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Locus Magazine's 2009 Recommended Reading List 
145 Books -- 145 Stories 
The best novels, collections, anthologies, nonfiction, art books, and short fiction of 2009 
Coming Soon -- Jeff VanderMeer's survey of The Best of 2009 Lois Tilton's short fiction reviews move to Locus Online!   Mon 25 Jan 10 —
The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards is updated with all 2009 results, including World Fantasy awards winners, and a new section for the Emperor Norton Awards.
 Sun 7 Feb 10 —
» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Joe Hill, Lavie Tidhar, and others
» Seattle Times: Nisi Shawl reviews Connie Willis' Blackout; also, SF Chronicle's Louis Peitzman talks with Willis about the novel » Rick Klaw reviews Robert Jackson Bennett's Mr. Shivers » BSCreview has Hal Duncan on "The Kerspindle Kerfuffle" » SciFiDimensions is going on hiatus » Fantastic Literature's February list is online Mon 1 Feb 10 —
» Dave Langford's Ansible 271
Sun 31 Jan 10 —
» Guardian: M. John Harrison reviews the rediscovered John Wyndham novel Plan for Chaos
» Amazon pulls Macmillan (including Tor) titles Fri 29 Jan 10 —
» Paul Haines has made his novella Wives (from Australian anthology X6) available online for Hugo consideration
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Thu 28 Jan 10 —
» Amazon's Omnivoracious contributor Jeff VanderMeer picks his "best of decade" books including titles by Edward Carey, Samuel Delany, M. John Harrison, David Mitchell, Sean Tan, and Edward Whittemore
» Telegraph: Peter Ingham reviews Philip Palmer, Jesse Bullington, Kelley Armstrong, Paul McAuley » Stargate Universe is hosting a graphic novel contest » Fantasy Book Critic is hosting a book giveaway of titles by Matthew Hughes and others » Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Patti Smith Mon 25 Jan 10 —
» Paul Di Filippo reviews Kim Stanley Robinson's Galileo's Dream
Sun 24 Jan 10 —
» Awards News: Aurealis Awards winners include Andrew McGahan, Trudi Canavan, Jonathan Strahan, Greg Egan, Scott Westerfeld
» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Peter Straub, Steven Amsterdam, Barbara Roden Fri 22 Jan 10 —
» LA Times: Jeff VanderMeer reviews Thomas Mullen's The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers; also, Scott Timberg's The Writer's Life addresses Philip K. Dick: A 'plastic' paradox
» Ellen Datlow has posted photos from the KGB January 20th reading with David Anthony Durham and Lev Grossman Wed 20 Jan 10 —
» The New Yorker profiles Neil Gaiman's fantasies
» Tor.com: John Joseph Adams' podcast The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy is up to issue #3 » Washington Post: Elizabeth Hand reviews Melanie Benjamin's Alice I Have Been » BSCReview interviews Charlie Huston » World SF News Blog needs your help Mon 18 Jan 10 —
» Strange Horizons: John Clute's column Scores covers Kim Stanley Robinson and others
» Winter Goblin Fruit, guest-edited by Mike Allen, includes video files of readings by several poet contributors » Black Gate has new reviews of Robert Low, Douglas Clegg, A. Merritt, and others » Ellen Datlow has posted photos from the Lovecraft Unbound reading Mon 11 Jan 10 —
» The Atlantic: Christopher Hitchens on The haunting science fiction of J.G. Ballard
» Guardian interviews Jonathan Lethem » Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Shearman, Barnett, Bennett, and Constantine » The Agony Column interviews S.T. Joshi Thu 7 Jan 10 —
» Hal Duncan's column Notes from New Sodom: The Scourge of Sci-Fi
» Omnivoracious: Graham Sleight interviews Farah Mendlesohn on Joanna Russ » Rick Klaw surveys the New Weird movement » Fantastic Literature's January list is online Tue 5 Jan 10 —
» Dave Langford's Ansible 270, plus a long supplement, Remembering Rob Holdstock
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» January SF Site has reviews of Shiner, Braziel, Banks, Brooks, and others, plus its annual readers' choice poll » January Clarkesworld has fiction by Peter Watts and Megan Arkenberg, nonfiction on Lucius Shepard and video games, and a 2009 reader's poll and contest » Fantasy Magazine is also running a 2009 poll and contest Mon 4 Jan 10 —
» Strange Horizons has 2009 in Review summaries from Paul Graham Raven, Karen Burnham, Farah Mendlesohn, Paul Kincaid, Adam Roberts, Abigail Nussbaum, and many others
» Boston's The Edge has a list of 2009 Books not to overlook, including titles by VanderMeer, Van Gelder, Brockmeier, Zebrowski, Skillingstead, Resnick, and Moffett Sun 3 Jan 10 —
» ICON Magazine Online: Bruce Sterling's The Hypersurface of this Decade
» Washington Times reviews Philip José Farmer and Win Scott Eckert's The Evil in Pemberley House Fri 1 Jan 10 —
» LA Times: Carolyn Kellegg reviews Alan DeNiro's Total Oblivion, More or Less
» NPR: Rick Kleffel talks with Margaret Atwood about science and religion Thu 31 Dec 09 —
» Locus Online reads King, Doctorow, Banks, Kress, Atwood, Wilson, Bear
Wed 30 Dec 09 —
» Slate remembers the giddy futurism of Omni magazine
» World SF News Blog features a Australian SF Round Table Thu 24 Dec 09 —
» Ursula K. Le Guin resigns from the Authors Guild over its deal with Google; coverage at Guardian, SFWA
» LA Times: online SF columnist Ed Park plays games with American Fantastic Tales Tue 22 Dec 09 —
» Daily Kos checks in with Peter Watts
» B&N: Paul Di Filippo reviews Cory Doctorow's Makers » Independent Weekly's What our writers our reading includes essays on current books by Margaret Atwood, Jonathan Lethem, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lev Grossman, and Joe Haldeman Mon 21 Dec 09 —
» NY Times: Ross Douthat op-ed on Avatar and pantheism
Sun 20 Dec 09 —
» B&N: Michael Dirda's A Year in the (Reading) Life selects 12 memorable 2009 titles, including works by Ballard, Pynchon, Silverberg, Atwood, and Roden
» Aqueduct Press has 2009 retrospectives by Nancy Jane Moore, Kristin King, Nisi Shawl, Rachel Swirsky, Cynthia Ward, Therese Littleton, Cheryl Morgan, Jeffrey Ford, and Lisa Tuttle » Tangent Online has posted a 1976 interview with Leigh Brackett & Edmond Hamilton Thu 17 Dec 09 —
» Barnes & Noble's Best Books of 2009: Editors' Picks includes titles by Jeff VanderMeer and David Eagleman
» Wall Street Journal's Holiday Book Guide includes titles for six types of readers: for a teenage boy, SF/F titles by Collins, Klass, and Westerfeld; for the young artist, SF/F titles by Lethem, Atwood, and VanderMeer; for a teenage girl, fantasy by Cashore, Garcia & Stohl, and Fitzpatrick » Ellen Datlow's photos from the KGB reading on Dec 16th, with Andy Duncan and Christopher Rowe |
 Mon 08 Feb 2:49 pmThe 2009 Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement winners are Brian Lumley and William F. Nolan. The award is presented to an individual or indiv...
Mon 08 Feb 11:00 amPhilip Klass, who wrote SF as William Tenn, 89, died February 7, 2010 of congestive heart failure.Klass is best known for his satirical, humorous S...
  
New Books : late JanuaryMonday 8 February 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Charlie Huston's Sleepless, Carol Berg's The Spirit Lens, Rich Horton's The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2009 Edition, and titles by Bowers, Bradley & Ross, Bynum, Chafe, Erikson, Flint & Freer, Hendee & Hendee, Henderson, McIntosh, Modesitt, Resnick, Ronald, and Zahn.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 2 February 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Laurell K. Hamilton's Flirt, on sale today, ranks high on Amazon lists.
February Issue Table of ContentsSunday 31 January 2010 | Magazine
The February issue is the annual Year in Review, with the 2009 Recommended Reading List and summaries of the year's books. Plus: interviews with Jo Walton and Felix Gilman, reviews of new books by Connie Willis, Paul McAuley, Stephen King, James Gurney, Robin Hobb, Eoin Colfer, and others, and Graham Sleight on Gene Wolfe.
Charles Coleman Finlay: The CrucibleFriday 29 January 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview.
These days, I think the impulse toward short stories, and the short story market in speculative fiction, is profoundly anticommercial. It's reaching for an audience that's interested in other things. So that transition between what makes for a satisfying short story and what makes for a commercial novel is a hard one to bridge. John Crowley: End of an AgeThursday 28 January 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview.
To actually articulate a way of being in a literary world without boundaries between reality and fantasy –- it can't just be a bunch of craziness and surreal carrying on, like some writers in the '70s were doing. What is done in the writing has to be understood by the standard structures of what counts as a moving and live piece of fiction. This Week's BestsellersTuesday 26 January 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Douglas Preston's thriller Impact ranks high on lists this week.
Russell Letson reviews Alexander JablokovMonday 25 January 2010 | Reviews; Magazine
From Locus Magazine's January 2010 Issue
Like the famously convoluted plot of the film version of The Big Sleep, this one spins us all around so thoroughly (often with a bucket over our heads) that by the time it's all sorted out it's hard to tell whether it all made sense. (I think it does, just don't make me explain how in detail.) New Books : mid JanuaryMonday 25 January 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Alexander Jablokov's Brain Thief, Greg Egan's Crystal Nights, the 1st US edition of Kim Stanley Robinson's Galileo's Dream, John Scalzi's The God Engines, and other titles by Akers, Fford, Martin, McKenna, McPherson, Phoenix, Remic, Robertson, and Snyder.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 19 January 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Karen Chance's Death's Mistress debuts on mass market paperback lists this week; variations among rankings at Amazon US, UK, and Canada noted.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JanuaryMonday 18 January 2010 | Magazine; 2010 Posts
January New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Fred Chappell's Ancestors and Others, Cathy & Arnie Fenner's Spectrum 16, Gahan Wilson's 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons, and titles by Bledsoe, Chadbourn, Dann & Dozois, DeNiro, Gregory, King, Marillier, McDevitt, Roden, and Sherman & Barzak.
Locus Magazine Bestsellers, JanuaryMonday 18 January 2010 | Magazine; 2010 Posts
Locus Magazine Bestsellers are led by Terry Pratchett's Unseen Academicals, Jim C. Hines' The Mermaid's Madness, Cherie Priest's Boneshaker, and titles by Joe Schreiber and R.A. Salvatore
New Books : early JanuaryThursday 14 January 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Joe Haldeman's Starbound, Victor LaValle's Big Machine, best-of-year anthologies from Rich Horton and David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, and other titles by Berman, Brown, Brust, Card, Green, McCaffrey & Scarborough, Merrick, and Pinto.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 12 January 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Jasper Fforde's Shades of Grey ranks on this week's New York Times bestseller list.
The Imaginarium of Doctor ParnassusSunday 10 January 2010 | Reviews
It's the most Terry Gilliam film that Terry Gilliam has done in the last two decades. That's a good thing. Mostly. Make no mistake: This is definitely better than any movie we reviewed last year. But I can't help thinking that I've seen all of these moves before.
Cory Doctorow: Close Enough for Rock 'n' RollThursday 7 January 2010 | Magazine; Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue.
If the Internet has a motif, it is rock 'n' roll's Protestant Reformation thrashing against the orchestral One Church. This Week's BestsellersTuesday 5 January 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Under the Dome still ranks highest of genre books on general lists this week; Charlaine Harris' next, Dead in the Family, ranks with pre-publication sales on Amazon.com.
New Books : late DecemberSunday 3 January 2010 | Monitor, Directories
Barbara Roden's Northwest Passages, Charles de Lint's Muse and Reveries, A Working Writer's Daily Planner from Small Beer Press, and titles by Aronovitz, Barclay, Card, Clore, Harvey, Hayes, Light, Taylor, and Williams
January Issue Table of ContentsSunday 3 January 2010 | Magazine
The January issue features interviews with John Crowley and Charles Coleman Finlay, a new column by Cory Doctorow, obituary and appreciations of Robert Holdstock, and reviews of new books by Greg Bear, Daryl Gregory, Joe Haldeman, Michael Shea, Alan DeNiro, Steven Brust, and many others.
Other Magazines: DecemberThursday 31 December 2009 | Monitor; Directories
Weird Tales celebrates Edgar Allan Poe, Vector celebrates J.G. Ballard, and Analog, Asimov's, and Black Static publish new fiction by Shane Tourtellotte, Stephen Baxter, Damien Broderick, Christopher Fowler, and others.
Nina Kiriki Hoffman: Young at HeartWednesday 30 December 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview.
The commercial way to write adult fiction seems to involve catastrophic blah blah blah, and maybe multiple viewpoints, but that's not what I do. I have a mental age that's in the younger camp. This Week's BestsellersTuesday 29 December 2009 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Under the Dome ranks highest of genre books on general lists this week.
Michael Dirda: Dashing International Man of Mystery and Sophisticated BoulevardierMonday 28 December 2009 | Magazine; Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview.
The books we can't make sense of, that knock us off-kilter, that we don't accept readily, will often be the books that matter most to the next generation. |
  Locus Poll & Survey voting is open until April 1, 2010 
Mon 01 FebYes, I'm still stuck on Heinlein.Two small things recently wandered across my field of vision, tunnel-like as it is with the start of classes:1) io9's Josh Wimmer talked about the Catcher in the Rye-ness of Stranger in a Strange Land. I mostly agree with him. You?2) Does anyone know if there are ...
Adrienne Martini:
Walking the Glory Road
Tue 12 JanDuring the long, long break, I re-read Glory Road. And, again, by way of caveat, there is no particular reason - other than sheer whimsy - I chose this particular title off of my Heinlein shelf. Glory Road, for the uninitiated (or those who need a refresher), concerns the journey of a hero, E.C. ...
 
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Locus Onlineis published in Los Angeles, CA, by editor and webmaster Mark R. Kelly, with News posts and Roundtable oversight by the Locus Office staff in Oakland.The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awardscompiled by Mark R. Kelly, includes listings, indexes, summaries, and statistics on nearly 100 SF, fantasy, and horror awards from 1949 through 2009The Locus Index to Science Fictioncompiled by William Contento, indexes books and magazines seen by Locus Magazine, by title, author, and contents.Annual updates posted free online. Combined Index published on CD ROM. Indexes to Magazines, Crime Fiction, Mystery Fiction, etc., also available. test include file |
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Thu 21 Jan
..It makes national news, apparently. Every five years or so we here in Southern California get a series of storms, one after another, day after day, for a week, that dumps as much precipitation as...
Reading Notes: King, Doctorow, Banks, Kress, Atwood, Wilson, Bear
Thu 31 Dec
As the year comes to a close and my plans for semi-detailed reading notes get lost in holiday busyness, let me try a relatively quick summary of reactions to several recent books, just to close out...
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