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 December 2015 -- News Posts   
December 2015 Posts: Lois Tilton's 2015 Reviews in ReviewThursday 31 December 2015 | Reviews
Lois Tilton lists stories by Robert Reed, Greg Egan, Adam-Troy Castro, Alastair Reynolds, Kai Ashante Wilson, Chen Qiufan, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Bruce Sterling, Ian McDonald, and many others
Periodicals: late DecemberWednesday 30 December 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Aphelion, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantasy, and December posts at Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New Books : 29 DecemberTuesday 29 December 2015 | Monitor
Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard and titles by Louis Chude-Sokei, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Gail Z. Martin
This Week's BestsellersMonday 28 December 2015 | Monitor
Titles by Andy Weir and Stephen King remain the top-ranking genre titles.
Beth Cato: Ripple EffectsSunday 27 December 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview
My book isn't about the petticoats and the nice clothes. It's not the elegant side of steampunk at all. It's pretty gritty, set in a secondary world based on WWI-era Europe. It's got disease and starvation. There are also ripple effects, like archaic technology and a lack of education. Colleen Mondor reviews Nicola Kornher-StaceSaturday 26 December 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2015 issue
Nicole Kornher-Stace's new novel Archivist Wasp is an utterly beguiling and intense book on bravery for teens. Set in a post-technological world that harkens back to the Middle Ages, the story is steeped in myth and fear with levels of brutality that put The Hunger Games to shame. Paul Di Filippo reviews Adam RobertsFriday 25 December 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
If Greg Egan and Stanislaw Lem had conspired to rewrite John D. MacDonald's The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything, the result might have been half as ingenious and gripping and funny and scary and invigorating as The Thing Itself. Faren Miller reviews Sarah Monette & Elizabeth BearThursday 24 December 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's November 2015 issue
Young and with no predestined role to play in politics, battle, or the use of otherworldly powers, Alfgyfa brings this trilogy to an ultimately satisfying conclusion without extravagant heroics. If you find her world as interesting as I do, that shouldn't bother you at all! Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-DecemberWednesday 23 December 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from new issues of Lightspeed, Fantasy, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, and GigaNotoSaurus
New Books : 22 DecemberTuesday 22 December 2015 | Monitor
Adam Roberts' The Thing Itself and titles by Gemma Files, Jaymee Goh & Joyce Chng, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and Terry Pratchett/Ian Stewart/Jack Cohen
This Week's BestsellersMonday 21 December 2015 | Monitor
Dean Koontz's Ashley Bell debuts on three lists.
Actually, the Force Is Sleepwalking: A Review of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Sunday 20 December 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
It would be virtually impossible to not enjoy a film that is so visibly striving to replicate all of the elements that made the original films so appealing.... The problem is that while one can praise to the stars the immense talent that went into the making of this film, it is hard to discern much creativity in either its design or its execution. Periodicals: mid-DecemberSaturday 19 December 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, The New York Review of SF, and Perihelion
Paul Di Filippo reviews Adam ChristopherFriday 18 December 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The first thing to mention about Christopher's entertaining new book is that it belongs to a kind of retro-SF which I am starting to see cropping up more and more. I can't quite call it dieselpunk, since to me that term refers to fantastical fiction set in some era identical to or analogous to our consensus reality years of 1935-1955. Christopher's novel is set in the year 1965... New in Paperback: November-DecemberThursday 17 December 2015 | Monitor
Jay Lake's Last Plane to Heaven and titles by Bara, Rothfuss, Staveley, Weis & Krammes, and Wellington
James Bradley reviews Dave HutchinsonWednesday 16 December 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's November 2015 issue
What is most striking about Europe at Midnight is not the hard edge of its politics, or even the casual brilliance of its science fictional reworking of the political thriller, but Hutchinson's thrillingly assured control of his material. New Books : 15 DecemberTuesday 15 December 2015 | Monitor
Paula Guran's anthology Warrior Women and titles by Mike & Anita Allen, Christopher Fowler, and Julia Knight
This Week's BestsellersMonday 14 December 2015 | Monitor
Titles by Andy Weir and Stephen King remain the top-ranking genre titles.
Chuck Wendig: Evolution or RuinationSunday 13 December 2015 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's December Issue interview
We're either moving toward evolution or the ruination of humanity. There's an angel and a devil. Both of those are manifest in every single technical jump we make. Which one of these do we bet on? Are we going to destroy ourselves with technology, with a nuclear bomb? Or are we going to get nuclear energy? Locus Bestsellers, DecemberSaturday 12 December 2015 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Terry Pratchett's The Shepherd's Crown, Andy Weir's The Martian, and titles by Chuck Wendig and R.A. Salvatore.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Carter ScholzFriday 11 December 2015 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Gypsy is the tale of a meticulously rendered but kludgy slower-than-light starship fleeing a systems-crashing totalitarian Earth. ... Scholz gives us a devastating tale where an admirable, almost superhuman heroism does not result in a clear-cut victory — or any conventional victory at all — but rather in a spiritual or symbolical triumph amidst ashes, rendered all the more laudable by a kind of defiant, Battle of Thermopylae stubbornness and clarity of purpose. Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through September 2016Thursday 10 December 2015 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's December issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early DecemberWednesday 9 December 2015 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from the first 2016 issues of Analog, Asimov's, and F&SF
New Books : 8 DecemberTuesday 8 December 2015 | Monitor
Greg Bear's anthology Nebula Awards Showcase 2015 and titles by Di Filippo, Koontz, Krohn, Rew, and Scholz
This Week's BestsellersMonday 7 December 2015 | Monitor
Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle rises on three print lists.
Kameron Hurley: When the Writing Sprint Goes WrongSunday 6 December 2015 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's December Issue.
It's no wonder that so many writers come across as anxious and neurotic, and I'm no exception. This has been a good year for me when it comes to book contracts and sales, but it's also the year I was suddenly in the position of having to deliver three books on deadline while holding down an increasingly uncertain day job. Periodicals: early DecemberSaturday 5 December 2015 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Clarkesworld, Forever, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, and Nightmare
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Lisa GoldsteinFriday 4 December 2015 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's November 2015 issue
Weighing Shadows marks a departure from her usual fantasy themes, moving into a combination of time-travel adventure (which she previously explored in The Dream Years) and contemporary conspiracy thriller, with a growing undertone of feminist utopianism, which turns out to be the among most interesting aspects of the book. Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, DecemberThursday 3 December 2015 | Magazine
December New and Notable books are by Leah Bobet, David Dalglish, Nancy Kress, Alter S. Reiss, Carter Scholz, and others.
New Books : 1 DecemberWednesday 2 December 2015 | Monitor
Jonathan Strahan's anthology Meeting Infinity, Jack McDevitt's novel Thunderbird, and titles by Berg, Chadwick, Dellamonica, Harper, Kaufman & Spooner, Koch, Lackey, Nye, Resnick, Sapkowski, Thurman, Tregillis, and Wallace
December 2015 Table of ContentsTuesday 1 December 2015 | Magazine
The December issue features interviews with Chuck Wendig and Beth Cato, lists of Forthcoming Books through September 2016, a new column by Kameron Hurley, a report on the World Fantasy Convention, and reviews of short fiction and books by Charlie Jane Anders, Leena Krohn, Linda Nagata, Cherie Priest, Gemma Files, and many others.
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