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Gary Westfahl reviews
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Thu 10 Aug
» David Langford's Ansible 361
» New Yorker: Octavia Butler's Prescient Vision of a Zealot Elected to "Make America Great Again"
Thu 10 Aug
» New Scientist: Abigail Nussbaum reviews Yoon Ha Lee, Karin Tidbeck, Nina Allan
» Washington Post: Everdeen Mason reviews Marina J. Lostetter, N.K. Jemisin, Curtis Craddock
» SF Chronicle: Michael Berry reviews Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland, Gabe Hudson
» Fantastic Fiction at KGB hosts Gregory Frost and Rajan Khanna, August 16th
» Borderlands Books hosts Laura Lam, Laura Blackwell, Rebecca Gomez Farrell, Megan E. O'Keefe, Sarah Gailey, Seanan McGuire, and Max Gladstone in August, September
Mon 31 Jul
» Guardian: Eric Brown reviews Lam, Henry, Gregory, Reed, Markham
» Newsday: Everdeen Mason reviews Stephenson & Galland, Gerrard, Holmqvist, Kress
Sun 23 Jul
» The Manchester Review: Geoff Ryman has guest-edited Issue 18 with stories by African speculative fiction writers
» NY Times Book Review: Terrence Rafferty reviews Victor LaValle's The Changeling
» Ellen Datlow's photos from KGB July 19th, with Karen Heuler and Genevieve Valentine
» Scott Edelman dines with George R.R. Martin
Tue 18 Jul
» Chicago Tribune: Gary K. Wolfe reviews Nina Allan, Christopher Rowe, Michael Poore
» Slate: Jacob Brogan: How Reality Crumbles: A timely and troubling new novel ranks among the best works of queer science fiction, about Karin Tidbeck's Amatka
» Harvard Business Review: Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction
Sat 15 Jul
» NY Times: N.K. Jemisin reviews K.J. Parker, Nicky Drayden, Brenda Cooper, Steven R. Boyett & Ken Mitchroney
» The Verge: Andrew Liptak on One of the greatest science fiction magazines is now available for free online, about Galaxy Magazine
Wed 12 Jul
» Washington Post: Everdeen Mason reviews David Burr Gerrard, Ninni Holmqvist, Nancy Kress
» NPR: Octavia Butler: Writing Herself Into The Story, about a Huntington Library exhibit near Pasadena CA
Tue 04 Jul
» David Langford's Ansible 360
» Salon: Chandler Baker on Is this the future we want?: "How speculative fiction is uniquely suited to help us talk, even across party lines, about our social politics"
Thu 15 Jun
» Slate, Kevin Bankston: Prototyping a Better Tomorrow: How science fiction can help us create a better future
» Boing Boing, Cory Doctorow: How science fiction writers' "design fiction" is playing a greater role in policy debates
» Boing Boing, Bruce Sterling, science fiction won't make the future better
» Guardian, Laurie Penny: In science fiction, the future is feminist
» Popular Mechanics, Tiffany Kelly: The Best Science Fiction Books of 2017 (So Far), by Robinson, VanderMeer, Doctorow, Hurley, Lafferty, Mastai, Neuvel, and Kessel
Sun 04 Jun
» David Langford's Ansible 359
» The New Yorker: Jill Lepore on A Golden Age for Dystopian Fiction
» NY Times Book Review: Terrence Rafferty on horror, I Know What You'll Read This Summer, reviewing Philip Fracassi, Bracken MacLeod, Josh Malerman, Giorgio De Maria, Kit Reed
» Wall Street Journal: Tom Shippey reviews Kit Reed
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Mon 21 Aug 9:56 am
Finalists for the 2017 Washington Science Fiction Association (WSFA) Small Press Award for Short Fiction have been announced "A Salvaging of Ghost...
Mon 21 Aug 9:54 am
The winners for the Sidewise Awards for best alternate history have been announced. Long Form Underground Airlines, Ben H. Winters (Mulholland) ...
New Books : 22 August
Wednesday 23 August 2017 | Monitor
Peter S. Beagle & Jacob Weisman's The New Voices of Fantasy, the US edition of Stephen Baxter's The Massacre of Mankind, Michael Poore's Reincarnation Blues, and titles by Ellsworth, Fletcher, Hemstreet, Islington, and Keene & Shrewsbury
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 21 August 2017 | Monitor
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale contributes to dominate lists.
John Scalzi: Paying It Forward
Sunday 20 August 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview
You know the worst insult you can give a writer? Where you say they've become too big to edit. I'm mindful that I'm in a position where, to some extent, I don't have anything left to prove. I'm a New York Times bestseller, I won a Hugo, I'm esteemed in my field. There are some people who hate me, but even that is a mark of accomplishment in a way. I don't doubt my position in my field. I'm very comfortable. But comfort can lead to stagnation, and stagnation can lead to your downfall.
New in Paperback: August
Thursday 17 August 2017 | Monitor
Connie Willis' Crosstalk, Malka Older's Infomocracy, Baxter & Reynolds' The Medusa Chronicles, and titles by Anderson, Bradley & Ross, Drake, Hamilton, Kowal, Stirling, Toner, and Turtledove
Paul Di Filippo reviews Nat Segaloff
Wednesday 16 August 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Nat Segaloff's long-awaited biography of Harlan Ellison is a momentous occasion for me. This is a book that should serve to cement Ellison's achievements and reputation. But, moreover, it is an affirmation of the power of an individual's will and talent to remake the world, even in the face of doubt, disdain and derision.
New Books : 15 August
Tuesday 15 August 2017 | Monitor
N.K. Jemisin's The Stone Sky, Sarah Rees Brennan's In Other Lands, and titles by Cato, Guran, Killjoy, Milán, Spark, Stokes, and Wilson
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 14 August 2017 | Monitor
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dragonsworn debuts on two lists.
Justina Ireland: Dread Nation
Sunday 13 August 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview
Dread Nation is about a zombie apocalypse during the Civil War, but it's not really about the zombies, because a lot of the time, zombie novels lose the importance of zombies: they're about an upheaval in society that makes you reevaluate your humanity. It's about exploring people with their humanity stripped away.
Liz Bourke reviews Jack Campbell
Saturday 12 August 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2017 issue
Vanguard is set at a point in time long before the events of The Lost Fleet. It is clear from the novel's beginning that Campbell has set out to tell the story of the foundation of the Alliance, the polity to which most of the characters in The Lost Fleet belonged. These are the early days of human expansion across different star systems...
Russell Letson reviews Kit Reed
Friday 11 August 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2017 issue
Mormama isn't coy at all: it's a straight-up ghost story, and everybody inside the story knows it, and in any case the ghost for whom the novel is named is right there to certify everything, including (eventually) the reason for the haunting.
Paul Di Filippo reviews James Patrick Kelly
Thursday 10 August 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This tactic of unveiling the realities of the future through the eyes of an adolescent who progresses from immaturity to wisdom is a winner every time, when done deftly. And Kelly shows us that in the gap between novels, he has only gotten more adept, crafty, empathetic and clever at constructing and inhabiting such a cosmic bildungsroman.
John Langan reviews Benjamin Percy
Wednesday 9 August 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2017 issue
The essays collected in Benjamin Percy's Thrill Me address different aspects of the same topic, the writing of fiction. It's a subject about which no shortage of titles exists. What distinguishes Percy's contribution is the clarity of his prose and his suggestions for the aspiring and apprentice writer.
New Books : 8 August
Tuesday 8 August 2017 | Monitor
First novels by Asa Avdic and Marina J. Lostetter, and other titles by Elly Blue, Eric Brown, Karen Chance, Stina Leicht, and George R.R. Martin/Ben Avery/Mike S. Miller
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 7 August 2017 | Monitor
Christie Golden's Star Wars: Battlefront II: Inferno Squad debuts on four lists.
Kameron Hurley: Did "Being a Writer" Ever Mean... Just Writing?
Sunday 6 August 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's August Issue.
"Being a writer" has never really meant writing one hundred percent of the time, but it sure was a great dream to have, as a kid. When you realize that once you get on the "being a writer" treadmill you're expected to produce work on time and often, it can become a job as tedious as any other.
Periodicals: early August
Saturday 5 August 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Clarkesworld, The Dark, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Nightmare
Locus Bestsellers, August
Friday 4 August 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Cory Doctorow's Walkaway, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Guy Gavriel Kay's Children of Earth and Sky, and Timothy Zahn's Star Wars: Thrawn.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, August
Thursday 3 August 2017 | Magazine
August New and Notable books include Frank M. Robinson's Not So Good a Gay Man and titles by Bates, Chen, Crowley, Drayden, Goss, Jones, Lee, McGuire, Segaloff, Stephenson & Galland, and Williams.
New Books : 2 August
Wednesday 2 August 2017 | Monitor
Jeff Noon's first novel in 15 years, and titles by Correia, Escalada, Hodgell, Merbeth, Nassise, Palmatier, Percy, Pulley, Reid, Ridler, Schafer, Spencer, Straub, Tomlinson, and White
August 2017 Table of Contents
Tuesday 1 August 2017 | Magazine
The August issue features interviews with John Scalzi and Justina Ireland, a column by Kameron Hurley, results of this year's Locus Survey, photos from the Locus Awards Weekend and Readercon, and reviews of short fiction and books by Michael Poore, Callie Bates, Sarah Gailey, Charles Stross, Nancy Kress, and many others.
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 31 July 2017 | Monitor
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale has been prominent on lists for three full months.
Periodicals: late July
Sunday 30 July 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Black Static and Interzone, and July posts at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New UK Books : June - July
Saturday 29 July 2017 | Monitor
Stephen Baxter's Xeelee: Vengeance and titles by Chait, Haig, Hamilton, Jacobs, May, Peek, Smith, and Spark
Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Best New Horror #27
Friday 28 July 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's July 2017 issue
Steve Jones's Best New Horror #27 features a grisly cover image reproduced from Chamber of Chills, a short-lived comic from the early 1950s ... Although Jones has chosen the image for nostalgic reasons, his selections for his anthology contrast notably with it. Some have their moments of physical horror, but all 17 stories show the artistry that horror's best writers achieve in their work.
New in Paperback: July
Thursday 27 July 2017 | Monitor
Ken Liu's The Wall of Storms, Madeline Ashby's Company Town, Christopher Priest's The Gradual, and titles by Arden, Black, Chu, Forstchen, Haydon, Hieber, Howard, and Palmatier
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Daryl Gregory
Wednesday 26 July 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2017 issue
Family has been a recurring concern in Gregory's fiction since the beginning of his career, but with Spoonbenders, he explores the dynamics of a messed-up family with greater complexity, affection, and humor than ever before. It may be the least bizarre of his novels in terms of fantasy invention, but it's also the most deeply humane, and easily the funniest.
New Books : 25 July
Tuesday 25 July 2017 | Monitor
Titles by Ann Aguirre, Ilona Andrews, R. Scott Bakker, Adam Christopher, Emily Colin, Kate Elliott, Leena Likitalo, L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Vivan Shaw, Wesley Snipes & Ray Norman, and Michael J. Sullivan
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 24 July 2017 | Monitor
Ernest Cline's Ready Player One is #1 today on Amazon.com.
Paul Di Filippo reviews William Browning Spencer
Sunday 23 July 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Spencer's deadpan, droll, caustic introduction sets the tone for the rest of the book. Despite the variegated bizarro (yet utterly empathizable) characters and exotic settings of these stories, they share similar themes: betrayal of friends, family, self; the death of dreams and ambitions; heartbreak; the futility of artistic striving with its inherent material limits.
"This Is Going to Be a Lot of Fun": A Review of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Saturday 22 July 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
For the most part, I found Luc Besson's Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets to be an enjoyable space adventure, deploying consistently dazzling visuals in support of an involving story that never becomes entirely predictable. And while serious issues are intermittently raised, the film is refreshingly unpretentious, in contrast to other recent films, as the director's primary aim was clearly to entertain audiences, not to enlighten or inspire them with portentous bromides.
Classics In Reprint: May - July
Friday 21 July 2017 | Monitor
New editions of Ward Moore's Bring the Jubilee and books by Tanith Lee, Eric North, and Eric Frank Russell, and original collections of stories by Clifford D. Simak and Margaret St. Clair.
Paula Guran reviews Short Fiction
Thursday 20 July 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2017 issue
Fiyah is a new literary magazine dedicated to Black speculative fiction, a spiritual successor to the experimental FIRE!!, an African-American magazine of the Harlem Renaissance that managed only one issue in 1926. Of the six stories in Fiyah #1, four are dark enough to cover here and all are strong.
Liz Bourke reviews Seanan McGuire
Wednesday 19 July 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2017 issue
Down Among the Sticks and Bones has the voice and rhythm of a fairy tale, appropriately enough. It is vividly characterised, as so much of Seanan McGuire's work is, and has the kind of prose that carries you along to find out what happens next.
New Books : 18 July
Tuesday 18 July 2017 | Monitor
Susan Casper's Up the Rainbow, David D. Levine's Arabella and the Battle of Venus, and titles by Demchuk, Gerrard, Haspil, Hudson, Khanna, Taylor, and Turtledove
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 17 July 2017 | Monitor
Matt Haig's How to Stop Time is selling well in the UK.
Cory Doctorow: Bugging In
Sunday 16 July 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's July Issue interview
For me, I live by the aphorism, "fail better, fail faster." To double your success rate, triple your failure rate. What the walkaways figured out how to do is reduce the cost of failure, to make it cheaper to experiment with new ways of succeeding. One of the great bugaboos of the rationalist movement is loss aversion. There is another name for it, "the entitlement effect" ...
The Apes of Wrath: A Review of War for the Planet of the Apes
Saturday 15 July 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Everything about Matt Reeves's War for the Planet of the Apes thankfully suggests a desire to bring its series to an end as a trilogy. True, much of the film simply carries on the apes-versus-humans saga unveiled in the second film, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but eventually all of the major story lines are concluded in a satisfying manner that precisely lays the groundwork for the transformed world observed in the original Planet of the Apes.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Susan Casper
Friday 14 July 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
In February of this year, after several long illnesses, we lost Susan Casper. Wife to Gardner Dozois, she was on her own merits so much more, including a talented fiction writer. It is a testament to the high regard in which she was held that this commemorative volume was so quickly assembled and issued.
Russell Letson reviews C.J. Cherryh
Thursday 13 July 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2017 issue
Even newcomers might find Convergence an engaging (if occasionally puzzling) read the parallel depictions of the two protagonists navigating the complexities of their respective societies, each conditioned by a necessarily partial but passionate understanding of the Other, can stand on its own.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Christopher Brown
Wednesday 12 July 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This debut novel from Chris Brown many of whose earlier short stories appeared under the byline "Chris Nakashima-Brown" is a knockout first novel, paradoxically solemn yet exuberant, restrained yet inventive, as attested to by well-deserved encomiums from William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and Cory Doctorow.
New Books : 11 July
Tuesday 11 July 2017 | Monitor
Nancy Kress' Tomorrow's Kin, Nina Allan's The Rift, Greg Egan's Dichronauts, Sam J. Miller's The Art of Starving, best-of-year anthology by Ellen Datlow and Gardner Dozois, debut collections by Naomi Kritzer and Christopher Rowe, and titles by Brooks, Brown, Caine, Gray & Herbison, Hearne, Kenyon, Lucas, MacNaughton, Martin, Sniegoski, Stross, and Vaughn
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 10 July 2017 | Monitor
Diana Gabaldon's Seven Stones to Stand or Fall and Pittacus Lore's Generation One debut.
Sam J. Miller: A Better Power
Sunday 9 July 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's July Issue interview
I wanted to tell a story about how the power you get from self-harm is much less powerful or sustainable than the power you get from loving yourself, loving the people around you, and acknowledging that you are amazing and you don't need to hurt yourself. You don't need to make yourself look a certain way or act a certain way in order to be amazing.
Periodicals: early July
Saturday 8 July 2017 | Monitor
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination's "People of Color Take Over" special issue, and new issues of Abyss & Apex, Apex, Aphelion, Aurealis, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Forever, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Shimmer, and Uncanny
Locus Bestsellers, July
Friday 7 July 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, James S.A. Corey's Leviathan Wakes, and and Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath: Life Debt.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, July
Thursday 6 July 2017 | Magazine
July New and Notable books include A. Merc Rustad's So You Want to Be a Robot and titles by Barker, Benford, Czerneda, Danker, Jeter, Kincaid, King & Chizmar, Parker, Scalzi, Valente, and Wells.
Cory Doctorow: Be the First One to Not Do Something that No One Else Has Ever Not Thought of Doing Before
Wednesday 5 July 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's July Issue.
What if a story made the fact of humanity's essential goodness the center of its conflict? What if, after a disaster, everyone wanted to help, but no one could agree on how to do so?
New Books : 4 July
Tuesday 4 July 2017 | Monitor
K.J. Parker's Mightier than the Sword and titles by Aaronovitch, Boop, Durst, Kuhn, Leigh, Posey, Price, Snodgrass, Taylor & Nye, Wagner, Wells, and Willett
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 3 July 2017 | Monitor
Dean Koontz's The Silent Corner debuts strongly.
Periodicals: late June
Sunday 2 July 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Analog and Asimov's, and June content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Persistent Visions, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
July 2017 Table of Contents
Saturday 1 July 2017 | Magazine
The July issue features interviews with Cory Doctorow and Sam J. Miller, a column by Cory Doctorow, complete results of this year's Locus Poll, photos from the Nebula Awards Conference and WisCon, and reviews of short fiction and books by Nina Allan, Kit Reed, Mariana Enriquez, Wendy N. Wagner, Tad Williams, and many others.
Liz Bourke reviews Cassandra Khaw
Thursday 29 June 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2017 issue
Food of the Gods is a mosaic novel, of sorts. It collects three linked novellas by Cassandra Khaw that, together, form a whole arc. At least two of these novellas have already been published as standalone e-books. The first of these is called "Rupert Wong, Cannibal Chef", and if I tell you it really does live up to the title, you've got some idea of the flavour of the novel as a whole.
Russell Letson reviews Ian McDonald
Wednesday 28 June 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2017 issue
Ian McDonald's Luna: Wolf Moon (the second-act volume in the sequence that opened last year with Luna: New Moon) is instantly recognizably as hard SF: it's set only a century from now, in a future developed from current conditions and built on technologies that we can imagine evolving from today's cutting-edge efforts in AI, medicine, and engineering.
New Books : 27 June
Tuesday 27 June 2017 | Monitor
Daryl Gregory's Spoonbenders, Karin Tidbeck's Amatka, and titles by Barnes, Belcher, Dunne, Gabaldon, Hough, Irvine, Lore, Oden, Ryan, Tanaka, West, and Williams
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 26 June 2017 | Monitor
The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland and The Black Elfstone by Terry Brooks debut.
Paul Di Filippo reviews K.J. Parker and James Morrow
Sunday 25 June 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Both these novellas offer as much pleasure as books three times their size. Snap them up!
Bruce Sterling reviews Cory Doctorow
Saturday 24 June 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's June 2017 issue
Walkaway is a real-deal, generically traditional science-fiction novel; it's set in an undated future and it features weird set design, odd costumes, fights, romances, narrow escapes, cool weapons, even zeppelins. This is the best Cory Doctorow book ever.
New in Paperback: June
Friday 23 June 2017 | Monitor
David D. Levine's Arabella of Mars, Sofia Samatar's The Winged Histories, and titles by Black, Durbin, Martinez, and Milán
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Ellen Klages
Thursday 22 June 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's May 2017 issue
Like Bradbury, Klages is notable for the clarity and unstrained elegance of her prose, though she never reaches for the self-conscious rhapsodizing that often characterized Bradbury's later work. To the extent that Klages's world is like Bradbury's, it's for the most part Bradbury without the boys and without the exclamation points.
New Books : 20 June
Tuesday 20 June 2017 | Monitor
Theodora Goss's The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter, James Morrow's The Asylum of Dr. Caligari, and titles by Bishop, Chen, Crowley, Dietz, Gunn, Hieber, Holt, Jones, Koontz, Lam, Nagata, and Turzillo
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 19 June 2017 | Monitor
Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth ranks in the top 5 on four lists.
Cat Sparks: Strange Directions
Sunday 18 June 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's June Issue interview
I didn't set out to write a climate change story, but it is easy to see how I ended up with one. My still-not-finished PhD examines the intersection point of ecocatastrophe science fiction and climate fiction. No way to stop that bleeding over into anything else I'm working on. I can barely keep it out of my conversation.
Periodicals: mid-June
Saturday 17 June 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, Aurealis, Forever, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Star*Line
Spotlight on: Scott H. Andrews, Beneath Ceaseless Skies
Friday 16 June 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's June Issue
"Literary adventure fantasy" is my tagline for literary or character-centered fantasy set in other worlds. Much secondary-world fantasy feels focused on the setting or the plot; I like a focus on the characters, for example using Realist approaches like close points-of-view or ambiguous endings realism in worlds that aren't real.
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through March 2018
Thursday 15 June 2017 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's June issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland
Wednesday 14 June 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Just after I had lamented, a few reviews ago, that authors were not inclined nowadays to indulge in old-school, one-on-one collaborations, along comes this giddy, engrossing romp of a novel authored by a team. It's a seamless performance reminiscent of such ancestors as de Camp & Pratt, while still hewing to ultra-modern standards and practices for SF novels with a magical slant.
New Books : 13 June
Tuesday 13 June 2017 | Monitor
Yoon Ha Lee's Raven Stratagem, Neal Stephenson & Nicole Galland's The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O., and titles by Anderson, Brooks, Cooper, Corlett, Drayden, Egan, Johnston, Lavalle, McGuire, Saintcrow, Schenck, Schwab, and Smith & Gladstone
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 12 June 2017 | Monitor
J.R.R. Tolkien's Beren and Lúthien debuts.
John Kessel: Over the Moon
Sunday 11 June 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's June Issue interview
I'm very happy to have The Moon and the Other out. In this book I wanted to make the scientific extrapolation as plausible as I could, and do social speculation, and get deeply into the characters tell a novel of manners, two love stories set in a made-up society and have political intrigues and family drama and even something of a thriller plot.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Gregory Benford
Saturday 10 June 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
From his wonted haunts in the intergalactic realms of space, Gregory Benford has come down to Earth a venue he has not totally neglected in the past, given such seminal and well-received quasi-naturalistic works as Timescape to produce a counterfactual novel in the manner of Harry Turtledove.
Spotlight on: Heather Shaw, Persistent Visions
Friday 9 June 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's June Issue
As I say in my guidelines, I'm looking for "stories that include a diverse cast of characters, that challenge conventional assumptions regarding race, relationships, gender, neurodiversity, disability, and sexuality in thought-provoking, exciting new ways..."
Kameron Hurley: Story Isn't Just "Stuff Happens"
Thursday 8 June 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's June Issue.
Just because we have read stories doesn't mean we intrinsically know how to write them, the same way that simply having a dog isn't going to teach you how to better understand them.
Locus Bestsellers, June
Wednesday 7 June 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Patricia Briggs' Silence Fallen, Seanan McGuire's Magic for Nothing, V.E. Schwab's A Darker Shade of Magic, and Chuck Wendig's Star Wars: Aftermath: Empire's End.
New Books : 6 June
Tuesday 6 June 2017 | Monitor
Catherynne M. Valente'a The Refrigerator Monologues, K.W. Jeter's Grim Expectations, a memoir by Frank M. Robinson, and titles by Afsharirad, Chandler & Mullenax, Conroy & Dunn, de Castell, DuBois, Gilligan, Green, Huff, Jensen, Kadrey, Korpon, Tolkien, and Wells
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 5 June 2017 | Monitor
Cassandra Clare's Lord of Shadows and Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth debut strongly.
Periodicals: early June
Sunday 4 June 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, and Nightmare
A Working Model for Superhero Films: A Review of Wonder Woman
Saturday 3 June 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Without a doubt, Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman is the very best of the recent "DC Extended Universe" superhero films yet the praise doesn't mean as much as it should, inasmuch as its undistinguished precursors Man of Steel, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Suicide Squad set the bar very low, to put it mildly.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, June
Friday 2 June 2017 | Magazine
June New and Notable books include Weinberg Tales and titles by Adams, Brennan, Clarke, Doctorow, Hobb, Johnson, Kiernan, Klages, Kushner, Murad & Shurin, and VanderMeer
June 2017 Table of Contents
Thursday 1 June 2017 | Magazine
The June issue features interviews with John Kessel and Cat Sparks, a column by Kameron Hurley, spotlights on Scott H. Andrews and Heather Shaw, lists of forthcoming books through March 2018, and reviews of short fiction and books by Daryl Gregory, Dave Duncan, C.J. Cherryh, Ellen Datlow, Cory Doctorow, and many others.
Periodicals: late May
Wednesday 31 May 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Black Static, Interzone, and Into the Ruins, plus May content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New Books : 30 May
Tuesday 30 May 2017 | Monitor
Kit Reed's Mormama and titles by Andrews, Black, Brennan, and Hough
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 29 May 2017 | Monitor
Stephen King & Richard Chizmar's Gwendy's Button Box debuts on four lists.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Claire North
Sunday 28 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2017 issue
With its fragmented structure and occasionally self-consciously meditative prose, The End of the Day might puzzle some who enjoyed the thriller plotting of The Sudden Appearance of Hope, but at its best it reaffirms the passion and ambition that have made North such a consistently intriguing writer.
Comments from the 2017 Locus Poll and Survey
Saturday 27 May 2017 | Magazine
Here are comments, presented anonymously, submitted by voters in this year's Locus Poll and Survey. Results of the poll will be published in the magazine's July issue; survey results will appear in August issue.
Adrienne Martini reviews Robert Charles Wilson
Friday 26 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2017 issue
The past, it has been said, is another country. If you're August Kemp in Robert Charles Wilson's Last Year, that other country is one you can monetize.
Stefan Dziemianowicz reviews Powers of Darkness
Thursday 25 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2017 issue
Question: When is Bram Stoker's Dracula not Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Answer: When it's Makt Myrkranna, a book whose title translates from the Icelandic as Powers of Darkness and which, in the early twentieth century, was published as the Icelandic-language edition of Stoker's vampire classic.
New Books : 23 May
Tuesday 23 May 2017 | Monitor
Michael Crichton's Dragon Teeth, Stephen King & Richard Chizmar's Gwendy's Button Box, and titles by Baldwin, Clare, Gailey, and Higgins
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 22 May 2017 | Monitor
Robin Hobb's Assassin's Fate and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Deadmen Walking debut; Amazon.com debuts "Amazon Charts"
Periodicals: mid-May
Sunday 21 May 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Aphelion, Aurealis, and The Dark
Contractual Obligations: A Review of Alien: Covenant
Saturday 20 May 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Unquestionably, Alien: Covenant fulfills its contractual obligations: so, if you have been longing to watch scene after scene of lunging aliens latching on the faces of intended victims and gruesomely slaughtering every one of them, this film represents the answer to your prayers. The very open question is whether anyone without that fervent yearning will want to sit through two hours and three minutes of this otherwise lamentable movie.
Faren Miller reviews Brian Staveley
Friday 19 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2017 issue
Over the course of killings and adventures, Skullsworn explores deeper issues love and death, humanity and Other without becoming ponderously profound... Stavely pulls it all off with style.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews John Kessel
Thursday 18 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's April 2017 issue
The Moon and the Other brilliantly balances character, social commentary, and hard SF in a novel of surprising density and depth of feeling.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Robert Jackson Bennett
Wednesday 17 May 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The rest of the book is a hurdle across many venues, a cat-and-mouse game in which Sigrud and his allies have to stay one step ahead of Nokov to frustrate his plans for world domination. Finished pretty much with any fresh worldbuilding that activity was executed sufficiently in the first two books Bennett can now use his well-established venues and cultures as stagesets for incredible action.
New Books : 16 May
Tuesday 16 May 2017 | Monitor
Nebula Awards Showcase 2017, edited by Julie E. Czerneda, and titles by Campbell, Golden, MacLeod, Rossi, Smale, Turner, and Wallace
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 15 May 2017 | Monitor
Sarah J. Maas' A Court of Wings and Ruin debuts prominently on two lists.
Ellen Klages: Magic in the Mix
Sunday 14 May 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's May Issue interview
I love short stories. Imagine holding a small carved bowl, its weight and shape and size a perfect fit for two cupped hands. The grain of the wood flows with the bowl's curves. The interplay of light and dark pleases the eye. The texture is silken against your skin. You turn it, admiring the craft, the artistry, and the detail. "It's lovely," you say, handing it back to its creator. Then you say, "Now when are you going to make something real, like furniture?"
New in Paperback: May
Saturday 13 May 2017 | Monitor
Guy Gavriel Kay's Children of Earth and Sky, Blake Crouch's Dark Matter, Neil Gaiman's The View from the Cheap Streets, and titles by Andrews, Bear, Coe, DeLillo, Green, Lockwood, Maas, Niven & Barnes, and Ryan
Paul Di Filippo reviews Bud Sparhawk
Friday 12 May 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Sparhawk offers us unflashy, solid tales which nonetheless often extend SF's remit. He never neglects either real technological novums nor humanistic story-telling values. He does not privilege message over entertainment, nor vice versa, but rather tries to keep both in balance. And in the end, he's all about the art and the history and traditions of the genre, not self-aggrandizing grandstanding.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Elizabeth Hand
Thursday 11 May 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
PM Press's ongoing series of chapbook miscellanies of "outspoken authors" basically appetizer-size collections of fiction, non-fiction, and interviews can at their best convey a sense of meeting an old radical friend in a bar, sharing a few memories, and catching up on things. Elizabeth Hand's Fire, the series' 18th volume, offers a cross-section of Hand's work as both author and critic.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Eric Flint & Mike Resnick
Wednesday 10 May 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Flint and Resnick deliver an outstanding, madcap, goofball adventure, with plenty of surprises and not a dull moment. If you want some points of comparison, I would adduce Ron Goulart, Keith Laumer, James Schmitz and a fellow who has unfortunately dropped off the publishing map that master of surreal japes, Philip Palmer.
New Books : 9 May
Tuesday 9 May 2017 | Monitor
Gregory Benford's The Berlin Project, Ellen Klages' Wicked Wonders, and titles by Hardinge, Hobb, Kenyon, Khaw, Kroese, Rustad, and White
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 8 May 2017 | Monitor
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale ranks #1 on two paperback lists.
Paul Tremblay: Aftermath
Sunday 7 May 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's May Issue interview
That's why the emotional lives of characters in books are so interesting to me. I want to know why people react in certain ways to different situations, and what decisions they're going to make after that. In the best horror stories, the horror happens somewhere in the middle. The interesting part for me is the aftermath: "What are people going to do now?"
Periodicals: early May
Saturday 6 May 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Clarkesworld, Forever, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Shimmer, and Uncanny
Locus Bestsellers, May
Friday 5 May 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by V.E. Schwab's A Conjuring of Light, Patricia Briggs' Fire Touched, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, and Claudia Gray's Star Wars: Bloodline.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, May
Thursday 4 May 2017 | Magazine
May New and Notable books include Ian McDonald's Luna: Wolf Moon and titles by Armstrong, Asher, Britain, Chokshi, Kessel, Lafferty, Matthews, Moon, Robinson, Scalzi, and Silverberg
Cory Doctorow: Weaponized Narrative
Wednesday 3 May 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's May Issue.
Walkaway is a utopian disaster novel. It's a novel about people doing right for one another under conditions of adversity. It's a deliberate, tactical rebuttal of the science fiction stories (including my own) that resort to the easy, lazy trope of having civilization erupt into violence, rape, and chaos the minute that technology fails.
New Books : 2 May
Tuesday 2 May 2017 | Monitor
Sharon Lee & Steve Miller's 20th Liaden novel The Gathering Edge, and titles by Bennett, Bennis, Carey, Danker, Douglas, Flint & Resnick, Gaiman & Srinivasan, Hoyt, Hunter, Koch, Kushner, Maas, McLean, Meadows, Ochse, Patel, Rhodes, Wells, and Zahn
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 1 May 2017 | Monitor
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale rises in the rankings.
May 2017 Table of Contents
Monday 1 May 2017 | Magazine
The May issue features interviews with Ellen Klages and Paul Tremblay, a column by Cory Doctorow, coverage of the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and other conventions, and reviews of short fiction and books by Jonathan Strahan, Jeff VanderMeer, Ian McDonald, Clive Barker, Marie Brennan, and many others.
Online Periodicals: late April
Sunday 30 April 2017 | Monitor
April posts at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Fireside, Persistent Visions, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Print Periodicals: late April
Saturday 29 April 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Analog, Asimov's, and Black Static
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kim Stanley Robinson
Friday 28 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
In contrast to the Dos Passos expansiveness of 2312 and despite its panoramic title, New York 2140 is a comparatively intimate tale of a handful of representative characters whose paths cross in various ways in a New York defiantly rebuilding after two separate "pulses" have left sea levels something like 50 feet higher than they are now.
Classics In Reprint: April
Thursday 27 April 2017 | Monitor
The first volumes of The Best of Gordon R. Dickson and Seabury Quinn's The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin, and titles by Jeter, Lee, and Niven & Pournelle
Paul Di Filippo reviews Poul Anderson
Wednesday 26 April 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The date range is almost identical to that of the selections in The Best of Gordon R. Dickson: Volume 1 that I reviewed earlier this month. And right up front, I believe we can make an important distinction along these lines. Poul Anderson was simply the better and more influential and consequential writer of the pair...
New Books : 25 April
Tuesday 25 April 2017 | Monitor
Jeff VanderMeer's Borne, Cory Doctorow's Walkaway, and titles by Brennan, Broaddus, Honeywell, Maberry, and Staveley
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 24 April 2017 | Monitor
Timothy Zahn's Star Wars: Thrawn ranks #2 at New York Times and Publishers Weekly
Paul Di Filippo reviews Allen Steele
Sunday 23 April 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
After being more or less defunct for decades, this seems to be Captain Future's time to be reborn. The Captain's retro yet timeless virtues both the hero's personal creed and the narrative stylings are arguably congruent with cultural trends today toward a desired and desirable return to basics and old verities with a useful revisioning.
Adrienne Martini reviews Elan Mastai
Saturday 22 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
This is a science fiction love story that is by turns funny and wistful and smart, while remaining fully invested in how being human feels.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Gordon R. Dickson
Friday 21 April 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Dickson began publishing professionally in 1950, and this first volume of his Best Stories chronicles the years 1954 through 1964 with one important exception. Editor Hank Davis has wisely and temptingly kicked off the collection with "Love Song," the piece that Dickson sold to Harlan Ellison for Last Dangerous Visions, and which has been unseen since.
New in Paperback: March - April
Thursday 20 April 2017 | Monitor
Charlie Jane Anders' All the Birds in the Sky, Stephen King's End of Watch, Thomas Olde Heuvelt's HEX, Anna Smaill's The Chimes, and titles by Armstrong, Bauers, Belcher, Campbell, Cherryh, Martinez, Riggs, Seay, and Stewart.
Spotlight on: Rovina Cai, Artist
Wednesday 19 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue
I've just wrapped up illustrating a picture book! It's called Tintinnabula, and is written by Australian SF/F writer Margo Lanagan. One of my favourite things about illustration is getting to delve into a writer's "world," and it has been a delight to explore Margo's.
New Books : 18 April
Tuesday 18 April 2017 | Monitor
Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Eleven, Sofia Samatar's Tender: Stories, John Joseph Adams' Cosmic Powers, and titles by Armstrong, Carr, Clark, Golden, James, Johnson, Kent, Shea, and Wolf
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 17 April 2017 | Monitor
Omar El Akkad's American War debuts on three lists.
20 Years of Locus Online
Monday 17 April 2017 | About the Website
Locus Online debuted 20 years ago today. Here's a look back at the history of the site, a selection of featured posts, and a gallery of homepage image captures that illustrate the development of the site as web standards evolved over the years.
Kinuko Y. Craft: Light & Shadow
Sunday 16 April 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's April Issue interview
One of the benefits I get from doing covers is, I get to read. The main thing I like about what I do is that I'm away from reality and the real world where I live, in a make believe one a land of someone else's imagination as long as the project lasts. I need that to survive.
Periodicals: mid-April
Saturday 15 April 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Interzone, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Spotlight on: Jeffrey Alan Love, Artist
Friday 14 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue
My first job in SF/F, I think, was working for Irene Gallo for Tor.com, an absolutely wonderful website which has revolutionized short fiction and art in the SF/F field. I couldn't have asked for a better first job.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Kameron Hurley
Thursday 13 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
While the raw template may be space opera, The Stars Are Legion draws enthusiastically and effectively on a number of mythological and horror traditions as well.
Spotlight on: Paul Lewin, Artist
Wednesday 12 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue
Coming from the perspective of a fine artist, there are only a handful of cover projects that I've been involved with over the years. Without a doubt, though, the most interesting one has been with Seven Stories Press and the reissuing of Octavia Butler's books Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents.
New Books : 11 April
Tuesday 11 April 2017 | Monitor
Allen Steele's Avengers of the Moon, Elizabeth Moon's Cold Welcome, Gwyneth Jones' Proof of Concept, and titles by Anderson, Beal, Durst, Farland, Maberry, Mason, Pollock, Smith, and Smythe
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 10 April 2017 | Monitor
Laini Taylor's Strange the Dreamer debuts on two lists.
Kameron Hurley: How to Write a Book in a Month
Sunday 9 April 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's April Issue.
We all want to learn how to write books faster. The pace of the news cycle today has heated up to such an extent that for those of us who aren't in the 1% of writers, if we don't come out with a book a year, it feels like the world has forgotten us amid the buzz of ever more intensifying world horror.
Periodicals: early April
Saturday 8 April 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Apex, Aphelion, Clarkesworld, The Dark, Forever, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, and Nightmare
Russell Letson reviews Ken MacLeod
Friday 7 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Ken MacLeod's new trilogy-in-progress bears the overall title The Corporation Wars, with US print editions of the first two volumes, Dissidence and Insurgence, appearing just a month apart late in 2016. (The third, Emergence, is due out later this year.) The story is told from a variety of viewpoints and features a mixture of motifs: the post-human condition, interstellar colonization, and space combat, along with familiar MacLeodian discussions about political systems and revolution.
Locus Bestsellers, April
Thursday 6 April 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by James S.A. Corey's Babylon's Ashes, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Philip K. Dick's The Man in the High Castle, and Alexander Freed's Rogue One.
Liz Bourke reviews Charles Stross
Wednesday 5 April 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Empire Games is the start of a new trilogy, set in the world of his Merchant Princes novels (six books, now released as three omnibus editions), but several years on from the nuclear events that punctuated those novels.
New Books : 4 April
Tuesday 4 April 2017 | Monitor
John Kessel's The Moon and the Other, Omar El Akkad's American War, Aliette de Bodard's The House of Binding Thorns, Neil Clarke's The Best Science Fiction of the Year, Volume Two, and titles by Cherryh, Dolkart, Emrys, Flint & Barber, Jacka, Jennings, Lawrence, Lee, Matthews, Neuvel, North, O'Keefe, Priest, and Yatsuhashi
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 3 April 2017 | Monitor
John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire debuts on two lists.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, April
Sunday 2 April 2017 | Magazine
April New and Notable books include Edmund Gordon's The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography, George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, and titles by Bledsoe, Carey, Donnelly, Nix, Palmer, Pratt, Rosetti & Rayyan, Schwab, and Spinrad.
Back to the Retrofuture, Version 2.0: A Review of Ghost in the Shell
Saturday 1 April 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Ghost in the Shell is most definitely a film worth seeing, and no one who buys a ticket will feel cheated afterwards; they may especially appreciate the film, as I did, as an unusually artful rendering of all the things that people used to worry about in the 1980s. Still, like me, they may also conclude that the film just wasn't their cup of tea.
April 2017 Table of Contents
Saturday 1 April 2017 | Magazine
The April issue features an interview with Kinuko Y. Craft and spotlights of artists Paul Lewin, Jeffrey Alan Love, and Rovina Cai, an obituary and appreciations for Susan Casper, a column by Kameron Hurley, a report on SF in Portugal, and reviews of short fiction and books by John Kessel, Brian Staveley, Robert Charles Wilson, Alex Wells, and many others.
Periodicals: late March
Friday 31 March 2017 | Monitor
Fourth issue of new quarterly 'zine Into the Ruins, and March issues and content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Fireside, Persistent Visions, Strange Horizons, Terraform, and Tor.com
Liz Bourke reviews Lara Elena Donnelly
Thursday 30 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
Amberlough isn't a cheerful book, but it has an amazing voice. Its spy-thriller twists and ever-growing tension combine to provide an extraordinarily entertaining ride. And I have to say: if this is her debut? I can't wait to see what Donnelly does next.
John Langan reviews Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Wednesday 29 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
With Certain Dark Things, Silvia Moreno-Garcia demonstrates that there is always more to be done with familiar figures such as the vampire, and that in the hands of a talented writer, the creatures can rise to new (un)life.
New Books : 28 March
Tuesday 28 March 2017 | Monitor
Ian McDonald's Luna: Wolf Moon and titles by Eves, McDermott, Sapkowski, Taylor, and Westerfeld
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 27 March 2017 | Monitor
A new edition of Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140, and Andrzej Sapowski's The Lady of the Lake debut.
Classics In Reprint: March
Sunday 26 March 2017 | Monitor
The seventh volume of Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, a 50th-anniversary edition of Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, and new editions of novels by Richard Bowes and Tanith Lee
Mutiny of the Unknown Alien Slime: A Review of Life
Saturday 25 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
From one perspective, Life represents yet another example of a recent Hollywood trend that I find heartening a renewed interest in realistic depictions of humanity's probable future in space. ... Regrettably, however, Life ultimately becomes a conventional, and sometimes silly, horror film.
Russell Letson reviews Cory Doctorow
Friday 24 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
For all of its engagement with What's Happenin' Now, Baby, Walkaway feels like good old-fashioned science fiction: part thrill-ride, part warning, part all-night political wrangle with your really smart college roommate.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Cat Sparks
Thursday 23 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
[Her] fine first novel Lotus Blue, set in a far future Australian wasteland, is as evocative of Terry Dowling's Rynosseros stories, with their neat sandships, or even of David R. Bunch's surreal Moderan stories, as it is of George Miller's monster truck rallies.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Caitlín R. Kiernan
Wednesday 22 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The heterogeneous tales assembled in this collection display Kiernan's large but tightly interlocked range of interests. Outsiders, art, the elements, transcendence, sex, love, failure, responsibility.
New Books : 21 March
Tuesday 21 March 2017 | Monitor
John Scalzi's The Collapsing Empire, Mishell Baker's Phantom Pains, and titles by Allan, Asher, Clarke, Cornell, Fujii, Lebbon, Strickland & Miller, and Weis & Krammes
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 20 March 2017 | Monitor
Patricia Briggs' Silence Fallen, Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, and Anne Bishop's Etched in Bone debut.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Kim Stanley Robinson
Sunday 19 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
This book is amiable, humorous, good-natured, optimistic, in love with the quotidian and with the crazy quilt adaptive existence that life under stress assumes. Robinson gives us a host of fascinating, interlocking plots, and some of them have global resonance.
Periodicals: mid-March
Saturday 18 March 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aphelion, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Perihelion, and Uncanny
New in Paperback: February - March
Friday 17 March 2017 | Monitor
Robert J. Sawyer's Quantum Night, Allen Steele's Arkwright, and titles by Abercrombie, Brennan, Das, Lawrence, Locke, Oyeyemi, Staveley, Straub, Tremblay, and Valente
Adrienne Martini reviews Carrie Vaughn
Thursday 16 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Carrie Vaughn's Martians Abroad clearly shares DNA with Heinlein's juveniles, and is, the author states, and homage to Podkayne of Mars.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Paul La Farge
Thursday 15 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Put most simplistically, it's a novel examining the friendship between H. P. Lovecraft and his teenage pal, Robert Barlow, who became HPL's literary executor. But it's also much more than that, as we shall see.
New Books : 14 March
Tuesday 14 March 2017 | Monitor
Kim Stanley Robinson's New York 2140 and titles by Fletcher, Helmreich, Knaak, Murad & Shurin, Neumeier, Newman, and Xue
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 13 March 2017 | Monitor
Kristen Britain's Firebrand debuts; George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo and Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology rank #1 or #2 on four lists.
Jane Yolen: Accidental Novelist
Sunday 12 March 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
Children's books and young-adult books and fantasy have this in common: the best are written like poems. They have metaphor, they have astonishing lyrical prose, and they work on multiple levels. They are a gateway drug to beautiful literature, and shouldn't be dismissed.
Bungle in the Jungle: A Review of Kong: Skull Island
Saturday 11 March 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Kong: Skull Island actually begins quite promisingly, as we are introduced to a diverse and generally appealing cast of characters, and they gather together to journey to the mysterious Skull Island and confront the enormous, and initially hostile, King Kong. ... Unfortunately, the film devolves into an iterative, and increasingly unpleasant, series of variations on the two basic set pieces observed in all giant monster movies: humans vs. monster, and monster vs. monster.
Locus Magazine's Forthcoming Books: Selected Titles through December 2017
Friday 10 March 2017 | Resources
Titles from Locus Magazine's March issue listings of Selected Forthcoming Books by Author are arranged here by month.
Locus Bestsellers, March
Thursday 9 March 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by James S.A. Corey's Babylon's Ashes, Patrick Rothfuss' The Name of the Wind, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, and James Luceno's Star Wars: Catalyst.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Ken Liu
Wednesday 8 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
The Wall of Storms is a far more complex and rewarding novel than The Grace of Kings unusual for the middle book in a series, and equally unusual is that it can be appreciated largely as a standalone.
New Books : 7 March
Tuesday 7 March 2017 | Monitor
Paul La Farge's The Night Ocean, Ada Palmer's Seven Surrenders, Jaroslav Kalfar's Spaceman of Bohemia, Cat Sparks' Lotus Blue, and titles by Bailey & Schmidt, Bishop, Bledsoe, Briggs, Butler, Christopher, Claycomb, Fortune, Hamilton, Henderson, Maresca, McClellan, McGuire, Rieder, and Wells
Langan reviews Pinborough: They Say a Girl Died Here Once
Monday 6 March 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's March 2017 issue
The family at the heart of They Say a Girl Died Here Once, Sarah Pinborough's excellent new novel, is in retreat. Three years prior to the book's opening, Anna, its teenaged protagonist, was slipped a date-rape drug at a party....
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 6 March 2017 | Monitor
V.E. Schwab's A Conjuring of Light and Chuck Wendig's Empire's End: Aftermath debut; George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo and Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology rank #1 and #2 on three lists.
John Joseph Adams: The Stars His Destination
Sunday 5 March 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's March Issue interview
Having read The Stars My Destination, I went on a quest to find more books like it, and ultimately that's what led to me becoming an editor to driving myself to find things that would challenge me as a reader and change the way I read.
Periodicals: early March
Saturday 4 March 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Aurealis, Clarkesworld, Forever, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Mythis Delirium, Nightmare, and Shimmer
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, March
Friday 3 March 2017 | Magazine
March New and Notable books include Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes and titles by Bond, Brust & White, Datlow, Delany, Dyer, Hand, Matthews, McGuire, Okorafor, Stross, and Vaughn
Cory Doctorow: The Jubilee: Fill Your Boots
Thursday 2 March 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's March Issue.
Technology hints at another model, one that hybridizes the pre-industrial rhythms of work and play and the super-modern ability to use computers to solve otherwise transcendentally hard logistics and coordination problems.
March 2017 Table of Contents
Wednesday 1 March 2017 | Magazine
The March issue features interviews with Jane Yolen and John Joseph Adams, listings of forthcoming books through December 2017, a column by Cory Doctorow, an obituary with appreciations for Edward Bryant, and reviews of short fiction and books by Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lara Elena Donnelly, Henry Kuttner, Shaun Tan, and many others.
New Books : 28 February
Tuesday 28 February 2017 | Monitor
Rob Latham's Science Fiction Criticism: An Anthology of Essential Writings, the US edition of Alastair Reynolds' Revenger, and titles by Britain, Broaddus, Dawidziak, Hoover, Kadrey, Kiernan, Lewis, Marr, Martinez, Millet, Nix, Skovron, and Wendig
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 27 February 2017 | Monitor
George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo debuts at #1 on three lists; Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology is #2 on the same three lists.
Periodicals: late February
Sunday 26 February 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Analog and Asimov's (its 40th-anniversary issue), and February content at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Classics In Reprint: February
Saturday 25 February 2017 | Monitor
New editions of books by William Gibson, K.W. Jeter, Philip Francis Nowlan, and Michael Swanwick
Liz Bourke reviews Bookburners
Friday 24 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Bookburners Season 1 might top 200,000 words, but it reaches that total in 16 novelette-to-short-novella-length episodes. Structurally, then, it's a lot more like a television show than a serial novel as it's intended to be. A supernatural copshow/caper/spies and intrigue television show, with added complicated team dynamics.
Rich Horton reviews Short Fiction
Thursday 23 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
F&SF for November/December features a rare and welcome appearance from Gardner Dozois, whose fame as an editor should not cause us to forget how good his fiction is...
Faren Miller reviews S. Jae-Jones
Wednesday 22 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's February 2017 issue
Historically, "The Earl-King" (Der Erlkönig), "Unfinished Symphony", the title piece, and more are works by Franz Schubert. Jae-Jones plays her own games by reimagining and recasting him as the heroine's young violin-virtuoso brother (not a composer in his own right), while still invoking the full passion of the time when Baroque gave way to early Romantic and the world changed.
New Books : 21 February
Tuesday 21 February 2017 | Monitor
Meg Elison's The Book of Etta, Michael Tolkin's NK3, and titles by Dayton, Dornbusch, Eames, Hogan, Lyons, Schwab, and Sharp
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 20 February 2017 | Monitor
Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology rank #1 on two print lists.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Nnedi Okorafor
Sunday 19 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
Binti: Home opens about a year after that earlier story began as a quiet coming-of-age story, turned suddenly into a survival adventure, and ended with Binti playing a key role in a kind of revolution.
Periodicals: mid-February
Saturday 18 February 2017 | Monitor
New issues of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apex, Aphelion, Aurealis, Forever, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Mothership Zeta, and Perihelion
Paul Di Filippo reviews Elan Mastai
Thursday 16 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
The first thing to note is that although Mastai might very well have been raised outside strict genre borders, he exhibits a playful fluency with, and is creatively savvy about, all the genre appurtenances and furniture. His does not make a single misstep with his speculations or language.
Paul Di Filippo reviews Richard Kadrey
Wednesday 15 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Lastly, and possibly the biggest attraction of the book, is the sheer language. Like S. J. Perelman writing for the Marx Brothers, combined with Raymond Chandler's propensity for over-the-top similes and metaphors, Kadrey's language pops off the page, whether as dialogue or description.
New Books : 14 February
Tuesday 14 February 2017 | Monitor
Peter S. Beagle's In Calabria, Steve Erickson's Shadowbahn, George Saunders' Lincoln in the Bardo, and titles by Brodsky, Carey, Danielewski, Duncan, Hand, James, Jordan, Tem, and Wells
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 13 February 2017 | Monitor
Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology ranks high on all three Amazon lists.
Alastair Reynolds: Expanding Universe
Sunday 12 February 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's February Issue interview
The other seed of Revenger came from when I really fell in love with science fiction, around the time I was 16. That's when I was absolutely besotted with Larry Niven and the Known Space stories...
New in Paperback: January - February
Saturday 11 February 2017 | Monitor
Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning and titles by Bishop, Briggs, Carriger, Harris, Hines, Jones, Kadrey, Lyris, McAuley, McIntosh, Neuvel, North, Pratchett & Baxter, and Sullivan
Faren Miller reviews Laura Eve
Friday 10 February 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
What is myth for the new millennium? In The Graces, Laure Eve confronts what's left of the old with something that might take its place (no galactic empires required).
Paul Di Filippo reviews Norman Spinrad
Thursday 9 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Spinrad revels in the juicy, sleazy, all-too-human Machiavellian machinations of all the parties, the rebels and the establishment alike. His ability to chart thrust and counter-thrust is akin to that of some television political strategist following the twists and turns of national affairs.
Kameron Hurley: If You Want to Level Up, Get Back to the Basics
Wednesday 8 February 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's February Issue.
There are few things, for me, that are as equally depressing and energizing as reading a really great book. Great books are why I got into this business in the first place, which is why I'm often so shocked when I hear from other professional writers that they don't read anymore.
New Books : 7 February
Tuesday 7 February 2017 | Monitor
Samuel R. Delany's journals In Search of Silence, Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology, Kameron Hurley's The Stars Are Legion, Norman Spinrad's The People's Police, and titles by Ambrose, Beaulieu, Blackmoore, Clarke, Datlow, Donnelly, Fischl, Gannon, Harrison, Isaacson, Jae-Jones, Mastai, Sagara, Savory, Spencer, Taylor, and Wallace
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 6 February 2017 | Monitor
Terry Goodkind's Death's Mistress and Neil Gaiman's Norse Mythology debut; Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale is #1 this morning at Amazon.com; Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is #1 at USA Today and Washington Post.
Periodicals: early February
Sunday 5 February 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Clarkesworld, The Dark, Fireside, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Mythic Delirium, The New York Review of Science Fiction, Nightmare, and Persistent Visions
The Boy Who Fell to Earth: A Review of The Space Between Us
Saturday 4 February 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Like a NASA rocket slowly rising from the surface, The Space Between Us takes a long time to achieve escape velocity and soar through space; however, if you can endure one of the most boring opening sequences in any film I can recall, and about an hour of trite melodramatic sequences interspersed with inauthentic personal drama, its last thirty minutes are actually quite enjoyable, even moving.
Locus Bestsellers, February
Friday 3 February 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Brent Weeks' The Blood Mirror, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others, and R.A. Salvatore's Forgotten Realms: Homecoming Book III: Hero
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, February
Thursday 2 February 2017 | Magazine
February New and Notable books include Karen Lord's anthology New Worlds, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean and titles by Arden, Bear, Dellamonica & Berman, Dellamonica, Dennard, Gemmell, Gilman, Heller & Viola, Littlewood, MacLeod, and Pinborough.
February 2017 Table of Contents
Wednesday 1 February 2017 | Magazine
The February issue features an interview with Alastair Reynolds and the annual Year in Review with essays by Gary K. Wolfe, Paul Kincaid, Geoff Ryman, Gardner Dozois, and many others; the Locus Recommended Reading List, the Locus Poll and Survey ballot, a column by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and books by Kameron Hurley, S. Jae-Jones, Ian McDonald, Ken MacLeod, and many others.
New Books : 31 January
Tuesday 31 January 2017 | Monitor
Nnedi Okorafor's Binti: Home, Thoraiya Dyer's debut novel Crossroads of Canopy, Mur Lafferty's Six Wakes, and titles by Aaronovitch, Gladstone, Goodman, Goodwin, and Shearin
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 30 January 2017 | Monitor
Titles by Veronica Roth and Karen Marie Moning debut; George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four has been #1 on Amazon.com most of the past week; other dystopian titles by Atwood, Bradbury, Huxley, Lewis, and Orwell also rank on Amazon lists.
Spotlight on: Kelly Abbott, Great Jones Street
Sunday 29 January 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue
Great Jones Street is the Netflix of Fiction. We mean that seriously, as both a business model and a battle cry. We feature short fiction. We curate. We package it nicely into a great user experience.
Periodicals: late January
Saturday 28 January 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Black Static and Interzone, and January posts at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Daily Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Ellen Klages
Friday 27 January 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's January 2017 issue
Passing Strange may be the most fully developed and richly detailed of all of Klages's stories for adults, but it never feels like it needs to be a longer novel...
Classics In Reprint: January
Thursday 26 January 2017 | Monitor
New editions of books by Lois McMaster Bujold, David G. Hartwell, William Hope Hodgson, Keith Laumer, Kim Stanley Robinson, and Clark Ashton Smith, and an anthology of short fiction from Hank Davis
Liz Bourke reviews Wesley Chu
Wednesday 25 January 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2016 issue
The Rise of Io is a messy, scrappy, and yet incredibly fun science fiction thriller with extra body-snatching (more like body-sharing) aliens.
New Books : 24 January
Tuesday 24 January 2017 | Monitor
Stephen Baxter's Wells sequel The Massacre of Mankind, Ellen Klages' Passing Strange, Tom Toner's The Weight of the World, and titles by Brust & White, Crilley, Goodkind, Kemp, Newman, and Price
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 23 January 2017 | Monitor
Susan Dennard's YA fantasy Windwitch debuts on two lists; George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four ranks #6 this morning on Amazon.com
Spotlight on: Ellen Kushner, Tremontaine
Sunday 22 January 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue
The other writers have made it more real. The world is already a great big stewpot of periods, books, and cities I love. But I've only explored certain corners of it. A real world is vast and full of complexities and contradictions.
Periodicals: mid-January
Saturday 21 January 2017 | Monitor
New issues of The Dark, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, and Perihelion
Adrienne Martini reviews Bob Proehl
Friday 20 January 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2016 issue
I thought I knew what Bob Proehl's A Hundred Thousand Worlds would be about before I even cracked the spine. It's about comic book conventions, the blurbs on the back said...
New in Paperback: January
Thursday 19 January 2017 | Monitor
Joe Hill's The Fireman, Dexter Palmer's Version Control, and titles by Asher, Bara, Dennard, Hemstreet, Kadrey, Marshall, Sanderson, and Schwab
Paul Di Filippo reviews David Brin & Stephen W. Potts
Wednesday 18 January 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
David Brin's The Transparent Society (1998) surveyed the new technology that is driving us towards more and more disclosure, and drew fresh new conclusions about the issues. Now, still cogitating on the ramifications of these issues, and displaying admirable tenacity and dedication to the cause, Brin offers an anthology of fiction on the topic, featuring a stellar lineup of contributors.
New Books : 17 January
Tuesday 17 January 2017 | Monitor
Charles Stross' Empire Games, Neil Clarke's anthology Galactic Empires, and titles by Germain, Graham & Land, McDermott, Moning, Roth, Vaughn, and White
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 16 January 2017 | Monitor
Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem ranks #53 on Amazon.com this morning, after Obama plugs it in today's NYT
Blake Charlton: Forward & Backward
Sunday 15 January 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview
You'd think failing kindergarten would be difficult to do, but I did it rather spectacularly. ... The book went around the class, and soon after that my parents got called in. My teacher said, 'When Blake had the book, he held it upside down when he read from it.'
Paul Di Filippo reviews Gordon Eklund
Saturday 14 January 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Few occasions give more pleasure to a reader than witnessing the unexpected return to print of a long-silent author who once had a rewarding, admirable career. This time around, the satisfaction derives from the appearance of Cosmic Fusion, by Gordon Eklund.
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Emmi Itäranta
Friday 13 January 2017 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's December 2016 issue
The Weaver, published earlier this year in England under the far more evocative title The City of Woven Streets, is the second novel from the Finnish writer Emmi Itäranta, whose post-apocalyptic SF novel The Memory of Water deservedly gained attention a couple of years ago, largely because of her evocative, lyrical prose (she apparently writes simultaneously in Finnish and English). That prose serves her well in The Weaver...
Locus Bestsellers, January
Thursday 12 January 2017 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Brent Weeks' The Blood Mirror, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, N.K. Jemisin's The Fifth Season, and Alan Dean Foster's Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Paul Di Filippo reviews Henry Kuttner
Wednesday 11 January 2017 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Nearly seven hundred pages of fiction by Kuttner from the short span of 1937 to 1940 finds the Golden Age Master even more deft and wide-ranging than in that first volume, Terror in the House... The sure hand and clever wit that would be fully on display under John Campbell's Golden Age guidance appear in stronger and more lasting flashes here.
New Books : 10 January
Tuesday 10 January 2017 | Monitor
David Brin & Stephen W. Potts' Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World and titles by Arden, Cogman, Dennard, Gilman, Liggett, and McGuire
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 9 January 2017 | Monitor
Whitehead's The Underground Railroad and Chabon's Moonglow each ranks #1.
Mary Robinette Kowal: The Familiar & the Strange
Sunday 8 January 2017 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's January Issue interview
It wasn't really until I started to get into the novel that I buckled down and did some more research and realized how much perceived knowledge I had about the First World War was completely wrong and very American-centric. You watch these war movies, and it's all about the men at the battlefront. I did not realize at all how heavily involved women were in the First World War, and how directly tied it was to suffrage.
Electronic Periodicals: early January
Saturday 7 January 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Apex, Aurealis, Clarkesworld, Galaxy's Edge, GigaNotoSaurus, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Kaleidotrope, Lightspeed, Mythic Delirium, Nightmare, Shimmer, and Uncanny
Print Periodicals: January
Friday 6 January 2017 | Monitor
New issues of Analog and Asimov's, both now bi-monthly; Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, January
Thursday 5 January 2017 | Magazine
January New and Notable books include Richard A. Lupoff's Where Memory Hides: A Writer's Life and titles by Beukes, Chabon, Corey, Duchamp, Ellis, Kuttner, MacLeod, Milford, Sanderson, Shusterman, Sterling, Strahan, Kai Ashante Wilson, and Robert Charles Wilson.
Cory Doctorow: It's Time to Short Surveillance and Go Long on Freedom
Wednesday 4 January 2017 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's January Issue.
Let's say for the sake of argument that you voted for Donald Trump and you're ecstatic that he's taking the White House.
New Books : 3 January
Tuesday 3 January 2017 | Monitor
A study of American SF films, and titles by Bara, Bedford, Buettner, Flint, Forstchen, Hendee & Hendee, McKinley, Modesitt, Moore, Older, Pratchett, Scalzi, Scull, Jen Williams, and Tad Williams
This Week's Bestsellers
Monday 2 January 2017 | Monitor
The novelization Rogue One: A Star Wars Story debuts on two lists.
January 2017 Table of Contents
Sunday 1 January 2017 | Magazine
The January issue features interviews with Mary Robinette Kowal and Blake Charlton, a column by Cory Doctorow, spotlights on Ellen Kushner and Kelly Abbott, and reviews of short fiction and books by Colson Whitehead, Laure Eve, Ben Aaronovitch, Ellen Klages, Jonathan Strahan and many others.
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After suffered from cardiac arrest on late evening on Sunday, Tamil Nadu Honourable Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has been kept on close observation by a group of senior doctors of Apollo Hospitals. Several hundreds of party cadres and Amma supporters have gathered at the hospitals entrance looking forward for good news on Amma, fondly called by her supporters.
The Apollo Hospitals at Greams Raod has been flooded by AIADMK cadres, and people, especially women, offering prayers to Gods for her speedy recovery. Massive police forces have been deployed in and around the hospital premises and across the state as a part of preventive measures.
Apollo Hospitals on Monday morning said, "Doctors have been closely monitoring her health day and night and doing their 'very best' after she suffered from heart attack. "
The 68-year-old Jayalalithaa has been put on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), a heart assist device, and was under the watch of experts, including cardiologists. She has undergone a minor angiogram removing a block in one of the blood vessels pumping blood to her heart. She has been on heart assist device after her heart stops bumping blood to other parts of the body.
A group of 4 specialists, including cardiologist arriving to Chennai by air by noon and will reach Apollo Hospitals by 3PM. They are rushing to the hospitals to precede further treatment and she will be undergoing a major operation late today.
Apollo Hospitals have not yet revealed any bulletin or info about her health since late Sunday. Just a few minutes ago, AIADMK Ministers, MLAs have gathered at Apollo Hospitals and briefed about her status and what treatment had been given she her admittance by doctors at the hospital.
Union Health Minister JP Nadda said "out of danger but needs ICU facilities." He Also Said We are in constant touch with Apollo and Tamil Nadu Government. They had requested a team of doctors from AIIMS. We have sent a team of specialists from AIIMS Dr Khilani, Dr Trikha, Dr Narang and Dr Talwar. We hope that doctors from AIIMS and Apollo will be able to help in her recovery. We pray to God that she regains her health," Nadda said. The team of AIIMS doctors inlcude pulmonologist Dr GC Khilnani, anaesthetist Dr Anjan Trikha, cardiac surgeon Dr Sachin Talwar and cardiologist Dr Rajiv Narang.
Party workers, who had gathered in large numbers outside the hospital after news of her cardiac arrest broke, braved midnight rains and continued to wait outside, praying for the recovery of 'Amma' (mother), as she is fondly called by her supporters.
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On Tuesday, Sept. 11, over 2000 people lined up outside of our two donor centers and several community blood drive sites to donate blood. Phone lines and fax lines were jammed. The web site registered over 62,000 hits in one 12-hour period. We, as New Jerseyans and Americans, needed and wanted to help. The outpouring of support, coupled with patience for long waits, was heartwarming. Even now as we strive to balance an overwhelming blood inventory with the need to continue to keep an ongoing fresh supply on the shelves, people are understanding and patient and willing to hold off until their donation is needed. To all of these people I extend my thanks and gratitude on behalf of the thousands of lives that will be saved as a result of these blood donations. Other groups of individuals deserving of our thanks and deep gratitude: Those individuals who came to donate only to find long lines who helped out in so many other ways, including providing refreshments, setting up chairs, registering donors, assisting with donor flow, delivering and transporting supplies, and so much more.
The businesses and local community groups in the area that donated bagels, water, juice, burgers, ice, sandwiches, snacks and even 5 minute massages throughout Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. These donations were freely given and very much appreciated. The employees of the Blood Center of New Jersey who worked and continue to work tirelessly to collect, test, process and prepare the blood donations for distribution. They have shown their true colors each and every day.
And finally and perhaps most worthy of our nation's gratitude the donors who gave blood the week before this tragedy. It is that blood that was available immediately for transfusion for our wounded citizens. It takes 16-24 hours to test and process a unit of donated blood. We all owe a debt of gratitude to those donors who give regularly to ensure that there is a continuing supply of blood ready for all patients with both emergency and ongoing transfusion needs, including those having cancer, needing organ transplants, premature babies and children with leukemia, car accident victims and surgery patients.
I would like to remind residents to continue to help us monitor and maintain the blood supply by routinely donating. For further information on donating or to make a financial contribution call us at 1-800 BLOODNJ (800-652-5663) or visit our website at (www.bloodnj.org).
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United Technologies Corporation Machine Operator in East Hartford, Connecticut
Job ID: 51520BR
City: East Hartford
State: Connecticut
Country: United States
Category: Operations: Machinist / Process Operator
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Plan and perform the work to setup and operate various machines and equipment to produce turbine engine parts, where methods and techniques are established, and proper tooling/fixturing is provided. Assist others in developmental efforts.
Work from operation sheets, drawings, computer generated information and other pertinent instructions to set up, operate and adjust machines and equipment within assigned areas.
Follow standard practices and operating procedures to manufacture and assemble a variety of turbine engine parts.
Work from quality review and corrective work documents or other similar instructions to rework or repair parts, using prescribed repair instructions and procedures.
Plan and perform bench assembly, finishing and rework operations. As assigned, using hand tools, power tools, and other equipment to process parts though various stages of manufacture.
Develop personal techniques, as needed, to remove tool marks, scratches, dents, stains and other imperfections at the final stages of the manufacturing process where dimensional specifications, as well as cosmetic appearances are critical.
Plan and perform various braze fabrication operations such as assembly, sizing, straightening, applying braze pastes and powders. Resistance tack welding, and other pre and post braze operations.
Use a variety of fixed and variable measuring instruments to check dimensions and record results. Utilizing OPCERT and other computer programs as required.
Perform routine servicing throughout the assigned area following specified procedures and written instructions such as Operator's Checklist for upkeep and to assure equipment operates properly.
Assist others responsible for new part process tryout, repair and other specialized assignments within the scope and skill level of this job description.
Requires a knowledge of machining including machine shop practices, offsets, workholding methods and cutting quality of metals and ability to apply shop mathematics and formulas. Read and interpret engineering drawings, use a variety of precision measuring instruments such as micrometers, height gages and verniers.
2-3 years of prior experience required.
United Technologies Corporation is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.


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Cinematheque: An Evening with Mary Jane Doherty
An Evening with Mary Jane Doherty. The BU Cinematheque proudly opens its 2013 Fall series with Secundaria, BU filmmaking professor Mary Jane Doherty's superb documentary observation of Cuba's National Ballet School, subtly filmed and shaped from 21 trips to Havana. Doing both camera and sound, Doherty shows us exquisite dance up close, on a stunning visceral level, but also tells the extraordinary story of a ballet school which allows its students the chance to escape from poverty, but also, for the young and brave, the daring possibility to prance away from Cuba
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Dean Caten: Style is inbuilt
DSquared2's Dean Caten believes timeless style can't be taught.
The designer and his twin brother Dan work together on the label, bringing their amazing eye for fashion to the catwalk and people's wardrobes.
While Dan believes keeping it simple is the key to timeless style, his sibling doesn't think it is, well, that simple.
"Inside you. It's built in. You either have it or you don't," he stated to WWD.
The 50-year-olds opened up to the publication about some of the secrets to their lives, including how to throw the best party. For them, it's all about having the right people, music and plenty of champagne.
They were also quizzed on fitting into sample size, but Dean said there's no secret and you just either do or don't. However, they conceded they are always running around and eat more in the mornings than at other times.
DSquared2 is big on its denim, with the men also addressing the perfect pair of jeans.
"Knowing your body and knowing which jeans to choose for your body. It's in the cut of the jean and it's also in your shape. With your body, you should know what works for you," Dan explained.
Dean added: "We have five different models in our denim. There's the Dean fit for soccer players because it's bigger in the thigh. There's a cool guy fit and a baby brother fit. We name them all on the back so you can always come back to that fit."
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1. Re: FileMaker NASA On The 14thjrenfrew Jul 10, 2012 6:00 PM (in response to filemakeris.us)
Just went today on my way North.
It is $45 to get into the visitor centre and $75 for one of the guided tours and a 3-4 hour drive
2. Re: FileMaker NASA On The 14thcssigi Jul 12, 2012 12:47 PM (in response to filemakeris.us)
several years ago in Orlando for devcon - we added this side trip on and it was well worth it!


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"Lighting Design Lab is a highly respected education and demonstration organization that provides professional consultations and guidance on the latest energy-efficient lighting products available to our customers in the Pacific Northwest," said MaxLite's Vice President of Product Marketing and Engineering Pat Treadway. "We are proud to announce our inclusion on the Lighting Design Lab LED Qualified Product List, which supports our commitment to high-quality LED products."
The highly efficient LED BR30 and BR40 lamps have a solid aluminum housing that ensures thermal heat protection and offer a smooth, exterior reflector that conceals the LEDs and replicates the aesthetically pleasing design of an incandescent. The 10-watt BR30 and 13-watt BR40 model replace up to 65- and 90-watt incandescent flood lights, respectively. The LED BR lamps provide efficient general lighting in track, display and recessed fixtures for architectural, residential, retail, office and hospitality applications for a long L70-rated lifetime of 25,000 hours. Visit http://www.maxlite.com/datasheet/10w-br30 to download the 10-watt BR30 data sheet, or http://www.maxlite.com/datasheet/13w-br40 to download a data sheet for the 13-watt BR40.
The most versatile light source in the market, MaxLite's LED Omnidirectional A19 lamp replicates a true A19 incandescent lamp with a 300-degree beam angle that produces even light from the socket base and above in all directions. Available in standard Edison or GU24 bases, the seven-, 10- and 15-watt lamps replace 40-, 60- and 75-watt incandescents, respectively. The LED lamps are ideal for table and floor lamps, ceiling fixtures, sconces and pendants in residential and commercial applications. Visit the Omni product page at http://www.maxlite.com/products/led-omnidirectional-a19-lamp.
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If you always dreamed of commanding firefighters, the police, technical relief forces and paramedics as head of operations, you're the one we've been looking for!
Dive into a new, historic mini-campaign in 17th century Hamburg. Save your fellow citizens from an angry mob on a witchhunt. Back in modern times, you're in danger of being victimized by international terrorism.
In trying times, your only choice is to fend off danger, curb damage, and to keep order in the city. In addition to standard units, a new K9 Unit (complete with vehicle) is available to help when it's not just about finding the injured, but detection dangerous bombs.In the course of the extensive campaign, minor accidents alternate with challenging major events, ensuring hours of engrossing gameplay. Before starting, you can complete the integrated tutorial, which teaches the game's basic mechanics and functions.
- Face numerous unanticipated situations in tense major operations underway in the metropolises Berlin, Cologne, Munich and Hamburg.
- Co-op multiplayer: You are in charge of the cities Munich, Hamburg and Berlin, reproduced in painstaking detail.
- Use the powerful editor to create your very own Emergency and work in parallel on a shared project together with your friends online.
- Command over 20 unique vehicles from the police, fire brigade, rescue service and technical relief forces.
- Includes all content from Emergency 2016 in this latest reloaded version + new emergency vehicle + medieval operation + new campaign
System Requirements :
- OS: Windows 7/8/8.1/10
- Processor: Intel Core i3 2GHz or better
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 5000, Geforce 9500GT, Radeon HD 3650 or above
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 18 GB available space
Download and Install Emergency 2017 Resurrection:
- Download file complete.
- Extract file using WinRAR.
- Install Setup.exe.
- Run Game.
- Then Enjoy!! ?
Emergency 2017 Resurrection Free Download PC Game
- Mega.co.nz Link:
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- Google Drive Link:
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