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THE MAGAZINE OF THE SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY FIELD


T a b l e   o f   C o n t e n t s

June 2004 • Issue 521 • Vol. 52 No. 6
37th Year of Publication • 25-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interviews Design by Arnie Fenner

M A I N    S T O R I E S / 5
2004 Nebula Awards Weekend and SF Museum Preview • 2003 Analog/Asimov’s Awards • Sheila Williams Named Asimov’s Editor • Prometheus Launches Pyr SF/F Imprint • Arthur C. Clarke Award 2004 • More Specialty Bookstore Woes

I N T E R V I E W S
Michael Swanwick: Dinosaur Dreams / 6
Sean Williams: The Sweet Sound of SF / 84

P E O P L E   &   P U B L I S H I N G / 8
Notes on marriages, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Salman Rushdie, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, and many others

T H E    D A T A    F I L E / 11
Bradbury on Mars • Auctions to Benefit Charles L. Grant • SFWA Election Results • WH Smith Shakeup • Avalon Acquires 4W8W • Campbell Conference Expanding • Clarion South 2005 • Argosy Update • More New Magazines • Announcements • Awards News • Small-Press Publishing News • Online News • Financial News • International Rights

F O R T H C O M I N G    B O O K S
US Forthcoming Books / 32    British Forthcoming Books / 40

C O N V E N T I O N S / 48
World Horror Convention

L I S T I N G S
Magazines Received: April / 50    Books Received: April / 51   
British Books Received: March / 65    Bestsellers / 68

O B I T U A R I E S / 77
Robyn Herrington • Basil Wells • Shirley Maiewski • Jerry Burge • Virgil Wilhite

E D I T O R I A L    M A T T E R S / 78
Skittling in Seattle • Production Changes • Staff Update • Bookstore Problems • Life in Oakland

L O C U S    L E T T E R S / 79
Harry Turtledove • Dave Mattingly • Andrew I. Porter


L O C U S    L O O K S    A T    B O O K S

Short Fiction Reviews by Nick Gevers / 12
Conqueror Fantastic, Pamela Sargent, ed.; Asimov’s 6/04; F&SF 7/04; Sci Fiction 5/04; The Third Alternative Spring ’04; Analog 6/04.

Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton / 13
F&SF 6/04; Analog 6/04; The New Yorker 4/19/04; Realms of Fantasy 6/04; The Third Alternative Spring ’04; Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 2-3/04; Continuum Science Fiction Winter ’04; Sci Fiction 5/04; Strange Horizons 4/26/04; Ideomancer 4/04; Abyss and Apex 4-5/04; Fortean Bureau 3/04; Mother Aegypt and Other Stories, Kage Baker.

Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 15
Mortal Love, Elizabeth Hand; Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Al Sarrantonio, ed.; x,y,z,t: Dimensions of Science Fantasy, Damien Broderick; The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, Ursula K. Le Guin; The Twentieth Century, Albert Robida.

Reviews by Faren Miller / 19
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah, Stephen King; Perfect Circle, Sean Stewart; Trash Sex Magic, Jennifer Stevenson; Firethorn, Sarah Micklem; Secret Life, Jeff VanderMeer.

Reviews by Nick Gevers / 23
Innocents Aboard, Gene Wolfe; Secret Life, Jeff VanderMeer; Breathmoss and Other Exhalations, Ian R. MacLeod; Spondulix: A Romance of Hoboken, Paul Di Filippo.

Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 27
Heat Stroke, Rachel Caine; Survival, Julie E. Czerneda; The Silken Shroud, ElizaBeth Gilligan; Seraphim, Michele Hauf; Troll Fell, Katherine Langrish; The Buried Pyramid, Jane Lindskold; An Earthly Knight, Janet McNaughton; Heart Duel, Robin D. Owens; Scarlet Moon, Debbie Viguié.

Divers Hands: Reviews by Rich Horton, Farah Mendlesohn, and Tim Pratt / 29
Take No Prisoners, John Grant; Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories, Diana Wynne Jones; The Fourth Circle, Zoran Živkovic.

Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 12, 17, 21, 25

Quoted Without Comment / 27, 29, 36, 56



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