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TABLE of CONTENTS July 1999 Issue 462 Vol TABLE OF CONTENTS July 1999 Issue 462 Vol. 43 No.1 CHARLES N. BROWN 32nd Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner Publisher & Editor-in-Chief MAIN STORIES MARK R. KELLY Electronic Editor-in-Chief HarperCollins Buys Avon/10 Sullivan Wins Clarke Award/10 Barnes & Noble/Ingram Merger Off/10 1998 Stoker Awards/10 KIRSTEN GONG-WONG King Hurt/10 Random Reorganizes/11 1999 Sturgeon Award Finalists/11 Managing Editor WH. Smith Buys Hodder Headline/11 Wizards Settles with SFWA, Signs with Tor/11 FAREN C. MILLER CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN THE DATA FILE Editors King Pulls Rage/11 New York Times vs. Amazon.com/11 CYNTHIA RUSCZYK Australia to Tax Books/11 Worldcon News/11 Announcements/11 Editorial Trainee Awards News/11 International Awards News/71 Contest News/71 Financial News/71 Book News/71 Magazine News/71 EDWARD BRYANT Market News/71 Publications Received/71 Catalogs Received/72 RUSSELL LETSON GARY K. WOLFE INTERVIEWS Contributing Editors Pat Murphy: Playing With Reality/6 WILLIAM G. CONTENTO Karen Joy Fowler: Life & Death & Life/8 Special Projects CONVENTIONS BETH GWINN Photographer 1999 NebulaWeekend/38 Locus, The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (ISSN INTERNATIONAL 0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.95 per copy, by Locus Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland CA 94611. Please send all mail to: Locus Publications, P.O. 1999 Eurocon - Trinity/37 Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. Telephone (510) 339- When Worlds Collide: SF Meets Art Nouveau in Nancy/37 9196; (510) 339-9198. FAX (510) 339-8144. E-mail: [email protected]. Individual subscriptions in the US: $43.00 tor 12 issues, $80.00 for 24 issues via peri­ OBITUARIES odical mail. In Canada: $48.00 for 12 issues. $90.00 for 24 issues via periodical mail. First class individual sub­ Clifton Fadiman/68 Larry Sternig/68 Dias Gomes/68 scriptions in the US or Canada are $53.00 for 12 issues, $95.00 for 24 issues. 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