Contents Nebula Awards Winners...... p . 1 Moons & Stars & Stuff, Fritz Leiber..11 1985 Locus Awards...... 1 Locus Looks at Books, Faren Miller...13 Shawna McCarthy Leaves Asimov's...... 1 Locus Looks at More Books, Debbie Theodore Sturgeon Dies ...... 1 Notkin...... 15 Appreciations: Locus Looks at More Books, Dan Chow..17 by Harlan Ellison...... 1 The Asimov Connection, Isaac Asimov..19 THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SCIENCE FICTION FIELD by Paul Williams...... 49 Locus Poll Results...... 24 by Robert A. Heinlein...... 50 Bests of the Year Contents...... 27 ISSN-0047-4959 by Robert Silverberg...... 50 Convention Updates...... 27 Editorial...... 3 Lunacon Report, Jane Jewell ...... 28 EDITOR & PUBLISHER Palmer Wins Crook Memorial Award...... 4 Balticon Report, Jane Jewell...... 29 Constellation Bailout...... 4 1985 Conference on the Fantastic, Charles N. Brown Superheroes to Hyperspace...... 4 Elizabeth Anne Hull...... 30 SF Movie Moneymakers...... 4 Parcon 1985...... 32 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Announcements...... 4 International Books & Magazines...... 32 Faren Miller Booknotes...... 4 Kate & Damon in Brazil, Damon Knight.33 Taxing Conventions...... 5 Books Received— April...... 35 SF Art Burglary...... 5 Magazines Received— April...... 40 PRODUCTION MANAGER Rena Wolner Resigns from Pocket...... 5 Classified A d s ...... 44 Donna Burriston More Publishing Changes...... 5 Bestseller Lists...... 47 People & Publishing...... 7 Obituaries: T.L. Sherred, MANAGING EDITOR Agent's Corner, Richard Curtis...... 9 Douglass Wallop, Jacques Perron.49 Dawn Atkins AD INDEX A c e ...... p. 18 Mayfair Games...... 38 Ba e n ...... 8 Micro Information Concepts...... 38 CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Bantam...... 22,23,52,53 Mid-American Tours...... 41 Norman Spinrad Berkley...... 37 Phantasia Press...... 34 Bluejay...... 48,55 Questar...... 14 Richard Curtis Classified A d s ...... 44 Scream/Press...... 10 L.W. Currey, Inc...... 36 Signet...... 20 Fritz Leiber DAW ...... 12 Simon & Schuster...... 39 Debbie Notkin Del R e y ...... 6,16 Southern Illinois Fandom Directory...... 42 University Press...... 39 Galaxy Bookshop...... 33 Locus, ISSN-0047-4959, The Newspaper of the T o r ...... 2,31,43,56 Science Fiction Field, is published monthly by LOCUS ISSUE #293 • VOL. 18, NO. 6 • JUNE 1985 Mailing date: May 22,1985 PUBLICATIONS. Editorial address: 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland, CA 94611; telephone (415) 339-9196. Please send all mail to Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661.
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Individual overseas subscriptions page 1 and finding room for an obitu also asked what had happened to THE are $27.00 for 12 issues, $51.00 for 24 issues via ary; the emotional side retreated 30 UNBEGOTTEN MAN, a novel announced by sea mail. Individual subscriptions to Europe or South years to the time when Sturgeon was Greenberg: Publishers in 1950. He America via air mail are $45.00 for 12 issues, $85.00 affecting my life so much. I called smiled and said it wasn't time yet. I for 24 issues. Individual subscriptions to Australia, Paul Williams, who was closer to Ted in told him how much I liked THE DREAMING Asia, or Africa via air mail are $50.00 for 12 issues, these later years. He called the hos JEWELS. He was constantly referring to $95.00 for 24 issues. Institutional subscriptions are pital and confirmed it. I asked him to it as "the drooling jeans" and thought $3.00 extra per year. Make all checks payable to write the obituary when needed. He it was awful. I was shocked. I was Locus Publications. All subscriptions, including agreed. I called Robert Heinlein, very young. E v e n t u a l l y I grew up, Canadian, are payable directly in U.S. funds only. When Betty Ballantine, Robert Silverberg, discovered he wasn't 400 feet tall, and converting from second class to first class delivery, and a few others I knew were close we became friendly. "When You Care, please convert all remaining issues on your present friends of Ted's. I asked Russ Galen When You Love" appeared and I realized subscription (75c per issue). The number after your to tell his clients Carl Sagan and it was part 1 of that long ago an name on the mailing label is that of the last issue on Arthur C. Clarke. In some cases I nounced novel, THE UNBEGOTTEN MAN. I your present subscription. We do not send notices asked and in some cases people offered asked about the rest of it and he when subscriptions are about to expire. If you change to do short appreciations. (There will didn't answer. 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(He always insisted on Theo P.O. Box 23, Upwell shape my teenage years. dore in print, Ted in private.) Wisbech, CAMBS PE14 9BU I remember a speech Sturgeon gave at Most of this issue of Locus was ready Australian Subscription Agent: a conference in Philadelphia. It was for the printer. I decided to hold the Space Age Books called "Love", and it was beautiful. Nebula Banquet photographs for next 305-307 Swanston St. issue as well as a piece on Madeleine Melbourne, 3000, Victoria L'Engle and some photo stories of book signings. The center portion went to Japanese Subscription Agent: the printer and we redid the front Takumi Shibano page. We prepared alternate issues 700 Ninomiya Ninomiya-machi just in case and had alternate headings Naka-gun Kanagawa-ken made up. 259-01 Japan On Wednesday night, Robert Heinlein Subscriptions accepted at current exchange rate. called to tell me Ted had just died. I suddenly discovered I still cared, I Display advertising rates on request. Contact Donna still loved, and I grieved. Burrison at (415) 339-3182. NEW YORK, NEW YORK Booksellers discounts available. Contact Dawn Atkins I spent twelve days in New York for at (415) 339-3182. the Nebula banquet and visiting pub lishers. By the end, I was suffering We take no responsibility for unsolicited submissions. from information overload and my brains Contents copyright © 1985 by Locus Publications. were turning to mush. I hid out in my Second class postage paid at Oakland, California. hotel room for most of a day after the Postmaster: Send address changes to Locus Publi banquet. I stayed with John Douglas cations, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661. (Continued on page 51)
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