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February 2017 Posts: New Books : 28 FebruaryTuesday 28 February 2017 | Monitor
Rob Latham's Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings, the US edition of Alastair Reynolds' Revenger, and titles by Britain, Broaddus, Dawidziak, Hoover, Kadrey, Kiernan, Lewis, Marr, Martinez, Millet, Nix, Skovron, and Wendig
This Week's BestsellersMonday 27 February 2017 | Monitor
George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo debuts at #1 on three lists; Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology is #2 on the same three lists.
Periodicals: late FebruarySunday 26 February 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Analog and Asimov's (its 40th-anniversary issue), and February content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Classics In Reprint: FebruarySaturday 25 February 2017 | Monitor
New editions of books by William Gibson, K.W. Jeter, Philip Francis Nowlan, and Michael Swanwick
Liz Bourke reviews BookburnersFriday 24 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Bookburners Season 1 might top 200,000 words, but it reaches that total in 16 novelette-to-short-novella-length episodes. Structurally, then, it's a lot more like a television show than a serial novel — as it's intended to be. A supernatural copshow/caper/spies and intrigue television show, with added complicated team dynamics. Rich Horton reviews Short FictionThursday 23 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
F&SF for November/December features a rare and welcome appearance from Gardner Dozois, whose fame as an editor should not cause us to forget how good his fiction is... Faren Miller reviews S. Jae-JonesWednesday 22 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Historically, "The Earl-King" (Der Erlkönig), "Unfinished Symphony", the title piece, and more are works by Franz Schubert. Jae-Jones plays her own games by reimagining and recasting him as the heroine's young violin-virtuoso brother (not a composer in his own right), while still invoking the full passion of the time when Baroque gave way to early Romantic — and the world changed. New Books : 21 FebruaryTuesday 21 February 2017 | Monitor
Meg Elison's The Book of Etta, Michael Tolkin's NK3, and titles by Dayton, Dornbusch, Eames, Hogan, Lyons, Schwab, and Sharp
This Week's BestsellersMonday 20 February 2017 | Monitor
Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology rank #1 on two print lists.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Nnedi OkoraforSunday 19 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
Binti: Home opens about a year after that earlier story began as a quiet coming-of-age story, turned suddenly into a survival adventure, and ended with Binti playing a key role in a kind of revolution. Periodicals: mid-FebruarySaturday 18 February 2017 | Monitor
New issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex, Aphelion, Aurealis, Forever, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Mothership Zeta, and Perihelion
Paul Di Filippo reviews Elan MastaiThursday 16 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The first thing to note is that although Mastai might very well have been raised outside strict genre borders, he exhibits a playful fluency with, and is creatively savvy about, all the genre appurtenances and furniture. His does not make a single misstep with his speculations or language. Paul Di Filippo reviews Richard KadreyWednesday 15 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Lastly, and possibly the biggest attraction of the book, is the sheer language. Like S. J. Perelman writing for the Marx Brothers, combined with Raymond Chandler's propensity for over-the-top similes and metaphors, Kadrey's language pops off the page, whether as dialogue or description. New Books : 14 FebruaryTuesday 14 February 2017 | Monitor
Peter S. Beagle's In Calabria, Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn, George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, and titles by Brodsky, Carey, Danielewski, Duncan, Hand, James, Jordan, Tem, and Wells
This Week's BestsellersMonday 13 February 2017 | Monitor
Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology ranks high on all three Amazon lists.
Alastair Reynolds: Expanding UniverseSunday 12 February 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview
The other seed of Revenger came from when I really fell in love with science fiction, around the time I was 16. That's when I was absolutely besotted with Larry Niven and the Known Space stories... New in Paperback: January - FebruarySaturday 11 February 2017 | Monitor
Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning and titles by Bishop, Briggs, Carriger, Harris, Hines, Jones, Kadrey, Lyris, McAuley, McIntosh, Neuvel, North, Pratchett & Baxter, and Sullivan
Faren Miller reviews Laura EveFriday 10 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
What is myth for the new millennium? In The Graces, Laure Eve confronts what's left of the old with something that might take its place (no galactic empires required). Paul Di Filippo reviews Norman SpinradThursday 9 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Spinrad revels in the juicy, sleazy, all-too-human Machiavellian machinations of all the parties, the rebels and the establishment alike. His ability to chart thrust and counter-thrust is akin to that of some television political strategist following the twists and turns of national affairs. Kameron Hurley: If You Want to Level Up, Get Back to the BasicsWednesday 8 February 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's February Issue.
There are few things, for me, that are as equally depressing and energizing as reading a really great book. Great books are why I got into this business in the first place, which is why I'm often so shocked when I hear from other professional writers that they don't read anymore. New Books : 7 FebruaryTuesday 7 February 2017 | Monitor
Samuel R. Delany's journals In Search of Silence, Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, Kameron Hurley's The Stars Are Legion, Norman Spinrad's The People's Police, and titles by Ambrose, Beaulieu, Blackmoore, Clarke, Datlow, Donnelly, Fischl, Gannon, Harrison, Isaacson, Jae-Jones, Mastai, Sagara, Savory, Spencer, Taylor, and Wallace
This Week's BestsellersMonday 6 February 2017 | Monitor
Terry Goodkind's Death's Mistress and Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology debut; Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is #1 this morning at Amazon.com; Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is #1 at USA Today and Washington Post.
Periodicals: early FebruarySunday 5 February 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Clarkesworld, The Dark, Fireside, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, and Persistent Visions
The Boy Who Fell to Earth: A Review of The Space Between Us
Saturday 4 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Like a NASA rocket slowly rising from the surface, The Space Between Us takes a long time to achieve escape velocity and soar through space; however, if you can endure one of the most boring opening sequences in any film I can recall, and about an hour of trite melodramatic sequences interspersed with inauthentic personal drama, its last thirty minutes are actually quite enjoyable, even moving. Locus Bestsellers, FebruaryFriday 3 February 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Brent Weeks' The Blood Mirror, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, and R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms: Homecoming Book III: Hero
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, FebruaryThursday 2 February 2017 | Magazine
February New and Notable books include Karen Lord's anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean and titles by Arden, Bear, Dellamonica & Berman, Dellamonica, Dennard, Gemmell, Gilman, Heller & Viola, Littlewood, MacLeod, and Pinborough.
February 2017 Table of ContentsWednesday 1 February 2017 | Magazine
The February issue features an interview with Alastair Reynolds and the annual Year in Review with essays by Gary K. Wolfe, Paul Kincaid, Geoff Ryman, Gardner Dozois, and many others; the Locus Recommended Reading List, the Locus Poll and Survey ballot, a column by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and books by Kameron Hurley, S. Jae-Jones, Ian McDonald, Ken MacLeod, and many others.
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