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Table of Contents STORIES Semiotext(e) SF, Rudy Rucker, Peter Lam- Geoff Ryman Wins Clarke A w ard...... 5 born Wilson, & Robert Anton Wilson, eds. BSFA Awards Nominations ...... 5 Reviews by Edward B ryant:...... 17 1989 Bestsellers...... 5 Slice, Rex Miller; , Robert R. McCam- Robert E. Howard Museum Planned...... 5 mon; The Phantom Blooper, Gustav Hasford; THE NEWSPAPER OF THE FIELD Montana Spirit House Settlem ent...... 5 Second Contact, Mike Resnick; The Cyber­ Wins Avon Flare C o n test...... 7 netic Shogun, Victor Milan. SHORT TAKES: ’ Missing P age...... 7 Nightblood, T. Chris Martindale; The Hacker, (ISSN-0047-4959) Waldenbooks, B. Dalton, Crown Announce Chet Day; The Night Man, K. W. Jeter; Page EDITOR & PUBLISHER Discount Programs ...... 7 305 of The Fall of , Dan Simmons. Charles N. Brown Supreme Court Rejects Holt Appeal Reviews by Carolyn Cushman: ...... 21 ASSOCIATE EDITOR on Hubbard Biography...... 7 The Hawk’s Gray Feather, Patricia Kennealy; Faren C. Miller : The Grand Master Editions...... 7 Charlemagne’s Champion, Gail Van Asten; ASSOCIATE MANAGER THE DATA FILE Spell Bound, Ru Emerson; The Last Whales, Shelly Rae Clift Publishing News ...... 9 Lloyd Abbey; Among Madmen, Jim Starlin & PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE Court C ases...... 9 Dania Graziunas; The Artifact, W. Michael Pamela F. Troy Bookstore News ...... 9 Gear; The Moonbane Mage, Laurie J. Marks; ASSISTANT EDITOR Announcements ...... 9 Red Wizard, Nancy Springer; Sunrunner’s Scott Winnett Awards ...... 49 Fire, Melanie Rawn; Cyber Way, Alan Dean Market News ...... 49 Foster, This Time, Forever, Constance O’Day- CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Book N ew s...... 49 Flannery. Rights & Permissions...... 50 Reviews by Tom W hitmore:...... 23 Richard Curtis SF O nline...... 50 The Leiber Chronicles, ; The Fall of Carolyn F. Cushman SF on R adio...... 50 Hyperion, Dan Simmons; Skeleton-in-Wait- Mark R. Kelly SF Opera ...... 50 ing, Peter Dickinson; Mighty Good Road, Fritz Leiber Publications Received ...... 50 Melissa Scott; Author’s Choice Monthly Issue Tom Whitmore INTERVIEWS 4: Nine Hard Questions About the Nature of the SPECIAL PROJECTS : Disappearing Into Fiction...... 4 Universe, . William G. Contento COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS Short Reviews by Scott W innett:...... 25 CON REPORTERS Editorial Matters...... 3 The Unseen, Joseph Citro; Necrotrivia Vs. Beth Gwinn People & Publishing...... 8 Skull, Jeremy Clarke; Star Sister, Juanita Coul- Jane Jewell Agent's Corner, Richard Curtis ...... 27 son; Barrow, John Deakins; The Hour of Blue, Locus Bulletin B o ard ...... 29 Robert Froese; Dark Horse, Mary Herbert; In­ Locus L etters...... 48 finity Hold, Barry B. Longyear; Sassinak, Anne Locus, (ISSN-0047-4959), The Newspaper of the LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS McCaffrey & Elizabeth Moon; Deadly Resur­ Science Fiction Field, is published monthly by LOCUS Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews rection, John McCarty; The Cybernetic Sho­ PUBLICATIONS Editorial address: 34 Ridgewood by Mark R. Kelly:...... 11 gun, Victor Milan; Silent Moon, William Rel- Lane, Oakland, CA 94611; telephone (415) 339-9196, IASFM 5/90; Semiotext(e) SF; Penthouse Hot ling, Jr.; Subterranean Gallery, Richard Paul FAX (415) 339-8144. Please send all mail to Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661. Talk 3-4/90; Arrows of Eros, Alex Stewart, ed.; Russo; Distant Signals and Other Stories, Omni 3/90; Omni 4/90. Andrew Weiner. Individual copies are $3.50. Individual subscriptions in Special Reviews by Scott W innett:...... 13 LISTINGS the U.S. are $32.00 for 12 issues, $60.00 for 24 issues Magazines Received — February...... 34 via second class mail. 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(CNB) 8 please convert all remaining issues on your present subscription ($1.00 per issue). The number after your PHOTO CREDITS: (BG) Beth Gwinn, (CNB) Charles N. Brown, (F) Furnished, (JJ) Jane Jewell, (BS) name on the mailing label is that of the last issue on Baltimore Sun. your present subscription. If you change your address, ISSUE #351, VOL 24 NO. 4, April 1990, Mailing Date: March 22,1990 please notify us immediately. Second class mail is not usually forwarded. is either returned or destroyed. We subtract one issue from your subscription for each returned copy. We keep expired addresses on file for Editorial Matters one year, so tell us if your subscription is a renewal Welcome to the 22nd anniversary issue of Locus. lishing. I can’t give you a date when I realized I had a or completely new. There isn’t anything special about it except the cover, new permanent vocation, but it was probably when I British Subscription Agent: and alas, the new higher price. In fact, it’s smaller than found myself becoming a manager with a staff, when Fantast (Medway) Ltd. the last couple of issues. It isn’t a trend or harbinger I no longer was able to enter subscriptions, do most of P.O. Box 23, Upwell of the future; we just managed to get all the existing the packing, chase after bookstore accounts, etc. Wisbech, CAMBS PE14 9BU material into print earlier than usual. Ironically, I actually enjoyed all that, and had given up Japanese Subscription Agent: Locus has now been in existence for parts of four engineering because I was becoming a manager in­ Takumi Shibano decades. Its beginnings were tied closely to the ’60s in stead of just doing straight technical work. 700 Ninomiya Ninomiya-machi What will the ’90s bring? At the moment, I’m pretty Naka-gun Kanagawa-ken both intent and execution —the casual slapped-to- 259-01 Japan gether style and the colorful look. The ’70s covered satisfied with the magazine, but I know that won’t last. the sometimes painful switch from a casual fannish (It never has!). Besides, Locus is as big as it can get in Subscriptions accepted at current exchange rate. weekend endeavor to a trade journal about sf, which size and circulation to be run as it is (I’ve said that be­ Display advertising rates on request. Booksellers dis­ eventually became a full-time job. Even in ’79, when fore, too). It’s still, after 22 years, put together in the counts available. For information call (415) 339-9198. I was doing nothing else, it was still a stop-gap meas- living room (and lately, the kitchen) and mailed by a We take no responsibility for unsolicited submissions. ure until I went back to engineering, o r made a success gang of friends in exchange for dinner and conversa­ Contents copyright c 1989 by Locus Publications. of writing. The ’80s were the period of growth and tion. We’ve had a few nibbles from large companies Second class postage paid at Oakland, California. change. Locus was in the right place at the right time (and even a corporate raider!) wanting to take over Postmaster: Send address changes to Locus Publi­ Locus until they discovered our corporate setup cations, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661. as the sf, then fantasy, then horror fields went from minor genre to big time midlist (and bestseller!) pub­ Continued on page 49

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