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Sunday 16 January 2005
 
Monitor: Classic Reprints
New editions of classic fiction seen in the last few weeks of 2004 include Nancy Kress' Beggars in Spain, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Vol. IIA in hardcover, a 20th anniversary edition of Samuel R. Delany's Stars In My Pocket Like Grains of Sand, and other books by Peter Atkins, Henry Kuttner at al, Carol Emshwiller, Dennis Etchison, Elizabeth A. Lynn, E. Hoffman Price, Vernor Vinge, Philip Wylie, and Roger Zelazny

 
Friday 31 December 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the last half of December: Allen Steele's Coyote Rising, Douglas Clegg's Afterlife, Alternate Gerrolds, novels by Diana Hignutt and Elizabeth Scarborough, and nonfiction by Michael Shermer

Monitor: Last Weekend's Bestsellers
J.K. Rowling retakes all the Amazon lists; plus Michael Crichton, Nancy Farmer

 
Tuesday 21 December 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, due for publication July 16, 2005, is #1 at Amazon

 
Friday 17 December 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Seen the first half of December: The Third Alternative's 10th anniversary issue, and new issues of Amazing Stories, Black Gate, Dreams and Nightmares, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Paradox, and Weird Tales

Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the second week of December: Dean Koontz's Life Expectancy, Stephan Zielinski's offbeat first novel Bad Magic, Lou Anders' anthology of essays about SF and film, Forry Ackerman's collection of pulp magazine covers, other novels by Catherine Asaro, Mike Shepherd, Susan Shwartz, and Alan F. Troop, anthologies from Denise Little and Diana L. Paxson, and the Art of Halo

 
Tuesday 14 December 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Michael Crichton, Dean Koontz

 
Friday 10 December 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the first week of December, including Michael Crichton's State of Fear, Steven Gould's Reflex, Spider Robinson's Very Bad Deaths, other novels by Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, K.J. Bishop, Albert E. Cowdrey, David Gemmell, John Moore, Susan Price, and Travis S. Taylor, plus anthologies from Dann & Dozois and Deborah Noyes

 
Tuesday 7 December 2004
 
Monitor: New in Paperback

Mass market editions of Jo Walton's World Fantasy Award winner Tooth and Claw and other novels by Kage Baker, Stephen Baxter, Robin Hobb, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Chris Moriarty, Robert Reed, Wen Spencer, Victoria Strauss, and Harry Turtledove

Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Sean Stewart

 
Friday 3 December 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the last week of November, including Mark Budz's Crache, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's Stamping Butterflies, Alastair Reynolds' Century Rain, other novels by Paul Di Filippo, Jennifer Fallon, Al Sarrantonio, and David Sosnowski, plus a book on digital SF art, and an anthology from Keith Olexa

Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Seen the second half of November: Jack Williamson in the 75th-anniversary Analog, Roger Ebert in Sheila Williams' Asimov's, plus new issues of Amazing Stories, Chronicle, Interzone, Star*Line, and True Review

 
Tuesday 30 November 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Locus Online survey of genre titles on general lists...

 
Friday 26 November 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the third week of November, including Jack Vance's Lurulu, Marcos Donnelly's Letters from the Flesh, Charles Stross' The Family Trade, Spider Robinson's The Crazy Years, and Cathy & Arnie Fenner's Spectrum 11; plus a short novel and an anthology from Michael Chabon, a poetry collection from G.O. Clark, a collection from Jonathan Lethem, and novels from Jane Lindskold and L.A. Marzulli

 
Tuesday 23 November 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Seen the first half of November: new issues of Book of Dark Wisdom, Flytrap, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mythic Delirium, and Realms of Fantasy

Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Michael Chabon, Susanna Clarke, Stephen King, Philip Roth

Monitor: New in Paperback
Books by Catherine Asaro, Robert Asprin & Jody Lynn Nye, Orson Scott Card, William C. Dietz, Ty Drago, David & Leigh Eddings, James A. Hetley, Kij Johnson, Jack McDevitt, and Robert Silverberg

 
Saturday 20 November 2004
 
Monitor: Classic Reprints

Fifty years of Australian SF, a 20th anniverary edition of Neuromancer, plus new editions of fiction by Greg Bear, Jonathan Carroll, Harlan Ellison, Keith Laumer, and Pamela Sargent, and an anthology of Christmas tales edited by David G. Hartwell

 
Friday 19 November 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the second week of November, including Gene Wolfe's The Wizard, other novels by Jacqueline Carey, Keith R. A. DeCandido, David Drake, David & Leigh Eddings, Tamara Siler Jones, Oisin McGann, Christopher Moore, Jean Rabe, Leigh Richards, Joel Rosenberg, and Lisa Smedman, plus an anthology from Eric Flint, and a collection by Robert Silverberg

 
Tuesday 16 November 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Philip Roth, Susanna Clarke, Stephen King

 
Wednesday 10 November 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the first week of November, including Jack McDevitt's Polaris, Tad Williams' Shadowmarch, other novels by Kelley Armstrong, Alison Baird, John Barnes, Robert Buettner, Dennis Foon, Shannon Hale, James A. Hetley, Michael Hoeye, and Matthew Hughes, plus collections and anthologies from Algis Budrys, Esther M. Friesner, John Pelan, Stanley C. Sargent, and George Zebrowski

 
Tuesday 9 November 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
David Weber, Christopher Moore, Dean Koontz

 
Thursday 4 November 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Aeon, a new electronic magazine, debuts, and Premonitions, a UK magazine from the early '90s, relaunches. • Plus, new issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and The New York Review of Science Fiction
 
Tuesday 2 November 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the last week of October, including Jack Williamson's memorial Seventy-Five: The Diamond Anniversary of a Science Fiction Pioneer, Peter Straub's In the Night Room, the first James Tiptree Award Anthology, Lucius Shepard's Viator, and other fiction by Bruce Balfour, L.G. Burbank, Clamp, Madeline Howard, Michael Lawrence, R.A. Salvatore, Ruth A. Souther, Judith Tarr, G.P. Taylor, Karen Traviss, Harry Turtledove, and David Weber, plus nonfiction about Harry Potter

Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
R.A. Salvatore, Philip Roth, Susanna Clarke

 
Tuesday 26 October 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen R. Donaldson, Lackey & Mallory, R.A. Salvatore, David Weber

 
Sunday 24 October 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the third week of October, including Stephen R. Donaldson's The Runes of the Earth, Johanna Sinisalo's Troll: A Love Story, Jeff VanderMeer's Why Should I Cut Your Throat?, and other books by T.A. Barron, John Gregory Betancourt, Storm Constantine, Emily Drake, Alan Dean Foster, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory, Maxine McArthur, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Sean Russell, Dana Stabenow, Harry Turtledove, and Liz Williams

 
Tuesday 19 October 2004
 
Monitor: Classic Reprints

New editions of classics by Philip K. Dick, Stephen R. Donaldson, Robert Jordan, Russell Kirk, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R.R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, Frederik Pohl, and Robert Silverberg

Monitor: New in Paperback
Books by Neal Asher, Kage Baker, Herbie Brennan, Janis Ian & Mike Resnick, Tamora Pierce, John Ringo, Peter Straub, Jonathan Stroud, F. Paul Wilson

Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King, Philip Roth, Susanna Clarke

 
Saturday 16 October 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the second week of October, including Iain M. Banks' The Algebraist, Lucius Shepard's A Handbook of American Prayer, Frederik Pohl's The Boy Who Would Live Forever, and other books by Piers Anthony, Stephen Baxter, Charles de Lint, Dave Duncan, Martin H. Greenberg & Russell Davis, Tanith Lee, Philip Reeve, John Ringo & Julie Cochrane, and Lucius Shepard

 
Wednesday 13 October 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

New issues seen the first half of October include December issues of Asimov's -- Gardner Dozois' last issue as editor -- Analog, and F&SF; and issues of Amazing Stories, Chronicle, Leading Edge, The New York Review of Science Fiction, San Diego Jewish Journal, and Star*Line

 
Tuesday 12 October 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Laurell K. Hamilton, Stephen King, Philip Roth

 
Saturday 9 October 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the first week of October, including Liz Williams' new collection The Banquet of the Lords of Night and Other Stories, plus books by Margaret Ball, Jim Butcher, Rachel Caine, Elaine Cunningham, William C. Dietz, Laurell K. Hamilton, Dean Koontz, Michael Martinez, Jalina Mhyana, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Elizabeth Moon, Mary Murrey, Parker & Parker, Martin Scott, Wen Spencer, and Stewart & Riddell

Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the last week of September or before, including Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, Terry Pratchett's Going Postal, novellas by Stephen Baxter and Paul Park, and others by Herbie Brennan, Clamp, Pushman Clark, Ronald L. Donaghe, L.B. Graham, Iwase/Yatate/Tomino, P.B. Kerr, Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce, and Stephen Woodworth

 
Tuesday 5 October 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King, Neal Stephenson, Philip Roth

 
Sunday 3 October 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

New issues seen the last half of September include TTA Press's takeover of Interzone with Issue 194, plus new issues of Chronicle and The Third Alternative

 
Thursday 30 September 2004
 
Monitor: Classic Reprints
New hardcover editions of classics by Clifford D. Simak, Edgar Pangborn, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard; plus, new editions of books by Isaac Asimov, Gregory Benford, James Gunn, Jack Vance, and Gene Wolfe; collections of classic short fiction by Gardner Dozois and John Varley; and a chapbook by Sidney Bechet

Monitor: New in Paperback
Neal Stephenson's Quicksilver; plus titles by Ben Bova, Terry Brooks, Orson Scott Card, Ellen Datlow, Brian Jacques, Elizabeth Moon, Terry Pratchett, Philip Reeve, Laura Resnick, and Sheri S. Tepper
 
Tuesday 28 September 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Susanna Clarke, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett, Philip Roth, David Mitchell

 
Sunday 26 September 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the third week of September, including Geoff Ryman's Air, Stephen King's The Dark Tower, Neal Stephenson's The System of the World, other novels by Clive Barker, Loren W. Cooper, Brian Jacques, Gwyneth Jones, Christopher Pike, Scott Westerfeld, and Patricia C. Wrede & Caroline Stevermer, Bev Vincent's guide to Stephen King, and an anthology

Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the second week of September, including a new edition of Michael Moorcock's Wizardry & Wild Romance, novels by Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson, Carol Berg, Eric Flint & Dave Freer, S.E. Hinton, and Rosemary Kirstein; plus more nonfiction, a collection, and two anthologies

 
Tuesday 21 September 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Susanna Clarke, Stephen King, Neal Stephenson, DiTerlizzi & Black

 
Saturday 18 September 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Issues of new SF 'zines Alchemy and Postscripts; plus the latest issues of Analog, Asimov's, the SFWA Bulletin, Chronicle, and NFG

 
Friday 17 September 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the first week of September, including Susanna Clarke's Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, plus novels by Terry Brooks, Trudi Canavan, Jay Caselberg, Sara Douglass, Nancy Farmer, M. John Harrison, Elizabeth Lynn, Jennifer Stevenson, Timothy Zahn, and Sarah Zettel; plus, collections by Eileen Gunn and Robert Silverberg; an anthology by Maxine McArthur & Donna Maree Hanson; and nonfiction by James P. Hogan and S.T. Joshi

 
Monday 13 September 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Susanna Clarke, Terry Brooks, Dave Barry & Ridley Pearson

 
Wednesday 8 September 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen the last week of August, including the US edition of M. John Harrison's acclaimed novel Light, plus books by Cornelia Funke, Theodora Goss, Jay Lake, Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, Adam Roberts, Nick Sagan, Tom Smario, Jonathan Stroud, and N. Lee Wood

 
Tuesday 7 September 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Susanna Clarke

 
Thursday 2 September 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines
F&SF's October/November 55th anniversary issue features Michael Bishop, Gene Wolfe, Lisa Goldstein, Robert Reed, M. Rickert, and others; plus, new issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy

 
Tuesday 31 August 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson

 
Monday 30 August 2004
 
Monitor: New in Paperback
Harry Potter 5 reaches paperback; as do titles by Kristen Britain, Joe Haldeman, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Walter H. Hunt, Ursula K. Le Guin, Jonathan Lethem, James Luceno, Nick Sagan, Norman Spinrad, and Scott Westerfeld
Monitor: Classic Reprints
New editions of books by Poul Anderson, Gregory Benford, Algernon Blackwood, Steven Brust, Karen Joy Fowler, Robert A. Heinlein, Michael Moorcock, Spider Robinson, Josepha Sherman & Gwen Hansen, and Christopher Stasheff

 
Wednesday 25 August 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books

Descriptions and links for new books seen last week by Elizabeth Haydon, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Walter H. Hunt, Greg Keyes, Brandon Massey, David Mitchell, and John C. Wright

 
Tuesday 24 August 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
J.K. Rowling, Terry Brooks, Raymond E. Feist, David Mitchell

 
Thursday 19 August 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books

Descriptions and links for new books seen recently by Neal Barrett, Jr., Jim Butcher, F. Brett Cox & Andy Duncan, Victoria Elisabeth Garcia, Laura Anne Gilman, Ursula K. Le Guin, Juliet Marillier, S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, Michelle M. Welch, and Leslie What

 
Tuesday 17 August 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Jasper Fforde, Harry Turtledove, Karen Marie Moning, J.D. Robb, Jim Butcher

 
Thursday 12 August 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines
Amazing Stories is reborn (yet again); plus, a special issue of Publications of the Modern Language Association of America on science fiction; and new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Cemetery Dance, Chronicle, The New York Review of SF, and True Review

 
Tuesday 10 August 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen last week by Kevin J. Anderson, Mark Anthony, Sarah Ash, Marion Zimmer Bradley & Deborah J. Ross, Julie E. Czerneda & Isaac Szpindel, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Minister Faust, Jasper Fforde, Andrew Fox, James Alan Gardner, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, and James Morrow

Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
China Miéville, Herbert & Anderson, D.J. MacHale

 
Monday 2 August 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Nonfiction and poetry 'zines published in the last half of July: Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, The New York Review of Science Fiction; Dreams and Nightmares, Star*Line

Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Susanna Clarke gets a pre-publication boost from New York Times

 
Sunday 1 August 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books

Descriptions and links for new books seen this past week by Ken Akamatsu, Catherine Asaro, Kage Baker, Jeffrey E. Barlough, Robert Borski, M.M. Buckner, Jack Dann, Ellen Datlow & Kelly Link & Gavin Grant, Alexander C. Irvine, Theodore Judson, Mercedes Lackey & Eric Flint & Dave Freer, China Miéville, and Sean Stewart
 
Friday 30 July 2004
 
2004 Directory
The 2004 Directory now includes a page for 2004-dated Magazines, compiling references to Locus Magazine reviews and links to Locus Online descriptions and reviews on other sites

 
Tuesday 27 July 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Isaac Asimov; Jasper Fforde

 
Saturday 24 July 2004
 
Monitor: Classic Reprints

Books by Alfred Bester, Harry Harrison, Robert Holdstock, Katherine Kurtz, Ellen Kushner, Richard Matheson, Jack McDevitt, William Nicholson, Andre Norton, James H. Schmitz, and Philip Wylie

 
Wednesday 21 July 2004
 
Monitor: New in Paperback
Three of this year's Hugo Award nominees, by Brian Herbert, Charles Stross, and Robert Charles Wilson; plus other books written and edited by Lou Anders, Kevin J. Anderson, Sarah Ash, Greg Bear, Sara Douglass, Jude Fisher, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Paul Levinson, China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Larry Niven, Spider Robinson, and John C. Wright
 
Tuesday 20 July 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury

 
Sunday 18 July 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books

Descriptions and links for new books seen this past week by Chris Bunch, Clamp, Paul Di Filippo, Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, Naomi Kritzer, William Pillow, Michael Reaves & Steve Perry, and Charles Stross

 
Thursday 15 July 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, Stephen King, Karen Joy Fowler, Ray Bradbury

 
Wednesday 14 July 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

Second issue of Argosy includes a chapbook novella by Charles Stross & Cory Doctorow • Plus, Liverpool Stories, UK publication promoting writers from the area or writing about it. • DNA Publications' new mag, KISS • And new issues of Dreams and Nightmares, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, F&SF, The Third Alternative (and The Fix)

 
Sunday 11 July 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
The Locus Awards -- an anthology of selected stories that have won Locus's annual readers' poll over the past 30 years -- is published. • Plus, descriptions and links for other new books seen this past week by Ray Bradbury, Richard Butner, Loren W. Cooper, Sara Douglass, C.S. Friedman, L.E. Modesitt Jr., Mel Odom, Diana L. Paxon, John Ringo, S.L. Viehl, Margaret Weis, and Martha Wells; and anthologies from Bill Fawcett and Keith Olexa and of Rhysling nominees

 
Tuesday 6 July 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King, Karen Joy Fowler, Ray Bradbury, R. Scott Bakker

 
Monday 5 July 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen this past week: Best of the year anthologies edited by Gardner Dozois, and by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer; other anthologies from Martin H. Greenberg, Alexander Potter, and Mark Tier; novels by Alan Dean Foster, Elizabeth Hand, and Frank M. Robinson; and a collection by Diana Wynne Jones

 
Tuesday 29 June 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King, Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Ray Bradbury

 
Saturday 26 June 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen this past week by M.T. Anderson, Stephen L. Antczak, Claire Bott, Paul Brandon, Christopher Fowler, Mindy L. Klasky, Ian R. MacLeod, Daniel J. Reitz, Del Stone Jr., and Timothy Zahn • Plus, Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell's YA fantasy series "The Edge Chronicles" reaches the US, with a contest from the publisher

 
Thursday 24 June 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

David Pringle's final issue of Interzone is published; plus, the second issue of Tim Pratt & Heather Shaw's Flytrap, and new issues of Analog, Asimov's, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and Paradox

 
Tuesday 22 June 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King is #1

 
Sunday 20 June 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen this past week by R. Scott Bakker, Steven Erikson, Rich Gray, Debra A. Kemp, Elizabeth Kerner, Ken MacLeod, Ian McDonald, Robert Newcomb, and Donna Siepiela, plus anthologies from Martin H. Greenberg & Russell Davis, and T.K.F. Weisskopf

 
Wednesday 16 June 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines

New issues of Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, and Space and Time

 
Monday 14 June 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Steven Barnes, Karen Joy Fowler, Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Terry Goodkind

 
Saturday 12 June 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books
Descriptions and links for new books seen this past week by Thomas Berger, Lian Hearn, Stephen King, Larry Niven, Kit Reed, Harry Turtledove & Noreen Doyle, and Gene Wolfe; plus nonfiction about Philip K. Dick by Emmanuel Carrère, about Samuel R. Delany by Jeffrey A. Tucker, and about SF by Brian Stableford

Monitor: Classic Reprints

Books by Poul Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Ramsey Campbell, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, James Gunn, Larry Niven & David Gerrold, Robert J. Sawyer, Jack Vance, and Roger Zelazny

Monitor: New in Paperback

Books by Jeanne DuPrau, Michael Flynn, Terry Goodkind, Graham Joyce, Louise Marley, Linda Nagata, Audrey Niffenegger, Terry Pratchett, Alastair Reynolds, and Jo Walton

 
Tuesday 8 June 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Stephen King, Dean Koontz

 
Sunday 6 June 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books

Descriptions and links for new novels seen this past week by Greg Bear, John Birmingham, C.J. Cherryh, Newt Gingrich & William R. Forstchen, Dennis L. McKiernan, Alastair Reynolds, John Ringo & Michael Z. Williamson, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Kenji Siratori; plus anthologies edited by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer and Al Sarrantonio

 
Tuesday 1 June 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
G.P. Taylor, J.K. Rowling

 
Monday 31 May 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines
End of May issues of Chronicle, New York Review of Science Fiction, and Star*Line: Mark Rich on SF, Symbols, and Society; Bud Webster on two early Wollheim anthologies; Brian Stableford on Guy de Maupassant; poetry by Darrell Schweitzer and Sonya Taaffe

 
Saturday 29 May 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books

Descriptions and links for new novels seen this week by Neal Asher, Adam Connell, Jeanne DuPrau, Dean Koontz, Kenneth Oppel, Terry Pratchett, Thomas Wheeler, and Tony Wolk, plus a book of short stories by Brian Jacques

 
Tuesday 25 May 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Dean Koontz, Audrey Niffenegger, Eoin Colfer, Emily Rodda

 
Saturday 22 May 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books

Del Rey does manga — descriptions and links for these and other new books by Trudi Canavan, Tracy & Laura Hickman, Mathew Lyons, Sarah Micklem, and Jeff VanderMeer

 
Tuesday 18 May 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, and Weird Tales: a serial by Mary A. Turzillo; fiction by Allen M. Steele, Judith Berman, Michael Bishop, Robert Reed, Ian Watson, Michael F. Flynn, Eliot Funtishel; interview with Terry Pratchett

Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Karen Joy Fowler

 
Friday 14 May 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books

Descriptions and links for this week's new books by John Crowley, Julie E. Czerneda, Tony Daniel, Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis, Karen Joy Fowler, Jim Grimsley, E.E. Knight, Jane Lindskold, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen, and David Weber

 
Tuesday 11 May 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Karen Joy Fowler, Eoin Colfer, Terry Pratchett, David Weber

 
Sunday 9 May 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines
New issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, the SFWA Bulletin, Chronicle, Dreams and Nightmares, Leading Edge, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, The Third Alternative, and True Review -- plus a special free sampler issue of Mythic Delirium

 
Wednesday 5 May 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books

New books from North and South American writers: Isabel Allende, Kelley Armstrong, Ben Bova, Steven Brust, Thomas Harlan, Joe R. Lansdale, and Bruce Sterling

Monitor: Notable New Books

New books from UK writers: Neal Asher, N.M. Browne, Ian Graham, Ken MacLeod, George Mann, Michael Marshall, David Mitchell, Richard Morgan, Charles Stross, and Steph Swainston

Monitor: New in Paperback
Books by Margaret Atwood, Ashok K. Banker, Steven Brust, David B. Coe, Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Nancy Farmer, Raymond E. Feist, Greg Keyes, Nancy Kress, Ian R. MacLeod, Mike Resnick, Robert J. Sawyer, S.M. Stirling, Harry Turtledove, John Varley, Tad Williams, and Timothy Zahn

 
Tuesday 4 May 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Terry Pratchett, Neal Stephenson, Karen Joy Fowler, Charlaine Harris

 
Monday 26 April 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Neal Stephenson

 
Tuesday 20 April 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Neal Stephenson, Margaret Atwood

 
Thursday 15 April 2004
 
Monitor: Notable New Books

April books: Neal Stephenson's The Confusion, plus novels by Patricia Bray, John Dalmas, Eric Garcia, Howard V. Hendrix, Sean McMullen, Rudy Rucker, Matt Ruff, and others; plus anthologies

Monitor: Notable New Books

Books seen in late March include novels by Andrew Sean Greer, Anne Harris, Mercedes Lackey, Scott Westerfeld, Zoran Zivkovic, and others; plus critical nonfiction by Damien Broderick, a Tolkien chronology, and anthologies

 
Tuesday 13 April 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines
June issues of Analog, Asimov's, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: a SETI debate, a 21st anniversary, and a competition; fiction by Joe Haldeman, Michael A. Burstein, James Patrick Kelly, Stephen Baxter, Neal Asher, Ray Vukcevich, Nancy Kress, and others

Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Raymond E. Feist, Eric Flint & Andrew Dennis, Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black, Margaret Atwood

 
Friday 9 April 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines
New York Review of Science Fiction offers Brian Attebery's reappreciation of Eleanor Arnason, and Allen M. Steele's reconsideration of Philip Wylie and Edwin Balmer • Plus, new issues of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Harpur Palate, NFG, and True Review

 
Tuesday 6 April 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
David Gemmell, Raymond E. Feist, Garth Nix

 
Monday 29 March 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
John Saul, Andrew Sean Greer

 
Saturday 27 March 2004
 
Monitor: Classic Reprints

Philip K. Dick's Lies, Inc. completely restored; plus classics by Gregory Benford, John Brunner, William Morris, Roger Zelazny, and others

Monitor: New in Paperback

Books by Steven Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Jacqueline Carey, William Gibson, Laurie J. Marks, Stanley Schmidt, and others

 
Tuesday 23 March 2004
 
Monitor: This Week's Bestsellers
Eleanor Druse

 
Friday 19 March 2004
 
Monitor: What's In Other Magazines
Analog concludes Joe Haldeman's latest novel, and publishes James Gunn's latest "Immortal" novelette; New York Review of SF examines Heinlein and Wyndham; Asimov's publishes a double-issue with stories by Feeley, Baker, Rosenblum, and others • Plus issues of Chronicle and Star*Line

Monitor: Notable New Books

Major new novels by Gregory Benford, Peter F. Hamilton, Guy Gavriel Kay, Paul McAuley, Richard K. Morgan, and others; plus art by Caniglia, the first best-of-2003 anthology, the latest Nebula Awards volume, and a collection by Lucius Shepard

 
Mon 15 Mar 2004
 
This Week's Bestsellers
Eoin Colfer

 
Tue 9 Mar 2004
 
This Week's Bestsellers
Jasper Fforde

 
Sat 6 Mar 2004
 
Magazines: New Issues seen in February
Asimov's creates a scandal in Michigan; plus, what's in new issues of Analog, Bulletin of the SFWA, Cemetery Dance, Chronicle, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Realms of Fantasy, Star*Line, and Weird Tales

 
Mon 1 Mar 2004
 
This Week's Bestsellers
Guy Gavriel Kay

 
Fri 27 Feb 2004
 
Notable New Books

Poetry by Bruce Boston, G.O. Clark, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Laurel Winter • Nonfiction by Ursula K. Le Guin; collected short fiction by C.J. Cherryh; an anthology of Irish fantasy; novels by Carol Berg, Sara Douglass, Scott Mackay, and others

 
Mon 23 Feb 2004
 
Bestsellers
William Gibson, Guy Gavriel Kay

 
Mon 16 Feb 2004
 
Bestsellers
Laurell K. Hamilton, Robin Hobb, Timothy Zahn

 
Wed 11 Feb 2004
 
Notable New Books

Kim Stanley Robinson begins a new trilogy
• Other new novels by Mary Gentle, Walter Jon Williams, Catherine Asaro, Laurell K. Hamilton, Patricia A. McKillip, and others
• And a nonfiction study of Gene Wolfe by Peter Wright

 
Mon 9 Feb 2004
 
Bestsellers
J.D. Robb strikes again

 
Mon 2 Feb 2004
 
Bestsellers
Fiona McIntosh ranks in Australia

 
Fri 30 Jan 2004
 
New in Paperback

Books by Charles Dickinson, Kelley Eskridge, Nancy Kress, Ken MacLeod, Allen Steele, and others

Classic Reprints

Peter Pan illustrated by Charles Vess, Gregory Benford's In the Ocean of Night, and works by Marion Zimmer Bradley, Octavia Butler, Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, and Jane Yolen

 
 
 
Bestsellers — Tue 27 Jan 2004

Laurell K. Hamilton poised to debut

Magazines — Fri 23 Jan 2004
Analog serializes a new novel by Joe Haldeman; plus, what's in new issues of Asimov's, Challenging Destiny, Chronicle, Interzone, Jupiter, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and The New York Review of Science Fiction

Bestsellers — Tue 20 Jan 2004

Robert Jordan's New Spring debuts strongly

New Books — Fri 16 Jan 2004
The Art of John Berkey, Robert Jordan's "Wheel of Time" prequel, the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction;
• Plus, new books by Dale Bailey, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, Arthur C. Clarke & Stephen Baxter, Ty Drago, Mitchell Graham, Mercedes Lackey, Julian May, Justina Robson, Fred Saberhagen, E. Rose Sabin, Judith Tarr, Sheree R. Thomas, and Sean Williams & Shane Dix

Bestsellers — Mon 12 Jan 2004
Christopher Paolini surpasses J.K. Rowling

Bestsellers — Mon 5 Jan 2004
Robert Jordan sells pre-publication; Tolkien editions gain

Books — Wed 31 Dec 2003
Gene Wolfe's The Knight is released, to glowing reviews.
• Hippocampus Press releases a previously-unpublished novel by Lord Dunsany
• Also new: novels by David Gerrold, Gwyneth Jones, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Tom Kratman, Alastair Reynolds, Tricia Sullivan, and David Zindell; nonfiction by John Garth about Tolkien, and M.J. Simpson about Douglas Adams; and anthologies edited by Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, and by Robert Silverberg

Magazines — Tue 30 Dec 2003
What's in new issues of Andromeda Spaceways, Chronicle, Dreams of Decadence, F&SF, Leading Edge, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nova SF, and Realms of Fantasy

Bestsellers — Mon 29 Dec 2003
Pre-publication orders put Robert Jordan in Amazon's Top 100

Bestsellers — Mon 22 Dec 2003
Dean Koontz's Odd Thomas debuts on 3 more lists

Classic Reprints — Sat 20 Dec 2003
Two early Andre Norton titles are brought back in hardcover • Plus, new editions of classic books by Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Richard Matheson, Jack Vance, Vernor Vinge, and others

New in Paperback — Sat 20 Dec 2003
Reprints of books by Greg Egan, Robert Jordan, Stephen King, Paul McAuley, Jeff VanderMeer, and others

2002 Books Directory — Thu 18 Dec 2003
Complete results of the 2003 Locus Poll are now compiled in this directory

Index to Book Reviews in Locus Magazine — Thu 18 Dec 2003
Locus Online's index is now extended back to 1984, using data supplied by William Contento

Bestsellers — Mon 15 Dec 2003
Dean Koontz, Eric Nylund debut

Forthcoming Books — Thu 11 Dec 2003
Selected titles scheduled for Dec. '03 - Sep. '04 (from Locus's December issue)

New Books — Thu 11 Dec 2003
Robert A. Heinlein's previously unpublished novel For Us, the Living, plus books by Stephen Baxter, Mark Budz, Arthur C. Clarke & C.S. Lewis, Paul Di Filippo, Nalo Hopkinson, Rick Klaw, Michael Marshall Smith, and others

Bestsellers — Mon 8 Dec 2003
Anne & Todd McCaffrey, Jonathan Stroud debut

   
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