TABLE OF CONTENTS April 1996 Issue #423 Vol. 36 No. 4 CHARLES N. BROWN 29th Year of Publication 17-Time Hugo Winner Publisher & Editor-in-Chief MAIN STORIES MARIANNE S. JABLON Analog and Asimov's Sold to Penny Press/8 Moves to Avon/8 Managing Editor Publishers Weekly 1995 Bestsellers/8 British Book Summary 1995/8 FAREN C. MILLER Was Onstage in Chicago/9 New HarperCollins Head/9 CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN Editors THE DATA FILE Announcements/9 International News/9 Publishing News/9 KIRSTEN GONG-WONG Award News/9 Contest News/59 Financial News/59 Book News/59 Assistant Editor Magazine News/59 Court Cases/59 On-Line News/59 Media News/59 Market Update/70 Rights & Options/70 Publications Received/71 MONICA A. SIMMONS Multi-Media Received/71 Catalogs Received/71 Editorial Assistant INTERVIEWS EDWARD BRYANT SHIRA DAEMON Stephen Baxter: Back to the Wells/4 MARK R. KELLY Robert Holdstock: Lost Landscapes, Grand Obsessions/6 RUSSELL LETSON GARY K. WOLFE OBITUARIES Contributing Editors H.L. G old/62 Gold on Galaxy/ 62 on Horace Gold/66 Appreciations by: Robert Silverberg, Philip Klass, Robert Sheckley/67 WILLIAM G. CONTENTO Richard Powers/63 Appreciations by: Vincent Di Fate, David G. Hartwell/63 Special Projects Sam Merwin, Jr./64 Evangeline Walton/65 Brian Daley/65 Pam Stampf Conrad/65 Daniel Tomas Streib/65 Caio Fernando Abreu/65 BETH G W IN N Neil Hudner/65 Danny Curran/65 Photographer

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