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Table of Contents

 

May 2016 • Issue 664 • Vol. 76 • No. 5
49th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS
Guy Gavriel Kay: Journeying / 6
Molly Tanzer: Ghosts ’n’ Shit / 56
MAIN STORIES / 4 & 5
2016 Hugo Awards Ballot • 2016 Sturgeon Award Finalists • 2016 Prometheus Awards Finalists • 1941 Retro Hugo Awards Ballot • Naam Wins PKD Award • Dell Awards Winners • Fischer and Schmatz Win Tiptree
PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Christopher Barzak, John Scalzi, Kelly Link, Jerry Pournelle, Daryl Gregory, Ilona Andrews, and many others
THE DATA FILE / 11
Dragon Awards • 2015 BSFA Awards Winners • 2016 Ditmar Awards Winners • Aurealis Awards Winners • 2016 Seiun Awards Nominees • 2016 Aurora Awards Finalists • Authors Guild Lawsuit Ends • Galaktika Piracy • Awards News • Legal News • Announcements • Publishing News • World Conventions News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Audiobooks Received • Publications Received • Catalogs Received
SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Peace in Our Time / 25 2016 Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards / 26 Photo Story: Rainforest Writers Village Retreat / 27
CONVENTIONS
Williamson Lectureship / 28 Norwescon 39 / 29 2016 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / 30
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: March / 34 Books Received: March / 35 British Books Received: February / 44 Bestsellers / 46
OBITUARIES / 54
Justine Leiber • Peggy Ranson • Jill Calvert
EDITORIAL MATTERS / 55
Travel • Hugo Ballot • Locus Awards
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Gardnerspace: A Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois / 12
Asimov’s 3/16; Lightspeed 2/16, 3/16; Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens, Eleanor Arnason.
Short Fiction Reviews by Rich Horton / 13
Analog 4/16; Asimov’s 3/16; F&SF 3-4/16; Lightspeed 4/16; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/3/16, 3/17/16; Galaxy’s Edge 3/16.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 14
Children of Earth and Sky, Guy Gavriel Kay; Kingfisher, Patricia A. McKillip; The Lie Tree, Frances Hardinge; SHORT TAKE:Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990, Mike Ashley.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 16
The Vagrant, Peter Newman; Anna and the Swallow Man, Gavriel Saint; Emperor of the Eight Islands, Lian Hearn; Fathoms, Jack Cady.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 18
Hwarhath Stories: Transgressive Tales by Aliens, Eleanor Arnason; Visitor, C.J. Cherryh.
Reviews by John Langan / 19
Good Girls, Glen Hirshberg; Mongrels, Stephen Graham Jones.
Reviews by Stefan Dziemianowicz / 20
The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven, Ellen Datlow, ed.; Best New Horror #26, Stephen Jones, ed.; The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror: 2015 Edition, Paula Guran, ed.; Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Kathe Koja & Michael Kelly, eds.
Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 22
Borderline, Mishell Baker; All Fixed Up, Linda Grimes; A Study in Sable, Mercedes Lackey; Burning Midnight, Will McIntosh; The Keeper of the Mist, Rachel Neumeier; A Dragon’s Guide to Making Your Human Smarter, Laurence Yep & Joanne Ryder.
Reviews by Divers Hands: Karen Burnham, Liz Bourke & Colleen Mondor / 23
The Grimm Future, Erin Underwood, ed.; The Geek Feminist Revolution: Essays, Kameron Hurley; The Steep & Thorny Way, Cat Winters.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 13, 15, 17, 19

 

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog April 2016 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s March 2016 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s March 2016 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies March 2016 (Rich Horton)
F&SF Mar/Apr 2016 (Rich Horton)
Galaxy’s Edge March 2016 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed February 2016 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed March 2016 (Gardner Dozois)

Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) —

Arnason, Eleanor • Hwarhath Stories: Twelve Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Gardner Dozois)
Arnason, Eleanor • Hwarhath Stories: Twelve Transgressive Tales by Aliens (Russell Letson)
Ashley, Mike • Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Baker, Mishell • Borderline (Carolyn Cushman)
Cady, Jack • Fathoms (Faren Miller)
Cherryh, C. J. • Visitor (Russell Letson)
Datlow, Ellen, ed. • The Best Horror of the Year: Volume Seven (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Grimes, Linda • All Fixed Up (Carolyn Cushman)
Guran, Paula, ed. • The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: 2015 Edition (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Hardinge, Frances • The Lie Tree (Gary K. Wolfe)
Hearn, Lian • Emperor of the Eight Islands (Faren Miller)
Hirshberg, Glen • Good Girls (John Langan)
Hurley, Kameron • The Geek Feminist Revolution (Liz Bourke)
Jones, Stephen Graham • Mongrels (John Langan)
Jones, Stephen, ed. • Best New Horror #26 (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Kay, Guy Gavriel • Children of Earth and Sky (Gary K. Wolfe)
Koja, Kathe, & Michael Kelly, eds. • Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume Two (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Lackey, Mercedes • A Study in Sable (Carolyn Cushman)
McIntosh, Will • Burning Midnight (Carolyn Cushman)
McKillip, Patricia A. • Kingfisher (Gary K. Wolfe)
Neumeier, Rachel • The Keeper of the Mist (Carolyn Cushman)
Newman, Peter • The Vagrant (Faren Miller)
Saint, Gavriel • Anna and the Swallow Man (Faren Miller)
Underwood, Erin, ed. • The Grimm Future (Karen Burnham)
Winters, Cat • The Steep & Thorny Way (Colleen Mondor)
Yep, Laurence, & Joanne Ryder • A Dragon’s Guide to Making Your Human Smarter (Carolyn Cushman)