TABLE OF CONTENTS February 1999 Issue 457 Vol. 42 No. 2 32nd Year of Publication 20-Time Hugo Winner CHARLES N. BROWN Publisher & Editor-in-Chief MAIN STORIES MARK R. KELLY SFWA President Sawyer Resigns/8 1999 Philip K. Dick Award Nominees/8 Electronic Editor-in-Chief 1998 Preliminary Nebula Ballot/8 1999 Nebula Fiction Judges/8 KIRSTEN GONG-WONG THE DATA FILE Managing Editor Hugo Nomination Ballot Available/9 Starlight 3 Open/9 FAREN C. MILLER Bookstores Protest B&N Sales Advantages/9 CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN Richard Curtis Starts Online Service/9 Announcements/9 Editors Call for Papers/9 Readings & Signings/9 Publishing News/73 International Awards News/73 Other Awards News/74 EDWARD BRYANT Contest News/74 Legal News/74 Financial News/74 RUSSELL LETSON Magazine News/74 International Rights/74 GARY K. WOLFE Market News/74 Publications Received/75 Contributing Editors INTERVIEWS WILLIAM G. 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