Locus, March 2014

by Locus Publications

  In happier news, the Locus Awards organizing is happily underway, and I’m off to ICFA in mid-March; my convention season launch! Our April issue is our 46th anniversary. What is that? Poetry? Hm. Write us a haiku. You can read it to me in Orlando. See you then!

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  CORRECTIONS

  In our Magazine Summary in the February issue we mistakenly suggested SF Signal won a 2013 Hugo Award for Best Fancast; they actually won for Best Fanzine. John DeNardo edits the SF Signal blog, while Patrick Hester produces the podcast. For more, see our Spotlight on SF Signal.

  Our apologies to Danel Olson. In our ‘‘2013 Recommended Reading List’’ (Ferbuary 2014 issue), we listed the editor of Exotic Gothic 5 (PS Publishing) as Danel ‘‘Olsen’’.

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