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April 2017 -- News Posts April 2017 Posts: Online Periodicals: late AprilSunday 30 April 2017 | Monitor
April posts at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Fireside, Persistent Visions, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Print Periodicals: late AprilSaturday 29 April 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, and Black Static
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kim Stanley RobinsonFriday 28 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
In contrast to the Dos Passos expansiveness of 2312 and despite its panoramic title, New York 2140 is a comparatively intimate tale of a handful of representative characters whose paths cross in various ways in a New York defiantly rebuilding after two separate "pulses" have left sea levels something like 50 feet higher than they are now. Classics In Reprint: AprilThursday 27 April 2017 | Monitor
The first volumes of The Best of Gordon R. Dickson and Seabury Quinn's The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, and titles by Jeter, Lee, and Niven & Pournelle
Paul Di Filippo reviews Poul AndersonWednesday 26 April 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The date range is almost identical to that of the selections in The Best of Gordon R. Dickson: Volume 1 that I reviewed earlier this month. And right up front, I believe we can make an important distinction along these lines. Poul Anderson was simply the better and more influential and consequential writer of the pair... New Books : 25 AprilTuesday 25 April 2017 | Monitor
Jeff VanderMeer's Borne, Cory Doctorow's Walkaway, and titles by Brennan, Broaddus, Honeywell, Maberry, and Staveley
This Week's BestsellersMonday 24 April 2017 | Monitor
Timothy Zahn's Star Wars: Thrawn ranks #2 at New York Times and Publishers Weekly
Paul Di Filippo reviews Allen SteeleSunday 23 April 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
After being more or less defunct for decades, this seems to be Captain Future's time to be reborn. The Captain's retro yet timeless virtues both the hero's personal creed and the narrative stylings are arguably congruent with cultural trends today toward a desired and desirable return to basics and old verities with a useful revisioning. Adrienne Martini reviews Elan MastaiSaturday 22 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
This is a science fiction love story that is by turns funny and wistful and smart, while remaining fully invested in how being human feels. Paul Di Filippo reviews Gordon R. DicksonFriday 21 April 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Dickson began publishing professionally in 1950, and this first volume of his Best Stories chronicles the years 1954 through 1964 with one important exception. Editor Hank Davis has wisely and temptingly kicked off the collection with "Love Song," the piece that Dickson sold to Harlan Ellison for Last Dangerous Visions, and which has been unseen since. New in Paperback: March - AprilThursday 20 April 2017 | Monitor
Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky, Stephen King's End of Watch, Thomas Olde Heuvelt's HEX, Anna Smaill's The Chimes, and titles by Armstrong, Bauers, Belcher, Campbell, Cherryh, Martinez, Riggs, Seay, and Stewart.
Spotlight on: Rovina Cai, ArtistWednesday 19 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue
I've just wrapped up illustrating a picture book! It's called Tintinnabula, and is written by Australian SF/F writer Margo Lanagan. One of my favourite things about illustration is getting to delve into a writer's "world," and it has been a delight to explore Margo's. New Books : 18 AprilTuesday 18 April 2017 | Monitor
Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Eleven, Sofia Samatar's Tender: Stories, John Joseph Adams' Cosmic Powers, and titles by Armstrong, Carr, Clark, Golden, James, Johnson, Kent, Shea, and Wolf
This Week's BestsellersMonday 17 April 2017 | Monitor
Omar El Akkad's American War debuts on three lists.
20 Years of Locus OnlineMonday 17 April 2017 | About the Website
Locus Online debuted 20 years ago today. Here's a look back at the history of the site, a selection of featured posts, and a gallery of homepage image captures that illustrate the development of the site as web standards evolved over the years.
Kinuko Y. Craft: Light & ShadowSunday 16 April 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview
One of the benefits I get from doing covers is, I get to read. The main thing I like about what I do is that I'm away from reality and the real world where I live, in a make believe one a land of someone else's imagination as long as the project lasts. I need that to survive. Periodicals: mid-AprilSaturday 15 April 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Spotlight on: Jeffrey Alan Love, ArtistFriday 14 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue
My first job in SF/F, I think, was working for Irene Gallo for Tor.com, an absolutely wonderful website which has revolutionized short fiction and art in the SF/F field. I couldn't have asked for a better first job. Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kameron HurleyThursday 13 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
While the raw template may be space opera, The Stars Are Legion draws enthusiastically and effectively on a number of mythological and horror traditions as well. Spotlight on: Paul Lewin, ArtistWednesday 12 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue
Coming from the perspective of a fine artist, there are only a handful of cover projects that I've been involved with over the years. Without a doubt, though, the most interesting one has been with Seven Stories Press and the reissuing of Octavia Butler's books Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. New Books : 11 AprilTuesday 11 April 2017 | Monitor
Allen Steele's Avengers of the Moon, Elizabeth Moon's Cold Welcome, Gwyneth Jones' Proof of Concept, and titles by Anderson, Beal, Durst, Farland, Maberry, Mason, Pollock, Smith, and Smythe
This Week's BestsellersMonday 10 April 2017 | Monitor
Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer debuts on two lists.
Kameron Hurley: How to Write a Book in a MonthSunday 9 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue.
We all want to learn how to write books faster. The pace of the news cycle today has heated up to such an extent that for those of us who aren't in the 1% of writers, if we don't come out with a book a year, it feels like the world has forgotten us amid the buzz of ever more intensifying world horror. Periodicals: early AprilSaturday 8 April 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Apex, Aphelion, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Forever, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, and Nightmare
Russell Letson reviews Ken MacLeodFriday 7 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Ken MacLeod's new trilogy-in-progress bears the overall title The Corporation Wars, with US print editions of the first two volumes, Dissidence and Insurgence, appearing just a month apart late in 2016. (The third, Emergence, is due out later this year.) The story is told from a variety of viewpoints and features a mixture of motifs: the post-human condition, interstellar colonization, and space combat, along with familiar MacLeodian discussions about political systems and revolution. Locus Bestsellers, AprilThursday 6 April 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by James S.A. Corey's Babylon's Ashes, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, and Alexander Freed's Rogue One.
Liz Bourke reviews Charles StrossWednesday 5 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Empire Games is the start of a new trilogy, set in the world of his Merchant Princes novels (six books, now released as three omnibus editions), but several years on from the nuclear events that punctuated those novels. New Books : 4 AprilTuesday 4 April 2017 | Monitor
John Kessel's The Moon and the Other, Omar El Akkad's American War, Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns, Neil Clarke's The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume Two, and titles by Cherryh, Dolkart, Emrys, Flint & Barber, Jacka, Jennings, Lawrence, Lee, Matthews, Neuvel, North, O'Keefe, Priest, and Yatsuhashi
This Week's BestsellersMonday 3 April 2017 | Monitor
John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire debuts on two lists.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AprilSunday 2 April 2017 | Magazine
April New and Notable books include Edmund Gordon's The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography, George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, and titles by Bledsoe, Carey, Donnelly, Nix, Palmer, Pratt, Rosetti & Rayyan, Schwab, and Spinrad.
Back to the Retrofuture, Version 2.0: A Review of Ghost in the Shell
Saturday 1 April 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Ghost in the Shell is most definitely a film worth seeing, and no one who buys a ticket will feel cheated afterwards; they may especially appreciate the film, as I did, as an unusually artful rendering of all the things that people used to worry about in the 1980s. Still, like me, they may also conclude that the film just wasn’t their cup of tea. April 2017 Table of ContentsSaturday 1 April 2017 | Magazine
The April issue features an interview with Kinuko Y. Craft and spotlights of artists Paul Lewin, Jeffrey Alan Love, and Rovina Cai, an obituary and appreciations for Susan Casper, a column by Kameron Hurley, a report on SF in Portugal, and reviews of short fiction and books by John Kessel, Brian Staveley, Robert Charles Wilson, Alex Wells, and many others.
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