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News, Reviews, Perspectives
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Resources, Listings
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Thu 31 Dec |
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Books Listings
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Tue 29 Dec |
Media Refractions Incorporated a 15th top ten list
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Mon 28 Dec |
Media Refractions Film critics' top ten lists
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Sun 27 Dec |
News FTC to investigate Barnes and Noble/Ingram deal
Field Inspections Butler; year in review
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Wed 23 Dec |
Letters John Savage responds to Steve Perry
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Updated convention listings
Author appearances
Links
New Books of Interest from the January issue
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Tue 22 Dec |
News Sawyer resigns as SFWA President
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Layout and heading changes; Outer Limits page absorbed by Field Inspections, and Data File page absorbed by main Books and Publishing news page.
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Mon 21 Dec |
Aether Vibrations Top science and tech stories of the year
Field Inspections Worst of year; Wilson, Bleiler, Baxter, Sterling
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Fri 18 Dec |
Media Refractions Yet more film awards (amended yesterday's story)
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Thu 17 Dec |
Media Refractions More film nominations and awards
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Wed 16 Dec |
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Book review index updated and reformatted
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Tue 15 Dec |
Outer Limits Time profiles Bruce Sterling
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Mon 14 Dec |
Field Inspections
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Author appearances
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Thu 10 Dec |
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Author appearances
Convention listings Added Mecon 2 (March '99), updated links for Gaylaxicon 1999 (Oct '99)
Links
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Tue 8 Dec |
European Film Awards honor SF
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Mon 7 Dec |
Book Profiles Sterling, Butler, Zettel
Sawyer wins UPC, again; Sapphire finalists; John Millard
Outer Limits Salon profiles Event Horizon
Field Inspections
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Books Listings
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Sat 5 Dec |
December issue profile + Straub and Harness interview excerpts
Steve Perry Commentary from the December issue
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Selected Forthcoming Books from the December issue
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Wed 2 Dec |
News New York Times' best SF books of 1998
Aether Vibrations New York Times' best books of 1998
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Author appearances
Bestsellers from the December Locus
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Tue 1 Dec |
Data File James Patrick Kelly; Welcome to Paradox Marathon
Letters About Nicholas Eymerich
Field Inspections Gotlieb, McDonald, Noon
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Links Consolidated key links onto a new Portal page
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Mon 30 Nov |
Letters Lewis Murphy wonders about Stephen King's TV commercial for barnesandnoble.com
Field Inspections Reviews of Mary Shelley, Amir D. Aczel, and Erich von Daniken
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Links WFC sites are dead
Conventions Listings added for X-Khan (Jul '99), Viable Paradise III workshop and convention (Sep and Oct '99)
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Tue 24 Nov |
News SFWA appeals to FTC
Data File International awards news
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Mon 23 Nov |
Field Inspections San Francisco Chronicle's best SF of the year
New and Interesting books from the December issue; cumulative 1998 lists also updated
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Author appearances
A few new Links
Added a couple more Classified Ads from the November issue. (Free online posting of classifieds will end next month.)
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Sat 21 Nov |
Short fiction reviews
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Magazine listings
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Fri 20 Nov |
Field Inspections Paulos
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Thu 19 Nov |
Book Profiles
Reality Checks nonfiction books of SFnal interest
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Book Listings
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Wed 18 Nov |
Outer Limits Cadigan profiled; Mosley column
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Mon 16 Nov |
Aether Vibrations More Lists update
Field Inspections SF columns in NYT, SF Chronicle
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Fri 13 Nov |
Aether Vibrations More Lists! More Lists!
Field Inspections Mosley and Card
Letters Richard Curtis open letter to authors
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Author appearances
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Wed 11 Nov |
Letters
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Author appearances
A few new Links
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Tue 10 Nov |
News update
Field Inspections
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Mon 9 Nov |
News Barnes & Noble buying Ingram; Bob Kane; PW's best books
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Fri 6 Nov |
Cacek and Taylor interview excerpts from the November issue
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Sun 1 Nov |
News World Fantasy Awards winners
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Thu 29 Oct |
November issue cover scans and cover page description (issue Profile and interview excerpts will be completed next week)
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New Books Listings
New Magazines Listings
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Wed 28 Oct |
Commentary by Rob Chilson from the November issue
New and recommended books from the November issue
Corrected short story Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire result, Data File
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Bestsellers from the November issue
Author appearances
Convention update: Lionel Fanthorpe has cancelled from Orycon 20, Nov '98
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Tue 27 Oct |
Aether Vibrations Bruce Sterling, Booker prize, writing for Hollywood, eBooks, fifth dimension, Taliban Online
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Mon 26 Oct |
Book Profiles
Slight amplifications to SFWA news
Field Inspections
Outer Limits
Media Refractions
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Sat 24 Oct |
News SFWA reinstates dramatic Nebula, expands eligibility criteria, etc.
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Fri 23 Oct |
News Besher serial debuts on web
Outer Limits New Yorker; Stephen King; alternate histories
Field Inspections Anne Rice
Aether Vibrations Lethem, Hofstadter, Civilization
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Author appearances
Updated convention listings from the November issue
Updated indexes to book reviewed and magazines reviewed in Locus for titles reviewed in November issue
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Wed 21 Oct |
Aether Vibrations Aetherlog
Field Inspections Best of Crank; Star Trek science books
Date File news items about DNA Publications and SF Site; a new ''War of the Worlds'' radio play; UFO Berlin; SFWA's Wizards concerns; and Nebula sites
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Links
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Tue 20 Oct |
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Author appearances
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Mon 19 Oct |
Books profile
Short fiction reviews
Field Inspections reviews of Rice, Spencer, Frankenstein
Outer Limits Octavia Butler profiled
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Sun 18 Oct |
Magazine profiles
Short fiction reviews
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Magazine listings
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Fri 16 Oct |
Aether Vibrations Aetherlog
Data File Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire; market report
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Links
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Thu 15 Oct |
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Author appearances
Help Wanted positions available at Locus
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Wed 14 Oct |
Media Refractions Psycho trailer, Frankenstein meets Y2K, Groening in space
Aether Vibrations Readers' 100 best poll, final results
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New Contact Locus page with phone numbers, comment form, etc.
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Tue 13 Oct |
News Aurora awards
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Author appearances
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Mon 12 Oct |
New books listings
Reality Checks books about Los Angeles and what remains for science to discover
Outer Limits Entertainment Weekly's Sci-Fi issue
Field Inspections
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New classified ad for McFarland Books (see under Books - Mail Order)
Updated book review index and magazine review index with items reviewed in October issue
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Sat 10 Oct |
Nelson S. Bond interview excerpts from October issue
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Wed 7 Oct |
Allen Steele interview excerpts from October issue
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Tue 6 Oct |
October issue profile
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Author appearances (this link is now to a separate ''what's new'' page)
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Mon 28 Sep |
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Author appearances
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Sat 26 Sep |
Book Profiles
Magazine Profiles
Short fiction reviews
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Book listings
Magazine listings
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Fri 25 Sep |
New and Recommended Books and Bestsellers from October issue |
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Thu 24 Sep |
Outer Limits More Stephen King
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Tue 22 Sep |
Data File Market news, HMS Beagle
Field Inspections Banks, King, Ortese, Patton, etc.
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Mon 21 Sep |
Data File International Horror Guild and Seiun Awards
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Author appearances
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Fri 18 Sep |
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Rearranged Links pages (again) and added page of Author Links; the Links main page will list recent additions and supplants the Websites page
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Thu 17 Sep |
Book profiles Stableford, McKillip, Weber, McCarthy
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Book listings
Magazine listings
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Wed 16 Sep |
Field Inspections of King, Ryman, and Griffith
Quote Page Stephen King
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Tue 15 Sep |
Magazine Profiles and Short fiction reviews from Amazing, Interzone, Analog, Odyssey
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Author appearances (Announcements page removed; future items will be listed with author appearances or convention listings)
Updated and overhauled About Locus page
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Mon 14 Sep |
Field Inspections Reviews of cyberpunk, Skal, Borges, Barrett, Bradshaw
Amended electronic eligibility story in Aether Vibrations about WFAs.
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Fri 11 Sep |
News R. D. Mullen
Data File People, publishing, bookselling
Media Refractions Eyes Wide Shut update
Corrected electronic eligibility story in Aether Vibrations
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Thu 10 Sep |
Book profiles
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Classified Ads from the September issue
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Wed 9 Sep |
Field Inspections Reviews of Farland, Borges
Media Refractions Millennial Movies
Outer Limits Brin in Popular Science
Aether Vibrations Electronic eligibility and online publication
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Book listings
Magazine listings
More Author appearances
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Tue 8 Sep |
Letters
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Author appearances
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Fri 4 Sep |
Forthcoming books selected titles from September issue
Field Inspections Reviews from CNN, New York Times, others
News Alain Doremieux obit
Opening Lines Quiz results
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Collectible Proofs for Sale
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Thu 3 Sep |
September issue Profile, Sheri S. Tepper interview
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Updated Book review index and Magazine review index with titles reviewed in September issue
Author appearances
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Wed 2 Sep |
News Correction to WFA final ballot
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Tue 1 Sep |
New and recommended books and Bestsellers from the September issue
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Thu 27 Aug |
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Rounded up a few more publisher, bookstore, and magazine links
Convention listings from the September issue
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Wed 26 Aug |
Websites Campbell new writers, Eidolon, Spicy Green Iguana
Data File people and publishing
Aether Vibrations short stories for commuters
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Mon 24 Aug |
Media Refractions Lord of the Rings film project
Quote Page Film director Walter Hill on SF
Field Inspections New SF column in Dallas Morning News
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Fri 21 Aug |
Opening Lines take the quiz
Media Refractions Persis Khambatta; time travel music
Editorial Worldcon notes
Letters
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Author appearances
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Thu 20 Aug |
Field Inspections reviews of KSR, Drake; nuclear war books
Quote Page Sir Alec Guinness on Star Wars
Aether Vibrations An Ayn Rand utopia; Minsky on AI
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Wed 19 Aug |
News correction to WFA nominations: Jeff VanderMeer & Tom Winstead in Non-professional category
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Tue 18 Aug |
Book Profiles Silverberg, Ketchum, Scott, Williams
Media Refractions Forthcoming films
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Magazine listings
Books listings
-- these listings amended later in the day
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Mon 17 Aug |
Field Inspections Skal, King
Outer Limits Dirda's 100 comic novels
Aether Vibrations Y2K-like problems
Letters queries from readers
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Sun 16 Aug |
Magazine Profile Event Horizon
Short fiction review Cadigan
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Revised magazine links for Event Horizon
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Fri 14 Aug |
Magazine Profiles Asimov's, F&SF
Short fiction reviews of notable stories from same
Aether Vibrations 100 Best novels updates
Letters
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Restructured archived magazines and short fiction pages
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Thu 13 Aug |
Data File Mythopoeic Awards winners
Field Inspections Disch in NYT; Reeves-Stevens
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Author appearances including Terry Brooks today at Other Change of Hobbit in Berkeley
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Wed 12 Aug |
News World Fantasy Awards nominations; Sidewise winners
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Fri 7 Aug |
News Hugo Awards Winners
News Chesley, Prometheus Awards
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Thu 6 Aug |
Quote Page
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Tue 4 Aug |
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New Magazines
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Mon 3 Aug |
Field Inspections Ballard, Robinson, reprints
Aether Vibrations Landis in Discover
Reality Checks Dreamland
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Sun 2 Aug |
August issue profile
Book Profiles Card, Smith, Stewart
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Sat 1 Aug |
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New books Brooks, Gunn, Smith, Spencer, etc.
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Fri 31 Jul |
Data File Event Horizon update; Seiun nominations
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Author appearances
Advertising Locus Online now offers both banner and classified advertising
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Thu 30 Jul |
McAuley and Morrow interview excerpts from the August issue
Media Refractions Cinematic Egan
Field Inspections Steel, Barker
Quote Page Neil Barron on video games
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Wed 29 Jul |
News Paul Lehr
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Author appearances
Announcements Pratchett play
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Tue 28 Jul |
Field Inspections Wilson
New and Recommended books and Bestsellers from the August issue
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Book and Magazine review indices updated with August issue reviews
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Mon 27 Jul |
Field Inspections Pratchett, Disch
Outer Limits EW on book clubs
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Fri 24 Jul |
More Letters
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Thu 23 Jul |
Letters
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New Books Replay reprinted
New magazines On Spec, New York Review of SF
Convention listings amended Boz-Con info (Nov '98)
Author appearances
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Wed 22 Jul
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Book Profiles Dunn, Tepper
Magazine Profiles Interzone, Analog
Short fiction reviews from Interzone, Analog, and The New Yorker
Media Refractions Psycho remake
Aether Vibrations 100 best novels, reactions
News Herbert and Tolkien, all-time best
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Tue 21 Jul
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Aether Vibrations science and society
Editorial Skiffy flix
Aether Vibrations 100 best novels
News Extra More on Spedding
Websites DNA Publications
Field Inspections Keyes
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Mon 20 Jul
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News Robert A. W. Lowndes, 1916 - 1998
Field Inspections Griffith, Reed, Butler, etc.
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Fri 17 Jul
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Field Inspections British SF
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Expanded and verified magazine links (three pages); also added some awards and other misc. links on this page
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Thu 16 Jul
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Classified ads
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Wed 15 Jul
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Reality Checks Atlantis
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New Books
CD ROM Ad William G. Contento's Mystery Short Fiction Miscellany: An Index now available
Convention listings Added Valleycon 23, Sept. 25-27 '98; in 1999, ConQuesT 30, May 28-30
Announcement Forward at Cal Tech, 29 July
Appearances
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Tue 14 Jul
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Field Inspections Waldrop
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Mon 13 Jul
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News Extra Author held in Bolivia
Outer Limits Wired
Aether Vibrations Zapruder
Data File Turner Prize
Amended Campbell/Sturgeon news
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Sun 12 Jul
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Field Inspections Jerry Jay Carroll
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Credits
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Thanks to Gordon Van Gelder, Paul Di Filippo, and Lucius P. Cook for contributions this past month for the Quote Page, Outer Limits, Aether Vibrations, and Field Inspections.
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Fri 10 Jul
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News Campbell, Sturgeon winners
Magazine Profiles Recent issues of F&SF, Asimov's, SF Age
Short Fiction reviews of recommended stories
Media Refractions Humanitas results
Aether Vibrations one more Y2K note
Websites The Idea Channel, Outside
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Announcements: Freas talk, Bryant radio play performance
Author appearances
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Thu 9 Jul
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Field Inspections Jonas on KSR, Wilson, Hopkinson
Aether Vibrations: Tina Brown, Crown, dot punctuation, astronomy and space news, Y2K updates
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Wed 8 Jul
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Book Profiles Robinson, Wilson
Media Refractions: Armageddon's smash cuts
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Author appearances
Minor corrections to New books page (note Leiber is a reprint)
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Tue 7 Jul
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Field Inspections Sheckley, Adams on Disch
Quote Page: Sheckley on modern SF, Adams on SF vs. High Art
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New magazines
New books
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Mon 6 Jul
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Field Inspections CNN on KSR
Amended Locus Awards news with publishers and statistics
Outer Limits: Dirda on the century's influential stylists
Quote Page: Dirda looks back
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Restructured Links pages
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Sun 5 Jul
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Field Inspections WP Book World's SF column
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Fri 3 Jul
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News: Locus Awards winners
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Wed 1 Jul
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More sold Proofs deleted
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Tue 30 Jun
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New Books: Bester/Zelazny, Farland, Hubbard/Anderson, etc.
July issue profile , Baxter interview excerpts, Sullivan interview excerpts, Bestsellers
Outer Limits: Anthony article
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Mon 29 Jun
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Field Inspections: Ballard, Lethem
New and Recommended books from the July issue
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Author Appearances
Announcements
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Sun 28 Jun
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Outer Limits: Donaldson in space; KSR; Barker
Media Refractions: NASA at the movies
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Sat 27 Jun
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New Magazine listings: issues of Weird Tales, Odyssey, Star*Line, etc.
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Fri 26 Jun
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Websites: Free Truman, DAW, Hellnotes, Magalon, WYZIWYG, Bibliobytes, Pynchon Files
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Thu 25 Jun
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Outer Limits: Robinson, Butler interviews
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Convention listings from the July issue
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Wed 24 Jun
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New Quote Page
New Media Refractions page for film and TV news
New Outer Limits page for items of SF interest in general publications
New Field Inspections page for notable reviews in general publications (was called Other Reviews)
Cover page reformatted
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Sold titles removed from Proofs for sale page -- get the others while they last!
New Magazine review index
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Tue 23 Jun
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News: Event Horizon update
Other Reviews: Ellison on baseball
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Book review index updated with titles reviewed in July issue
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Mon 22 Jun
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Other Reviews
New books
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Fri 19 Jun
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Data File: new Amazing contents
Other Reviews: heavyweight nonfiction
Aether Bites: movie notes
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Thu 18 Jun
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Other Reviews
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Author appearances
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Wed 17 Jun
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Aether: Truman lawsuit
Aether Bites: AFI's 100 movies; Outer Limits
Other Reviews
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Tue 16 Jun
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News: Molly Gloss wins PEN West award
Other Reviews
Aether: Bloomsday
Additional editorial remarks
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Mon 15 Jun
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Other Reviews: summer reading
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Sun 14 Jun
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New and updated Features: Aether Vibrations (two pages); Opening Lines; Other Reviews
One new Book Profile, plus new Books Received
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Author appearances
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Sat 13 Jun
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Author appearances
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Fri 12 Jun
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Catching up on Magazines and Short Fiction
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Selected forthcoming books from the June issue
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Thu 11 Jun
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Data File: Ditmar, Rhysling, and Saturn winners
June issue Bestsellers
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Wed 10 Jun
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Data File: New F&SF website
Editorial remarks
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Announcement: Fantasy Literature Day, July 4th in Ipswich
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Tue 9 Jun
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S. P. Somtow interview excerpts
New and recommended books from the June issue
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Convention listings: added Octocon 9 (Oct 10 '98)
New Author appearances
Updated interview index and book review index
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Mon 8 Jun
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News: Stoker Winners
June issue profile
New Data File page
Numerous structural and sidebar menu changes; more later this week
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Announcements page moved under Events
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Sat 30 May
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News: The Sparrow wins Clarke Award
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Wed 27 May
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Author appearances: Stars Our Destination events
Announcement: Giant Steps
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Tue 26 May
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Books: Disch nonfiction
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New Books Received page
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Fri 22 May
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Removed sold titles from Proofs for Sale page
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Thu 21 May
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Books: Novels by McDevitt, Anthony, Bujold, McAuley; plus anthologies
Editorial matters: Nonfiction by K. C. Cole; plans
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Author appearances
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Wed 20 May
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News: Mythopoeic Awards nominations
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Convention listings: Updated contact address for NECON 18 (July 31-Aug 2)
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Tue 19 May
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Magazines: June Analog and Asimov's
The Locus Online Style Guide, updated and posted, explains this site's eccentric use of quotation marks and placement of commas -- and much more
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Thu 14 May
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One more author appearance
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Wed 13 May
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New author appearances, including Harlan Ellison Guiness Book induction (announcements)
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Tue 12 May
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Websites: fiction on the web
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Updated bookstores and bibliographies links
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Thu 7 May
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News: Further Bixby details
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Updated Locus Bestsellers and Other Bestsellers
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Wed 6 May
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News: Added Bixby background; Analog/Asimov's Readers Awards
Interview excerpts from May issue: Hamilton and Aiken
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Tue 5 May
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News: Bixby; SFWA election results
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Updated bookstore links (and removed broken Forbidden Planet link)
Convention listings updates: added Picnicon (Jun '98); corrected Tropicon XVII contacts (Nov '98); added GoH Sawyer to Ad Astra (Jun '98)
New appearances
Recast magazine links with addresses -- first stage of Links pages overhaul
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Mon 4 May
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Sidewise and Event Horizon news items
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Levinson online chat announcement
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Sat 2 May
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Nebula winners posted from Santa Fe (news)
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