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Locus

Science Fiction News, Reviews, Resources, and Perspectives.


NEWS : Bestsellers : This Week's BestsellersDecember 2
beedle bard
J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard ranks #1 on all three Amazon lists today, poised for its on-sale date this Thursday -- while Rowling's last Harry Potter book drops off all lists, after 17 months. Meanwhile, Cormac McCarthy sales shift to mass market, and Charlaine Harris maintains.

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RESOURCES : Future History : Forthcoming BooksDecember 2
cherryh regenesis
Selected US and UK titles scheduled from December 2008 through September 2009, from Locus Magazine's December issue, are listed here by month.

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NEWS : Locus Magazine : December IssueNovember 30
december issue The December issue of Locus Magazine, mailed November 25th to subscribers, features interviews with Vernor Vinge and CaitlĂ­n R. Kiernan, listings of forthcoming books through September 2009, report and photos from World Fantasy Con, short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, and reviews of new books by Christopher Barzak, Orson Scott Card, Elizabeth Bear, Ken MacLeod, and many others.

Link: NEWS : Locus Magazine : December Issue



PERSPECTIVES : Interviews : Paul Melko: Infinite OhioNovember 29

Excerpts from Locus Magazine's November Issue interview.

paul melko In Have Spacesuit - Will Travel, main character Kip Russell uses a slide rule to calculate how long it takes to get to Pluto, and it sort of blew my mind that you can actually figure these things out with a calculator or slide rule. That influenced my becoming an engineer. My engineering background is a big influence on what I write, how I write, and how I think about things.

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NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: third week NovemberNovember 28
bucknerwm_50x76.jpg Notable new SF/F/H books seen the third week of November include M.M. Buckner's Watermind, Devon Monk's Magic to the Bone, and other titles by Jim Butcher, Ramsey Campbell, Matthew Cook, Dave Duncan, Diana Pharaoh Francis, Sarah A. Hoyt, Paula Johanson, Edward M. Lerner, Maria Lima, Andy Remic, and Denise Rossetti.

Link: NEWS : Monitor Listing : New Books: third week November