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REVIEWS : Films : A Lack of Vision: A Review of Blindness

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000

by Gary Westfahl

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NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: last week September

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the last week of September include Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin Grant's The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: 21st Annual Collection, John Joseph Adams' anthology The Living Dead, Nick Gevers' anthology Extraordinary Engines, and novels by Eric Brown, Warren Hammond, Charlie Huston, Robin McKinley, Richard Parks, Adam Roberts, Justina Robson, Lilith Saintcrow, and Brent Weeks.

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NEWS : Locus Magazine: October Issue

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0000

The October issue of Locus Magazine, mailed September 30th to subscribers, features interviews with Ursula K. Le Guin and Tobias S. Buckell, complete Worldcon coverage, an essay by Frederik Pohl about Sir Arthur C. Clarke, a new short fiction review column by Gardner Dozois, reviews of new books by Paul McAuley, Nick Harkaway, Jo Walton, Judith Moffett, and others, plus Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrow's" column on classics by Ursula K. Le Guin.

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NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Charlaine Harris places all seven of her Sookie Stackhouse novels in the top 20 of New York Times' mass market fiction list this week. Neal Stephenson's Anathem is #1 in San Francisco, Christopher Paolini's Brisingr is #1 at USA Today, and Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Paul of Dune and Karen Traviss' Star Wars novel Order 66 debut this week.

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REVIEWS : Opera : The Fly: The Opera

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

by Mark R. Kelly

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REVIEWS : Books : Gary K. Wolfe reviews Neal Stephenson

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Locus Magazine features twenty book reviews in its September 2008 issue. Here's Gary K. Wolfe on Neal Stephenson's new novel Anathem.

Anathem will more than repay the demands it makes, and will almost certainly become the topic of endless online seminars of its own. For others, it may become one of those classic philosophical fictions more browsed than read, more admired than engaged. In either case, its brilliance is undeniable...

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REVIEWS : Books : Paul Witcover reviews Cecelia Holland

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

And here's Paul Witcover on Cecelia Holland's new novel Varanger.

Cecelia Holland continues her quintet of meticulously researched, vividly imagined, action-packed novels exploring the Viking impact on tenth-century Northern Europe and North America. Holland is a skillful stylist and plotter. Her battle scenes are especially fine, the action related with precision but also capturing the headlong confusion of fast, brutal combat...

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PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Gregory Frost: True Stories

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview.

For me the process of writing a story is discovering what I think about something, discovering who the character is, what the character thinks and the character's response to the situation. You have to know what your story's really about, which isn't necessarily what it looks to be or seems to be about. Everything comes down to storytelling.

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NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: third week September

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the third week of September include Gene Wolfe's An Evil Guest, Christopher Paolini's Brisingr, Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Paul of Dune, and other titles by Joe Abercrombie, Steven Erikson, Valerie Estelle Frankel, Peter F. Hamilton, Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory, Justine Larbalestier, and Larry Niven & Edward M. Lerner.

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PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Neal Stephenson: And Now the News

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's September Issue interview.

At the end of the year, every year, the newspapers publish a roundup of the best in the news. When I started thinking of Anathem, they were also publishing their end-of-decade news roundups; some were publishing end-of-century and end-of millennium roundups. Every morning I'd sit and read all this stuff that I wouldn't remember the next day. Why was I spending all that time reading the news every day, when I could just wait until the end of the year and read the summary and get the important stuff?

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NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Neal Stephenson's Anathem ranks #1 at the New York Times, #2 at Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle. Christopher Paolini's Brisingr remains at #1 on all the Amazon lists. And Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels are ranking on lists with the debut this month of HBO series True Blood.

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NEWS : Obituaries: Brian Thomsen

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Editor and author Brian Thomsen died yesterday, September 21, 2008, at the age of 49.

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NEWS : Breaking News --

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Tor editor Brian Thomsen has reportedly died today of a heart attack at home. Details to follow.
» Making Light: Brian Thomsen

NEWS : Awards : British Fantasy Awards Winners

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Winners of the British Fantasy Awards, presented this weekend at Fantasycon, include Ramsey Campbell, Conrad Williams, Joel Lane, Stephen Jones, Christopher Fowler, Peter Tennant, Peter Crowther, and Vincent Chong, plus special awards to Scott Lynch and Ray Harryhausen.

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NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: second week September

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Notable new SF/F/H books available the second week of September include Neal Stephenson's Anathem, Brian Greene's Icarus at the Edge of Time, Ysabeau S. Wilce's Flora's Dare, and other titles by Jeanne DuPrau, David Farland, Patricia A. McKillip, and Joel Reeves.

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NEWS : Awards : Sunburst Awards Winners

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Winners of the Sunburst Awards, for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, are novels by Nalo Hopkinson and Joanne Proulx.

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NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Junot Díaz' The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao debuts in trade paperback; S.M. Stirling's The Scourge of God debuts on two lists; Christopher Paolini's Brisingr ranks #1 on all three Amazon lists, poised for its September 20th on-sale date.

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NEWS : Bestsellers : Last Week's Bestsellers

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Books debuting on last week's lists, compiled retroactively today where available, include Terry Brooks' The Gypsy Morph -- ranking impressively at #2 on lists at New York Times and Publishers Weekly -- and Michael Reaves' Star Wars novel Street of Shadows.

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RESOURCES : Future History : Forthcoming Books

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Selected forthcoming books in the US and UK, from Locus Magazine's September issue and here arranged by month, include titles by Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Ian McDonald, Bruce Sterling, Patrick Rothfuss, C.J. Cherryh, and China Miéville, among many others.

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REVIEWS : Books: Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, September

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

September New and Notable books, selected by Locus Magazine editors, include Greg Bear's City at the End of Time, David Louis Edelman's MultiReal, Greg Egan's Incandescence, Rich Horton's Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2008 Edition, Charles Stross' Saturn's Children, and others.

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NEWS : Bestsellers: Locus Magazine Bestsellers, September

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Bestsellers, compiled by Locus Magazine from specialty bookstores, are led by Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's Mercy, Simon R. Green's The Man with the Golden Torc, William Gibson's Spook Country, Michael Reaves' Jedi Twilight: Coruscant Nights I, and Lisa Smedman's Forgotten Realms: Ascendancy of the Last.

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PERSPECTIVES : Editorial Blog : Vacation Note

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Reduced posting while away this week...

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NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: first week September

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the first week of September include Daryl Gregory's Pandemonium, S.M. Stirling's The Scourge of God, Michael Brooks' 13 Things That Don't Make Sense, and other titles by Czerneda, Kirkpatrick, Kittredge, Lee & Miller, Marco & Greenberg, Martinez, Rhodes, and Stein.

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NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Magazines: August-September

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

New issues of Analog, Asimov's, Black Static, On Spec, and Shimmer have fiction by Robert J. Sawyer, Paul Levinson, Nancy Kress, Robert Reed, Ian R. MacLeod, Paul Meloy, Kevin Cockle, M.K. Hobson, and others.

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PERSPECTIVES : Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Macropayments

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

I don't care about making sure that everyone who gets a copy of my books pays me for them — what I care about is ensuring that the everyone who would pay me decent money for a book has the opportunity to do so.

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NEWS : Monitor Listing : New in Paperback: August

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Notable titles in new paperback editions seen in August include John Scalzi's The Last Colony, Maurice G. Dantec's Babylon Babies (basis for the current film Babylon A.D.), David Anthony Durham's Acacia, Joe Haldeman's The Accidental Time Machine, Matt Ruff's Bad Monkeys, Charles Stross' Halting State, and others by Bradbury, Card & Johnston, Donaldson, Farland, Lessing, Monette & Bear, Resnick, and Zahn.

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NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's Bestsellers

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Sean Williams' Star Wars novel The Force Unleashed debuts spectacularly at #1 on New York Times and Publishers Weekly lists. Books by Stephenie Meyer rank #1 through #4 at USA Today. And Christopher Paolini's Brisingr revs up for its September 20th publication.

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NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: last week August

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Notable new SF/F/H books seen the last week of August include Tobias S. Buckell's Sly Mongoose, Terry Brooks' The Gypsy Morph, Cory Doctorow's essay collection Content, Rich Horton's Fantasy: The Best of the Year: 2008 Edition, and other titles by Barry, Kearney, Little, Miller, Murphy, and Nevins.

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NEWS : Locus Magazine: September Issue

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0000

The September issue of Locus Magazine, mailed August 28th to subscribers, features interviews with Neal Stephenson and Gregory Frost, reports from this year's Hugo Awards Ceremony, listings of forthcoming books through June 2009, a column by Cory Doctorow, and reviews of new books by Neal Stephenson, Richard Parks, Michael Flynn, and others. • Table of Contents

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REVIEWS : Books : Russell Letson reviews Charles Stross

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Locus Magazine features more than two dozen book reviews in its August 2008 issue. Here's Russell Letson on Charles Stross' new novel Saturn's Children.

Charles Stross dedicates Saturn's Children to the memories of Asimov and Heinlein -- so why did I keep thinking of Futurama and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? There's something very interesting going on in this book, genre-wise -- and, of course, it's also engaging, ingenious, and thoughtful. And funny.

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REVIEWS : Books : Faren Miller reviews Ekaterina Sedia

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:00:00 +0000

And here's Faren Miller on Ekaterina Sedia's new novel The Alchemy of Stone.

Readers in Sedia's adopted home America are bound to think of 9/11. There's a familiar sense to a passage where even some more positive responses to the disaster lead one character to declare, "It makes me wonder, it truly does -- is a disaster the only thing that can bring us together? Are we that selfish, that embroiled in our own lives?" But The Alchemy of Stone isn't just a transparent allegory of recent events...

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