barron's The Croning, Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year: Volume Four, and titles by Caine, Campbell, Cashore, Gentle, Harper, Harris, Jemisin, Jerome, Kenyon, Nassise, Niven, Radford, Sagara, and Salyards; earlier: Gary Westfahl's The Spacesuit Film
This Week's BestsellersMonday 30 April 2012 | Monitor
Karen Russell's Swamplandia! is back on a couple lists.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late AprilSunday 29 April 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of F&SF, Bull Spec, Tor.com, and new 'zine Fireside Magazine
Periodicals: late AprilSaturday 28 April 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Bull Spec, SF Site, and The New York Review of Science Fiction
Classic Reprints: AprilFriday 27 April 2012 | Monitor
Library of America does Edgar Rice Burroughs, plus new editions of titles by A. Bertram Chandler, Philip K. Dick, Henry Kuttner, Melissa Scott & Lisa A. Barnett, John Shirley, and Robert Silverberg
Paul Di Filippo reviews Henry Kuttner's Thunder in the VoidThursday 26 April 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
These stories remind me of those hour-long B movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood, films that swept viewers up instantly and carried them to the exciting climax with no time to stop and ponder any gaps in logic or continuity. Adrienne Martini reviews A.S. ByattWednesday 25 April 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2012 issue
While Byatt explores the experience of being a kid during a war, she also retells the story of the Ring Cycle, deftly interweaving the two. Neither story would have much impact if forced to stand alone. Together, however, they echo and howl. New Books : 24 AprilTuesday 24 April 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Stephen King’s The Wind Through the Keyhole, The Mongoliad by Neal Stephenson, Greg Bear, and friends, the first US edition of Ken MacLeod’s The Night Sessions, and titles by Benedict, Bennett, Black, Chadbourn, Douglas, Frater, Gustainis, Haley, Hearne, Hoffman, Mills, Pehov, Weis & Hickman, Wellington, and Wendig; earlier, titles by Brooks, Mickelsen, Morrissey, and Parsons
This Week's BestsellersMonday 23 April 2012 | Monitor
Seth Grahame-Smith’s Unholy Night debuts on two lists.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Samuel R. Delany's Through the Valley of the Nest of SpidersSunday 22 April 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Samuel R. "Chip" Delany wants to push your buttons — I mean that in a good way — and really knows how to do so in the most esthetically magnificent, narratologically adroit, intellectually rich, and filthily transgressive fashion. Periodicals: mid-AprilSaturday 21 April 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Abyss & Apex, Flurb, Ideomancer, Intergalactic Medicine Show, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mythic Delirium, new YA e-zine Scape, Star*Line, and Subterranean
Notable New UK Books : March - AprilFriday 20 April 2012 | Monitor
Ken MacLeod's Intrusion, Iain Banks' Stonemouth, Russell Hoban's Soonchild, and titles by Brooke, Chadbourn, Harte, Kearney, and Scott
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-AprilThursday 19 April 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Russell Letson reviews Karl SchroederWednesday 18 April 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2012 issue
This is still a grand flying-pirate-ship-chases-and-escapes-and-meetings-with-monsters adventure, and it ends not with a debate or a seminar but with a gigantic zero-gee battle around Candesce, a climactic unmasking and showdown, just desserts, and other satisfying stuff. New Books : 17 AprilTuesday 17 April 2012 | Monitor
New today and in recent weeks: John Barnes' Losers in Space, Elizabeth Hand's Radiant Days, Nalo Hopkinson's The Chaos, and other YA novels by Black, Harland, Hathaway, and Myers; also, Nancy Kress' After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Elizabeth Bear's ad eternum, Steve Rasnic Tem's Deadfall Hotel, and titles by Dillon, Marques, McMahon, Ore, and Zito
This Week's BestsellersMonday 16 April 2012 | Monitor
Christopher Moore's Sacre Bleu and Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye debut.
Graham Sleight's Yesterday's Tomorrows: John M. FordSunday 15 April 2012 | Reviews
From the April 2012 issue of Locus Magazine
John M. Ford is one of the easiest writers for the critic to provide a recommendation on: start anywhere, and read. New in Paperback: AprilSaturday 14 April 2012 | Monitor
John Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation, Robert J. Sawyer's WWW: Wonder, Black & Larbalesteir's Zombies vs. Unicorns, and titles by Brust, Buckell, Canavan, Flint, Harris, Jemisin, Modesitt, Patton, Well, and Yolen & Snyder
John Picacio: MultidimensionalFriday 13 April 2012 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview.
Anything can be used to tell a story, not just the limited set of media that I experienced growing up. Those guys completely opened up the gates for me: I realized you can tell stories in a more multidimensional way. Locus Bestsellers, AprilThursday 12 April 2012 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Sisterhood of Dune, George R.R. Martin's A Clash of Kings, Jo Walton's Among Others, James Luceno's Star Wars: Darth Plagueis, and Greg Bear's Halo: Primordium.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Nancy KressWednesday 11 April 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2012 issue
The chief engine of suspense in After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, other than the mystery surrounding the Tesslies themselves, consists of seeing how the three narrative lines eventually converge and complement each other, and Kress handles this with her usual superior craftsmanship and efficiency. New Books : 10 AprilTuesday 10 April 2012 | Monitor
New this week: Samuel R. Delany's Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders, Seth Grahame-Smith's Unholy Night, and titles by Armstrong, Birmingham, Dellamonica, Evenson, Gilman, Johnson, Johnson, Kowal, Maberry, Nicholls, Slattery, and Youers
This Week's BestsellersMonday 9 April 2012 | Monitor
The mass market edition of Charlaine Harris' Dead Reckoning debuts.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early AprilSunday 8 April 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Weird Tales, Clarkesworld, Redstone SF, Apex Magazine, Kaleidotrope, and GigaNotoSaurus
Periodicals: late-March to early-AprilSaturday 7 April 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Analog, Apex, Arc, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Focus, GigaNotoSaurus, Interzone, Lightspeed, The New York Review of SF, Redstone, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Vector
Brom: Drawn to DarknessFriday 6 April 2012 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview.
As for actual learning to draw, I think it's like most arts: it's in you. You don't even think, 'Can I or can't I do this?' You just jump in and start doing it, and nobody can make you stop. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AprilThursday 5 April 2012 | Magazine
April New and Notable books include Jonathan Strahan's latest Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year anthology, and novels and novellas by Ahmed, Bennett, Brandon, Buckell, Cooper, Deas, Kosmatka, Leicht, Novik, Rawn, Renner, Schroeder, Straub, Williams, and Willis.
Faren Miller reviews Melanie RawnWednesday 4 April 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2012 issue
In Touchstone, Melanie Rawn chronicles the formation and wayward path to success of the title group of players, whose form of theater could only exist in a world where the creatures of our fairytale and fantasy have survived to become part of human life and culture... New Books : 3 AprilTuesday 3 April 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Robert J. Sawyer's Triggers, Christopher Moore's Sacre Bleu, Anne Tyler's The Beginner's Goodbye, and singletons by Little and Sigler; series openers by Irvine, Shinn, Viguié, and Wolf; and series sequels by Aguirre, Beaulieu, Drake, Foglio & Foglio, Freer, Grant, Koch, Monk, Smith, Stover, and Zettel. Released earlier: titles by Adams and Wilhelm
This Week's BestsellersMonday 2 April 2012 | Monitor
Suzanne Brockmann's Born to Darkness debuts.
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