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Locus Magazine T A B L E o f C O N T E N T S April 2013 • Issue 627 • Vol. 70 • No. 4 CHARLES N. BROWN 46th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner Founder Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman (1968-2009) LIZA GROEN TROMBI Editor-in-Chief KIRSTEN GONG-WONG Managing Editor MARK R. KELLY Locus Online Editor-in-Chief CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN TIM PRATT Senior Editors FRANCESCA MYMAN Design Editor HEATHER SHAW Assistant Editor JONATHAN STRAHAN Reviews Editor TERRY BISSON GWENDA BOND GARDNER DOZOIS AMY GOLDSCHLAGER CECELIA HOLLAND RICH HORTON RUSSELL LETSON I N T E R V I E W S ADRIENNE MARTINI FAREN MILLER Terry Bisson: Personal Alternate History / 6 GARY K. WOLFE Libba Bray: Eco-Friendly Fembot Who Survives on the Tears of Teen Girls / 57 Contributing Editors KAREN BURNHAM P E O P L E & P U B L I S H I N G / 8 Roundtable Blog Editor Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Alex Bledsoe, Ginjer WILLIAM G. CONTENTO Buchanan and Carl Sagan, Cherie Priest, Elizabeth Bear, Terry Pratchett, and many others. Computer Projects Locus, The Magazine of the Science Fiction & Fantasy M A I N S T O R I E S / 5 & 10 Field (ISSN 0047-4959), is published monthly, at $7.50 per copy, by Locus Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland CA 94611. Please send all mail to: Kiernan and Salaam Win Tiptree Awards • 2012 Kitschies Winners • 2013 Philip K. Dick Award Locus Publications, PO Box 13305, Oakland CA Judges • SFWA vs. Hydra • Antitrust Settlement Update • DRM Lawsuit • 2012 Stoker Awards 94661. Telephone (510) 339-9196; (510) 339-9198. FAX (510) 339-9198. E-mail: <locus@locusmag. Final Ballot • Riggio Offers to Buy B&N com>. Individual subscriptions in the US: $36.00 for six issues, $63.00 for 12 issues, $114.00 for 24 issues via periodical mail. First class individual subscriptions in the US: $45.00 for six issues, $76.00 for 12 issues, T H E D A T A F I L E / 11 $136.00 for 24 issues. 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Sofia Samatar Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 23 (2013) Written in Red, Anne Bishop; Frost Burned, Patricia Briggs; Etiquette & Espionage, Gail Carriger; Deep Down, Deborah Coates; A Turn of Light, Julie E. Czerneda; Undead and Underwater, MaryJanice Davidson; p. 21 Gameboard of the Gods, Richelle Mead; Midnight Blue-Light Special, Seanan McGuire. Divers Hands: Reviews by Cecelia Holland, Karen Burnham, Gwenda Bond, and Tim Pratt / 24 River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay; Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow; Level 2, Lenore Appelhans; The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, John Joseph Adams, ed.; Cyberpunk: Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Evolution and Revolution, Victoria Blake, ed.; Tenth of December, George Saunders. Locus Listens to Audiobooks by Amy Goldschlager / 27 Red Country, Joe Abercrombie; The Alchemist and The Executioness, Paolo Bacigalupi and Tobias S. Buckell; Rip-Off!, Gardner Dozois, ed.; City of Dark Magic, Magnus Flyte; Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone; Devil Said Paul McAuley Bang, Richard Kadrey; The Freedom Maze, Delia Sherman. (2010) Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 15, 17, 19, 21 p. 22 & 23 C O R R E C T I O N S TO L O C U S In our March 2013 ‘‘Forthcoming Books, Selected In our February 2013 obituary for Mary Gray, we Books by Author’’ section, we listed the publication misplaced Marscon. Marscon is held annually in date for Tina Connolly’s Copperhead as October Williamsburg VA, not in Maryland. 2011, instead of October 2013. PHOTO LISTING Terry Bisson .......................... (LT)1 Sharon Lee & Photos by (LT) Liza Groen Trombi, Libba Bray ....................... (F/SLJ)1 Steve Miller .................. (DGH)30 (F/SLJ) School Library Journal Gail Carriger Guy Gavriel Kay ................... (LT)4 Elizabeth Hartwell, <www.slj.com>, (F/AA) Adauto (2011) Sofia Samatar ....................(F/AA)4 Jerry Pournelle .............. (DGH)30 Araujo, (PC) Peter Coleborn, (FM) Paul McAuley .......................(PC)4 Charles Stross & Francesca Myman, (AB) Amelia Gail Carriger ........................(FM)4 Feòrag NicBhride ......... (DGH)30 Beamer, (F/RR) Régine Romain, Locus Online Caitlín R. Kiernan ................ (AB)5 Melinda Snodgrass, (F/NASA) NASA, (DGH) David G. <www.locusmag.com> Kiini Ibura Salaam ............ (F/RR)5 Michael Swanwick ....... (DGH)30 Hartwell, (DN) Dean Noble, (F/SE) In March, Locus Online posted a re- Terry Bisson .......................... (LT)6 46th International Antiquarian Scott Edelman, (F/LTL) Lisa Tang view by Cynthia Ward of Melissa Scott Alex Bledsoe ........................ (AB)8 Book Fair .........................(DN)30 Liu, (F/VS) Vania Stoyanova, (F) & Lisa A. Barnett’s Point of Dreams, Ginjer Buchanan ................... (LT)8 Burroughs Mars Books ......(DN)30 Furnished. and reviews by Paul Di Filippo of Deb Taber’s Necessary Ill and Robert J. Carl Sagan ....................(F/NASA)8 Islands in the Sky .............(DN)30 Sawyer’s Red Planet Blues, as well Nisi Shawl ............................(FM)8 Who Goes There? .............(DN)30 as Lois Tilton’s thrice-monthly short Gardner Dozois ..................... (LT)9 Winston Publishing Books .(DN)30 fiction reviews. In April, look for Gary Westfahl’s review of SF film Oblivion, Rachel Fagundes ..................(FM)9 Scott Edelman, starring Tom Cruise. Boston in Snow ..............
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