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April 2000
edited by Charles N. Brown
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Mailing date: 29 March 2000

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The April issue features an interview with acclaimed artists Leo & Diane Dillon, with color reproductions of their work both on the cover and inside the magazine. Also: a photo story on this year's Jack Williamson Lectureship; international reports on SF in Russia and the Czech Republic; obituary of John Sladek, with an appreciation by Thomas M. Disch; obituaries of Laurence James and Adele Leone; and an appreciate of A.E. van Vogt by Arthur Jean Cox.

To be posted online from this issue:

  • Leo & Diane Dillon interview excerpts
  • Locus Bestsellers
  • New and Notable Books

    Reviews in the April issue:

    Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews by Mark R. Kelly

  • Asimov’s 2/2000
  • Asimov’s 3/2000
  • SF Age 3/2000
  • Interzone 2/2000

    Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe

  • Eater, Gregory Benford
  • The Light of Other Days, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter
  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2000, Gregory Benford, ed.
    SHORT TAKE:
  • Nightfishing in Great Sky River, David Lunde

    Reviews by Faren Miller

  • 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

  • Crescent City Rhapsody, Kathleen Ann Goonan
  • Oceanspace, Allen Steele

    Reviews by Edward Bryant

  • False Memory, Dean Koontz
  • California Sorcery, William F. Nolan & William Schafer, eds.
  • Worse Than Death, Sherry Gottlieb
  • Blood Memories, Barb Hendee
  • Something Lumber This Way Comes, or The House From Space, Joe R. Lansdale

    Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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
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