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August 2012 Posts: Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-AugustFriday 31 August 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Asimov's, Analog, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Tor.com
Spotlight on: E. Lily Yu, AuthorThursday 30 August 2012 | Perspectives
As a writer, I've never paid much attention to the boundaries of genre, speculative or literary, or in-between. I write everything: poems, plays, novels, essays, stories, songs – and someday I'd like to write the libretto for an opera.
Cynthia Ward reviews Melissa Scott & Lisa A. BarnettWednesday 29 August 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Astrology as destiny! It's not just an inspired choice for creating a fantasy world which differs significantly from our own. It's an approach that casts a tremendously revealing light on our own beliefs, behaviors, and perceptions. New Books : 28 AugustTuesday 28 August 2012 | Monitor
Greg Egan's The Eternal Flame, Richard Kadrey's Devil Said Bang, anthologies by Paula Guran, Ekaterina Sedia, and Jonathan Strahan, and other novels by Aguirre, Almasi, Ballantine, Daniells, Douglas, Enge, Green, Jacka, Lloyd, McEntire, McMahon, and Stein
This Week's BestsellersMonday 27 August 2012 | Monitor
George R.R. Martin's A Dance with Dragons is the highest ranking adult genre title on general lists again, still.
Notable New UK Books : AugustSunday 26 August 2012 | Monitor
Neal Asher's Zero Point, Stephen Baxter's Iron Winter, and titles by Deas, Doubinsky, Erikson, Goonan, Resnick, and Tchaikovsky
Print and Online Periodicals: late AugustSaturday 25 August 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, and online at Strange Horizons, Tangent, and Tor.com
Paul Di Filippo reviews Adam Roberts's Jack GlassFriday 24 August 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
I think his fiction represents some of the best work being done in our 21st-century genre. And yet I seem to be in a distinct minority among fans and critics. New in Paperback: AugustThursday 23 August 2012 | Monitor
New in paperback this past month, Stephen King's 11/22/63, Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's Ghost Ship, Greg Egan's The Clockwork Rocket, and titles by Butcher, Carson, Goodkind, Goonan, Lake, Lamplighter, Lawrence, Rawn, and Weber -- and, Future Lovecraft
Russel Letson reviews Gregory Benford & Larry NivenWednesday 22 August 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2012 issue
Benford & Niven have given themselves the space (conceptual and page-count) to spread out. Bowl of Heaven has room to accommodate both the thrill-ride and head-scratching sides of its sub-tradition, and I think when the second half appears, this new effort by two of the Old Masters will hold its own just fine. New Books : 21 AugustTuesday 21 August 2012 | Monitor
Collections: Christopher Barzak's Birds and Birthdays, Michael Flynn's Captive Dreams, Neal Stephenson's nonfiction Some Remarks, and Nalo Hopkinson's Report from Planet Midnight; novels by Brooks, Estep, Huso, Irwin, Itoh, Kaveney, Kenyon, Kittredge, the Kollin brothers, Long, Maas, MacGregor, Mamatas, Niven & Lerner, and Testerman; and a nonfiction guide by Scott Westerfeld
This Week's BestsellersMonday 20 August 2012 | Monitor
R.A. Salvatore's Charon's Claw and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Time Untime debut in the top 10 of the New York Times fiction hardcover list.
Ann & Jeff VanderMeer: The WeirdSunday 19 August 2012 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview.
You always have to have at least this one guiding light, Lovecraft's definition of the Weird: it has to include the supernatural. But we chose by feel, and found some stories that didn't necessarily have a clear supernatural element yet were still Weird. We branched out from that with an idea of this continuum of stuff that's exploring the unknown, that's on the darker side. Online Periodicals: mid-AugustSaturday 18 August 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Expanded Horizons, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, James Gunn's Ad Astra, Lightspeed, Redstone SF, and SF Site
Classic Reprints: AugustFriday 17 August 2012 | Monitor
New editions of Michael Bishop's Brittle Innings, Robert Silverberg's Downward to the Earth, Samuel R. Delany's Starboard Wine, Philip K. Dick's Solar Lottery (and two others), and two novels by Andre Norton
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kij Johnson's At the Mouth of the River of BeesThursday 16 August 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2012 issue
"The Man Who Bridged the Mist" is a stunning example of what Johnson does best — using the materials of SF, fantasy, myth, and even romance not as genres to inhabit, but as tools for building or, you could say, as a kind of story kit. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-AugustWednesday 15 August 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in F&SF, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Apex, Shimmer, and anthology Solaris Rising 1.5
New Books : 14 AugustTuesday 14 August 2012 | Monitor
Jeffrey Ford's collection Crackpot Palace, the US edition of Russell Hoban's last book Soonchild, Charles A. Tan's Filipino-Chinese anthology Lauriat, and other titles by Bedford, Canavan, Guran, Kiernan, Litore, and Wrede
This Week's BestsellersMonday 13 August 2012 | Monitor
Dean Koontz' Odd Apocalypse debuts at #2; Ilona Andrews and Carrie Vaughn debut in paperback.
Science Fiction Awards DatabaseSunday 12 August 2012 | Resources
The initial phase of the Science Fiction Awards Database, the redesigned and rebranded successor to The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards, is now online, with awards listings and nominee indexing updated through today, including last night's Aurora Awards winners. Several additional phases with new content are planned for the site by the end of this year.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Neal Stephenson's Some RemarksSaturday 11 August 2012 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Reading these pieces provides not only the immediate intellectual pleasures associated with their varied topics and themes, lucidly explored by the author, but also allows us to see anew the qualities that make Stephenson so interesting. Faren Miller reviews Gwenda BondFriday 10 August 2012 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2012 issue
Offbeat and imaginative, Blackwood mingles past and present, dark forces with a hint of pulp SF, along with many kinds of drama. Whether viewed as young adult, genre mix, or a first novel, it belongs with the year's best. Locus Bestsellers, AugustThursday 9 August 2012 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Charlaine Harris' Deadlocked, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, Neal Stephenson's Reamde, Jeff Grubb's Star Wars: ScourgeWarhammer 40,000: Void Stalker
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early AugustWednesday 8 August 2012 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in Asimov's, Analog, Interzone, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Redstone SF, and Jabberwocky
New Books : 7 AugustTuesday 7 August 2012 | Monitor
Anthologies: Rich Horton's Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy: 2012, James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel's Digital Rapture, Steve Berman's Wilde Stories 2012. And, novels by Caine, Cantrell, Cardamone, Duncan, Hines, Kerr, Lawrence, Malan, Payton, Richardson, Ringo, Saintcrow, Smith, Sniegoski, Sperring, Stewart, and Williamson.
This Week's BestsellersMonday 6 August 2012 | Monitor
Kelley Armstrong's Thirteen debuts in hardcover, Stephen King's 11/22/63 in trade paperback.
Print Periodicals: early AugustSunday 5 August 2012 | Monitor
What's in new issues of Analog, Asimov's , Jupiter, Shimmer, and Star*Line
Memories of Philip … and Arnold: A Review of Total Recall
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