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 December 2016 -- News Posts   
December 2016 Posts: Periodicals: late DecemberSaturday 31 December 2016 | Monitor
December content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New UK Books : October - DecemberFriday 30 December 2016 | Monitor
Notable UK novels not (yet) published in the US, by Ben Aaronovitch, Becky Chambers, Robert Irwin, and Steph Swainston
John Langan reviews Ray CluleyThursday 29 December 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2016 issue
Ray Cluley's Probably Monsters was one of the standouts of 2015, a collection of well-written stories about a variety of monsters in a variety of landscapes. His follow-up publication, the standalone novella, Within the Wind, Beneath the Snow, is another success. Faren Miller Reviews Erika JohansenWednesday 28 December 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2016 issue
Tackling both utopia and epic fantasy in a trilogy with divided timelines, multiple perspectives, and a wild genre mix, Johansen may not reach [Aldous] Huxley's satiric heights. Nonetheless, the work is genuinely subversive: social commentary in the guise of supernatural adventure. New Books : 27 DecemberTuesday 27 December 2016 | Monitor
An anthology of stories based on Edward Hopper paintings, plus titles by Bickle, Rambo, and Thompson
This Week's BestsellersMonday 26 December 2016 | Monitor
Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad continues to dominate lists.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Three Classic Lost World NovelsSunday 25 December 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The Lost World genre still remains readable, however, if we merely suspend our disbelief a little harder than with other genres. And thanks to Greg Luce at Armchair Fiction, we can enjoy new editions of some lesser-known classics from their "Lost World-Lost Race" series. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Alastair ReynoldsSaturday 24 December 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's November 2016 issue
Revenger is tremendous fun, with perhaps the most linear, straightforward, and kinetic plot of all Reynolds's novels. Classics In Reprint: DecemberFriday 23 December 2016 | Monitor
New editions of novels by Buzz Aldrin & John Barnes, Geoffrey A. Landis, Marge Pierce, H.G. Wells, and Bernard Wolfe
Starshipboard Romance: A Review of Passengers
Thursday 22 December 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
There are several reasons to admire Passengers: it addresses a topic that is usually avoided in science fiction films — how humanity might colonize the galaxy without the magic of faster-than-light travel; its starship is filled with imaginative visual touches; and its story is genuinely unpredictable, consistently holding one’s interest despite a small cast and limited sets. And yet, there is also something strangely incongruous about the film, as its uneasy blend of disparate elements sometimes makes it seem like a film at war with itself. Paul Di Filippo reviews Robert Charles WilsonWednesday 21 December 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Robert Charles Wilson has crafted a novel that is at once shiny and futuristic and yet rousingly old-fashioned, considering its ambiance and character development, done up in the manner of a classic pre-modern adventure. New Books : 20 DecemberTuesday 20 December 2016 | Monitor
Ken MacLeod's The Corporation Wars: Insurgence, Greg Bear's Take Back the Sky, James S.A. Corey's Babylon's Ashes, and titles by Egan, Lansdale, Oliver, and Stueart
This Week's BestsellersMonday 19 December 2016 | Monitor
Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad rises on several lists.
Thomas Olde Heuvelt: Color of LanguageSunday 18 December 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview
Rewriting a novel to an American setting is a lot more than changing names and places and using Google Earth. The entire cultural heart changes. I actually went to upstate New York, to the Hudson Valley where it's set now, to do research. The region has a lot of Dutch history.
"I Have a Bad Feeling About This": A Review of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Saturday 17 December 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story provides precisely what it promises — a professionally-rendered, authentic Star Wars story — and enthusiastic devotees of the Star Wars universe will probably be pleased by the results. However, filmgoers who are not diehard fans... may be bored and appalled by this latest installment of the venerable franchise. Periodicals: mid-DecemberFriday 16 December 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, Mythic Delirium, and Perihelion
New in Paperback: November - DecemberThursday 15 December 2016 | Monitor
Tim Powers' Medusa's Web, Gene Wolfe's A Borrowed Man, and titles by Dickinson, Duncan, Flint & Dennis, Kupari, Shea, and Weis & Hickman
Paul Di Filippo reviews Ken MacLeodWednesday 14 December 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Currently MacLeod is in the middle of a saga, The Corporation Wars, with the third book, The Corporation Wars: Emergence, due in September 2017. But we can gear up for that conclusion by having a look at the first two. New Books : 13 DecemberTuesday 13 December 2016 | Monitor
John Crowley's The Chemical Wedding by Christian Rosencreutz and titles by Canavan, Fowler, Lord, and Wagers
This Week's BestsellersMonday 12 December 2016 | Monitor
Anne Rice's Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis debuts on three lists.
Spotlight on: Brooks Peck, MoPOP CuratorSunday 11 December 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview
Curating exhibitions involves a lot of writing, but also scenic design, planning how to display objects, a little filmmaking. Being a curator is akin to being a writer-director of a film. Kameron Hurley: There Have Always Been Times Like TheseSaturday 10 December 2016 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's December Issue.
We are going to lose much in 2017. That is something that we as writers, as artists, as human beings, cannot forget... but we cannot allow it to let us lose our hope or our ability to tell the stories that not only earn us our supper but also inspire and comfort others during times of great upheaval. Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through September 2017Friday 9 December 2016 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's December issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Locus Bestsellers, DecemberThursday 8 December 2016 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by S.M. Stirling's Prince of Outcasts, Seanan McGuire's Once Broken Faith, Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, and Dayton Ward's Star Trek: Legacies: Purgatory's Key.
Adrienne Martini reviews Manuel GonzalesWednesday 7 December 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's October 2016 issue
Wrapping your metaphoric arms around Manuel Gonzales's The Regional Office Is Under Attack! is nearly impossible — but it is delicious to try. New Books : 6 DecemberTuesday 6 December 2016 | Monitor
Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, and titles by Arthur, Correia & Ringo, Dellamonica, Friedman, Gemmell, Gwynne, Hunter, Koch, Lackey, Pedersen, Planck, and Tregillis
This Week's BestsellersMonday 5 December 2016 | Monitor
Michael Chabon's Moonglow debuts on five lists.
Eric Flint: Remaking HistorySunday 4 December 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview
The characters in my 1632 series are a bit idealized. The people rise to the occasion — not unrealistically, but within the parameters of the way they behave, they do as well as they could. That's the kind of story I wanted to tell. Periodicals: early DecemberSaturday 3 December 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Black Static, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Interzone, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, and The Dark
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, DecemberFriday 2 December 2016 | Magazine
December New and Notable books include Walter Jon Williams' Impersonations and titles by Adams & Cohen, Bardugo, Brom, King, Kirby, Le Guin, Molles, Moore, Neumeier, Parisien & Wolfe, Salaam, and Whitehead
December 2016 Table of ContentsThursday 1 December 2016 | Magazine
The December issue features interviews with Eric Flint and Thomas Olde Heuvelt, a column by Kameron Hurley, an obituary of Sheri S. Tepper, lots of photos from World Fantasy Convention, and reviews of short fiction and books by Jonathan Strahan, Erika Johansen, Ray Cluley, John Langan, Bob Proehl, Lois McMaster Bujold and many others.
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