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 July 2015 -- News Posts   
July 2015 Posts: Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kim Stanley RobinsonFriday 31 July 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2015 issue
Kim Stanley Robinson novels are never about only one thing, so when he addresses a familiar SF trope or subgenre, you can expect matters to get slippery. He interrogates and unpacks assumptions, asks previously unasked questions, and often rethinks the mode of storytelling itself. Periodicals: late JulyThursday 30 July 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Static, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, Mythic Delirium, Shimmer, Star*Line, and Uncanny, plus what's new in July at Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Paul Di Filippo reviews Three NovellasWednesday 29 July 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Johanna DeBiase's Mama & the Hungry Hole, Jonathan Carroll's Teaching the Dog to Read, and Tim Powers' Nobody's Home New Books : 28 JulyTuesday 28 July 2015 | Monitor
Joe Abercrombie's Half a War, Austin Grossman's Crooked, Tom Holt's The Good, the Bad, and the Smug, and titles by Carey, Dietz, Estep, Griffith & Griffith, Ishiguro, Johnson, Kadrey, Milán, Molles, Nassise & Howison, and Ochse
This Week's BestsellersMonday 27 July 2015 | Monitor
Ernest Cline's Armada debuts strongly.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late JulySunday 26 July 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of new stories in Uncanny, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, Tor.com, and Shimmer
Classic Reprints: JulySaturday 25 July 2015 | Monitor
An omnibous of Samuel R. Delany's three earliest novels, the first unabridged translation of a novel by Jules Verne, and titles by Charles de Lint and Michael Moorcock
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Nnedi OkoraforFriday 24 July 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2015 issue
For all its grim corporate dystopianism and moments of tragedy and startling violence, The Book of Phoenix is actually a more playful and experimental novel than Who Fears Death, and in a weird and unsettling way, it's a lot of fun. Paul Di Filippo reviews George ZebrowskiThursday 23 July 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
George Zebrowski published three books from 1977 through 1983 which were collected in that latter year as The Omega Point Trilogy. Together, I think, they constitute one of the highpoints of that era in our genre, a late-period exfoliation of recomplicated Golden Age space opera, and should be properly invested as such. New in Paperback: JulyWednesday 22 July 2015 | Monitor
Greg Bear's War Dogs, David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks, Paul Park's All Those Vanished Engines, Anne Rice's Prince Lestat, Charles Stross' The Rhesus Chart, and titles by Bear, Bova, Brett, Cheney, Goodkind, Kadrey, Kratman, Lackey & Mallory, Monk, Palmatier, Ringo, Turtledove, and Valentine
New Books : 21 JulyTuesday 21 July 2015 | Monitor
Ted Kosmatka's The Flicker Men, Adam Mansbach's The Devil's Bag Man, and titles by Gladstone, Goodkind, Jackson, Warrington, and Weitz
This Week's BestsellersMonday 20 July 2015 | Monitor
New novels by Christie Golden, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Charles Stross debut.
Max Gladstone: Power & DestinySunday 19 July 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's July Issue interview
There's an illusion that there's such a thing as pure 'literary fiction.' I say that in the largest quotes possible because I don't think it corresponds with literature about the real world. We have stories about middle-class, comfortable people problems, and we tell ourselves that's what the world is. That's the circle of firelight. That's the tiny little raft. There are oceans and oceans beneath it. Periodicals: mid-JulySaturday 18 July 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Apex, Asimov's, Fireside, Galaxy's Edge, Kaleidotrope, Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, The New York Reviews of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Adrienne Martini reviews Naomi NovikFriday 17 July 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2015 issue
Most readers will recognize the furniture in Naomi Novik's Uprooted. You've read this book a billion times if you've read it once. Except, of course, you haven't. While the individual trees look familiar, Novik's is a whole new forest. Part of this due to Novik's mad writing skill. Paul Di Filippo reviews The Year's Best Military SF & Space OperaThursday 16 July 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The variety of styles and topics and themes, and the high level of craft in this assemblage, prove that this subgenre is flourishing and has much to contribute to the field at large, despite any preconceptions from those who know it only by hearsay. Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-JulyWednesday 15 July 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Interzone, Clarkesworld, Apex, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
New Books : 14 JulyTuesday 14 July 2015 | Monitor
Ernest Cline's Armada, Carolyn Ives Gilman's Dark Orbit, Max Gladstone's Last First Show, and titles by Anders, Hand, Jennings, Leicht, Mason, Pulley, Sigler, Swendson, Turtledove, and Wallace
This Week's BestsellersMonday 13 July 2015 | Monitor
Andy Weir's The Martian ranks in the top 3 on four trade paperback lists.
Joanne Harris: Modern MythsSunday 12 July 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's July Issue interview
When you look at what I've done before, I've never been far from the fantasy area. I've been talking about magic for 15 years. I've written two other books about Norse gods besides The Gospel of Loki. It's not new to me. Mythology is something I've been interested in since I was itty bitty, and Norse mythology particularly.
Old Whiners in New Bodies: A Review of Self/less
Saturday 11 July 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Self/less has several significant virtues: it is fast-paced and involving; it is unpredictable; it features excellent performances by an actor expected to provide them (Ben Kingsley) and an actor not expected to provide them (Ryan Reynolds); and its science-fictional premise, while not without questionable aspects, is developed with unusual care and consistency. However, director Tarsem Singh and screenwriters David Pastor and Alex Pastor were obliged to weaken their story by reducing a complex scenario to a simplistic morality tale and adding a modicum of gratuitous violence. Gardner Dozois reviews Ian R. MacLeodFriday 10 July 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2015 issue
This month brings another early contender for the title of Best Collection of the Year, Frost on Glass by Ian R. MacLeod, a collection of 11 stories and copious interstitial material (forewords, afterwords, and autobiographical non-fiction pieces), mixing science fiction, fantasy, and harder-to-classify slipstreamish stuff. Locus Bestsellers, JulyThursday 9 July 2015 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Peter V. Brett's The Skull Throne, Jim Butcher's Skin Game, Andy Weir's The Martian, and titles by John Jackson Miller and R.A. Salvatore.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early JulyWednesday 8 July 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in new issues of Lightspeed, Asimov's, Analog, Perihelion, and Kaleidotrope
New Books : 7 JulyTuesday 7 July 2015 | Monitor
Kim Stanley Robinson's Aurora, Gardner Dozois' The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection, Wesley Chu's Time Salvager, Charles Stross' The Annihilation Score, and titles by Ambrose, Blake, Brockway, Caine, Cheney, Cormick, Flint & Hunt, Friesner & Helfers, Galenorn, Jernigan, Maresca, Martin & Martin, Patel, Pollack, Rhoads, Ryan, Schultz, Wexler, and Willrich
This Week's BestsellersMonday 6 July 2015 | Monitor
Andy Weir's The Martian ranks #2 on three trade paperback lists.
Periodicals: late June to early JulySunday 5 July 2015 | Monitor
June posts at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Terraform, and Tor.com, and July issues of Clarkesworld, Forever, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, and Nightmare
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Hannu RajaniemiSaturday 4 July 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2015 issue
Collected Fiction is an uneven collection, and may be a bit premature for a young writer still experimenting with voice and balance, but there's little doubt that Rajaniemi at his best is an imposing talent. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, JulyFriday 3 July 2015 | Magazine
July New and Notable books include Peter Straub's Perdido and titles by Adams & Howey, Blaylock, Corey, Jama-Everett, King, Kowal, Munson, Rajamiemi, Reed, Reynolds, Steele, Strahan, the VanderMeers, and Wallace.
Cory Doctorow: Skynet AscendantThursday 2 July 2015 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's July Issue.
When you read an era's popular SF, you don't learn much about the future, but you sure learn a lot about the past. Fright and hope are the inner and outer boundaries of our imagination, and the stories that appeal to either are the parameters of an era's political reality. July Issue Table of ContentsWednesday 1 July 2015 | Magazine
The July issue features interviews with Joanne Harris and Max Gladstone, a new essay by Cory Doctorow, complete results of this year's Locus Awards and Poll, coverage of Nebula Awards Weekend, Wiscon 39 and BayCon 2015, and reviews of short fiction and books by Kim Stanley Robinson, China Miéville, Zachary Brown, Mercedes Lackey, Daniel José Older, and many others.
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