March 2013 • Issue 626 • Vol. 70 • No. 3
46th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS

Isobelle Carmody: Chronicles / 6
Lavie Tidhar: Stranger Than Pulp / 72

PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8

Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Jay Lake, Peter David, Clive Barker, Robert R. McCammon, Janis Ian, Cherie Priest, and many others.

MAIN STORIES / 10

2012 Nebula Awards Ballot • 2013 Crawford Award • Macmillian Settles with DoJ • Penguin and Random House Merger Approved • Stoker Preliminary Ballot

THE DATA FILE / 11

Dragon*Con Responds to Call for Boycott • ALA Awards • SF Collection Donated to SDSU • Bookish Launch • Superman Fans Threaten Boycott • Amazon News • Amazing Stories Launch • Barnes & Noble News • World Conventions News • Awards News • Publishing News • Book News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Audiobooks Received • Publications Received • Catalogs Received

COMMENTARY / 27

Cory Doctorow: Ten Years On

FORTHCOMING BOOKS

US Forthcoming Books / 28 British Forthcoming Books / 40

LISTINGS

Magazines Received: January / 46 Books Received: January / 47 British Books Received: December / 59 Bestsellers / 62

OBITUARIES / 69

Anne Jordan • Appreciation by Sheila Williams • Antonio Caronia • DEATH NOTED: H.R. Van Dongen

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 70

Home Improvement • Locus Poll & Survey • Fare Thee Well • Visit With TB

LOCUS looks at books

Gardnerspace: A Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois / 14

F&SF 1-2/13; Asimov’s 1/13; Eclipse Online 1/13; Clarkesworld 1/13.

Short Fiction Reviews by Rich Horton / 15

F&SF 3-4/13; Asimov’s 3/13; Lightspeed 2/13; Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 1/13; Tin House #54; Subterranean Winter ’13; The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination, John Joseph Adams, ed.

Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 16

Sister Mine, Nalo Hopkinson; Prophet of Bones, Ted Kosmatka; Love Is Strange: A Paranormal Romance, Bruce Sterling; Bushman Lives!, Daniel Pinkwater.

Reviews by Faren Miller / 18

Blood’s Pride, Evie Manieri; Dreams and Shadows, C. Robert Cargill; The Devil’s Looking Glass, Mark Chadbourn; Short TakeS: The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince, Robin Hobb; Etiquette & Espionage, Gail Carriger.

Reviews by Russell Letson / 21

Empty Space: A Haunting, M. John Harrison; Edge of Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed.

Reviews by Stefan Dziemianowicz / 22

Red Moon, Benjamin Percy; NOS4A2, Joe Hill; Motherless Child, Glen Hirshberg; Revenge, Yoko Ogawa.

Divers Hand: Reviews by Karen Burnham, Gwenda Bond, Richard A. Lupoff, and Tim Pratt / 24

Ancient, Ancient, Kiini Ibura Salaam; Radiant Days, Elizabeth Hand; Hysteria, Megan Miranda; The Complete John Thunstone, Manly Wade Wellman; Magic: An Anthology of the Esoteric and Arcane, Jonathan Oliver, ed.

Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 15, 17, 19, 23

 

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Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s January 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s March 2013 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld January 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Eclipse Online January 2013 (Gardner Dozois)
F&SF Jan/Feb 2013 (Gardner Dozois)
F&SF Mar/Apr 2013 (Rich Horton)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet January 2013 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed February 2013 (Rich Horton)
Subterranean Winter 2013 (Rich Horton)
Tin House #54 2013 (Rich Horton)

Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) —

Adams, John Joseph, ed. • The Mad Scientist’s Guide to World Domination (Rich Horton)
Cargill, C. Robert • Dreams and Shadows (Faren Miller)
Carriger, Gail • Etiquette and Espionage (Faren Miller)
Chadbourn, Mark • The Devil’s Looking-Glass (Faren Miller)
Hand, Elizabeth • Radiant Days (Gwenda Bond)
Harrison, M. John • Empty Space (Russell Letson)
Hill, Joe • NOS4A2 (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Hirshberg, Glen • Motherless Child (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Hobb, Robin • The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince (Faren Miller)
Hopkinson, Nalo • Sister Mine (Gary K. Wolfe)
Kosmatka, Ted • Prophet of Bones (Gary K. Wolfe)
Manieri, Evie • Blood’s Pride (Faren Miller)
Miranda, Megan • Hysteria (Gwenda Bond)
Ogawa, Yoko, translated by Steve Snyder • Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Oliver, Jonathan, ed. • Magic (Tim Pratt)
Percy, Benjamin • Red Moon (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Pinkwater, Daniel • Bushman Lives (Gary K. Wolfe)
Salaam, Kiini Ibura • Ancient, Ancient (Karen Burnham)
Sterling, Bruce • Love Is Strange (Gary K. Wolfe)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Edge of Infinity (Russell Letson)
Wellman, Manly Wade • The Complete John Thunstone (Richard A. Lupoff)