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TABLE of CONTENTS November 1999 Issue 466 Vol TABLE OF CONTENTS November 1999 Issue 466 Vol. 43 No.5 32nd Year of Publication 21-Time Hugo Winner CHARLES N. BROWN Publisher & Editor-in-Chief MAIN STORIES MARK R. KELLY Gunter Grass Wins Nobel/10 Classic Silverberg Revived/10 Electronic Editor-in-Chief Freelancers Win Big in Court/10 KIRSTEN GONG-WONG Nicholson & Chari Win 1998 Hubbard $4000 Awards/10 Managing Editor Bertelsmann Now the Biggest/11 Fandom, Inc./11 FAREN C. MILLER THE DATA FILE CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN Harry Potter Faces Censorship/11 HarperCollins/Avon Merge Continues/11 Editors Pocket Reorganized/11 Baen Brings Back Serials/11 CYNTHIA RUSCZYK Crown Out of Bankruptcy/11 B&N: Enforced “Efficiency”/1 1 Editorial Trainee Writers Digest Top 100/11 Publishing News/73 Announcements/73 EDWARD BRYANT Readings & Signings/73 International Awards/74 Contest News/74 KAREN HABER Call for Papers/74 Magazine News/74 Book News/74 Financial News/74 RUSSELL LETSON Publications Received/74 Catalogs Received/74 JONATHAN STRAHAN INTERVIEWS GARY K. WOLFE Contributing Editors Catherine Asaro: Dancing Equations/6 WILLIAM G. CONTENTO CONVENTIONS Computer Projects Aussiecon Three/38 BETH GWINN Photographer OBITUARIES Locus, The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (ISSN Marion Zimmer Bradley/9 0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.95 per copy, by Locus Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland CA Appreciations by Betsy Wollheim, Diana L. Paxson, 94611. 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