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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 ..............