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» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews David Cronenberg’s novel Consumed » SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Hieroglyph, Scalzi, Winters »: io9: Sean Williams on The Tragic Demise of Science Fiction’s Greatest Idea [teleportation] » io9: Charlie Jane Anders on 10 Science Fiction Authors Whose Books Just Kept Getting Stranger » KGB’s November 19th event hosts Jack Skillingstead and Nancy Kress Fri 10 Oct —
» David Langford’s Ansible 327 » KGB Fantastic Fiction has Genevieve Valentine and E. Lily Yu, next Wednesday, October 15, 7pm » Borderlands Books has upcoming events with Terry Shames, F. Paul Wilson, Robert Shults and Rudy Rucker, and others » Washington Post: Peter Straub reviews Keith Donohue » Mythic Delirium has Issue 1.2 content » David Naimon interviews David Mitchell » Salon: Our science-fiction apocalypse: Meet the scientists trying to predict the end of the world » Slate: essay by Ramez Naam about the Neal Stephenson-inspired anthology Hieroglyph Tue 16 Sep —
» Sunday NY Times Book Review: Scott Hutchins reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s Acceptance; elsewhere in Sunday’s NYT, VanderMeer essays about The Lighthouse Keepers » Slate: Ed Finn (co-editor of new anthology Hieroglyph) essays about Why our science fiction needs new dreams » Mysterious Galaxy in San Diego has events this next week with Lauren Beukes, Steven Gould, Chelsea Cain, Anna Carey and Gretchen McNeil, and James Ellroy Fri 12 Sep —
» Fantastic Fiction at KGB is now releasing audio recordings of recent months readings » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s Southern Reach trilogy; meanwhile, Steven H Silver interviews Di Filippo for Amazing Stories » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews William T. Vollmann » Mythic Delirium’s September features are now live — works by Mohlere, Lanagan, Taaffe » David Naimon has a radio interview with Benjamin Parzybok; earlier, Karen Russell » Events at Borderlands Books in San Francisco in coming weeks include Steven Gould, Maria Alexander, Terry Shames, Greg Bear Tue 09 Sep —
» Time Magazine: Lev Grossman on How Magic Conquered Pop Culture » Slate’s Mac Rogers reviews Jeff VanderMeer’s ‘Southern Reach’ trilogy: These Amazing Novels Are Like Lost, Except You Won’t Be Enraged When You Finish Them » New Statesmen reviews VanderMeer: “Intricate, complex and surprising” » Slate’s DS Bigham: One Planet, One Language: How Realistic Is Science Fiction Linguistics? » NY Times on dystopian novels: The World Is Ending, and Readers Couldn?t Be Happier » Chicago Tribune posts columns by Gary K. Wolfe like this one, but you need to subscribe to see them » Guy Gavriel Kay celebrates 30 years of Fionavar at Bakka Phoenix Books in Toronto, September 19th, 7pm Tue 02 Sep —
» David Langford’s Ansible 326 » Guardian: Ursula K. Le Guin reviews David Mitchell Sat 30 Aug —
» Entertainment Weekly gives VanderMeer’s Acceptance an A-; also (though apparently not online) David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks gets an A and Randall Munroe’s What If? an A » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Graham Joyce’s The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit » Washington Post: Nancy Hightower reviews Peter Watts, John Scalzi, Ron Duncan » Huffington Post: 15 Real-Life Scientists Share Their Favorite Science Fiction Books, Movies » IEET: An Interview with: Professor George Slusser — Eaton science fiction collection’s Curator » Photos from Loncon3 by Keith Stokes, James Patrick Kelly, and Strangelove » KGB readings September 17 will be with Mary Robinette Kowal and Leanna Renne Hieber » New York Review of Science Fiction Readings for September 9 are with Walter Mosley and Paul Di Filippo; in October, Paul Park and James Morrow » Ellen Datlow has photos from August KGB readings with Veronica Schanoes and Karen Heuler Sun 24 Aug —
» LA Times: Jeff VanderMeer: Sci-fi and fantasy authors reveal truths in the strangest fiction » NY Times Book Review: Terry Pratchett: By the Book Sun 10 Aug —
» Nalo Hopkinson expresses concern about the future of University of California, Riverside’s Eaton Science Fiction Collection » University of Warwick (UK) is hosting a 3-day conference, 21-23 August, the first day about M. John Harrison, the second and third about SF/F Now » The Center for Future Consciousness in Grand Rapids, MI, is hosting workshop Science Fiction: The Mythology of the Future, 19-21 September » LA Times: Gwenda Bond reviews Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land: “Maybe, this masterful close suggests, both real and fantasy worlds have space for heroes and magic.” » Mythic Delirium’s August featured content includes a story by Saira Ali and poems by Landis, Garfinkle, and Lupescu » Dark Delicacies (in Burbank CA) upcoming events include Joseph Maddrey, Alain Silver, James Ursini, Eric Forsberg, Jon Towlson, and Justin Humphreys Wed 06 Aug —
» MIT Technology Review interviews Gene Wolfe » NY Times: Dwight Garner reviews David Shafer’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot — “elements of DeLillo, Pynchon, Dick, Kunzru, Stephenson…” » B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Nick Harkaway’s Tigerman 
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Russell Letson reviews William GibsonSaturday 18 October 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2014 issue
The world evoked by The Peripheral is deliberately and progressively estranged, not only by its genre furniture (around to which we will get eventually), but by the writerly craft with which everything in the story is delivered. Paul Di Filippo reviews Peter F. HamiltonFriday 17 October 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Peter Hamilton's new novel stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the Culture books of Iain Banks and the Kefahuchi Tract saga of M. John Harrison, but rotated through the looking glass of a totally different, resolutely non-postmodern worldview, to produce a book that is paradoxically both old-school and totally au courant: the best of two worlds. Periodicals: mid-OctoberThursday 16 October 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Alt Hist, Aphelion, Aurealis, Fireside, Kaleidotrope, Luna Station Quarterly, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Perihelion, and Shimmer
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Jonathan CarrollWednesday 15 October 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2014 issue
Jonathan Carroll's greatest charm as a writer may well be simply that no one has yet been able to pin him down. New Books : 14 OctoberTuesday 14 October 2014 | Monitor
Paolo Bacigalupi's The Doubt Factory, Greg Bear's War Dogs, Garth Nix's Clariel, anthologies from Ellen Datlow and Paula Guran, and titles by Bernobich, Doctorow & Wang, Durst, Krokos, Ruckley, and Warrington
This Week's BestsellersMonday 13 October 2014 | Monitor
Books by George R.R. Martin (et al) and Patrick Rothfuss are selling on Amazon prior to publication.
Paul Park: Metafictional DemonsSunday 12 October 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's October Issue interview
One of the ways in which science fiction tends to depart from our own experience of the world is that often in a science fiction world the facts are too clear. We go to some planet and there's an expository section that tells about the history of the place and how it works, because we need a clear sense of it in order for the story to develop correctly and make sense. But that's different from the way we perceive the real world. The worlds of any two different people don't really resemble each other. This is the problem with politics too. Print Periodicals: early OctoberSaturday 11 October 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Dreams and Nightmares, and On Spec
Periodicals: early OctoberFriday 10 October 2014 | Monitor
Ellen Datlow guest-edits Nightmare Magazine; plus, new issues of Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, and Quantum Muse
Paul Di Filippo reviews Norman SpinradThursday 9 October 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Whenever discussion turns to candidates for the next SFWA Grandmaster Award, the name of one author who is fully entitled to such a distinction is notably missing. I refer to Norman Spinrad. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early OctoberWednesday 8 October 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in Ed Finn & Kathryn Cramer's anthology Hieroglyph and in new issues of F&SF, Clarkesworld, and Apex
New Books : 7 OctoberTuesday 7 October 2014 | Monitor
Ann Leckie's Ancillary Sword, Rob Latham's The Oxford Handbook of Science Fiction, Jonathan Strahan's Fearsome Magics, Jeff VanderMeer & Desirina Boskovich's The Steampunk User's Manual, and titles by Belcher, Brust, Buehlman, Jack Campbell, John L. Campbell, Carey, Connolly, Davis, Fforde, Fowler, Hair, Harper, Hunter, Joshi, Khanna, Lackey, Morgan, Newman, Rawlik, Somers, Torgersen, Twelve Hawks, Weber & Zahn, and Wells
This Week's BestsellersMonday 6 October 2014 | Monitor
Scott Westerfeld's Afterworlds debuts.
Kameron Hurley: The Status Quo Is Not a Neutral Position: Fiction and PoliticsSunday 5 October 2014 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's October Issue.
I've been writing on the internet since 2004, and publishing in more traditional venues since 1996. And I have a distinct set of values and politics and opinions that I bring to both my fiction and nonfiction work, of course. Doesn't everyone? Locus Bestsellers, OctoberSaturday 4 October 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Jim Butcher's Skin Game, George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons, Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and titles by Ian Doescher and R.A. Salvatore.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Peter WattsFriday 3 October 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2014 issue
This is not a novel that wants to invite anyone in for tea. But while, on the one hand, it's SF hard enough to break a tooth on, it also challenges some of the very tenets of hard SF by questioning whether religion might turn out to be as useful as science, at least in terms of predictive power. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, OctoberThursday 2 October 2014 | Magazine
October New and Notable books include Margaret Atwood's Stone Mattress and titles by Abraham, Bradley, Hobb, Hurley, Joyce, Kress, Lake, Link & Grant, Milford & Zollars, Sanderson et al., Scalzi, VanderMeer, Watts, Weir, and Whates
October Issue Table of ContentsWednesday 1 October 2014 | Magazine
The October issue features interviews with authors Paul Park and Kameron Hurley, a new column by Kameron Hurley, an obituary with appreciations of Graham Joyce, reports on Loncon 3, and reviews of short fiction and books by Jonathan Carroll, William Gibson, John Scalzi, and others.
New Books : 30 SeptemberTuesday 30 September 2014 | Monitor
Adam Roberts' Bête and titles by DeLima, Gaiman & Rusell, Headley & Kat Howard, Jonathan Howard, Kaufmann, Lansdale, Lindsey, Strout, and Wallace
This Week's BestsellersMonday 29 September 2014 | Monitor
Rick Yancey's The Infinite Sea debuts on two lists.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late SeptemberSunday 28 September 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of new stories from Beneath Ceaseless Skies and Tor.com and in Jonathan Strahan's anthology Fearsome Magics, and of a novella by Genevieve Valentine
Periodicals: late SeptemberSaturday 27 September 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Black Static and Interzone, and what's new this month at Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Daily SF
Classic Reprints: SeptemberFriday 26 September 2014 | Monitor
New editions of John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar and Greg Egan's Permutation City, a perhaps final volume of Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, and omnibus volumes by Cowper, Holdstock, and Moorcock
Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Stephen Jones' Best New Horror 25Thursday 25 September 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2014 issue
Stephen Jones's Mammoth Book of Best New Horror series celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, a landmark by any standard in genre publishing. Paul Di Filippo reviews David ShaferWednesday 24 September 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Ending satisfyingly but with ultimate outcome uncertain, WTF deals with its big themes in a sprightly yet serious fashion. If you were to fuse Max Barry's Lexicon with Dave Eggers's The Circle, then blend in some of Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys, you might approach the lunatic sanity and gonzo wisdom of Shafer's accomplished debut. New Books : 23 SeptemberTuesday 23 September 2014 | Monitor
Terry Pratchett's A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Nonfiction, and titles by Brennan, Clarke, Grant, James, Jones, Spalenka, Sumner-Smith, Waugh, Weis & Krammes, and Zahn
This Week's BestsellersMonday 22 September 2014 | Monitor
Kim Harrison's The Witch With No Name debuts on four lists.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-SeptemberSunday 21 September 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of new stories in Analog, Asimov's, Strange Horizons, and of Octavia Cade's novella The Don't Girls
"A Hunger for Games?": A Review of The Maze Runner
Saturday 20 September 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The Maze Runner, as one hardly needs to say about any major film that achieves wide release, is a fast-paced, involving adventure with excellent special effects, and there are even hints of an imperfectly realized effort to achieve a sort of profundity not found in the novel. Periodicals: mid-SeptemberFriday 19 September 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, and Perihelion
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Genevieve ValentineThursday 18 September 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2014 issue
The real achievement of Genevieve Valentine's The Girls at the Kingfisher Club isn't just that it recasts the princesses as flappers in 1927 New York — even Anne Sexton saw that coming when in her version she described them as dancing "like taxi girls at Roseland" — but in delicately balancing her language between the transparent directness of the folktale and the contemporary sensibility of the novel. Paul Di Filippo reviews Jay LakeWednesday 17 September 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This volume contains over thirty stories, published from 2007 to 2013, so there is assuredly little overlap with Lake's earlier collections. In other words, we are getting his mature work, written almost precisely in the interstices of his illness, which began in 2008. New Books : 16 SeptemberTuesday 16 September 2014 | Monitor
Jay Lake's "Last Collection" Last Plane to Heaven, and titles by Barnett, Cato, Hoover, Mamatas & Washington, Marr, Pagliassotti, Prineas, Shearman, Stroud, Yancey, and Zhang
This Week's BestsellersMonday 15 September 2014 | Monitor
David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks, Patricia Briggs' Shifting Shadows, and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Son of No One debut on print lists.
Nicola Griffith: The Body & the WorldSunday 14 September 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview
I like to write about women who are the subject, not objects. I like to write about women who do rather than have done to them. They might do bad things — a lot of my women do bad things — but they do them because they seem like efficient ways to deal with what's going on. I’m very much a creature of the body. New in Paperback: SeptemberSaturday 13 September 2014 | Monitor
Robert Charles Wilson's Burning Paradise and titles by Brust & White, Donaldson, Farmer, Gemmell, Hair, Lake, Mooney & Fawcett, Palwick, Shinn, Stirling, and Weber & Lindskold
Paul Di Filippo reviews Benjamin ParzybokFriday 12 September 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Whatever silly tag we try to affix on Parzybok and Sherwood Nation, the undeniable truth is, he's a unique voice who's delivered a very good book that is both comic and tragic, grounded and fanciful, closely observed and well imagined. Locus Bestsellers, SeptemberThursday 11 September 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Jim Butcher's Skin Game, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and titles by David R. George III and R.A. Salvatore.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early SeptemberWednesday 10 September 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of new stories in Interzone, Clarkesworld, Apex, Lightspeed, and anthology Coming Soon Enough, with recommendations of stories by Nina Allan, T.R. Napper, Greg Egan, J.Y. Yang, and Seth Dickinson
New Books : 9 SeptemberTuesday 9 September 2014 | Monitor
Ed Finn & Kathrym Cramer's anthology of optimistic SF Hieroglyph, Jonathan R. Eller's biography Ray Bradbury Unbound, Nancy Kress' novel Yesterday's Kin, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant's anthology Monstrous Affections, and titles by Bennett, Carlson, Gould, Harrison, Maguire, Miller, Parzybok, Planck, and Waldorf
This Week's BestsellersMonday 8 September 2014 | Monitor
Brent Weeks' The Broken Eye and John Scalzi's Lock In debut.
Yoon Ha Lee: Axioms & TheoremsSunday 7 September 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview
I approach writing like it's an equation. What is the... moral is maybe too loaded a term... but what is the thing at the end that the reader should come away with? What is the final conclusion? What is the theorem that I am trying to prove, and what are the axioms that will get me there, and how do I show the steps? Periodicals: early SeptemberSaturday 6 September 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aurealis, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and Quantum Muse
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through June 2015Friday 5 September 2014 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's September issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, SeptemberThursday 4 September 2014 | Magazine
September New and Notable books include Hannu Rajaniemi's The Causal Angel and titles by Anderson, Bear, Bernheimer, Blaylock, Dozois, Gladstone, Gregory, Muir, Park, Parker, Shepard, Valentine, and Winters
Cory Doctorow: Audible, Comixology, Amazon, and Doctorow's First LawWednesday 3 September 2014 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's September Issue.
It's been half a decade since I coined "Doctorow's first law of electronic publishing": "Any time someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you, and won't give you the key, you can be sure that the lock isn't there for your benefit." I'm talking, of course, about "digital rights management." New Books : 2 SeptemberTuesday 2 September 2014 | Monitor
Jeff VanderMeer's Acceptance, David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks, and titles by Briggs, Daniel & Drake, Hunter, Jacka, Kenyon, Lewis, Maberry, McGuire, Monk, Nye, Priest, Spencer, Stirling, Watson, and Williams
September Issue Table of ContentsMonday 1 September 2014 | Magazine
The September issue features interviews with authors Nicola Griffith and Yoon Ha Lee, a new column by Cory Doctorow, lists of forthcoming books through June 2015, a new column of advice for new authors by Tom Whitmore & Karen G. Anderson, and reviews of short fiction and books by Peter Watts, Robert Jackson Bennett, John Varley, and others.
This Week's BestsellersMonday 1 September 2014 | Monitor
David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks is selling on Amazon sites.
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Jennifer Brozek Guest Post–”The Anthology Balance”
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