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DAN NORTH knew from childhood that his family was “ As , everyone will be struck by the different. There is a secret library, for instance, with power of Card’s children, always more and only a few dozen books that are written in a secret less than human, perfect yet struggling, language—which Dan and his cousins are expected to learn. But they are never to speak a word of it with tragic yet hopeful, wondrous and strange.” anyone else, or even where anyone else might hear. —Publishers Weekly, starred review Ender’s Shadow Unfortunately, there are some secrets kept from Dan on as well...secrets that will lead to disaster. Card’s latest is an astounding about a “ Threads from all the other books in clan of mages in exile in our world, living in uneasy the series fl ow through this narrative, truce with other clans—until Dan’s birth brings the which fi lls gaps, fl eshes out familiar fl ames of open war back to life. characterizations, and introduces well-limned new ones. Ender’s angst, ALSO AVAILABLE combined with his handling of the intrigue swirling around him, ensures the depth for which the series is famous.” —Booklist on Ender in Exile

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Here at Locus we’re as guilty we’re not only still going strong, but we are making a leap into digital as any of resistance to change, but the shift to digital publishing and publishing with the release of our own digital editions of the magazine. distribution is as inevitable as it is uncomfortable. As Tim O’Reilly As part of our celebration for that, we decided to run this special says, ‘‘If you don’t want to understand the technology, you know, don’t section on SF in the Digital Age. We reached out to professionals in play. But don’t kid yourself that you can somehow make it go away.’’ the fi eld – authors, publishers, bloggers, podcasters, etc. – who are Now, as the publishers move toward producing e-books, we are working with the available technology, some to promote dialogue just starting to see a real shift to digital sales, boosted by the new about the fi eld, others to publish and review others’ works, and some contingent of usable sleek e-readers. A recent study of 600 publishers to promote their own. We tried to throw a wide net, realizing we could by company APTARA came up with some interesting results: 74% never reach as many people as we might want – the WWW has affected of all trade publishers are now publishing e-books – an impressive how we all do business. The results are this set of mini-interviews number considering that the standardized epub format is relatively (and one longer one with Neil Gaiman), essays, and a great round-up new, and device platforms continue to stream into the market. And of important SF websites from James Patrick Kelly. despite the fact that 40% of trade houses weren’t sure that the return We are in an age of rapid development, and the Digital Revolution’s on investment for e-books was better or worse than print. Regardless impact on publishing is coming to bear, seen by many as a force of of the inherent diffi culties, Wikipedia says the estimated population creative destruction: one mode of economy being destroyed to make of Internet users is 1.97 billion as of 30 June 2010; that’s a whole lot room for the next. I’m not so sure. The native digital still has a of market. The big question to be answered is how to market titles as long way to go before it pushes out the print model, if that’s even in the shift to online from retail continues; how do we get all of these the cards. However, the ability to reproduce and distribute text, once potential readers to know about the books available? the purview of print publishers, has now expanded dramatically into But enough from me. Now to hear from our contributors about how the hands of anyone interested in trying, for better and often for worse. technology has worked for them – whether it’s blogging, podcasting, At the same time, companies like Amazon and Google are making self-publishing, shifting from print to pixels or combining them – and what they see coming down the line… – Liza Groen Trombi ONON BLOGGINGBLOGGING AND SOCIALSOCIAL MEDIA OOnene of the thinthingsgs that made me want to start doingdoing the blogblog was a signing tour I did for the hardback ooff Stardust in January and February 1999. I signedsigned a lot of copies at a lot of bookstores, and started feelingfeeling likelike there was a Neil Gaiman in people’s heads who wasn’t me. He was taller than I was. He spoke perfect iambic pentameter. He didn’t ever smile. He was dressed in beautiful rough black lace, oror whatever. There was defi nitely a Neil Gaiman out there that peoplepeople had in their heads. I was starting to feel like I was being putput on some kind of very odd pedestal. The blog was in some ways like what Harlan Ellison did in the late ’60s’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, writing in store windows. People talkedtalked about it as a gimmick, and Harlan would say, ‘‘Look, I’m showing people how things get written.’’ They can see it’s a real person, and they can see it’s work. The whole thing for me over the years was trying to saysay to people. ‘‘This is what I do. You make stuff up. You write it down. It’s a reallyreally gloriousglorious job.job. It’s a magicmagic job.job. And I’m ggoingoing to answer lots andand lotslots ofof questions.’’questions.’’ The blogblog started in FebruaryFebruary of 2001 when I was copyeditingcopyediting AmericanAmerican GodsGods. Like everythingeverything else, it was like droppindroppingg a frofrogg in hot water. IIff youyou gogo backback to aboutabout 1988, 1989... CompuServe was startingstarting inin England.England. I’d been answerinansweringg questions on the comics forum for a while, and when I moved to America in 1992 I was givengiven a free membership in GEnie, so I signedsigned up fforor GEnGEnie.ie. I kkeptept mmyy GEnGEnieie topictopic goinggoing forfor a longlong time,time, interactinginteracting with other people, but GEnie was basicallybasically the place where peoplepeople could come ask me questions,questions, and I could write stuff. ThenThen GEnieGEnie died,died, andand I wasn’t reareallylly ususinging Compuserve veryvery much,much, when The Well came along.along. I started answeringanswering questions and beinbeingg interviewed on The Well in the late ’90s, and doing some very longlong inter- viewsviews on tthere.here. TheThe topicstopics wouldwould jjustust ggoo on – ttheyhey were meant to bbee aaboutbout SandmanSandman and TheThe DreamDream HuntersHunters or whateverwhatever but wentwent on forever.forever. SSoo when the blogblog happened, it was simplysimply a continuation of that. It wasn’t as if I was susuddenlyddenly ddoingoing ananythingything new. I alsoalso at thethe timetime didn’tdidn’t thinkthink thatthat anyoneanyone would be interested in mmyy dailydaily routine – what it was meant to have been about was the backstabackstagege storystory of publishingpublishing AmericanAmerican GodsGods. WhenWhen I startedstarted it,it, we didn’tdidn’t even makemake anyany big announcements. I justjust sort of let peoplepeople fi nd it. And peoplepeople found it. The tour ended, which was somethingsomething like the sixth or seventh of September in 2001. I gotgot home from the tour and had a couple of daysdays of justjust completelycompletely exhausted recovery.recovery. ThenThen it was 9/11, and the Twin Towers fell. It seemed like a ververyy bad time to close it down, whatever it had become, because 25,000, 30,000, 40,000 people were enjoyingenjoying it. So I kept it go-go- ing. I was enjoying it; I liked blogging. I turned around a couple of years later and realized, now we’ve gotgot half a million people. Now we’ve gotgot a million people... one point four million people followingfollowing this thing.thing. And I felt like I had this huge audience,audience, and really enjoyed it. There are some great friendships that I’ve made throughthrough havinghaving the blog.blog. Nothing’sNothing’s happened throughthrough the blogblog or throughthrough Twitter or anythinganything like that thathatt hadn’t happened in a smaller way through CompuServe or Genie – which fascinates me.me. But byby about 2006 I started feeling...feeling... not that I was tired of it, but wondering if I was starting to repeat myself a little. By 2007, 2008, I was reallyreally feelingfeeling like I would like to stop this thingthing. IItt waswas thisthis weird feeling though, like it was too successful for me to stop. And then I discovered Twitter, and beganbegan usinusingg it jjustust to talk to friends. It wasn’t intended to have been a these problems – and it’s a game-changergame-changer.. In the same wawayy that those public thinthing;g; it was tradingtrading jokesjokes with Jonathan Ross. I had 20 followers fi rst iPods were. It wasn’t that this thing was beautiful, it was that whawhatt on Twitter, and then 100, and then one day people fi gured out that it was tthishis thinthing,g, John the Baptist-like, presapresaged,ged, was a complete ggame-changer.ame-changer. reallyreally me, and suddenlysuddenly I had 10,000. And still I thoughtthought of Twitter as TThehe iiPadPad iiss oobviouslybviously a game-changergame-changer forfor digitaldigital comics.comics. We kknewnew tthathat this ggloriouslyloriously private thinthing....g.... Then I won the NewberyNewbery medal. from the moment we saw the fi rst iPadiPad.. I was woken up at 5:30 in the morning, having gotten to bed at 3:30. 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But that’s the kind of thing people are bbreakreak thatthat fromfrom timetime to time:time: maybemaybe I’m tired,tired, I’m hungry,hungry, I’m grumpy,grumpy, gogoinging to havehave to thinkthink throughthrough andand bringbring out, becausebecause thethe alternativealternative isis somebodsomebodyy posts somethinsomethingg particularlyparticularly stupid. It makes people feel goodgood what’s called piracy.piracy. about themselves to say, ‘‘This person is a bad person. This person is a TTherehere are two huge things about the Kindle that are incredibincrediblyly good stupid person.’’ Or whatever. And suddenly one and a half million people anandd useuseful.ful. 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And I completely forget, time and time again, that there are one always mean to keep reading it but never quite get around to it because point fi ve million people followingfollowing this. it wouldn’t be wherever I was. The joy of this was, wherever I was, and wwhateverhatever I hadhad withwith me electronically,electronically, I hadhad The CCountount ofof Monte CristoCristo, ON DIGITAL PPUBLISHINGUBLISHING AND anandd iitt kknewnew wwhathat page I was on. WWhichhich means thatthat if I havehave ten minutesminutes Paper books are reallreally,y, reallreallyy useful thinthings.gs. TheTheyy are wonderful thinthings.gs. and I have my phone with me, or I’m on a plane: just grab that ten minutes. I’m ststillill convconvincedinced tthathat thethe paperbackpaperback bookbook isis somethingsomething thatthat willwill probablyprobably I watcwatchedhed tthehe KKindleindle wwinin on tthingshings tthathat were ssimplyimply too bibigg to go iintonto liliveve forever.forever. 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Milestones MIKE SHEF- FIELD has been HARLAN ELLISON® says that elected president/ reports of his imminent demise are chairman of the Hein- greatly exaggerated and he’s ‘‘ter- lein Society, replac- ribly upset that I have upset people ing outgoing presi- terribly by not dying on time’’– he’s dent David M. Silver. had some recent health problems, but is doing much better now. He recently handed in The Dis- Awards carded, his ‘‘89th or 90th book,’’ to STU SHIFFMAN William K. Schafer at Subterranean won the Rotsler Press. It includes the script, co-writ- Award for artistic Jesse Bullington (2009) ten by Ellison with JOSH OLSON, achievement in SF Marianne de Pierres (2010) for the 2007 Masters of Science amateur publications, Michael Swanwick (2008) Fiction episode ‘‘The Discarded’’, given November 27, LINDA POITEVIN based on Ellison’s 1959 story (AKA 2010 at the Loscon in Los Angeles. sold Mistborn novel sold two books in the ‘‘The Abnormals’’). Ellison wrote a The award includes a $300 hono- The Alloy of Law new Sins of the Angels 15,000-word original introduction, rarium. and alternate history urban fantasy series to ‘‘Riding the Rails to Atlantis’’. fantasy The Rith- Michelle Vega at Ace via KEITH STOKES & LINDA Books Sold matist to Moshe Becca Stumpf of Prospect LIPP were married October 23, Feder at Tor via Agency. 2010 in Lenexa KS. sold Joshua Bilmes. JES BATTIS sold the CYNTHIA FELICE has been Earwig and the Witch to Rachel MICHELLE fi nal book in his OSI se- appointed to the position of om- Denwood and Laura Cecil at Harper SAGARA sold a ries to Ginjer Buchanan at budsman for SFWA. She can be Children’s UK. new contemporary Ace via Lauren Abramo reached at

8 / LOCUS January 2011 lection of collaborations, Midnight WILLIAM C. DIETZ turned in and Moonshine, to Ticonderoga A Fighting Chance, a Legion of the Publications. Damned novel, to Ginjer Buchanan ANGELA CHALLIS will edit at Ace. Darkest Hours: Volume 1, fi rst SIMON R. GREEN handed in in an annual horror/dark fantasy Ghost of a Smile to Ginjer Bu- anthology series, for Russell B. Farr chanan at Ace. at Ticonderoga Publications. MIKE SHEPHERD handed in GEORGE BEAHM sold Ste- Kris Longknife: Daring to Ginjer phen King’s The Dark Tower Se- Buchanan at Ace. ries: A Guidebook for New Fans KAT RICHARDSON delivered went to Glenn Yeffeth at BenBella Downpour, the sixth Greywalker Books via Scott Mendel of the Men- novel, to Anne Sowards at Ace. Tobias Buckell (2008) del Media Group. TAYLOR ANDERSON handed in Firestorm, the sixth Destroymen Brian Evenson (2010) novel Miserere: An Books Resold novel, to Ginjer Buchanan for Roc. Hunt, sequel to Household Gods, Autumn Tale to Jeremy Lassen at DAVID B. COE, writing as D.B. went to Lou Anders of Pyr via Night Shade Books via Weronika RACHEL CAINE resold the JACKSON, turned in historical Janet Reid of FinePrint Literary Janczuk of D4EO Literary Agency. 12th Morganville Vampires novel, fantasy The Dead Ship, second in Management. DAN KROKOS sold fi rst novel, Gale Force, Cape Storm, and Total the Chronicles of the Thieftaker, to JESSICA BRODY sold four YA False Memory, and two more Eclipse to Susie Dunlop at Allison Jim Frenkel at Tor. books in her Unremembered young books to Catherine Onder at Disney/ & Busby via Lucienne Diver of The JIM C. HINES handed in The adult series, ‘‘set against the back- via Suzie Townsend of Knight Agency. Snow Queen’s Shadow to Sheila drop of time travel and gene ma- FinePrint Literary Management. MICHAEL CASSUTT & DA- Gilbert at DAW. nipulation,’’ to Janine O’Malley at SUSAN DENNARD sold fi rst VID S. GOYER’s Heaven’s Shad- CORY DOCTOROW delivered Farrar, Straus and Giroux via Bill novel The Spirit-Hunters, set in ow trilogy resold to Macmillan in essay collection Context to Jill Contardi of Brandt & Hochman. an alternate 1800s Philadelphia, to the UK via Ace. Roberts at . S.D. CROCKETT sold After Maria Gomez at Harper Children’s CYNTHIA HAND sold UK CHARLAINE HARRIS & the Snow and a second book to via Sara Kendall and Joanna Volpe rights to Unearthly to Alison Dou- TONI L.P. KELNER turned in Emma Young at Macmillan Chil- at Nancy Coffey Literery & Media gal at Egmont via Ginger Clark of anthology Home Improvement: dren’s UK and Jean Feiwel at Fei- Representation. Curtis Brown on behalf of Katherine Undead Edition to Ginjer Bu- wel & Friends via Julia Churchill BRYCE CUDNICK’s fi rst nov- Fausset at Curtis Brown. chanan at Ace. at the Greenhouse Literary Agency. el, YA fantasy Vodnik, went to ELIZABETH MILES resold ANN & JEFF VANDERMEER PAMELA MINGLE’s timeslip Stacy L. Whitman at Tu Books via debut trilogy Fury, Envy, and turned in original anthology The fantasy Kissing Shakespeare Joshua Bilmes & Eddie Schneider Eternity about Furies taking re- Thackery T. Lambshead Cabi- went to Francoise Bui at Delacorte of JABberwocky. venge on a group of teens, to Venetia net of Curiosities to Diana Gill at via Steven Chudney. New writer MARISSA MEYER Gosling at Simon & Schuster UK Harper Voyager. C.T. ADAMS & CATHY sold four books in a futuristic fai- via Caspian Dennis of Abner Stein JOHN KLIMA delivered anthol- CLAMP, writing as CAT AD- rytale YA series – Cinder, Scarlet, on behalf of Stephen Barbara of ogy Happily Ever After to Night AMS, sold three Blood Singer Cress, and Winter – to Jean Fei- Foundry. Simon Pulse will publish Shade Books. novels to Melissa Singer at Tor via wel at Feiwel and Friends via Jill in the US. Merrilee Heifetz of Writers House. Grinberg. KEVIN BARRY resold first Publishing ERIN SODERBERG sold two SARA LEIGH WALSH sold novel The City of Bohane and a books in her new Quirks series to fi rst novel The Dark Light to Anne second book to Ethan Nosowsky at ALLISON LORENTZEN is Michelle Nagler at Bloomsbury Rissi at Simon Pulse with Annette Graywolf, via Jane Kirby at British joining Penguin Books as an edi- Children’s Books USA via Mi- Pollert to edit via Nathaniel Jacks at publisher Random House UK. tor, acquiring both fiction and chael Bourret of Dystel & God- Inkwell Management. JOHN B. OLSON & RAN- non-fi ction. erich Literary Management. ELIZABETH BEAR sold a DALL INGERMANSON resold DAVID ROSENTHAL has been MAURISSA GUIBORD’s sequel to Bone and Jewel SF novel Oxygen and sequel The named president and publisher of a Revel and a second YA went to Mi- Creatures to William K. Schafer Fifth Man to Jeff Gerke at Marcher new, not-yet-named general imprint chelle Poploff at Delacorte via Ted at Subterranean Press via Jennifer Lord Press via Lee Hough of Alive at Penguin Group. Malawer of Upstart Crow Literary. Jackson of the Donald Maass Liter- Communications for Ingermanson CHARLENE BRUSSO is now JAMES TREADWELL sold ary Agency. and Steve Laube for John Olson. publicist at Tachyon Publications, Advent and two more titles to Car- GARY LOVISI sold Gargoyle replacing JAMES DeMAIOLO, olyn Mays at Hodder & Stoughton Nights and Driving Hell’s High- Books Delivered who returns to his old position as in a pre-empt via Will Francis of way to Borgo/Wildside. Each will marketing consultant. Janklow & Nesbit. be half of a book for the company’s JACK McDEVITT handed in DEBORAH COATES sold fi rst new Double series. Alex Benedict novel Firebird to novel Wide Open and two more JUSTINA ROBSON sold collec- Ginjer Buchanan at Ace. Media books to Stacy Hague-Hill at Tor tion Heliotrope to Australian small LISA GOLDSTEIN delivered PETER WATTS will write Cry- via Caitlin Blasdell of Liza Dawson press Ticonderoga Publications. The Uncertain Places to Jacob sis: Legion, an adaptation of video Associates. BRIAN EVENSON’s collection Weisman at Tachyon. game Crysis 2, for Del Rey. New writer MYKE COLE sold Windeye went to Chris Fischbach S.M. STIRLING turned in The MOLLY CRABAPPLE & military Latent, Riven, of Coffee House Press via Matt Council of , a novel of the JOHN LEAVITT sold graphic and Union in the Shadow Ops series McGowan of the Frances Goldin Shadowspawn, to Ginjer Buchanan novel The Unwanted Carnival to Anne Sowards at Ace via Joshua Literary Agency. for Roc. to Calista Brill at First Second Bilmes. LISA L. HANNETT & AN- TOBIAS BUCKELL delivered via Seth Fishman of The Gernert TERESA FROHOCK sold fi rst GELA SLATTER sold their col- Arctic Rising to Paul Stevens at Tor. Company.

LOCUS January 2011 / 9 Bears vs. Gutenberg Astrid Anderson Bear and Greg Bear released and precedents, we have demonstrated Anderson in particular, were very aware of a statement claiming that Project Gutenberg conclusively that PG was making incorrect the need to renew copyrights, and typically determinations regarding public domain – which makes public domain literary works status in many, many works that originally meticulously kept their copyright protections up available for free – has unlawfully published appeared in magazine form. to date.’’ Of course, that isn’t true of all works numerous works by the late , or all authors, and works that weren’t renewed among other authors. Their statement reads The Poul Anderson estate convinced Project appropriately would legitimately be public in part: Gutenberg to remove ‘‘The Escape’’ from their domain. Project Gutenberg’s methodology for Project Gutenberg is systematically site: ‘‘PG’s original reasoning was that since determining which works are public domain is declaring copyrights void in many literary the magazine it appeared in had never actually clearly fl awed, however. works published in the 1940s, 1950s, fi led for copyright, the work was unprotected. The Bears encourage ‘‘authors and estates with and later, with a special focus on stories published in science fi ction pulp magazines. ‘The Escape’, printed in 1953, was the fi rst half works that are listed as public domain on PG’s Project Gutenberg then makes these works of Anderson’s well-known novel Brainwave, site... to check out the true copyright status of freely available on the internet though their which was published and properly copyrighted those works, If they are posted on PG in error, website, where the scanned texts are further the following year.’’ PG needs to be notifi ed via a DMCA notice.’’ disseminated by manybooks.net and other online text outlets. The story would have been under copyright They say it’s especially important because many After conducting legal research on the until 1981, and then eligible for renewal. small publishers take Project Gutenberg texts, LEXIS database of legal cases, decisions, The Bears state that ‘‘authors of that era, and package them in print-on-demand editions, and sell them, assuming the work is in the public domain: ‘‘It should be noted that these publishers don’t feel they are pirates, they feel they are New Directions for Dorchester merely taking advantage of opportunities that Amid author complaints and questions about by Dorchester... [but] we cannot overlook the are perfectly legal.’’ While the Bears concede sales of unauthorized editions, Dorchester CEO troubles the company has had, which have that ‘‘Project Gutenberg is doing a tremendous John Prebich has left the company. Robert adversely affected our members. service by making available texts that have truly Anthony has been named as the new CEO, Dorchester must meet a series of benchmarks long since fallen out of copyright,’’ they argue brought in to ‘‘revitalize’’ the company. The in order to remain on the list of qualifying that PG is ‘‘clearly overstepping their original company has reversed their earlier decision publishers during the probationary period, mandate.’’ Their entire letter can be read here: to give up print publishing and become a including fulfi lling all contractual and fi nancial . starting in January 2011 with reissues. New for sale; avoiding contract violations during Project Gutenberg CEO Gregory Newby books will begin to appear in May, with a probation; and helping authors who want to admits ‘‘The Escape’’ was included by mistake, projected schedule of five to ten titles per revert their rights. SFWA will perform a formal and apologized for the error. He attributes the month. All books will appear under the name review about halfway through the probation to problem to a fl aw in their procedures for vetting Dorchester Trade Publishing, though the Leisure see how the company is faring. serial works, explaining that they failed to and Love Spell imprints may be revived in the Dorchester Senior Editor Chris Keeslar told realize ‘‘The Escape’’ was part of Brainwave future. Anthony intends to ‘‘reorganize and SFWA the company is ‘‘working to clean up because the titles are different. Newby’s public improve the accounting and internal fi nancial every mistake that has been made, and we letter to the Bears said, ‘‘We are working on reporting structure,’’ including a review of the categorically affi rm our desire to meet the criteria enhancements to our procedures for serial works royalty process. They’re also catching up on SFWA lists.’’ so that we are more likely to fi nd variations in overdue royalty payments. Anthony aims for This is the second publisher SFWA has put on titles.’’ However, Astrid Anderson Bear notes that ‘‘an atmosphere of transparency and effi ciency probation this year; Night Shade Books is also his reply ‘‘does not address our assertion that that was heretofore lacking... We know people on probation, under essentially the same terms. copyright was never lost because of non-fi ling by will be watching us carefully.’’ The full letter from Scalzi may be read at . bear-response.txt>. President John Scalzi sent a letter announcing that the SFWA board has voted to put Dorchester Publishing ‘‘on probation’’ as a SFWA qualifying Bacigalupi at the National Book Awards market for a period beginning December 10, 2010 to December 10, 2011. This means that, although Dorchester remains a ‘‘qualifying market’’ for SFWA membership, sales made attended the to Dorchester during this time will not actually National Book qualify authors for membership. Sales will, Awards ceremony however, retroactively qualify if Dorchester on November 17, successfully completes the probationary period. 2010 in New York, The letter reads in part: where his novel We became aware of several instances Shipbreaker was in which Dorchester acted against the a finalist in the contractual and legal interest of authors, Young People’s specifi cally by not paying royalties when Literature Award. contractually specified, or distributing books in a medium for which it had not Kathryn Erskine’s legally secured rights... Dorchester does not Mockingbird was dispute these events, and when it became the winner. aware of our inquiry, it contacted SFWA to offer us information and background to help answer our questions.... We feel this cooperation has been a positive fi rst step Paolo Bacigalupi, editor Jennifer Hunt, agent Martha Millard

10 / LOCUS January 2011 THE DATA FILE Arthur C. Clarke Award Looks to the Fantasy list in the country with some of the is now open; early admission applications are Future • Tom Hunter, the director of the Ar- best writers in the world – and now I get to do due January 31, 2011, and regular applications thur C. Clarke Award, published an open letter it all over again.’’ She starts her new position in are due April 8, 2011. The workshop will be explaining that the award ‘‘is now faced with an January 2011. held on the campus of Saint Anselm College in immediate and pressing need to change, adapt New Hampshire, June 6 through July 15, 2011. and re-evaluate its role and function’’ follow- Amazon Offers Bookscan Data • Amazon Planned guest lecturers include Elizabeth Bear, ing the loss of their funding, which historically has made some Nielsen Bookscan data available Barry B. Longyear, Theodora Goss, Christopher came from Clarke’s company Rocket Publish- free to authors via their Author Central program. Golden, and John Joseph Adams. The 2011 ing, which is now ‘‘winding up’’ its operations. Authors who sign up for the free program can Writer in Residence is Gary A. Braunbeck. For Hunter says the 2011 award – the 25th anniver- see the most recent four weeks of sales – on a further application details, visit the Odyssey site. sary of the Clarke Award – will go forward ‘‘one week-by-week basis, broken down geographi- The Viable Paradise submission period will way or another,’’ but new arrangements will have cally – for all their print books. open January 1, 2011 and close June 15, 2011. to be made in the future. Hunter sees ‘‘our previ- While full-fl edged Bookscan subscribers get The workshop will be held at the Island Inn on ous funding model slipping away as a necessary access to more data than Amazon is providing Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, from October transition and the fi rst step on the road to trans- for free, this is still an unprecedented opportunity 9-15, 2011. Instructors include Elizabeth Bear, forming the Award into a more deeply engaged for individual authors to see how their work is Debra Doyle, Steven Gould, James D. Mcdon- social enterprise.’’ He needs assistance to take the selling across the country in real-time. Amazon ald, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Teresa Nielsen Award, which has traditionally come with a cash also provides a visual map of sales data, as com- Hayden, Jay Lake, and Sherwood Smith. For prize, and Serendip, the Award’s volunteer-based pared to the raw data Nielsen provides directly further information, visit the Viable Paradise governing body, ‘‘to the next level.’’ to subscribers. Amazon does not provide year- application page. Hunter encourages members of the SF com- to-date totals or lifetime totals, and their data is For advanced students, the Taos Toolbox munity to get in touch, asking, ‘‘What does the slightly delayed compared to that available to ‘‘Master Class’’ in SF/fantasy writing began Arthur C. Clarke Award mean to you, how im- Nielsen subscribers. taking applications on December 1, 2010. The portant a part of the SF landscape is it, and where Amazon vice president Russ Grandinetti said, workshop will take place July 10-23, 2011 in would you like it to go from here?’’ He can be ‘‘Authors are an important community for us... Taos Ski Valley, New Mexico. Walter Jon Wil- reached at . The full We’re really happy to make it easy and free for liams and are the instructors, with text of the letter can be read at the Torque Control them to see geographical BookScan data updated special lecturer Jack Skillingstead. For more in- blog: . weekly, as well as historical Amazon bestsellers formation, see the Taos Toolbox application page. rank, for their books. We hope this creates an Google Launches eBookstore • Google improved feedback loop for authors and enables Joel Rosenberg Arrest • Writer Joel Rosen- launched the long-awaited Google eBookstore them to develop more effective methods for berg, 56, was arrested in December 2010 on on December 6, 2010, at . They claim the ‘‘world’s largest Responses online were swift and mixed, with weapon in a courthouse and a misdemeanor selection of e-books,’’ and purchases are stored writers, agents, and publishers on Twitter and charge of contempt of court. His bail was set at ‘‘in the digital cloud, so you can read all of your blogs expressing everything from delight about $100,000, and he remains in jail. favorite books using just about any device with getting hard data to dismay about yet another The arrest follows an event in November an Internet connection.’’ (Though there’s one thing for authors to obsess about. Agent Ginger where Rosenberg went to Minneapolis City Hall notable omission, as they cannot be read on the Clark wrote, ‘‘I’ll be the 1st to say ‘knowledge for a meeting while wearing a holstered handgun, world’s most popular e-reader, the Kindle.) The is power.’ But Bookscan numbers do not tell the which he had a permit to carry. A police sergeant exact revenue split between Google and rights- whole story and need context.’’ Bookscan com- told him a court order prohibited carrying a gun holders apparently varies from case to case, but piles sales data from various sources – primarily in the city hall and ordered him to relinquish the Google says ‘‘the majority of the revenue’’ goes chain bookstores – and tracks around 75% of weapon. When Rosenberg refused, arguing that to publishers. book sales for most titles. But that percentage state gun laws allowed him to carry, the weapon Google has also partnered with independent can vary greatly depending on the type of book was confi scated and emptied of ammunition. bookstores including Powell’s, Alibris, and being sold, and the channels through which Rosenberg’s gun was returned to him when over 200 members of the American Booksellers they sell. he agreed to put it in his car. He subsequently Association, to allow those booksellers to sell fi led a complaint against the sergeant. About a Google eBooks through their own bookstore Writing Workshop Applications Open • month after the incident, the warrant was issued websites. ABA president Michael Tucker says, The application period for the six-week Clarion for his arrest. ‘‘We think this will be a boon for independent writing workshop is open from December 1, Rosenberg is a gun safety instructor and Sec- booksellers to offer customers digital format 2010 through March 1, 2011. The six-week ond Amendment activist, and he made several books. We wanted to [join the e-book market], workshop will be held June 26 through August blog posts and even online videos about his but we had no ability to do that until now.’’ 6, 2011, at the University of California, San Di- altercation with the sergeant; his Internet activity Google has digitized 15 million books since ego. Scheduled instructors include Nina Kiriki is mentioned in the arrest warrant. beginning their program in 2004, and about Hoffman, John Scalzi, Elizabeth Bear, David three million of them are available in the store Anthony Durham, , and . Lost Dahl Work Sold on eBay • Two pages already, with millions more to come – assum- For more information, visit the Clarion applica- of a children’s story called ‘‘The Eyes of Mr. ing the Google Books settlement agreement is tion information page. Croaker’’, written by in 1982, were ever approved by the court, clearing the way for Clarion West’s application period is also open sold on eBay for $1,900 in December 2010. Google to sell out-of-print books. from December 1, 2010 through March 1, 2011. The piece was sold by Jerry Biederman, who The workshop will take place June 19 through acquired it in the ’80s after asking Dahl to sub- Jo Fletcher Books • Prominent British edi- July 29, 2011, in Seattle, . Instructors mit for a planned project called Do-It-Yourself tor Jo Fletcher, longtime associate publisher of will be Nancy Kress, , Minister Children’s Storybook. The idea was to offer Gollancz, is leaving the company to join Quer- Faust, L. Timmel Duchamp, and Charles Stross, ‘‘story starts’’ that children could complete cus, where she will run her own SF/fantasy/ the 2011 Susan C. Petrey Fellow. For further themselves, and it was to include openings by horror imprint, Jo Fletcher Books. Fletcher says, information, visit Clarion West’s online applica- various prominent writers, including Joan Aiken ‘‘I have had an amazing time at Gollancz, where tion information page. and Madeleine L’Engle. The project, conceived I’ve spent 16 years building the best SF and The Odyssey workshop application period p. 68

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GARDNERSPACE: A SHORT FICTION COLUMN BY GARDNER DOZOIS

F&SF 11-12/10 of Hansel and Gretel in ‘‘Crumbs’’, Alan the major interest of the piece is generated by Asimov’s 10-11/10, 12/10 Dean Foster spins a tall tale in ‘‘Free Elec- the nicely complicated inter-relationships of tions’’, and relates a bit of the characters. Stories, Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, eds. metafiction packed with in-jokes in ‘‘Ven- Most of the rest of the stories are somewhat (William Morrow) June 2010. ures’’, while reprints a sly vision weaker, although all are entertaining. In ‘‘No of a non-cash based society from the Share- Distance Too Great’’, Don D’Ammassa takes Interzone 231 able Futures website, ‘‘The Exterminator’s us on a journey through hyperspace by Want-Ad’’. what amounts to a bus ride; I really enjoyed The best story in the November/December Next to the Robert Reed novella, the strongest D’Ammassa’s vision of hyperspace as a physi- F&SF, and very probably the strongest SF story piece in November/December is John Kessel’s cal landscape that must be driven across, but, to appear in this magazine all year, is Robert ‘‘The Closet’’, an incisive and sharp-edged somewhat disappointingly, the story turns into Reed’s novella ‘‘Dead Man’s Run’’. Reed does little story which, although it was written to a rather predictable fantasy by the end. Will an excellent job of making this simultaneously commemorate Ursula K. Le Guin, reminds me McIntosh tells an enjoyable tale of life in a a murder mystery and a valid core SF story stylistically much more of a cross between Da- travelling side-show in the 19th century in where the SF element is essential to both the mon Knight’s ‘‘The Handler’’ and Theodore ‘‘Frankenstein, Frankenstein’’, a story that resolution of the plot and the mystery; it also Sturgeon’s ‘‘The Other Celia’’ than it does of comes very close to mainstream, with only functions as a sports story, since running is anything by Le Guin. a slight fantastic element added (especially integral to the plot, and Reed’s obvious famil- as the protagonist actually existed, although iarity with runners and running – he’s used Over at Asimov’s, their October/Novem- McIntosh pretty much makes up the rest of the sport before in other stories, although this ber double issue has a lot of good, solid, his life). does a version of is his most successful utilization of it – shows entertaining stuff, mostly SF, with no award the movie K-Pax in ‘‘The Incarceration of through to good effect, helping to ground the contenders. The lead story here is ‘‘Becoming Captain Nebula’’, in which the question is story in a believable reality. The story overall One with the Ghosts’’ by Kristine Kathryn whether a patient in a mental institution is must be considered one of the best stories of Rusch, one of her popular Diving into the delusional or really is the space hero that he the year and one of Reed’s best, even in a year Wreck stories. This one begins thousands of claims to be (although there’s little doubt from that has seen several other strong Reed stories. years before others in the series, although a the beginning which side Resnick is going to I wouldn’t be surprised to see this one show up time-travel twist brings the heroine of those come down on), and plays a simi- on next year’s awards ballots. stories into the plot before the end. There’s lar Schrödinger's Cat game with a immensely Ghosts seem to be a theme in this issue some interesting stuff here, as usual with valuable sculpture that nobody has ever seen, of F&SF. A high-tech ‘‘ghost’’ of sorts, a Rusch, but this one is rather slow, with nearly in ‘‘Torhec the Sculptor’’. sentient electronic avatar of a dead man that a third of the story gone by and days passed shows us that it’s better not to start something persists after his death, features in ‘‘Dead by the time the exaggeratedly cautious crew that you don’t know you can stop in ‘‘Changing Man’s Run’’, and a ghost of another sort, or even leaves the spaceship to investigate, even the World’’; Kij Johnson spins a lyrical fabu- at least the suggestion of one (it’s never made though they can see strangers standing in the lation in ‘‘Names For Water’’; R. Neube tells clear whether there’s a ‘‘real’’ ghost or not) hanger outside; almost makes you wish that a competent but rather routine adventure story features in Alexander Jablokov’s elegantly Captain Kirk was in charge, as he would have in ‘‘Dummy Tricks’’; and new writer Felicity written near-mainstream story ‘‘Plinth With- gotten things underway in a lot brisker fashion Shoulders comes up with an extremely unlikely out Figure’’. And old-fashioned no-doubt- (sending your linguist to bed just after the said use for time-travel in ‘‘The Termite Queen of about it ghosts of the sort that go bump (or strangers show up is probably not the brightest Tallulah County’’. ‘‘whoooo!’’) in the night show up in Albert command-decision either). The strongest of E. Cowdrey’s richly amusing ‘‘Death Must the issue’s two is ‘‘Several Items of There’s some strong stuff in the December Die’’, about an attempt to fi ght fi re with fi re, Interest’’ by Rick Wilbur, the most recent Asimov’s. In a sequel to last year’s year’s YA- or at least a haunting with a haunting. New (after a gap of several years) of Wilbur’s long ish ‘‘Going Deep’’, James Patrick Kelly’s writer Michael Alexander shows us that a S’huddonni series, about a future Earth that has ‘‘Plus or Minus’’ takes his young heroine into good way to destroy civilization is to give been subjugated militarily and economically deep space in what amounts to a rusty tramp everybody everything he wants, in ‘‘Ware by a squid-like alien race. This one stands on steamer, one of the more unglamorous and un- of the Worlds’’, while new writer Alexandra its own feet pretty well without you needing to romantic ships in the corpus of science fi ction, Duncan takes us to a not very well thought-out have read the other S’huddonni stories, and is a where her job mostly consists of scrubbing mold or logically consistent post-apocalyptic future fun read, managing to generate a fair amount of off the walls. Kelly handles the Analog-ish hard for a fairytale-like ‘‘Swamp City Lament’’. tension with matching stories of sibling rivalry science space stuff well (although the motives Michaela Roessner gives us a grisly version on both the human and the alien sides, although p. 58

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