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 September 2015 -- News Posts   
September 2015 Posts: Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late SeptemberWednesday 30 September 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from this year's Twelve Tomorrows anthology, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and GigaNotoSaurus
New Books : 29 SeptemberTuesday 29 September 2015 | Monitor
Margaret Atwood's The Heart Goes Last, C.A. Higgins' Lightless, Jim Butcher's The Aeronaut's Windlass, and titles by DeLima, Latham, Lindsey, Myer, Riggs, Watson, and Westerfeld/Lanagan/Biancotti
This Week's BestsellersMonday 28 September 2015 | Monitor
William R. Forstchen's One Year After debuts on three lists.
Russell Letson reviews Michael SwanwickSunday 27 September 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2015 issue
Chasing the Phoenix is part of Michael Swanwick's continuing account of the adventures of far-future con artists Darger and Surplus, which to my chagrin I have heretofore somehow not been following. (I am already remedying that situation as I write ...) Periodicals: mid/late SeptemberSaturday 26 September 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Interzone, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion, and what's new this past month at Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Paul Di Filippo reviews Salman RushdieFriday 25 September 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Rushdie's newest, whose initially arcane title translates simply to "1001 nights," pointing us slyly to the book's Arabian fairytale influence, would not have been regarded askance coming from Tor or DAW or Angry Robot or Saga, wrapped in a Michael Whelan jacket. And in fact its basic conceit — a shift in cosmic parameters unleashes some latent wild talents in a select group of folks — is a pure comic book/pulp invention. New in Paperback: SeptemberThursday 24 September 2015 | Monitor
Glen Hirshberg's Motherless Child and titles by Briggs, Carey, Spencer, Stirling, Weber & Zahn, and Williams
Paul Di Filippo reviews Tom TonerWednesday 23 September 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Now, I think, you can safely add the name Tom Toner to that list of space opera revolutionaries. With The Promise of the Child, subtitled "Volume One of the Amaranthine Spectrum," this debut author has gifted us with a space opera of surpassing gracefulness, depth, complexity and, well, all-round weirdness. New Books : 22 SeptemberTuesday 22 September 2015 | Monitor
Ian McDonald's Luna: New Moon, Rae Carson's Walk on Earth a Stranger, Tom Toner's debut The Promise of the Child, and titles by Alexander, Aryan, Blake, Duncan, Gaiman & Riddell, Gischler, Grant, Hogan, Jama-Everett, Lee, Mayberry, and Okorafor
This Week's BestsellersMonday 21 September 2015 | Monitor
Salman Rushdie's Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Night debuts on four lists.
Sarah Monette: The Key to the LibrarySunday 20 September 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview
I was interested in what happens after the scullery boy is crowned king. The idea mutated a little, but it's still the core: a boy who has no experience of court is now the emperor and has to deal. In this book, if you make your decisions with compassion and ethics, things will work out.
An Un-Amazing Story: A Review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Saturday 19 September 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The makers of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials have taken a reasonably inventive and innovative novel and transformed it into a less inventive and less innovative film. They might profitably recall that science fiction novels often become popular precisely because they are offering their audiences something different. It is not a comment that one can make about this science fiction film. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-SeptemberFriday 18 September 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Shimmer
Paul Di Filippo reviews Tananarive DueThursday 17 September 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Due did not begin publishing short fiction until five years into her career, with three stories appearing at last in the year 2000. She has since accumulated the fifteen stories that grace her impressive first collection. The wait for such a milestone volume was well worth it, since the book holds a treasure trove of scary and touching tales. Gary K. Wolfe reviews China MiévilleWednesday 16 September 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2015 issue
China Miéville's devout following is all the more remarkable because he never does quite the same thing twice. Most of the contents of Three Moments of An Explosion: Stories will be new to readers, apart from the fact that ten of the 28 stories appear for the first time in print — and some are likely to be puzzling as well. New Books : 15 SeptemberTuesday 15 September 2015 | Monitor
John Joseph Adams' anthology Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction, and titles by Anderson & Peart, Dickinson, Elliott, Forstchen, Prineas, Reiss, Stroud, and van Eekhout
This Week's BestsellersMonday 14 September 2015 | Monitor
New books by Chuck Wendig and R.A. Salvatore debut.
Daniel José Older: CrossroadsSunday 13 September 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview
I wasn't very conscious of the urban fantasy genre when I started Shadowshaper. I was just writing magic in a city. A city is a crossroads — that's something that always rings true to me, because there are all these different forces smashing into each other. Forces of race and gender and class, history and present and future and industry. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Ian McDonaldSaturday 12 September 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's September 2015 issue
Luna: New Moon is the best moon novel I've seen in many years, but it's also something of a piece with the recent movement on the part of Paul McAuley, Kim Stanley Robinson, and others to confine novels to the solar system, out of a realistic assessment that this is likely all we'll have to work with — but McDonald takes this a step further. Locus Bestsellers, SeptemberFriday 11 September 2015 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, Andy Weir's The Martian, and titles by Dayton Ward and R.A. Salvatore
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through June 2016Thursday 10 September 2015 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's September issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early SeptemberWednesday 9 September 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from new issues of Interzone, Lightspeed, Uncanny, Apex, and Clarkesworld
New Books : 8 SeptemberTuesday 8 September 2015 | Monitor
Salman Rushdie's Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Aliette de Bodard's The House of Shattered Wings, and titles by Aguirre, Barzak, Cornell, Dees & Flippin, Edwards, Green, Hair, Lackey, Nelson, Oates, Piercy, and Tassi
This Week's BestsellersMonday 7 September 2015 | Monitor
Christopher Moore's Secondhand Souls debuts on four lists.
Russell Letson reviews James L. CambiasSunday 6 September 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2015 issue
James L. Cambias' second novel, Corsair, earns a fistful of hyphenations: a near-future techno-thriller heist-caper with a sizable dose of hard-engineering space-stuff and maybe just a dash of cyberpunk. It all fits together so smoothly, though, that one hardly notices the joins and overlaps. Periodicals: early SeptemberSaturday 5 September 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Clarkesworld, Forever, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Shimmer, and Uncanny
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, SeptemberFriday 4 September 2015 | Magazine
September New and Notable books are by Lavie Tidhar, Wesley Chu, Rich Horton, Nalo Hopkinson, Cixin Liu, Michael Swanwick, and others.
Cory Doctorow: What If People Were Sensors, Not Things to be Sensed?Thursday 3 September 2015 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's September Issue.
Whatever your feelings are about the justice of treating employees, school children, travellers, or even prisoners as things to be controlled by semi-autonomous computers, it's a good bet that you would feel more dignified and secure if you got to boss your Internet of Things around, rather than vice-versa. New Books : 1 SeptemberWednesday 2 September 2015 | Monitor
Terry Pratchett's The Shepherd's Crown, Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown, Tananarive Due's Ghost Summer: Stories, Angélica Gorodischer's Prodigies, Ursula K. Le Guin's Steering the Craft, Kai Ashante Wilson's The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps, and titles by Barnes, Beaulieu, Black & Clare, Conroy, Davis, De Abaitua, Harrison, Holland, Lain, McGuire, Monk, Priest, Rakunas, Remic, Rhoads, Stirling, Walton, and Wilde
September Issue Table of ContentsTuesday 1 September 2015 | Magazine
The September issue features interviews with Sarah Monette and Daniel José Older, results of this year's Hugo Awards, a new column by Cory Doctorow, lists of forthcoming books through June 2016, and reviews of short fiction and books by Ian McDonald, Robin Hobb, Michael Swanwick, Robert R. McCammon, Zen Cho, and many others.
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