Table of Contents, April 2000

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CHARLES N. BROWN
Publisher & Editor-in-Chief
MARK R. KELLY
Electronic Editor-in-Chief
KIRSTEN GONG-WONG
Managing Editor
FAREN C. MILLER
CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN
Editors
CYNTHIA RUSCZYK
Editorial Assistant
EDWARD BRYANT
KAREN HABER
MARIANNE JABLON
RUSSELL LETSON
JONATHAN STRAHAN
GARY K. WOLFE
Contributing Editors
WILLIAM G. CONTENTO
Computer Projects
BETH GWINN
Photographer
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
April 2000 Issue 471 Vol. 44 No.4
33rd Year of Publication 21-Time Hugo Winner
MAIN STORIES
1999 Nebula Awards Final Ballot/8
Stephen King’s Electronic Ghost Story/8
Philip K. Dick Award Judges Announced/8
POD Publishing/8 BOMC/Literary Guild Meld Official/8
THE DATA FILE
“Potter Withdrawal” Boosts YA Fantasy Sales/9 Auctions, Auctions/9
SFWA Shuts Down Pirate Websites/9 Solaris in Trouble/9
Monster Mess/64 Announcements/64 Call For Papers/64
Awards News/64 Contest News/65 Legal News/65
Readings & Signings/65 Financial News/65
International Rights/66 Other Rights Sales/66
INTERVIEWS
Leo & Diane Dillon: The Third Artist Rules/4
PHOTO STORIES
The Jack Williamson Lectureship 2000/9
INTERNATIONAL
SF in Russia/36 SF in the Czech Republic/39
OBITUARIES
John Sladek/60 Appreciation by Thomas M. Disch/60
Laurence James/60
Adele Leone/60 Appreciation by Shawna McCarthy/61
A.E. van Vogt: An Appreciation by Arthur Jean Cox/61
LISTINGS
International Books and Magazines Received/37
Magazines Received: February/40 Books Received: February/41
British Books:January/51 Bestsellers/58 Photo Listing/70 Index to Ads/70
COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS
People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/62 Editorial Matters/62
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Distillations: Short Fiction
Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 15
Asimov’s 2/2000; Asimov’s 3/2000; SF Age 3/2000;
Interzone 2/2000.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 19
Eater, Gregory Benford; The Light of Other Days,
Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter; Nebula Awards
Showcase 2000, Gregory Benford, ed.; SHORTTAKE;
Nightfishing in Great Sky River, David Lunde.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 23
Daughter of the Forest, Juliet Marillier; The Tower at
Stony Wood, Patricia A. McKillip; In the Upper Room
and Other Likely Stories, Terry Bisson; Paradoxa:
Studies in World Literary Genres, Vol 5, No.12, 1999.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 25
Crescent City Rhapsody, Kathleen Ann Goonan;
Oceanspace, Allen Steele.
Reviews by Edward Bryant / 27
False Memory, Dean Koontz; California Sorcery, William
F. Nolan & William Schafer, eds.; Worse Than
Death, S herry Gottlieb; Blood Memories, Barb
Hendee; Something Lumber This Way Comes, o r The
House From Space, Joe R. Lansdale.
Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 29
Queen of Darkness, Anne Bishop; Feast of the King’s
Shadow, Chez Brenchley; Ring of Destiny, Jane S.
Fancher; The Suburban Salamander Incident, Andrew
Harman; A Business of Ferrets, Beth Hilgartner;
Valor’s Choice, Tanya Huff; Brightly Burning,
Mercedes Lackey; Daughter of the Forrest, Juliet
Marillier.
Not-So-Short Reviews by Jonathan Strahan / 31
Eater, Gregory Benford; Doors of Death and Life,
Brenda Clough; Probability Moon, Nancy Kress; The
Fountains of Youth, Brian Stableford; Moon Dogs,
Michael Swanwick.
Locus Looks at Art Books
Reviews by Karen Haber / 33
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, illustrated
by Helen Oxenbury; Alice In Wonderland,
Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger; The Annotated
Alice: the Definitive Edition, Martin Gardner,
original illustrations by John Tenniel; The Book of End
Times: Grappling With the Millennium, John Clute;
The Worst Band in the Universe, Graeme Base;
SHORT TAKES; Dinotopia: First Flight, James Gurney;
Dreams: The Art of Boris Vallejo, Boris Vallejo.
LOCUS April 2000 / 3