May 2013 • Issue 628 • Vol. 70 • No. 5
46th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS

Tim Powers: An Unexpected Direction / 6
Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden: The Continuation of Fanac by Other Means / 66

PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8

Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Harlan Ellison, Nnedi Okorafor, Ray Bradbury, Susanna Clarke, and many others.

CONVENTIONS & WORKSHOPS

Norwescon 36 / 4 2013 Writers and Illustrators of the Future / 4 2013 Williamson Lectureship / 5 2013 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts / 36 2013 Rainforest Writers Village Retreats / 70

MAIN STORIES / 5 & 10

2013 Hugo Awards Nominations • Slattery Wins Dick Award • Banks Diagnosed with Terminal Cancer • 2012 BSFA Awards Winners • Clarke Award Shortlist • Night Shade for Sale

THE DATA FILE / 11

Bookseller Class Action Update • Amazon Buys Goodreads • Underland Press Sold • Eclipse OnlineCloses • B&N Cuts S&S Orders • More E-books in Libraries • Petition for Asimov Historical Marker • Stephen King News • Announcements • World Conventions News • Legal News • Magazine News • Publishing News • Bookstore News • Awards News

COMMENTARY

Cory Doctorow: Improving Book Publicity in the 21st Century / 27

THE SMALL & INDEPENDENT PRESS / 28

Introduction • Small Beer Press • Lethe Press • PS Publishing • Earthling Publications • Cheeky Frawg Books • Fairwood Press • ChiZine Publications • Twelfth Planet Press • EDGE Books • Prime Books • Aqueduct Press • Tachyon Publications • Ticonderoga Publications • Subterranean Press • Night Shade Books

LISTINGS

Magazines Received: March / 42 Books Received: March / 43 British Books Received: February / 52 Bestsellers / 54 

OBITUARIES / 62

Roger Ebert • Appreciation by Richard A. Lupoff • Basil Copper • James Herbert • Rick Hautala • Paul Williams • Appreciation by Eileen Gunn • Nick Pollotta • Robert Morales • Jennifer Schwabach • Mitchell Hooks • DEATH NOTED: Dan Morgan 

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 70

ICFA • Night Shade and Skyhouse/Start • Iain M. Banks • Locus Awards

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS 

Gardnerspace: A Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois / 16

Asimov’s 3/13; Superheroes, Rich Horton ed.; Future Games, Paula Guran, ed.; Magic Highways: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Three, Jack Vance.

Short Fiction Reviews by Rich Horton / 17

Subterranean Spring ’13; Clarkesworld 3/13; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/7/13; Asimov’s 4-5/13; F&SF 5-6/13; Lightspeed 4/13; Trafalgar, Angélica Gorodischer; Squaring the Circle, Georghe Sasarman, Ursula K. LeGuin, trans.; The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others, Richard Bowes.

Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 18

London Falling, Paul Cornell; Martian Sands, Lavie Tidhar; Squaring the Circle, Georghe Sasarman, Ursula K. LeGuin, trans.; Spin, Nina Allan.

Reviews by Faren Miller / 21

Without a Summer, Mary Robinette Kowal; The Aylesford Skull, James P. Blaylock; Doktor Glass, Thomas Brennan; London Falling, Paul Cornell; Wolfhound Century, Peter Higgins.

Reviews by Russell Letson / 22

Zero Point, Neal Asher; The Kassa Gambit, M.C. Planck.

Short Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 23

Stolen Magic, Stephanie Burgis; Wednesdays in the Tower, Jessica Day George; Tarnished, Rhiannon Held; Flash Point, Nancy Kress; Antiagon Fire, L.E. Modesitt, Jr.; Iron Kin, M.J. Scott; Kitty Rocks the House, Carrie Vaughn; Binding, Carol Wolf.

Divers Hands: Reviews by Gwenda Bond, Karen Burnham, &
Stefan R. Dziemianowicz / 24

When We Wake, Karen Healey; September Girls, Bennett Madison; Speculative Japan 3: Silver Bullet and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy, Edward Lipsett, ed.; The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies, John Langan; The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All, Laird Barron.

Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 17, 19, 21, 23

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Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s March 2013 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s April/May 2013 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies March 2013 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld March 2013 (Rich Horton)
F&SF May/June 2013 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed April 2013 (Rich Horton)
Subterranean Spring 2013 (Rich Horton)

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

Allan, Nina • Spin (Gary K. Wolfe)
Asher, Neal • Zero Point (Russell Letson)
Barron, Laird • The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Blaylock, James P. • The Aylesford Skull (Faren Miller)
Bowes, Richard • The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (Rich Horton)
Brennan, Thomas • Doktor Glass (Faren Miller)
Burgis, Stephanie • Stolen Magic (Carolyn Cushman)
Cornell, Paul • London Falling (Faren Miller)
Cornell, Paul • London Falling (Gary K. Wolfe)
George, Jessica Day • Wednesdays in the Tower (Carolyn Cushman)
Gorodischer, Angelica • Trafalgar (Rich Horton)
Guran, Paula, ed. • Future Games (Gardner Dozois)
Healey, Karen • When We Wake (Gwenda Bond)
Held, Rhiannon • Tarnished (Carolyn Cushman)
Higgins, Peter • Wolfhound Century (Faren Miller)
Horton, Rich, ed. • Superheroes (Gardner Dozois)
Kowal, Mary Robinette • Without a Summer (Faren Miller)
Kress, Nancy • Flash Point (Carolyn Cushman)
Langan, John • The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Lipsett, Edward, ed. • Speculative Japan 3: Silver Bullet and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy, (Karen Burnham)
Madison, Bennett • September Girls (Gwenda Bond)
Modesitt, L. E., Jr. • Antiagon Fire (Carolyn Cushman)
Planck, M. C. • The Kassa Gambit (Russell Letson)
Sasarman, Gheorghe • Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony (Gary K. Wolfe)
Sasarman, Gheorghe • Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony (Rich Horton)
Scott, M. J. • Iron Kin (Carolyn Cushman)
Tidhar, Lavie • Martian Sands (Gary K. Wolfe)
Vance, Jack, edited by Terry Dowling & -3- • Magic Highways: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Three (Gardner Dozois)
Vaughn, Carrie • Kitty Rocks the House (Carolyn Cushman)
Wolf, Carol • Binding (Carolyn Cushman)