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Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late JanuaryFriday 27 January 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Tor.com, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Heroic Fantasy Quarterly
New UK Books : JanuaryThursday 26 January 2012 | Monitor
Alastair Reynolds' Blue Remembered Earth, Paul McAuley's In the Mouth of the Whale, and titles by Beckett, Christopher, Esslemont, Fowler, Fultz, Herter, Hughes, Meaney, Nicholls, Rees, Sebold, Wells, and Whates
Paul Di Filippo reviews Ben Marcus' The Flame AlphabetWednesday 25 January 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
A novel that's full of essential speculative estrangement — the surface narrative — but one which also conceals a multivalent subterranean (in one sense, literally subterranean!) allegory about time, human generations, individualism, interpersonal and societal communications, and nonhuman modes of epistemology and being. New Books : 24 JanuaryTuesday 24 January 2012 | Monitor
Released today: John Shirley's Everything Is Broken, Alan Lightman's Mr. g: A Novel About the Creation, and titles by Duncan, Hodder, and Rusch; earlier, a novella by Fiona Lehn
This Week's BestsellersMonday 23 January 2012 | Monitor
James Luceno's Star Wars: Darth Plagueis debuts in the top 10.
Adrienne Martini reviews The Intergalactic Nemesis: Book One: Target EarthSunday 22 January 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Jason Neulander's creation isn't a play or a musical. What it most resembles is a live-action graphic-novel radio drama and slide show. Think Garrison Keillor's Guy Noir with alien sludge monsters. Classic Reprints: JanuarySaturday 21 January 2012 | Monitor
New editions of Keith Roberts' Pavane, Robert A. Heinlein's Sixth Column, and titles by David Drake, Georges Pellerin, J.-H. Rosny Aîné, Robert J. Sawyer, and Robert Silverberg
Print and Online Periodicals: third week JanuaryFriday 20 January 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Bulletin of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Intergalactic Medicine Show, The New York Review of Science Fiction, SF Site, Star*Line, and Strange Horizons
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Margo LanaganThursday 19 January 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2012 issue
Sea Hearts is a selkie novel, as distinguished from the spate of mermaid novels we've seen in the past couple of years, but as a Lanagan novel it's distinguished in several other ways as well. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-JanuaryWednesday 18 January 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Shimmer, On Spec, Something Wicked, and in new anthology River
New Books : 17 JanuaryTuesday 17 January 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Orson Scott Card's Shadows in Flight, Glen Cook's A Path to Coldness of Heart, Michael Flynn's In the Lion's Mouth, Ben Marcus' The Flame Alphabet, and titles by Cross, Goss, Lang, and Yamamoto; earlier, Daniel O'Malley's The Rook and titles by Flint & Goodlett and Phillips
This Week's BestsellersMonday 16 January 2012 | Monitor
Greg Bear's Halo: Primordium and Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Sisterhood of Dune debut.
Lois McMaster Bujold: TopiasSunday 15 January 2012 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview.
People often ask me if writing science fiction is any different from writing fantasy. For me, they are a continuum: definitely science fiction on one end, fantasy on the other, and then there's a muddy ground in the middle. But as I approach it, whatever the genre, the writing is the same. New in Paperback: JanuarySaturday 14 January 2012 | Monitor
Jo Walton's Among Others, Gene Wolfe's Home Fires, Frederik Pohl's All the Lives He Led, Michael Swanwick's Dancing with Bear, Martin & Dozois's Songs of the Dying Earth, Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches, and titles by Barnes, Ferrari, Hendee, Hunt, Lackey, Locke, Marmell, McCaffrey & Scarborough, Saberhagen, Taylor & Johnson, and West
Online Periodicals: mid-JanuaryFriday 13 January 2012 | Monitor
What's new online at SF Signal, Tangent, Tor.com, Weird Fiction Review, and World SF Blog
Faren Miller reviews Lev A.C. RosenThursday 12 January 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2012 issue
All Men of Genius makes no attempt to hide its main sources of inspiration: an odd couple of famous comedies, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. Locus Bestsellers, JanuaryWednesday 11 January 2012 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Neal Stephenson's Reamde, George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords, Cherie Priest's Ganymede, Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore's Star Trek: Vanguard: What Judgments Come, and R.A. Salvatore's Neverwinter
New Books : 10 JanuaryTuesday 10 January 2012 | Monitor
Released today: Beth Revis' A Million Suns; plus, first novels by Ayize Jama-Everett and 20-year-old Kyle Chais, nonfiction about J.G. Ballard and the history of virtual reality, a novel banned in China, and other titles by Cox and Preston & Child
This Week's BestsellersMonday 9 January 2012 | Monitor
Dean Koontz' 77 Shadow Street debuts at #1 (bumping King's 11/22/63); Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches debuts in trade paperback.
Claude Lalumière: The Word for YearningSunday 8 January 2012 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview.
One of the worst pieces of advice ever given to writers is, 'Write what you know.' That's terrible, awful! It's very important for me to feel that I'm writing about something other. If I already understand things, why would I want to write about them? Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early JanuarySaturday 7 January 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Apex Magazine, GigaNotoSaurus, Redstone SF, Kaleidotrope, Fantastique Unfettered, and in new Australian anthology Ishtar
Online and Print Periodicals: early JanuaryFriday 6 January 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Abyss & Apex, Apex Magazine, Black Static, Clarkesworld, Daily SF, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Quantum Muse, Redstone SF, SF Site, Shimmer, and Subterranean
Russell Letson reviews Joe HaldemanThursday 5 January 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2012 issue
This tour of an unraveling society puts Earthbound squarely in the tradition of postapocalyptic novels, a tradition that seems to be having a mini-revival lately ... Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JanuaryWednesday 4 January 2012 | Magazine
January New and Notable books include Ian McDonald's Planesrunner, Rudy Rucker's Nested Scrolls, and other titles by Adams, Asaro, Brackett, Cass, Duncan, Gregory, Guran, McDevitt, Monette, Valente, and Whitehead.
New Books : 3 JanuaryTuesday 3 January 2012 | Monitor
Released today: William Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor, Ryan Boudinot’s Blueprints of the Afterlife, John Love’s first novel Faith, and titles by Ashgrove, Berg, Blackmoore, Bova, Fultz, Gonzales, Green, Hendee & Hendee, Herbert & Anderson, Hunter, Rowland, Shufeldt, Steele, Tate, Wells, West, and Zahn; 31 Dec: Kelley Armstrong
This Week's BestsellersMonday 2 January 2012 | Monitor
Stephen King's 11/22/63 is still #1; Karen Russell's Swamplandia ranks on three lists.
Cory Doctorow: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the FutureSunday 1 January 2012 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue.
Science fiction isn't a literature that tells you what will happen tomorrow. It is a literature that tells you how to prevent the bad tomorrows and usher in the good ones. It is an active and activist literature, with an agenda and a point of view. Print Periodicals: end of DecemberSaturday 31 December 2011 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and Asimov's
Online Periodicals: end of DecemberFriday 30 December 2011 | Monitor
What's new online at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, SF Signal, Weird Fiction Review, and World SF Blog
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late DecemberThursday 29 December 2011 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of F&SF, Asimov's, Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine, and Lightspeed
January Issue Table of ContentsWednesday 28 December 2011 | Magazine
The January issue has interviews with Lois McMaster Bujold and Claude Lalumière,
a new column by Cory Doctorow, obituaries of Anne McCaffrey and Darrell K. Sweet, and reviews of new books by Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Michael Dirda, and many others, plus audiobook reviews by Amy Goldschlager.
New Books : 27 DecemberTuesday 27 December 2011 | Monitor
Released today: Dean Koontz's 77 Shadow Street, the US edition of Rod Rees' The Demi-Monde: Winter, and titles by Benulis, Christopher, Fowler, Francis, Lee, Liu, McLeod, Robertson, Sebold, Snyder, Wells, and Whates; earlier, titles by Melton, Snyder
This Week's BestsellersMonday 26 December 2011 | Monitor
Stephen King's 11/22/63 remains #1.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Alastair ReynoldsSunday 25 December 2011 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2011 issue
Both Alastair Reynolds's Blue Remembered Earth and Paul McAuley's In the Mouth of the Whale provide continuing evidence, in quite different ways, that the old New Space Opera is alive and well. Periodicals: Third Week DecemberSaturday 24 December 2011 | Monitor
New issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, On Spec, and Strange Horizons
E-Books: December 2011Friday 23 December 2011 | Monitor
A shared world original anthology from Philip Athans, Allan Kaster's Top Ten Tales of SF, a horror novel by Jonathan Janz, a collection by Jennifer Rardin, and other titles by Keith Brooke, Eric Brown, John W. Campbell, and Stephen Palmer
New UK Books : DecemberThursday 22 December 2011 | Monitor
Leigh Kennedy's collection Wind Angels, a "best of" collection by Charles L. Grant, and a novel by Michael J. Sullivan
Adrienne Martini reviews Cherie PriestWednesday 21 December 2011 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2011 issue
Hellbent isn't deep or profound. What it is is pure, unadulterated fun. New Books : 20 DecemberTuesday 20 December 2011 | Monitor
Released today: John C. Wright's Count to a Trillion, R.A. MacAvoy's Death and Resurrection, Jason Stoddard's first novel Winning Mars, and titles by Cochran and Resnick; earlier, Bugf#ck: The Useless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison
This Week's BestsellersMonday 19 December 2011 | Monitor
Stephen King's 11/22/63 is back at #1.
Lois Tilton's 2011 Short Fiction Reviews in ReviewSunday 18 December 2011 | Reviews
Locus Online's short fiction reviewer looks back at highlights from 2011 publications.
Periodicals: mid-DecemberSaturday 17 December 2011 | Monitor
New issues of Apex Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mythic Delirium, and SF Site, plus what's new at SF Signal, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Charles Stross: ContrarianFriday 16 December 2011 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview.
Like it or lump it, having faster-than-light starships or aliens in a novel makes it approximately as credible as having fire-breathing dragons and magic swords. Classic Reprints: December 2011Thursday 15 December 2011 | Monitor
Pohl & Kornbluth's The Space Merchants, updated, plus titles by Bloch, Bull, Chandler, Cook, James, Sawyer, Smith, and Wilson
Faren Miller reviews Tim PrattWednesday 14 December 2011 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2011 issue
The final section defies both genre and general morality with a sly zest that takes Briarpatch well beyond the darkness of the opening. It showcases Pratt's ability to interweave the most fantastic places and concepts with scenes that any Bay Area resident might know. New Books : 13 DecemberTuesday 13 December 2011 | Monitor
Released this week: Cathy & Arnie Fenner's Spectrum 18, Philip Palmer's Artemis; earlier, titles by Asaro, Hughes, Scott & Freedman, Sutter
This Week's BestsellersMonday 12 December 2011 | Monitor
Stephen King's 11/22/63 remains the highest-ranking SF/F novel on general lists.
Graham Sleight's Yesterdays Tomorrows: Roger ZelaznySunday 11 December 2011 | Reviews
From the December 2011 issue of Locus Magazine
Roger Zelazny's writing gives an impression of having integrated all the jobs of an SF writer into one consistent voice. It is, for a start, knowing, informal, sophisticated. It happily mixes the informal with the businesslike and the borderline-pretension of dropping in a word like recherches. New in Paperback: DecemberSaturday 10 December 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Patricia A. McKillip's The Bards of Bone Plain, Orson Scott Card's The Lost Gate, and titles by Anderson & Sebanc, Butcher, Coe, Flint, Harrison, Herbert & Anderson, and Zahn
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, DecemberFriday 9 December 2011 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Neal Stephenson's Reamde, George R.R. Martin's A Storm of Swords, Max Brooks' World War Z, Sean Williams' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II, and R.A. Salvatore's Gauntlgrym
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through September 2012Thursday 8 December 2011 | Resources
Selected titles from Locus Magazine's December issue listings are arranged here by month.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early DecemberWednesday 7 December 2011 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in Interzone, Clarkesworld, Alt Hist, Redstone SF, GigaNotoSaurus, Jabberwocky, and Apex Magazine
New Books : 6 DecemberTuesday 6 December 2011 | Monitor
Released today: Joe Haldeman's Earthbound, Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Prince, Rudy Rucker's autobiography Nested Scrolls, and titles by Collins, Conroy, Greenberg & Brozek, Hodgell, Koch, Lackey, Patton, and Turtledove; earlier: Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls and titles by Ingram, Ione, Knight, McCammon, and Morrow
This Week's BestsellersMonday 5 December 2011 | Monitor
Michael Crichton & Richard Preston's Micro debuts on four print lists.
Gemma Files: The Sex and Death ShowSunday 4 December 2011 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview.
I have always had an urge towards the horrific. Often I say that horror is a ghetto inside a ghetto inside a ghetto, in terms of genre. There are horror people who like both science fiction and fantasy, and I'm one of them. Online and Print Periodicals: early DecemberSaturday 3 December 2011 | Monitor
New issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, Ideomancer, Interzone, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Redstone Science Fiction, SF Site, and Strange Horizons
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, DecemberFriday 2 December 2011 | Magazine
December New and Notable books include Margaret Atwood's In Other Worlds, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick, and titles by Bernobich, Hughes, Jones, Kiernan, Lake, Martin & Dozois, McHugh, Pierce, Pratchett, Sherman, Whates, and Ziegler
December Issue Table of ContentsThursday 1 December 2011 | Magazine
The December issue has interviews with Charles Stross and Gemma Files, complete lists of forthcoming books through September 2012, reviews of new books by Alastair Reynolds, Gregory Maguire, Ian R MacLeod, Libba Bray, Kim Harrison, and many others, plus all the latest SF and fantasy news.
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Wed 25 JanToday we have author and scholar Siobhan Carroll (author of “In the Gardens of Night“) together with steampunk expert Austin Sirkin (Track Director at Anachrocon) via the magic of Skype. They talk about the academic pursuit of science fiction, fantasy, and related fields, as well as why you can’t...
Roundtable: Vertical Intersectioning
Sun 22 JanThis pair of comments is the last entry in our series on intersectionality (Part 1, Part 2, and Part Lovecraft).
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Another slight problem with “intersectionality” over and above problem of reinventing the wheel. (Parenthetically, one is constantly brought back to wonder if any of us has ...
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