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Table of Contents STORIES woman, Rosemary Kirstein; The Fortunate Bruce Sterling Wins Campbell Award ...... 1 Isles, John Rowe Townsend; The Lake at the Meacham Relinquishes Tor Editor-in-Chief Job .. 4 End of the World, Caroline Macdonald; Sha­ NAL Announces SF Imprint: ROC Books ...... 4 man, Sandra Miesel. Major Changes at Davis Publications...... 4 Reviews by Tom Whitmore...... 25 THE NEWSPAPER OF THE FIELD New SF List from Pan Books ...... 5 Falcon, Emma Bull; The Dark Half, Stephen The Satanic Verses: Part V II...... 5 King; To the Land of the Living, Robert ISSN-0049-4959 Miller Signs for Canticle Sequel ...... 5 Silverberg; , ; Apart­ EDITOR & PUBLISHER 1989 World Awards Nominations...... 7 heid, Superstrings and Mordecai Thubana, Charles N. Brown THE DATA FILE Michael Bishop. ASSOCIATE EDITOR Publishing News...... 7 Reviews by Dan Chow:...... 27 Faren C. Miller Court Cases...... 79 Crystal Express, Bruce Sterling; Hyperion, ASSOCIATE MANAGER Announcements...... 79 Dan Simmons; The Argus Gambit, David D. Shelly Rae Clift Book News ...... 79 Ross; Reach, Edward Gibson; The Wall PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE Bookstore News...... 79 Around Eden, Joan Slonczewski; The Orphan, Pamela F. Troy Film News...... 79 Robert Stallman; Science Fiction, Fantasy, EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Publications Received...... 79 and Horror: 1988, Charles N. Brown & Wil­ Scott Winnett Awards...... 79 liam G. Contento. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Rights & Options...... 79 Distillations: Short Fiction Reviews SF Theatre...... 80 by Mark R. Kelly ...... 31 Dan Chow Audio News...... 80 Running Wild, J.G. Ballard; Novelty, John Richard Curtis Catalogs Received...... 81 Crowley; Apartheid, Superstrings and Morde­ Carolyn F. Cushman INTERVIEWS cai Thubana, Michael Bishop; The Secret Life Karen Haber Lucius Shepard: Pleasurable Irritant ...... 1 of Houses, Scott Bradfield, Critical Mass 1-2/89; Mark R. Kelly PHOTO STORIES Fantasy Tales Spring/89, Hardware Spring/89; Around the Bookstores...... 72 New Pathways 5/89; On Spec Spring/89; Strange Tom Whitmore Zenith Launched...... 80 Plasma # 1 ; Tales o f the Unanticipated, Spring- SPECIAL PROJECTS COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS Summer/89; Poly: New Speculative Writing, William G. Contento People & Publishing ...... 8 Lee Ballentine, ed.; Dreams and Nightmares 26- CON REPORTERS Agent’s Corner, Richard Curtis...... 11 27; Ice River No.4,6/89; The Magazine o f Specu­ Beth Gwinn Moons & Stars & Stuff, Fritz Leiber...... 13 lative Poetry, 10-12/88; Star*Line, 9-12/88, 1-2/ Jane Jewell Locus Bulletin Board...... 35 89,3-4/89,5-6/89; Weird Tales, Fall/89. Locus, ISSN-0047-4959, The Newspaper of the Locus Letters ...... 76 CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES Science Fiction Field, is published monthly by LOCUS Editorial Matters ...... 76 SFRA in Ohio ...... 46 PUBLICATIONS Editorial address: 34 Ridgewood LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS INTERNATIONAL SF Lane, Oakland, CA 94611; telephone (415) 339-9196. Please send all mail to Locus Publications, P.O. Box Reviews by Faren Miller: ...... 11 SF in Czechoslovakia ...... 49 13305, Oakland, CA 94661. Grass, Sheri S. Tepper; The Child Garden, SF in the Soviet U nion...... 50 Individual copies are $2.95. Individual subscriptions in Geoff Ryman; Hyperion, Dan Simmons; The SF in Yugoslavia ...... 54 the U.S. are $28.00 for 12 issues, $52.00 for 24 issues Last Legends of Earth, AA. Attanasio; Ash SF in Argentina...... 54 via second class mail. Individual subscriptions in Ock, Christopher Hinz; Rusalka, C.J. Cherryh. 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The number after your Lucius Shepard ...... (CNB) 1 PHOTO INDEX Vladimir Mikhailov...... (AB)51 name on the mailing label is that of the last issue on Bruce Sterling ...... (EH) 1 Lois McMaster Bujold, Aelita 1989...... (AB) 51 your present subscription. If you change your address, Peter H all...... (EH)46 Gennady Kazminov, Alex­ please notify us immediately. Second class mail is not Beth Meacham...... (CNB) 4 usually forwarded. is either returned or destroyed. John Silbersack ...... (CNB) 4 Liz Cummins, Joan ander Korzhenevsky.. (AB)51 We subtract one issue from your subscription for each William Battista, Lisa Feerick, G ordon...... (EH) 46 Vladimir Gopman, Vitaly returned copy. We keep expired addresses on file for Bruce Chatterton .... (CNB) 4 Tom Clareson, Frederik Babenko, Alexander one year, so tell us if your subscription is a renewal Dean R. Koontz...... (CNB) 8 Pohl...... (EH) 46 Kazantsev...... (AB)51 or completely new. ...... 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