The October issue features interviews with Kij Johnson and Stanley Schmidt, coverage of Chicon 7 with lots of photos, and reviews of short fiction and new books by M. John Harrison, Kate Griffin, John Varley, Charles Yu, Tiffany Trent, and many others.

Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by John Scalzi’s Redshirts, George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones, Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One, David R. George III’s Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Raise the Dawn, and Christian Dunn’s Warhammer 40K: The Horus Heresy: The Primarchs.

September New and Notable books include a collection of digital art, novels by Aaronovitch, Brandon, Milford, Parker, Payton, Stross, and Williams, and collections and anthologies from Carroll, Guran, Hoffman, Horton, Kiernan, and Stephenson.

The September issue features interviews with John Scalzi, Nancy Pearl, and Richard Kadrey, a new column by Cory Doctorow, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Jeffrey Ford, N.K. Jemisin, Cory Doctorow & Charles Stross, Brian Evenson, Jim C. Hines, and many others.