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Table of Contents MAIN STORIES Sideshow, Sheri S Table of Contents MAIN STORIES Sideshow, Sheri S. Tepper; The California Bantam Doubleday Dell to M ove............................6 Voodoo Game, Larry Niven and Steven Abyss Expands............................................................. 6 Barnes; Murasaki, Robert Silverberg and Andre Norton at 8 0 .....................................................6 Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Tiptree A w ard.............................................................. 6 Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe: ................................. 25 Aboriginal SF Goes Quarterly.................................. 6 Anvil of Stars, Greg Bear; Ishmael, Daniel Crawford Award.......................................................... 7 Quinn; Child of the Light, Janet Gluckman (ISSN-0047-4959) Star Trek Exhibit O pens.............................................7 and George Guthridge; “W as...”, Geoff EDITOR & PUBLISHER Waldenbooks Presentation....................................... 7 R ym an; Strategies of Fantasy, Brian Charles N. Brown THE DATA FILE Attebery; SHORT TAKES: The Connecticut ASSOCIATE EDITOR Gibson’s Viral Fiction.................................................7 Yankee in the Twentieth Century: Travel to Faren C. Miller Hubbard’s Underground Archive............................ 7 the Past in Science Fiction, Bud Foote; Im­ ASSISTANT EDITORS Oz Theme Park Planned.............................................7 ages of Fear: How Horror Stories Helped Marianne S. Jablon Publishing News...........................................................7 Shape Modern Culture (1818-1918), Martin Carolyn F. Cushman Bookstore News.........................................................61 Tropp; Understanding Kurt Vonnegut, Wil­ liam Rodney Allen. EDITORIAL TRAINEES Court Cases................................................................ 61 Worldcon N ew s.........................................................61 Reviews by Tom W hitm ore:................................29 Mary E. Hall The Hollow Man, Dan Simmons; Dream- Dorothy A. Taylor Award N ew s............................................................... 61 Market N ew s.............................................................. 62 ships, Melissa Scott; The Gypsy, Steven Brust CONTRIBUTING EDITORS and Megan Lindholm; Spiritwalk, Charles de Edward Bryant Announcem ents.........................................................62 Rights & O p tio n s......................................................62 Lint. Dan Chow Publications Received...............................................62 Short Reviews by Scott W innett:....................... 31 Richard Curtis Audio R eceived.........................................................62 My Sister the Moon, Sue Harrison; Born to Mark R. Kelly Catalogs Received.....................................................62 Run, Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon; Fritz Leiber INTERVIEWS Zombies of the Gene Pool, Sharyn McCrumb; Glass Houses, Laura J. Mixon; The Mark of Russell Letson Emma Bull: Interpreting the W orld........................4 the Cat, Andre Norton; Catamount, Michael Tom Whitmore Ellen Kushner: True Fantasy.................................... 5 Peak; The Hollow Man, Dan Simmons; Real­ Scott Winnett COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS ity is What You Can Get Away With, Robert Gary K. Wolfe People & Publishing....................................................8 SPECIAL PROJECTS Anton Wilson. Agent’s Corner, Richard Curtis............................. 11 Reviews by Carolyn C ushm an:...........................33 William G. Contento Moons & Stars & Stuff, Fritz Leiber.....................13 CON REPORTERS River Rats, Carolyn Stevermer; The Friend­ Locus L etters............................................................. 60 ship Song, Nancy Springer; Hobkin, Peni R. Beth Gwinn Editorial M atters.......................................................61 Jane Jewell Griffin; Practical Demonkeeping, Christo­ REVIEWS pher Moore; Damia, Anne McCaffrey; The Locus, (ISSN-0047-4959), The Newspaper of the Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews Lords of the Stoney Mountains, Antony Science Fiction Field, is published monthly by LOCUS by Mark R. Kelly........................................................15 Swithin; SHORT TAKES: Serpent Mage, PUBLICATIONS Editorial address: 34 Ridgewood Murasaki, Robert Silverberg and Martin H. Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman; Pyro- Lane, Oakland, CA 94611. Please send all mail to Locus Greenberg, eds.; Asim ov’s 4/92; Interzone 3/92; Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland, CA 94661. mancer, Don Callander; Weirdos of the Uni­ F&SF 4/92; Amazing 4/92; Pulphouse Maga- verse, Unite!, Pamela F. Service. Telephone (510) 339-9196 zine 12/31/91; Omni 3/92. 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