January 2012 • Issue 612 • Vol. 68 No. 1
44th Year of Publication • 29-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Design by Francesca Myman

I N T E R V I E W S

Lois McMaster Bujold: Topias / 6
Claude Lalumière: The Word for Yearning / 60

F E A T U R E S

Anne McCaffrey (1926 – 2011) / 5

Appreciations by Todd McCaffrey, Robert Silverberg, Harlan Ellison, Michael Whelan, Janis Ian, Catherine Asaro, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Jody Lynn Nye, James Frenkel, and Jack Dann

Darrell K. Sweet (1934-2011) / 31

P E O P L E   &   P U B L I S H I N G / 8

Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Fred Saberhagen, Ian Tregillis, Lois McMaster Bujold, Kevin J. Anderson, Ray Bradbury, Anne Rice, and many others

M A I N    S T O R I E S / 10

Prix Aurora Awards • E-Book Lending Controversy • Fantasy and Lightspeed Merge • Your Store, Amazon’s Showroom

T H E    D A T A    F I L E / 11

Amazon News • Google Book Lawsuit News • Antitrust and the Agency Model • Night Shade Off Probation • Audible’s Best • BFS Committee Positions Filled • World Book Night • Multi-Million-Dollar Comics • ISBNs for E-Books • Writing Workshop Applications Open • Awards News • Magazine News • Announcements • Legal News • Publishing News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Audiobooks Received

C O M M E N T A R Y / 20

Cory Doctorow: A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future

L I S T I N G S

Magazines Received: November / 36
Books Received: November / 37
British Books Received: October / 49
Bestsellers / 52

O B I T U A R I E S / 58

Russell Hoban • Thomas J. Bassler • Euan Harvey • Gilbert Adair • Christopher Hitchens • Juan Carlos Planells • John Berry • Michelle Muijsert

E D I T O R I A L    M A T T E R S / 59

Welcome 2012, Goodbye 2011 • Anne McCaffrey • This Issue • Next Issue

 

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L O C U S    L O O K S    A T    B O O K S

 

Gardnerspace: Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois / 14

F&SF 11-12/11; Asimov’s 12/11; Interzone 7-8/11; Interzone 9-10/11; Interzone 11-12/11.

Short Fiction Reviews by Richard Horton / 15

Asimov’s 1/12; Analog 1-2/12; Realms of Fantasy 10/11; On Spec Summer ’11; An A to Z of the Fantastic City, Hal Duncan; Wave of Mutilation, Douglas Lain; Fall Into Time, Douglas Lain.

Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 16

Sea Hearts (in the US and UK as The Brides of Rollrock Island), Margo Lanagan; Hitchers, Will McIntosh; Cain, Jos&3acute; Saramago.

Reviews by Faren Miller / 18

A Web of Air, Philip Reeve; All Men of Genius, Lev A.C. Rosen; The Taker, Alma Katsu; Necropolis, Michael Dempsey; A Rope of Thorns, Gemma Files.

Reviews by Russell Letson / 21

Gothic High-Tech, Bruce Sterling; Earthbound, Joe Haldeman.

Reviews by Paul Witcover / 22 

Nested Scrolls: A Writers’s Life, Rudy Rucker; The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fantasy, Michael Bishop; Count to a Trillion, John C. Wright.

Reviews by Divers Hands: Stefan Dziemianowicz and Gwenda Bond / 24

On Conan Doyle, Michael Dirda; Ghosts Know, Ramsey Campbell; The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares, Joyce Carol Oates; Blood Red Road, Moira Young; The Conference of the Birds, Peter Sís.

Locus Listens to Audiobooks: Amy Goldschlager / 27

Consider Phlebas, Iain M. Banks; Fox and Phoenix, Beth Bernobich; Queen of Kings, Maria Dahvana Headley; Tunnel in the Sky, Robert A. Heinlein; The Astounding, the Amazing, and the Unknown, Paul Malmont; The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern; Snuff, Terry Pratchett; The Alloy of Law, Brandon Sanderson.

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

 

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Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog January/February 2012 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s December 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s January 2012 (Rich Horton)
F&SF Nov/Dec 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Interzone July-August 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Interzone Sep-Oct 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Interzone Nov-Dec 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
On Spec Summer 2011 (Rich Horton)
Realms of Fantasy October 2011 (Rich Horton)

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

Bishop, Michael • The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy (Paul Witcover)
Campbell, Ramsey • Ghosts Know (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Dempsey, Michael • Necropolis (Faren Miller)
Dirda, Michael • On Conan Doyle (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Duncan, Hal • An A-Z of the Fantastic City (Rich Horton)
Files, Gemma • A Rope of Thorns (Faren Miller)
Haldeman, Joe • Earthbound (Russell Letson)
Katsu, Alma • The Taker (Faren Miller)
Lain, Douglas • Fall Into Time (Rich Horton)
Lain, Douglas • Wave of Mutilation (Rich Horton)
Lanagan, Margo • Sea Hearts (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lanagan, Margo • The Brides of Rollrock Island (Gary K. Wolfe)
McIntosh, Will • Hitchers (Gary K. Wolfe)
Oates, Joyce Carol • The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Reeve, Philip • A Web of Air (Faren Miller)
Rosen, Lev AC • All Men of Genius (Faren Miller)
Rucker, Rudy • Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (Paul Witcover)
Rucker, Rudy • Nested Scrolls: A Writer’s Life (Paul Witcover)
Saramago, José, translated by Margaret Jull Costa • Cain (Gary K. Wolfe)
Sís, Peter • The Conference of the Birds (Gwenda Bond)
Sterling, Bruce • Gothic High-Tech (Russell Letson)
Wright, John C. • Count to a Trillion (Paul Witcover)
Young, Moira • Blood Red Road (Gwenda Bond)