TABLE OF CONTENTS November 1996 Issue 430 Vol. 37 No. 5 29th Year of Publication 18-Time Hugo Winner CHARLES N. BROWN Publisher & Editor-in-Chief MAIN STORIES MARIANNE S. JABLO N Rusch to Leave F&SF/8 Rumors of Putnam Sale/8 Avon SF Hiatus/8 Managing Editor Stout New Del Rey Consultant/8 Zebra Drops Horror/8 Clarion Call West/8 Author’s Registry Issues First Royalties/9 FAREN C. MILLER Penguin Flyer Hoax/9 Plans for US Copyright Superagency on Hold/9 CAROLYN F. CUSHM AN THE DATA FILE Editors Paper Tiger Bankruptcy/9 Multi-Media SF Talk Shows/9 KIRSTEN GONG-W ONG Richard Evans Fund/9 Publishing News/9 Readings & Signings/72 Assistant Editor Announcements/73 Call for Papers/73 Financial News/73 Bookstore News/73 Book News/73 Rights/73 Award News/73 EDWARD BRYANT International Award News/73 Contest News/73 Market Update/73 SHIRA DAEMON Online News/74 Multi-Media Update/74 Multi-Media Received/74 MARK R. KELLY Publications Received/74 Catalogs Received/74 RUSSELL LETSON INTERVIEW GARY K. WOLFE Contributing Editors Robert Silverberg: Farewell to the Future/6 CONVENTION REPORTS: L.A.CON III WILLIAM G. CONTENTO Special Projects General Report/34 Marianne Jablon/36 Russell Letson/36 Masquerade Awards/38 Art Show Awards/43 Marina Fitch/45 BETH GWINN Mark Budz/45 Mark R. Kelly/45 Edward Bryant/75 Photographer OBITUARIES Locus, The Newspaper of the Science Fiction Field (ISSN 0047-4959), is published monthly, at $4.50 per copy, by Eleanor Butler Cameron/70 Locus Publications, 34 Ridgewood Lane, Oakland CA Eleanor Cameron’s Mushroom Planet: An Appreciation by Marianne Jablon/70 94611. Please send all mail to: Locus Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. Telephone (510) 339- Eric Arne Carlson/70 9196 ; (510) 339-9198. FAX (510) 339-8144. E-mail: [email protected]. Individual subscriptions in the LISTINGS US: $43.00 for 12 issues, $80.00 for 24 issues via peri­ odical mail. In Canada: $48.00 for 12 issues, $90.00 for Convention Listings/48 Magazines Received: September/52 24 issues via periodical mail. First class individual sub­ Books Received: September/53 British Books: August/63 Bestsellers/68 scriptions in the US or Canada are $53.00 for 12 issues, $95.00 for 24 issues. Individual overseas subscriptions Photo Listing/78 Index to Ads/78 are $48.00 for 12 issues, $90.00 for 24 issues via sea mail. Individual subscriptions to Europe or South Am erica COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS via air mail are $70.00 for 12 issues, $120.00 for 24 is­ sues. Individual subscriptions to Australia, Asia, o r Africa People & Publishing/10 Locus Letters/70 Editorial Matters/71 via air mail are $80.00 for 12 issues, $135.00 for 24 is­ sues. Lifetime subscriptions are ten times the one-year LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS rate. Institutional subscriptions are $3.00 extra per year. Make checks payable to Locus Publications. All subscrip­ Distillations: Short Fiction timate Haunted House, Nancy A. Collins, ed.; V is tions payable directly in US funds only. Overseas checks Reviews by Mark R. Kelly / 13 for Vampire, David J. Skal; The City on the Edge of must be drawn on a US bank and include computer en­ F&SF 10-11/96; Interzone 9/96; Crank! #7, Summer/96. Forever, Harlan Ellison. coding numbers at bottom. When converting from peri­ Reviews by Gary K. W olfe/17 Reviews by Shira Daemon / 27 odical mail to first class delivery, please convert all re­ Voyage, Stephen Baxter; Visions of Wonder: The Godmother Night, Rachel Pollack; Unknown Re­ maining issues on your present subscription ($1.00 per Science Fiction Research Association Reading An­ issue). The number after your name on the mailing label gions, Robert Holdstock; The Lord of the Vampires, thology, David G. Hartwell & Milton T. Wolf, eds.; is that of the last issue on your present subscription. If Jeanne Kalogrid is; The Time of Feasting, Mick you change your address, please notify us immediately. Spares, Michael Marshall Smith; The Wall of the Sky, Farren; Raven, S.A. Swiniarski; SHORT TAKES: The Periodical mail is not usually forw arded; it is either re­ the Wall of the Eye, Jonathan Lethem. Lost, Jonathan Aycliffe. turned or destroyed. We subtract one issue from your Reviews by Faren Miller /1 9 Reviews by Carolyn Cushman /31 subscription for each returned copy. W e keep expired ad­ Fair Peril, Nancy Springer; Top Dog, Jerry Jay Carroll; dresses on file for one year, so tell us if your subscription Witchlight, Marion Zimmer Bradley; Groogleman, The War Amongst the Angels, Michael Moorcock; Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald; Voices of Hope, is a renewal or completely new. British Subscription Agent: Automated Alice, Jeff Noon; Hogfather, Terry Fantast (Medway) Ltd. P.O. Box 23, Upwell Wisbech, David Feintuch; The Abracadabra Kid, Sid Pratchett; Minor Arcana, Diana Wynne Jones. CAMBS PE14 9BU, UK. Japanese Subscription Agent: Fleischman; Bloody Bones, Laurell K. Hamilton; A Yoshio Kobayashi, 3-34-14-301, Kitasenzoku, Ohta-ku, Reviews by Russell Letson / 21 Midsummer’s Nightmare, Garry Kilworth; The West­ Tokyo, 145, Japan; Australian Subscription Agent: Justin Night Lamp, Jack Vance; Beggars Ride, Nancy Kress; ern King, Ann Marston; Fire Margins, Lisanne Ackroyd, Slow Glass Books G .P.O Box 2708X, Melbourne, Hard Questions, Ian Watson. Norman; Margaret, Frank and Andy, Cynthia Rylant; Victoria, 3001, Australia. Bookseller discounts available. Otherland: City of Golden Shadow, Tad Williams. Display advertising rates on request. ©1996 by Locus Reviews by Edward Bryant / 23 Publications. We take no responsibility for unsolicited sub­ The Lost, Jonathan Aycliffe; Gahan Wilson’s The Ul­ missions. Printed in the United States. Periodical post­ age paid at Oakland, California and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Lo­ Key to Cover Photos cus Publications, P.O. Box 13305, Oakland CA 94661. A: James White, Connie Willis; B: Roger Corman; C: Takumi & Sachiko Shibano; D: Neal Stephenson; E: Masquerade - Best in Show; F: Charles N. Brown; G: Letters, information, and credit card subscriptions Marriott; H: Hilton. Photo Credits: A, F, G, H by Beth Gwinn; C, D by Jane Jewell; can be sent by E-mail to [email protected] or B by Dave Clark; E by Danny Low. by fax to 510-339-8144.____________________________ 3 / LOCUS November 1996.