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Locus's 2009 Recommended Reading List
   Thu 18 Mar 10 —
» Pyr is celebrating its 5th anniversary with an essay contest
» Omnivoracious: Jeffrey Ford interviews David Herter about new novel October Dark; Herter's blog links excerpts » B&N: Paul Di Filippo's spotlights Small Press Graywolf Fri 12 Mar 10 —
» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Peter Straub, Ian Whates, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds
» Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Connie Willis' Blackout » LA Times: Ed Park's Astral Weeks online column reviews Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy, Volume 3 Wed 10 Mar 10 —
» NY Times Paper Cuts Blog: Living With Music: A Playlist by Michael Moorcock
» Cleveland Plain Dealer reviews Matthew Hughes, Connie Willis, Henry Porter, Kim Stanley Robinson, Elizabeth Bear Tue 9 Mar 10 —
» Green Man Review collects Best of 2009 lists from Charles Stross, Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Datlow, Tim Pratt, and others
» Spring-Summer Flurb has fiction by Paul Di Filippo, Rudy Rucker, Kathe Kofa & Carter Scholz, Richard A. Lupoff, others » Amelia Beamer has begun online serialization of forthcoming novel The Loving Dead » The Agony Column has recent interviews with Dan Simmons, Jedediah Berry, David Drake, Joe R. Lansdale, Victoria Blake of Underland Press, Joe Hill » Daily Kos looks at Science Fiction You Should Be Reading Sat 6 Mar 10 —
» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Dan Simmons, Joe Hill, Michael Shea, Kage Baker
Fri 5 Mar 10 —
» Amazon's Omnivoracious talks with Maurice Broaddus about anthology Dark Faith
» March Clarkesworld Magazine has fiction by Gord Sellar and Matthew Kressel » B&N Review: Paul Di Filippo surveys Theodore Sturgeon's Complete Stories; earlier, spotlight on small press Underland » Rain Taxi's Matthew Cheney interviews James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel about The Secret History of Science Fiction » March Writing Raw has 7 question interviews with Tad Williams, Chaz Brenchley/Daniel Fox, Catherine Fisher, and K.J. Parker » Penguin Canada's new Guy Gavriel Kay website highlights his new novel Under Heaven » Ian R. MacLeod has a new website Wed 3 Mar 10 —
» Dave Langford's Ansible 272
» SF Site's Readers' Choice Best SF and Fantasy are by Miéville, Bacigalupi, Abercrombie, Wilson, Priest, McAuley, Roberts, Robinson, VanderMeer, Jordan & Sanderson, Banks, Doctorow, and McAuley; meanwhile, Greg L. Johnson's Best of 2009 includes Robinson, Wilson, McAuley, and others » American Booksellers Association's Indies Choice Book Awards finalists include titles by Richard Powers, Suzanne Collins, Libba Bray, Scott Westerfeld, Neil Gaiman » LA Time: Jedediah Berry reviews Joe Hill's Horns » BSCreview: Hal Duncan's Notes from New Sodom: The Spelunkers of Speculative Fiction Sun 28 Feb 10 —
» Guardian's Ten rules for writing fiction collects advice from Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Michael Moorcock, Will Self, Sarah Waters, and many others
» Christian Science Monitor reviews Dan Simmons' Black Hills » Michael A. Ventrella has an interview with Norman Spinrad » Wesleyan University has constructed a labyrinth in honor of Joe and Kit Reed » SFFMeta compiles and averages online reviews of SF/F/H books » Fantastic Literature's March list is online » Black Coat Press lists French SF classics Fri 26 Feb 10 —
» The Nation: China Miéville on J.G. Ballard: On Disobedient Rooms
» NY Times: Janet Maslin reviews Joe Hill's Horns » SF Reviews.net gives Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven a five-star review Wed 24 Feb 10 —
» Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Ali Shaw's The Girl with Glass Feet, a "gorgeous first novel" reminiscent of Mirrlees and Peake
» LA Times Book Prize 2009 finalists include YA titles by Frances Hardinge and Shaun Tan, and a new category for graphic novels » LA Times: Ed Park's Astral Weeks SF column reviews Lise Haines' YA Girl in the Arena Mon 22 Feb 10 —
» Strange Horizons: John Clute reviews Peter Straub's American Fantastic Tales
» Ellen Datlow's photos from KGB February 17th reading with Daryl Gregory and Peter Straub Sun 21 Feb 10 —
» LA Times profiles Kim Stanley Robinson
» Denver Post: Dorman T. Shindler reviews Blackout by Connie Willis, the 'heir to Robert Heinlein' Wed 17 Feb 10 —
» Washington Post: Sara Sklaroff reviews Kit Whitfield, Matthew Flaming, Cory Doctorow
Sun 14 Feb 10 —
» Final Internet Review of SF
» New York Times' Gerald Jonas on the passing of William Tenn » Washington Post: Michael Dirda reviews Robert Jackson Bennett's Mr. Shivers; earlier, Maureen Corrigan reviewed Peter Straub's A Dark Matter » NY Times: Lisa Von Drasek reviews Libba Bray's Going Bovine » LA Times reviews Catherine Fisher's Incarceron and other titles by Dashner, Knox, and Whitley; earlier, Erik Himmelsbach reviewed Michael Shea's The Extra Sun 7 Feb 10 —
» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Joe Hill, Lavie Tidhar, and others
» Seattle Times: Nisi Shawl reviews Connie Willis' Blackout; also, SF Chronicle's Louis Peitzman talks with Willis about the novel » Rick Klaw reviews Robert Jackson Bennett's Mr. Shivers » BSCreview has Hal Duncan on "The Kerspindle Kerfuffle" » SciFiDimensions is going on hiatus » Fantastic Literature's February list is online Mon 1 Feb 10 —
» Dave Langford's Ansible 271
Sun 31 Jan 10 —
» Guardian: M. John Harrison reviews the rediscovered John Wyndham novel Plan for Chaos
» Amazon pulls Macmillan (including Tor) titles Fri 29 Jan 10 —
» Paul Haines has made his novella Wives (from Australian anthology X6) available online for Hugo consideration
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Thu 28 Jan 10 —
» Amazon's Omnivoracious contributor Jeff VanderMeer picks his "best of decade" books including titles by Edward Carey, Samuel Delany, M. John Harrison, David Mitchell, Sean Tan, and Edward Whittemore
» Telegraph: Peter Ingham reviews Philip Palmer, Jesse Bullington, Kelley Armstrong, Paul McAuley » Stargate Universe is hosting a graphic novel contest » Fantasy Book Critic is hosting a book giveaway of titles by Matthew Hughes and others » Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Patti Smith Mon 25 Jan 10 —
» Paul Di Filippo reviews Kim Stanley Robinson's Galileo's Dream
Sun 24 Jan 10 —
» Awards News: Aurealis Awards winners include Andrew McGahan, Trudi Canavan, Jonathan Strahan, Greg Egan, Scott Westerfeld
» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Peter Straub, Steven Amsterdam, Barbara Roden Fri 22 Jan 10 —
» LA Times: Jeff VanderMeer reviews Thomas Mullen's The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers; also, Scott Timberg's The Writer's Life addresses Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox
» Ellen Datlow has posted photos from the KGB January 20th reading with David Anthony Durham and Lev Grossman Wed 20 Jan 10 —
» The New Yorker profiles Neil Gaiman's fantasies
» Tor.com: John Joseph Adams' podcast The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is up to issue #3 » Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Melanie Benjamin's Alice I Have Been » BSCReview interviews Charlie Huston » World SF News Blog needs your help Mon 18 Jan 10 —
» Strange Horizons: John Clute's column Scores covers Kim Stanley Robinson and others
» Winter Goblin Fruit, guest-edited by Mike Allen, includes video files of readings by several poet contributors » Black Gate has new reviews of Robert Low, Douglas Clegg, A. Merritt, and others » Ellen Datlow has posted photos from the Lovecraft Unbound reading Mon 11 Jan 10 —
» The Atlantic: Christopher Hitchens on The haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard
» Guardian interviews Jonathan Lethem » Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Shearman, Barnett, Bennett, and Constantine » The Agony Column interviews S.T. Joshi Thu 7 Jan 10 —
» Hal Duncan's column Notes from New Sodom: The Scourge of Sci-Fi
» Omnivoracious: Graham Sleight interviews Farah Mendlesohn on Joanna Russ » Rick Klaw surveys the New Weird movement » Fantastic Literature's January list is online Tue 5 Jan 10 —
» Dave Langford's Ansible 270, plus a long supplement, Remembering Rob Holdstock
1948-2009
» January SF Site has reviews of Shiner, Braziel, Banks, Brooks, and others, plus its annual readers' choice poll » January Clarkesworld has fiction by Peter Watts and Megan Arkenberg, nonfiction on Lucius Shepard and video games, and a 2009 reader's poll and contest » Fantasy Magazine is also running a 2009 poll and contest Mon 4 Jan 10 —
» Strange Horizons has 2009 in Review summaries from Paul Graham Raven, Karen Burnham, Farah Mendlesohn, Paul Kincaid, Adam Roberts, Abigail Nussbaum, and many others
» Boston's The Edge has a list of 2009 Books not to overlook, including titles by VanderMeer, Van Gelder, Brockmeier, Zebrowski, Skillingstead, Resnick, and Moffett Sun 3 Jan 10 —
» ICON Magazine Online: Bruce Sterling's The Hypersurface of this Decade
» Washington Times reviews Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert's The Evil in Pemberley House Fri 1 Jan 10 —
» LA Times: Carolyn Kellegg reviews Alan DeNiro's Total Oblivion, More or Less
» NPR: Rick Kleffel talks with Margaret Atwood about science and religion |
 Fri 19 Mar 10:13 amSF writer Peter Watts was found guilty of resisting a US Customs and Border Protection officer today. He will be sentenced on April 26, 2010, and c...
Fri 19 Mar 9:14 amThe International Association of Media Tie-In Writers (IAMTW) has announced nominees for the fourth annual Scribe Awards, honoring excellence in li...
  
Other Magazines: February - MarchThursday 18 March 2010 | Monitor; Directories
New magazines Night Chills and Outer Reaches debut; plus, new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Black Static, Bulletin of the SFFWA, Dreams and Nightmares, Leading Edge, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 16 March 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter debuts strongly; titles by Anne Bishop, Tad Williams, Jim Butcher, and Rob Thurman also debut.
Searching for Tomorrow: A Second Look at FlashForwardSunday 14 March 2010 | Reviews
Like so many stories crafted for "mainstream" audiences, FlashForward both is, and is not, really science fiction.
New Books : 1st week MarchSunday 14 March 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Allen Steele's Coyote Destiny, Kevin Brockmeier's Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy, Volume 3, Catherine Fisher's Incarceron, debut novels by Nancy Holzner and Adrian Tchaikovsky, and other titles by Bear, Benson, Bishop, Flint & Wentworth, Greatshell, Green, Harrison, Kane, Marmell, McGuire, Pehov, Rabe & Greenberg, Sniegoski, Strout, and Thurman.
An Overview of International Science Fiction/Fantasy in 2009Thursday 11 March 2010 | Reviews
International recommendations from Australia, Brazil, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Phillipines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, and South Africa
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through December 2010Wednesday 10 March 2010 | Resources; Magazine; 2010 Posts
Selected titles from Locus Magazine's March issue listings are arranged here by month.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, MarchWednesday 10 March 2010 | Magazine; 2010 Posts
March New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Connie Willis' Blackout, Joe Haldeman's Starbound, David Louis Edelman's Geosynchron, Robin Hobb's Dragon Keeper, Conversations with Octavia Butler, and other titles by Berg, Bernobich, Jablokov, MacKenzie, Murphy & Shunn, O'Leary, Redick, Shaw, Shea, and Wilshire & Wilshire.
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, MarchWednesday 10 March 2010 | Magazine; 2010 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm, Robin McKinley's Chalice, Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and titles by Karen Traviss and R.A. Salvatore.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 9 March 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Kim Harrison's Black Magic Sanction debuts on four fiction hardcover lists.
Alice in WonderlandMonday 8 March 2010 | Reviews
Another week, another visually-impressive-but-thematically-empty remake. They tried to graft a standard Plot Coupon fantasy quest onto what was a surreal dreamscape lacking any narrative spine.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, #3Monday 8 March 2010 | Reviews
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Reviews of stories from new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Clarkesworld, Apex Magazine, and Electric Velocipede. Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Peter StraubSaturday 6 March 2010 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's March 2010 Issue
The publication of Peter Straub's The Skylark and A Dark Matter only a handful of months apart gives readers a unique opportunity to see how one of the most talented living writers of fantastic fiction cuts a rough diamond of a novel into a brilliant gem. Faren Miller reviews N.K. JemisinSaturday 6 March 2010 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's March 2010 Issue
Inventiveness, irreverence, and sophistication — along with sensuality — brings vivid life to the setting and other characters. The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms definitely leaves me wanting more of this delightful new writer. New Books : late FebruaryFriday 5 March 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Joe Hill's Horns, David Louis Edelman's Geosynchron, Graham Joyce's How to Make Friends with Demons, first novels by Robert Bennett Jackson and N.K. Jemisin, and titles by Fox, Greene, Greenwood, Henderson, Knapp, McCammon, Morton, and Rowley
New Books : mid FebruaryFriday 5 March 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Peter Straub's A Dark Matter, Dan Simmons' Black Hills, Lucy A. Snyder's Spellbent, and titles by Deas, Freeman, Hobb, Hoyt, Hunt, Millar, Prentiss, Redick, Ringo, Teppo, West, and Yolen & Snyder.
Cory Doctorow: Making Smarter Dumb Mistakes About the FutureWednesday 3 March 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's March Issue.
I don't know how to predict the future, and I never will. But I do know how not to predict it. This Week's BestsellersTuesday 2 March 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Joe Hill's Horns debuts on fiction hardcover lists this week.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, #2Monday 1 March 2010 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online—
Reviews of stories from new issues of Subterranean, Realms of Fantasy, Tor.com, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. March Issue Table of ContentsSunday 28 February 2010 | Magazine
The March issue has forthcoming books listings through December 2010, an interview with Samuel R. Delany, obituaries of Philip Klass (William Tenn) and Kage Baker, and reviews of books by Peter Straub, Jonathan Strahan, Gene Wolfe, Charlie Huston, Jim Butcher, and many others.
Felix Gilman: Making the World StrangerSaturday 27 February 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview.
If you're going to introduce magic in a world, it should complicate things -- it should make the world stranger. New in Paperback: FebruaryThursday 25 February 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Jedediah Berry's The Manual of Detection, Nancy Kress' Steal Across the Sky, Walter Jon Williams' This Is Not a Game, and others; January paperbacks include Bujold, Card, Carroll, Redick, and Steele; December titles are by Baxter, Graham, Oppegaard, Turtledove.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 23 February 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Peter Straub's A Dark Matter debuts, as do titles by Kim Harrison and Lisa McMann.
Jo Walton: Feral WriterMonday 22 February 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview.
I started writing seriously when I was about 13. I discovered that I could not read 'how to write' books, so I'm a feral writer: I taught myself how to write. Lois Tilton reviews Short FictionSunday 21 February 2010 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online—
Reviews of stories from new issues of Subterranean, Jim Baen's Universe, Clarkesworld, Abyss & Apex, and Apex Magazine. Adrienne Martini reviews Connie WillisTuesday 16 February 2010 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's February 2010 Issue
What she's also able to do is to play her reader like a newly tuned piano. Scenes that could be milked for every last mawkish drop somehow get around your defenses and wring out your heart. New Books : early FebruaryTuesday 16 February 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Connie Willis' Blackout, Michael Shea's The Extra, Evan Mandery's First Contact: Or, It's Later Than You Think, anthologies from Datlow, Greenberg & Hughes, Jones, Lowder, and Tidhar, fantasy novels by Jones and Miyabe, series debuts by Estep and Glass, and new volumes in series by Brown, Caine, Del Franco, Hunter, Kenner, Resnick, Sherman & Cragg, and Swann.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 16 February 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Laurell K. Hamilton's Flirt ranks strongly on print lists; Catherine Fisher's Incarceron and Connie Willis' Blackout also debut.
The WolfmanMonday 15 February 2010 | Reviews
A gorgeously art-directed mediocrity, combining the look and pace of a lush costume drama with the clichés and gore of a modern horror film.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, FebruaryMonday 15 February2010 | Magazine; 2010 Posts
February New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include classic works by Poul Anderson and James Blish, art by Charles Vess, first novels from Tim Akers and Lucy A. Snyder, collections by Charles de Lint and Michael Shea, a Rich Horton anthology, and other titles by Briggs, Cashore, MacAvoy, Reynolds, and Robinson.
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, FebruaryMonday 15 February 2010 | Magazine; 2010 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson's The Gathering Storm, Jack McDevitt's The Devil's Eye, Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, and titles by James Swallow and R.A. Salvatore.
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Locus Magazine seeks Interns   Locus Poll & Survey voting is open until April 1st. Tickets are now for sale for the Locus Awards Ceremony in Seattle, June 26, 2010. 
Mon 15 MarOf all original novels published each year, how many are sequels or books in series, and how many are independent, original, stand-alones? Take a guess before reading further.For some time now I've been toying around with maintaining tallies of how many new books in our field are published each y...
Graham Sleight:
Other eyes
Sun 21 FebI had a very genteel argument with Martin Lewis earlier this week about Bob Shaw's story "Other Days, Other Eyes", which Martin had read as part of David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer's anthology The Ascent of Wonder. My admiration for the story is already on record, but the thing that struck me as...
  
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Light and Dark in Orlando
Sun 21 Mar
First, to fill in a couple details from the previous post, Nalo Hopkinson's lunchtime speech referred notably to the Racefail 2009 debate that raged online a year or so ago; she also used the phras...
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I'm in Orlando, attending this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, at the conference's new permanent site in Orlando, at the Marriott just north of the airport. It's been ...
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