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Table of Contents Editorial Matters Table of Contents STORIES Reviews by Carolyn Cushman: ......................... 17 1988 Hugo Awards W inners................................ 1 The Healer’s War, Elizabeth A. Nolacon II ................................ .............................. 1 Scarborough; Gondar, Nicholas Luard ; Clarion 1988: The Wild B unch............................ 4 Once O n a Time, A.A. Milne; The Crystal THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SCIENCE FICTION FIELD Clarion C all............................................................. 4 Palace, Phyllis Eisenstein; The Rehumani­ Preiss Publications New Packages...................... 4 zation of Jade Darcy, Book One: Jade Darcy ISSN-0049-4959 Publishing N o tes..................................................... 4 and the Affair of Honor, Stephen Goldin EDITOR & PUBLISHER A Great Month for Sf Franchises........................ 5 and Mary Mason; Euryale, Kara Dalkey. Charles N. Brown The Data File........................................................... 5 Reviews by Tom W hitm ore:................................21 ASSOCIATE EDITOR Store N ews........................................................... 5 The Arm or of Light, Melissa Scott and Lisa Faren C. Miller Changes of A ddress.......................................... 5 Barnett; The Company Man, Joe Clifford Announcements ................................................. 5 Faust; The Wine-Dark Sea, Robert ASSOCIATE MANAGER A w ards............................................................... 80 Aickman; Unknown, Stanley Schmidt, ed.; Shelly Rae Clift Markets ............................................................. 80 The Annotated Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien; PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE Booknotes .........................................................80 Liavek: Spells of Binding, Will Shetterly and Pamela F. Troy Publiscations Received .................................. 80 Emma Bull, eds.; First Maitz, Don Maitz. EDITORIAL TRAINEE Audio Received................................................. 80 Reviews by Dan C how :........................................ 23 Susannah Redelfs Rights and O ptions...........................................80 Pioneers, Philip Mann; Other Americas, CONTRIBUTING EDITORS G am ing............................................................... 81 Norman Spinrad; Hello America, J.G. Dan Chow Books into Film ................................................. 81 Ballard; Arthur C. Clarke’s Venus Prime II: Richard Curtis Spawn of Outer Limits.................................... 81 Maelstrom, Paul Preuss; The Home Planet, Catalogs Received ...........................................81 Kevin W. Kelley, ed. Carolyn F. Cushman Conspiracy '87: View from the Soviet Union .. 38 Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews Karen Haber, Mark R. Kelly LOCUS SPECIAL by Mark Kelly.....................................................31 Fritz Leiber 1988 Locus Survey Results ................................ 40 CONVENTIONS Frank M. Robinson INTERVIEWS DeepSouthCon 2 6 ................................................ 42 Tom Whitmore Octavia E. Butler: Sf in the Age of Anxiety ..... 5 Stoker Awards Weekend ....................................43 CON REPORTERS Pat Murphy: Magnificent Obsessions ................ 7 SFRA C onference................................................ 44 Beth Gwinn, Jane Jewell Frank K. Kelly Still Looks to the F u tu re......... 39 Boreal 10.................................................................44 Ricia Mainhardt COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS Fourth Street Fantasy C onvention....................45 Editorial M atters..................................................... 3 INTERNATIONAL SF Locus, ISSN-0047-4959, The Newspaper of the People & Publishing............................................... 6 Sf in France.............................................................47 Science Fiction Field, is published monthly by LOCUS Agent's Corner, Richard Curtis ........................ 11 Syncon 1988: Conviction ....................................48 PUBLICATIONS Editorial address: 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland, CA 94611; telephone (415) 339-9196. Moons & Stars & Stuff, Fritz L eib er................ 13 Sf in Japan...............................................................49 Please send all mail to Locus Publications, P.O. Box The Media Scene, Frank M. Robinson ............27 LISTINGS 13305, Oakland, CA 94661. Locus Bulletin B o ard ...........................................33 Along Publishers' Row — U.K.............................50 Individual copies are $2.95. Individual subscriptions in Locus L etters......................................................... 76 International Books R eceived............................53 the U.S. are $28.00 for 12 issues, $52.00 for 24 issues LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS Magazines Received — August............................56 via second class mail. Individual subscriptions in Reviews by Faren M iller:.................................... 15 Books Received -- August ..................................58 Canada are $32.00 for 12 issues, $59.00 for 24 issues British Books -- July ............................................ 65 via second class mail. First class individual subscrip­ Lavondyss, Robert Holdstock; There Are tions in the U.S. or Canada are $40.00 for 12 issues, Doors, Gene Wolfe; Dictionary of the Khaz- Bestsellers...............................................................74 $75.00 for 24 issues. Individual overseas subscrip­ ars: A Lexicon Novel, Milorad Pavic; Cabal, OBITUARIES tions are $32.00 for 12 issues, $59.00 for 24 issues via Clive Barker; Ivory, Mike Resnick; Spirits of Neil R. Jones .........................................................76 sea mail. Individual subscriptions to Europe or South Cavern and Hearth, M. Coleman Easton . Leonard N. Isaacs ................................................ 76 America via air mail are $50.00 for 12 issues, $90.00 for 24 issues. Individual subscriptions to Australia, ISSUE #333 VOL 21, NO 10 October 1988 Mailing Date: September 29 1988 Asia, or Africa via air mail are $55.00 for 12 issues, $100.00 for 24 issues. Institutional subscriptions are $3.00 extra per year. Make all checks payable to Locus Publications. All subscriptions, including Editorial Matters Canadian, are payable directly in U.S. funds only. Welcome to issue 333 - perhaps not as sig­ ing numeral. With the 16 pages of color inserts Overseas checks must be drawn on a U.S. bank and nificant as the bestial 666, but still an interest - (not counted in the pagination), it’s also the include computer encoding numbers at bottom. When converting from second class to first class delivery, first 100-page issue. The original Locus was please convert all remaining issues on your present conceived as a one-sheet very frequent news­ subscription ($1.00 per issue). The number after your letter. The one-sheet idea lasted less than 10 name on the mailing label is that of the last issue on your present subscription. We do not send notices issues, although we kept it to 12 pages for most when subscriptions are about to expire. If you change of a decade, and the magazine stayed bi-weekly your address, please notify us immediately. Second class mail is not usually forwarded. It is either returned or better through 1974, when we reduced the or destroyed. We subtract one issue from your sub­ type and went back to four pages. We went scription for each returned copy. We keep expired monthly in 1978. If any passing time travellers addresses on file for one year, so tell us if your subscription is a renewal or completely new. told me I would eventually be doing a 100-page British Subscription Agent: monthly magazine, I would have laughed at Fantast (Medway) Ltd. them and accused them of fraud. P.O. Box 23, Upwell I spent several hours looking at old Loci Wisbech, CAMBS PE14 9BU (hence the above paragraph), looking up what Japanese Subscription Agent: Takumi Shibano the Editorial We said after winning earlier 700 Ninomiya Ninomiya-machi Hugos. Thank you again for voting for us. Naka-gun Kanagawa-ken Even though it’s our 13th win, we never take it 259-01 Japan for granted. I was very nervous, as usual, sitting Subscriptions accepted at current exchange rate. and waiting for the awards ceremony. Locus Display advertising rates on request. Booksellers dis­ becomes more and more of a team effort as it counts available. For information call (415) 339-9198. gets bigger, and there are just too many people We take no responsibility for unsolicited submissions. Contents copyright © 1988 by Locus Publications. to thank by name - the staff, the columnists, Second class postage paid at Oakland, California. the collators, and especially the readers who Postmaster: Send address changes to Locus Publi­ think we’re still worth their time and money. cations, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661. Charles N. Brown Continued on page 78 LOCUS October 1988/3.
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