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TABLE of CONTENTS February 1997 Issue 433 Vol TABLE OF CONTENTS February 1997 Issue 433 Vol. 38 No. 2 CHARLES N. BROWN 30th Year of Publication 18-Time Hugo Winner Publisher & Editor-in-Chief MAIN STORIES MARIANNE S. JABLON Managing Editor Major Publishing Changes/8 Silverberg SF Anthology Blockbuster/8 1996 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees/8 1996 Chain Bestsellers/8 FAREN C. MILLER 1997 Nebula Awards Weekend/8 Copyright Requests for Chinese Translations/9 CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN Marvel Files Chapter 11/9 UPC Awards/9 Editors THE DATA FILE KIRSTEN GONG-WONG Tomorrow Moves to Net/9 Announcements/9 Assistant Editor International Announcements/9 Readings & Signings/9 Awards News/72 EDWARD BRYANT Publishing News/72 Financial News/72 Bookstore News/73 SHIRA DAEMON Book News/73 Online News/73 Market Update/73 Court Cases/73 MARK R. KELLY Multi-Media Update/73 Publications Received/73 Multi-Media Received/73 RUSSELL LETSON INTERVIEWS GARY K. WOLFE Contributing Editors Linda Nagata: Choice and Change/4 Larry Niven: Painful Fiction/6 WILLIAM G. CONTENTO Special Projects 1996: THE YEAR IN REVIEW BETH GWINN Recommended Reading by: Charles N. Brown/30 Gary K. Wolfe/31 Photographer Russell Letson/34 Faren Miller/35 Edward Bryant/38 Shira Daemon/39 Locus, The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (ISSN Carolyn Cushman/39 Gardner Dozois/72 Mark R. Kelly/72 0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.50 per copy, by Locus Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland CA 94611. Please send all mail to: Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. Telephone (510) 339- 1996 Recommended Reading List/40 1996 Book Summary/43 9196; (510) 339-9198. FAX (510) 339-0144. E-mail: 1996 Magazine Summary/46 [email protected]. Individual subscriptions in the US: $43.00 for 12 issues, $80.00 for 24 issues via peri­ odical mail. In Canada: $48.00 for 12 issues, $90.00 for OBITUARIES 24 issues via periodical mail. 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