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October 1999
edited by Charles N. Brown
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    mailing date: 30 September 1999

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The October issue has reports of the 1999 Hugo Award ceremony, with complete Hugo voting results, and a report about Aussiecon Three.

Plus: interviews with Maureen F. McHugh and Katie Waitman.

Also: News about the HarperCollins/Avon reorganization; Hasbro buying Wizards of the Coast; DC losing Superman rights; 1999 Chesley winners; and details of a new medical syndrome, ''Stephen King wrist''.

Obituaries of James White, David Karp, [John] Andrew Keith.


To be posted online from this issue:

  • Maureen F. McHugh interview excerpts
  • Katie Waitman interview excerpts
  • Bestsellers
  • New and Notable Books
  • Updated Convention listings


    Reviews in the October issue:

    Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews by Mark R. Kelly
    Analog 9/99
    Playboy 9/99
    Asimov's 9/99

    Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe
    Centaurus: The Best of Australian Science Fiction
    , David G. Hartwell and Damien Broderick, eds.
    Strange Constellations: A History of Australlian Science Fiction, Russell Blackford, Van Ikin, and Sean McMullen
    The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology, Edward L. Ferman and Gordon Van Gelder, eds.
    The Silk Code, Paul Levinson
    Tamsin, Peter S. Beagle
    Fantasy and Horror: A Critical and Historical Guide to Literature, Illustration, Film, TV, Radio, and the Internet, Neil Barron, ed.

    Reviews by Faren Miller
    Mr. X
    , Peter Straub
    Tamsin, Peter S. Beagle
    On Blue's Waters, Gene Wolfe
    Sea Dragon Heir, Storm Constantine
    World's End, Mark Chadbourne
    999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, Al Sarrantonio, ed.
    SHORT TAKES:
    Antique Futures: The Best of Terry Dowling, Terry Dowling

    Reviews by Russell Letson
    A Good Old-Fashioned Future,
    Bruce Sterling
    The Martians, Kim Stanley Robinson

    Review by Edward Bryant
    999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense
    , Al Sarrantonio, ed.

    Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman
    A Civil Campaign
    , Lois McMaster Bujold
    World's End, Mark Chadbourn
    Ties of Power, Julie E. Czerneda
    Gardens of the Moon, Steven Erikson
    The Heart of Myrial, Maggie Furey
    Rhapsody, Elizabeth Haydon
    The Stone and the Maiden, Dennis Jones
    The Thief's Gamble, Juliet E. McKenna
    The Radon File, Denise Vitola


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