Table of Contents, October 1997
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CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Assistant Editor
EDWARD BRYANT
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
JONATHAN STRAHAN
Visiting Editor
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
October 1997 Issue 441 Vol. 39 No. 4
30th Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1997 Hugo Awards Winners/7
Spinrad for a Dollar/8 LoneStarCon 2/8 HarperCollins Update/8
“Fear Street” Moves to Golden/8 1996 Chesley Awards Winners/8
THE DATA FILE
HWA Election Results/9 Fantasy Auctions/9
Worldcons Updated/9 Announcements/9
Legal News/9 Readings & Signings/9
Awards News/9 Financial News/69
Online News/69 Rights & Options/69
Multi-Media Received/69 Publications Received/69
INTERVIEWS
Elizabeth A. Lynn: A New Spring/4
Jonathan Lethem: Breeding Hybrids in the Genre Garden/6
SPECIAL
Complete Hugo Voting/30
1997 Hugo Awards Ceremony/32
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
1997 Beijing International Conference on Science Fiction
Report by Charles N. Brown/39 Report by Wu Yan/40
China ’97 by Elizabeth Anne Hull/43 Two Weeks in China by James Gunn/43
OBITUARIES
Judith Merril/66 Carl Jacobi/66 Julieta de Godoy Ladeira/67
Donald I. Fine/67 Samuel Peeples/67 John Elliot/67
LISTINGS
Magazines Received:August/44 Books Received:August/45
British Books: July/57 Bestsellers/64 Photo Listing/74 Index to Ads/74
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/67 Editorial Matters/68
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CompuServe at GOSFLIT, L ibrary 15, and maybe
other places.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
Asimov’s 10-11/97; Analog 10/97; Analog 11/97; SF
Age 9/97; Interzone 7/97, Interzone 8/97; F&SF 9/97.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
Titan, Stephen Baxter; Vacuum Diagrams, Stephen
Baxter; Toward the End of Time, John Updike; The
Gift, Patrick O’Leary; Boddekker’s Demons, Joe
Clifford Faust.
Reviews by Faren Miller /1 9
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King;
Violin, Anne Rice; Ever:The War in the Waste, Felicity
Savage; Nymphomation, Jeff Noon; Eating Memories,
Patricia Anthony.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 21
Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman; Dreaming Metal,
Melissa Scott.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 23
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King;
The Throne of Bones, Brian McNaughton; Ceremony
in Death, J.D. Robb; The Widowmaker Reborn, Mike
Resnick; SHORT TAKE: Bad Chili, Joe R. Lansdale.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 25
The Harlequin’s Dance, Tom Arden; Drum Calls, Jo
Clayton; The Long Patrol, Brian Jacques; Deep Secret,
Diana Wynne Jones; The Wild Road, Gabriel
King; Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Mercedes Lackey;
Dragon Slayers’ Academy: The New Kid at School,
K.H. McMullan; Honor Harrington: In Enemy Hands,
David Weber.
Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 27
Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science
Fiction Art, Vincent Di Fate; New Worlds, David
Garnett, ed.; Mars Underground, William K. Hartmann;
Lightpaths, Howard V. Hendrix; Sorcerers of
Majipoor, Robert Silverberg; Honor Harrington: In
Enemy Hands, David Weber.
LOCUS October 1997/3
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARIANNE S. JABLON
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Assistant Editor
EDWARD BRYANT
MARK R. KELLY
RUSSELL LETSON
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
JONATHAN STRAHAN
Visiting Editor
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Special Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
Locus, The Newspaper of the S cience Fiction Field (ISSN
0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.50 per copy, by
Locus Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland CA
94611. Please send all mail to: Locus Publications, P.O.
Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. Telephone (510) 339-
9196; (510) 339-9198. FAX (510) 339 -8 14 4 . E-mail:
Locus@Locusmag.com. Individual subscriptions in the
US: $43.00 for 12 issues, $80.00 for 24 issues via periodical
mail. In Canada: $48.00 for 12 issues, $90.00 for
24 issues via periodical mail. First class individual subscriptions
in the US or Canada are $53.00 for 12 issues,
$95.00 for 24 issues. Individual overseas subscriptions
are $48.00 for 12 issues, $90.00 for 24 issues via sea
mail. Individual subscriptions to Europe o r South America
via air mail are $70.00 for 12 issues, $120.00 for 24 issues.
Individual subscriptions to A ustralia, Asia, o r A frica
via air mail are $80.00 for 12 issues, $135.00 for 24 issues.
Lifetime subscriptions are ten times the one-year
rate. Institutional subscriptions are $3.00 extra per year.
Make checks payable to Locus Publications. All subscriptions
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must be drawn on a US bank and include computer encoding
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or destroyed. We subtract one issue from your subscription
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is a renewal or completely new. British Subscription Agent:
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CAMBS PE14 9BU, UK. Japanese Subscription Agent:
Yoshio Kobayashi, 3-34-14-301, Kitasenzoku, Ohta-ku,
Tokyo, 145, Japan; Australian Subscription Agent: Justin
Ackroyd, SlowGlass Books, G.P.O. Box2708X, Melbourne
Victoria, 3001, Australia. Bookseller discounts available.
Display advertising rates on request. ©1997 by Locus
Publications. We take no responsibility for unsolicited submissions.
Printed in the United States. Periodical postage
paid at Oakland, California and additional m ailing offices.
POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Locus Publications,
P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
October 1997 Issue 441 Vol. 39 No. 4
30th Year of Publication 19-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1997 Hugo Awards Winners/7
Spinrad for a Dollar/8 LoneStarCon 2/8 HarperCollins Update/8
“Fear Street” Moves to Golden/8 1996 Chesley Awards Winners/8
THE DATA FILE
HWA Election Results/9 Fantasy Auctions/9
Worldcons Updated/9 Announcements/9
Legal News/9 Readings & Signings/9
Awards News/9 Financial News/69
Online News/69 Rights & Options/69
Multi-Media Received/69 Publications Received/69
INTERVIEWS
Elizabeth A. Lynn: A New Spring/4
Jonathan Lethem: Breeding Hybrids in the Genre Garden/6
SPECIAL
Complete Hugo Voting/30
1997 Hugo Awards Ceremony/32
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
1997 Beijing International Conference on Science Fiction
Report by Charles N. Brown/39 Report by Wu Yan/40
China ’97 by Elizabeth Anne Hull/43 Two Weeks in China by James Gunn/43
OBITUARIES
Judith Merril/66 Carl Jacobi/66 Julieta de Godoy Ladeira/67
Donald I. Fine/67 Samuel Peeples/67 John Elliot/67
LISTINGS
Magazines Received:August/44 Books Received:August/45
British Books: July/57 Bestsellers/64 Photo Listing/74 Index to Ads/74
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/67 Editorial Matters/68
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Letters, information, and credit card subscriptions
can be sent by e-mail to Locus@Locusmag.com or
by fax to 510-339-8144.
Official l o c u s Web Sites. Locus Web Page: h ttp://
w w w .L o c u sm a g .c om ; L o c u s P o ll D a ta b a s e :
www.sff.net/locus/poll/index.html; Locus index to
Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror 1984-1996: http:/
/www.sff.net/locus/. Unofficial Web Site: Index to
Locus’s book reviews, interviews and obituaries from
4/87 to 6/96: h ttp ://h om e .a o l.c om /o n e iro v o x or
CompuServe at GOSFLIT, L ibrary 15, and maybe
other places.
This magazine is printed on recycled paper
using soy-based inks.
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly /1 3
Asimov’s 10-11/97; Analog 10/97; Analog 11/97; SF
Age 9/97; Interzone 7/97, Interzone 8/97; F&SF 9/97.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe /1 7
Titan, Stephen Baxter; Vacuum Diagrams, Stephen
Baxter; Toward the End of Time, John Updike; The
Gift, Patrick O’Leary; Boddekker’s Demons, Joe
Clifford Faust.
Reviews by Faren Miller /1 9
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King;
Violin, Anne Rice; Ever:The War in the Waste, Felicity
Savage; Nymphomation, Jeff Noon; Eating Memories,
Patricia Anthony.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 21
Forever Peace, Joe Haldeman; Dreaming Metal,
Melissa Scott.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 23
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass, Stephen King;
The Throne of Bones, Brian McNaughton; Ceremony
in Death, J.D. Robb; The Widowmaker Reborn, Mike
Resnick; SHORT TAKE: Bad Chili, Joe R. Lansdale.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 25
The Harlequin’s Dance, Tom Arden; Drum Calls, Jo
Clayton; The Long Patrol, Brian Jacques; Deep Secret,
Diana Wynne Jones; The Wild Road, Gabriel
King; Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Mercedes Lackey;
Dragon Slayers’ Academy: The New Kid at School,
K.H. McMullan; Honor Harrington: In Enemy Hands,
David Weber.
Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 27
Infinite Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science
Fiction Art, Vincent Di Fate; New Worlds, David
Garnett, ed.; Mars Underground, William K. Hartmann;
Lightpaths, Howard V. Hendrix; Sorcerers of
Majipoor, Robert Silverberg; Honor Harrington: In
Enemy Hands, David Weber.
LOCUS October 1997/3
