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 February 2016 -- News Posts   
February 2016 Posts: This Week's BestsellersMonday 29 February 2016 | Monitor
Brandon Sanderson's Calamity debuts at #2 at USA Today.
Laird Barron reviews Gary A. BraunbeckSunday 28 February 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2016 issue
Without question Halfway Down the Stairs is a long overdue omnibus of horror stalwart Gary Braunbeck's short fiction. It's a massive tome weighing in at nearly 600 pages and it collects the vast majority of the author's output over the past couple of decades. Periodicals: late FebruarySaturday 27 February 2016 | Monitor
New issues of The New York Review of Science Fiction and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and what's new this month at Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Reviews by Carolyn Cushman, February 2016Friday 26 February 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2016 issue
Reviews of titles by Carol Berg, Anne Bishop, Holly Black & Cassandra Clare, and C. Dale Brittain Print Periodicals: FebruaryThursday 25 February 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Analog and Asimov's
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Tim PowersWednesday 24 February 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2016 issue
Like Three Days to Never, Medusa's Web features a California setting, a mysterious lost film of the silent era, and bits of time travel. New Books : 23 FebruaryTuesday 23 February 2016 | Monitor
Dexter Palmer's Version Control, Glen Hirshberg's Good Girls, and titles by Bright, Dunstall, Estep, Sawyer, Schwab, and Underwood
This Week's BestsellersMonday 22 February 2016 | Monitor
Pierce Brown's Morning Star debuts at #1 on three lists.
Russell Letson reviews Carter ScholzSunday 21 February 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2016 issue
Gypsy is the first collection of Carter Scholz material in a dozen years, consisting of the centerpiece title novella, a pair of short stories, an essay, an interview with Scholz (conducted by editor Terry Bisson), and a bibliography. As compelling as the shorter pieces are, it is the novella that grabs and won't let go. New UK Books : FebruarySaturday 20 February 2016 | Monitor
Recent UK titles, not published in the US, by John Ayliff, Markus Heitz, Sarah Pinborough, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Liz Williams
Paul Di Filippo reviews John WrayFriday 19 February 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
For a book concerned with time travel, The Lost Time Accidents is resolutely linear. Wray really has no use for the clichés of paradoxes and jumbled continuity. Instead he is intent on chronicling with grim humor the weight of eternity and mortality that afflicts all of us. In the case of the time-tormented Tollivers, they are the quivering canaries in the temporal coal mine of the cosmos. Classic Reprints: FebruaryThursday 18 February 2016 | Monitor
New editions of Cordwainer Smith's Norstrilia and titles by Orson Scott Card, Tanith Lee, Michael Moorcock, and Clark Ashton Smith
Laird Barron reviews V.H. LeslieWednesday 17 February 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2016 issue
Michael Kelly's Undertow Press is a champion of literary horror and V.H. Leslie's Skein and Bone fits the mold of the quiet, nuanced work we've come to expect from this publisher. Leslie's collection is moody and atmospheric; cozy, yet far from comforting. New Books : 16 FebruaryTuesday 16 February 2016 | Monitor
Peter Straub's Interior Darkness: Selected Stories, Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country, Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom, and titles by Brodsky, Henderson, Rossi, Salyards, Sanderson, and Wells
This Week's BestsellersMonday 15 February 2016 | Monitor
Lois McMaster Bujold's Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen debuts on four print lists; J.K. Rowling is #1 with forthcoming sales.
Tom Doherty: Story FirstSunday 14 February 2016 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview
First comes the story. But if the story can do good, it's a nice plus. It's a great thing if we can stimulate good ideas and future action by the young — if they’ll read this and then maybe go out and build it. Key people in NASA management believe many of their people got into science because they read science fiction when they were young and said, 'Yes, I want to do this.' Periodicals: mid-FebruarySaturday 13 February 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Fireside, Mythic Delirium, Perihelion, and Quantum Muse
Paul Di Filippo reviews Edward D. HochFriday 12 February 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Primarily and correctly labeled a mystery writer, the prolific Hoch (nearly 1000 stories to his credit) also delved exuberantly into fantastika. And now, thanks to the efforts of an editor, an heir and a fan — and publisher Wildside Press — we get twenty-nine of his out-of-this-world tales neatly assembled in a single volume. New in Paperback: FebruaryThursday 11 February 2016 | Monitor
Titles by Anne Bishop, Marie Brennan, Patricia Briggs, Gail Carriger, Markus Heitz, Peter Liney, Adam Mansbach, Sarah Pinborough, Marc Turner, and Mark L. Van Name
Faren Miller reviews Ian TregillisWednesday 10 February 2016 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2016 issue
Like The Mechanical, first of Ian Tregillis’s Alchemy Wars trilogy, The Rising deftly interweaves three viewpoints and plotlines, but this sequel raises the stakes in its fantastical North America devoid of Brits and rife with industrial magics. New Books : 9 FebruaryTuesday 9 February 2016 | Monitor
John Wray's The Lost Time Accidents and titles by Benulis, Brown, Duane, Landers, McKillip, Offutt, Pears, Remic, Ryan, Sanderson, and Turner
This Week's BestsellersMonday 8 February 2016 | Monitor
Brandon Sanderson's The Bands of Mourning and Kevin Hearne's Staked debut.
Kameron Hurley: The Sad Economics of Writing Short FictionSunday 7 February 2016 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's February Issue.
The abysmally low payment terms for science fiction and fantasy short story markets have been a sad topic of conversation among writers for decades. Gone are the days when writing and selling a short story would pay your rent (unless you’re selling to Tor.com). Periodicals: early FebruarySaturday 6 February 2016 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Clarkesworld, Forever, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, Nightmare, and The Dark
Locus Bestsellers, FebruaryFriday 5 February 2016 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor's Welcome to Night Vale, Andy Weir's The Martian, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Mercy, and titles by Chuck Wendig and R.A. Salvatore.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, FebruaryThursday 4 February 2016 | Magazine
February New and Notable books include Harlan Ellison's Can & Can'tankerous and titles by Boroson, Files, Krohn, Matheson, Miéville, Morrow, Strahan, and Williams.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Ben BovaWednesday 3 February 2016 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Any preconceptions that readers might have had about imaginary limitations regarding the kind of fiction that Ben Bova produces will be blown away by the broad spectrum of stories here... New Books : 2 FebruaryTuesday 2 February 2016 | Monitor
Lois McMaster Bujold's Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen, the US edition of Alastair Reynolds' Poseidon's Wake, and titles by Aronovitz, Bedford, Bova, Cheney, Duncan, Hill, Hines, Hogan, Hunter, Kelly, Maresca, Price, Reichert, Saintcrow, Snyder, and Wallace
This Week's BestsellersMonday 1 February 2016 | Monitor
Karen Moning's Feverborn debuts on three lists.
February 2016 Table of ContentsMonday 1 February 2016 | Magazine
The February issue is the annual Year in Review issue, with the 2015 Recommended Reading List, essays on the year's works by Gary K. Wolfe, Ellen Datlow, Paul Kincaid, and many others, and the 2015 Locus Poll and Survey ballot; there's also an interview with Tom Doherty, an obituary of David G. Hartwell, and reviews of short fiction and books by Tim Powers, John Wray, Carter Scholz, and many others
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