Locus, August 2014

by Locus Publications

  C.J. Henderson (2008)

  Some of his short fiction is collected in The Occult Detectives of C.J. Henderson (2002), Lai Wan: Tales of the Dreamwalker (2007), Degrees of Fear and Others (2008), and Where Angels Fear (2010, with Bruce Gehweiler). He co-edited anthologies Hear Them Roar (2006, with Patrick Thomas) and Go Not Gently (2006, with Thomas & Parke Godwin). He also wrote Kolchak the Night Stalker and Quantum Leap tie-ins, and The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Movies: From 1987 to the Present (2001).

  Christopher John Henderson was born December 26, 1951 and grew up in Western Bridgeville PA. After college he moved to New York, and in addition to writing worked as an English teacher, editor, drama coach, and film critic, among many other jobs. Henderson lived in Brooklyn with his wife Grace Tin Lo and their daughter, who survive him.

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  Hachette Australia CEO and Hachette New Zealand chairman MATTHEW RICHELL, 41, died July 2, 2014 in a surfing accident off the coast of Tamarama in New South Wales, Australia. He was swept onto rocks, received a head injury, and could not be revived.

  Born 1973, Richell began his publishing career as the marketing manager for Bloomsbury UK from 1996-2001, and worked at Pan Macmillan UK and Hachette UK imprint John Murray before taking over as marketing director of the Headline and Hodder divisions of Hachette Australia in 2006. He was promoted to CEO in February 2013.

  Richell lived in Sydney, and is survived by his wife and two children.

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  EDITORIAL MATTERS

  Francesca Myman, Liza Groen Trombi, Connie Willis

  Since we last met here, I’ve been in Seattle for the Locus Awards and in Burlington MA for Readercon. Both turned out well; one was a lot more work. Seattle was warm with some rain showers, but never so much you couldn’t wander outside. I flew up Thursday to a great dinner with Eileen Gunn & John Berry, Connie & Courtney Willis, Nancy Kress & Jack Skillingstead, and Fran at an Italian restaurant in Capitol Hill. I was talked into having pizza by John (‘‘Best I’ve ever had.’’) and was not disappointed. There was one more big group dinner with Gary Wolfe & Stacie Hanes, Liz Argall, David Levine, Nicola Griffith & Kelley Eskridge, Fran, Adam Rakunas, and the marvelous Karen Lord (who also visited Locus a few days later for conversation, booksigning, and dessert!), with marvelous Greek food and wine, and even better company. The weekend events went smoothly, barring the normal set of name misspellings on badges, etc., which are par for the course, and I’m almost sorry it’s over. Almost. The panels turned out well, Connie and Chris Barzak’s writing workshops went off smoothly, and I was very happy with a stellar set of author attendees, but running a convention, even a tiny one like ours, is a huge job by itself.

  Karen Lord, Liza Groen Trombi

  Readercon, on the other hand, was a blast (attending vs. organizing: attending wins). The Burlington Marriott had finished its renovations with mixed results. It looks good: there’s a dramatic glass-enclosed gas fire wall and a water wall both in the lobby, lots of lounge seating and bar space, and the old restaurant remains mostly unchanged. The main problem with the space was that the lack of carpeting and too many glass and other hard surfaces made every conversation and noise bounce around the entire lobby and lounge, leading to even more volume as people shouted to be heard. I’m hoping they’ll figure out some sound baffling before next year, or at least drop the nightly live music for the duration of the con! We held interviews with Robert Jackson Bennett, Kameron Hurley, Yoon Ha Lee, and Paul Park. I did a Book Recommendation panel, held a ton of meetings, and saw some dear friends. Readercon is one where I’d like to be able to get to more programming, but being on the West Coast, I need to see as many people as possible from NY publishing when I can. Someday I might even get to go wander around Boston. This year, however, deadline was right afterward, and I had two little girls waiting for me to come home. I did get a chance to have dinner with Peter Straub, Mary Rickert, and Maria Dahvana Headley, and my dinner with Ellen Datlow, Daryl Gregory, and John Clute included John Langan and Glen Hirschberg, who I haven’t spent time with before – they are hilarious.

  STAFF

  Patrick Wells

  This will be Patrick Wells’s last month with Locus before he leaves the country for Argentina. (No, we did not drive him to expatriation.) It’s going to be hard to imagine the office without him; he’s become essential to the team in the past few years, and he’ll be tricky to replace. We wish him the best of luck in his travels.

  I also want to credit the staff for willingly pushing deadline up this month to help offset next month, in which Worldcon lands right in the middle of deadline week. Everyone has put in extra time and effort without whinging, despite a large number of photos and features to deal with. I do appreciate it.

  THIS ISSUE/NEXT ISSUE

  Another month, another set of obituaries. Sigh. We’re sad to have to run Frank Robinson’s obituary this month. I’m sorry that he couldn’t be at the Nebula Awards this year to receive his award, and it stings even more that he’ll miss the do-over next year in his honor. The last time he came out to Locus was for the pulp roundtable we did with him, Dick Lupoff, and Robert Silverberg for the July 2010 issue; what a conversation! He was a friend to Locus, and we’ll miss him.

  Kelley Eskridge, Karen Lord, Gary K. Wolfe, Liz Argall, Adam Rakunas, Nicola Griffith, David D. Levine, Liza Groen Trombi, Stacie Hanes; Daryl Gregory, Glen Hirshberg, John Langan, Ellen Datlow, John Clute

  Congratulations to all the World Fantasy Awards finalists! We jammed as many of the events as we could in this issue, even with only two days to put the Readercon layout and writeup in before deadline. You may need sunglasses for the Locus Awards layout; what a riot of color. Charles would be proud.

  Our next issue has planned interviews with Nicola Griffith and Yoon Ha Lee and will be a Forthcoming Books issue, with publishing schedules for houses large and small through June 2015, plus all of our usual news and reviews. Then next up for me is Loncon 3 – hope to see you there. We’ll have a table in the dealers room tended by Francesca, so if you want to come say hello and renew your sub, or take a look at the vintage galleys we’ll have for sale from the archives, stop on by!

  –Liza Groen Trombi

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  CORRECTIONS

  In our July Wiscon coverage, we said in error that Alaya Dawn Johnson presented N.A. Sulway with the Tiptree Award Tiara and was the 2011 Tiptree Winner. Andrea Hairston presented the tiara and was the 2011 winner, Johnson is next year’s GoH. Also, the photo with David Edison, Emily Jiang, and Marco Palmieri misidentifies the fourth person as “Lisa Lou”, it is actually Lisa Rodgers. We apologize for the errors.

  In the biographical information preceding the K.W. Jeter interview, we listed Alligator Alley as co-written by K.W. Jeter & Ferret. The work is solely by Ferret, and written with Jeter’s permission to use Dr. Adder, one of his existing characters.

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  PHOTO LIST

  Lucius Shepard (AB)

  Robin Hobb (BG)

  Nick Mamatas (FM)

  Octavia Butler (F)

  Frank M. Robinson (BG)

  Ian McDonald (FM)

  Guy Gavriel Kay (ALB)

  Brenna
Yovanoff (F/MY)

  Meredith Trauner Moles & David Moles, Miriam Hannah Moles (F/DM)

  Christopher Reynaga & Marguerite Croft (F)

  Alastair Reynolds (FM)

  Cecelia Holland (AB)

  Genevieve Valentine (FM)

  Lee Harris (F/SMR)

  Leigh Brackett (F/JKK)

  Frank Frazetta (F/JRM)

  Stanley Kubrick (F)

  Hayao Miyazaki (F/TS)

  Olaf Stapledon (F)

  Shirley Jackson Awards Winners & Others (LT)

  Kameron Hurley (F)

  Jerry Kaufman & Suzanne Tompkins (FM)

  Locus Writing Workshop Participants (FM)

  Liza Groen Trombi, Connie Willis (LH)

  Margaret Chiavetta, Brooks Peck (FM)

  Astrid & Greg Bear (FM)

  Olivia Ahi, Duane Wilkins (FM)

  Sally Harding, Karen Lord (FM)

  Stacie Hanes & Gary K. Wolfe, Courtney Willis (MF)

  James Patrick Kelly (LH)

  Christopher Barzak, Terry Bisson, Karen Joy Fowler (LH)

  Rashida Smith, Kate Gentry (FM)

  Hawai’ian Shirt Contest (FM)

  Locus Awards Winners & Accepters (FM)

  Nancy Kress & Jack Skillingstead (FM)

  Bruce Taylor, Emily Croy Barker (FM)

  Claire Eddy, James Patrick Kelly (FM)

  Keffy Kehrli (FM)

  Cate R & Andrew Siguenza (FM)

  Leslie Howle, Neile Graham (FM)

  Sunni & Jason V Brock, DeeAnn Sole, Curtis Chen, S.T. Joshi, William F. Nolan (FM)

  T. Elizabeth Edwards & Brent Edwards (FM)

  Kate Everitt, Siobhan Carroll, Randy Henderson (FM)

  Clarion West Students (FM)

  Don Glover, Miriah Hetherington (FM)

  Janka Hobbs, Russell Ervin, Seelye Martin (FM)

  Julie McGalliard, Tom Whitmore (FM)

  Pat Booze, Art Boulton (FM)

  Liz Argall, Adam Rakunas (FM)

  Clarion West Board of Directors (FM)

  Clarion West Administrators (FM)

  Anne Groell (FM)

  Francesca Myman, Keffy Kehrli, Curtis Chen, DeeAnn Sole, Misha Stone (FM)

  Tod McCoy, Django Wexler (FM)

  Ted Chiang, Brooks Peck, James Patrick Kelly, Marc Laidlaw, Christopher Barzak, Karen Joy Fowler, Bob Kruger, Terry Bisson (LH)

  Francesca Myman, Liza Groen Trombi, Connie Willis (FM)

  Patrick Wells (FM)

  Karen Lord, Liza Groen Trombi (FM)

  Kelley Eskridge, Karen Lord, Gary K. Wolfe, Liz Argall, Adam Rakunas, Nicola Griffith, David D. Levine, Liza Groen Trombi, Stacie Hanes (FM)

  Daryl Gregory, Glen Hirshberg, John Langan, Ellen Datlow, John Clute (LT)

  F. Towner Laney, Frank M. Robinson, Phil Bronson, 1943 (CFR)

  Harlan Ellison, Frank M. Robinson, William F. Wu, 1984 (F/JKK)

  Robert Silverberg, Richard A. Lupoff, Frank M. Robinson, 2010 (AB)

  Frank M. Robinson (BG)

  Walter Dean Myers (F/CTM)

  C.J. Henderson (F/LN)

  Nadine Gordimer (F/BTO)

  Cameron McClure, Jennifer Jackson, Michael Curry (LT)

  Brian Scott Staveley, Max Gladstone, Stephanie Neely (MP)

  Joe Berlant, Paul Park, Deborah Brothers (DGH)

  Ben Loory, Robert Levy, Christopher Cevasco (LT)

  Brett Savory & Sandra Kasturi (LT)

  F. Brett Cox, Mary Rickert (LT)

  Ellen Datlow, James Patrick Kelly (LT)

  David A. Kyle, Crystal Huff (LT)

  David G. Hartwell, Daryl Gregory (LT)

  Andrea Hairston, Kit Reed (LT)

  James Morrow, Michael Dirda,

  John Clute, Gary K. Wolfe (LT)

  Jess Nevins, Liz Argall (LT)

  Liz Gorinsky, Grady Hendrix (LT)

  Ellen Kushner & Delia Sherman, Cameron Robertson (LT)

  Gordon Van Gelder, Warren Lapine (LT)

  Sheila Williams, Paul Stevens (LT)

  Liz Argall, Kip Manley, Gabriel Squailia, Maria Dahvana Headley, Sofia Samatar, Matthew Kressel, Sam J. Miller (LT)

  Sean Wallace, Kate Baker (LT)

  Mikki Kendall, Chesya Burke, Samuel R. Delany,

  K. Tempest Bradford (KTB)

  Cecil Castellucci, Sam J. Miller, Shveta Thakrar, John Chu (MP)

  Jacob Weisman, Margot Atwell, Zak Zyz, Rina Weisman (LT)

  Liz Gorinsky, Stephen Segal, Bo Bolander, Marco Palmieri, Valya Lupescu (LT)

  Ann Leckie (FM)

  Ann Leckie (FM)

  Photo Listings: (AB) Amelia Beamer, (BG) Beth Gwinn, (FM) Francesca Myman, (ALB) Al Bogdan, (F/MY) Madalyn Yovanoff, (F/DM) David Moles, (F/SMR) Steven Meyer-Rassow, (F/JKK) Jay Kay Klein © UC Riverside Libraries, (F/JRM) Jim Ruymen, (F/TS) Thomas Schulz, (LT) Liza Groen Trombi, (LH) Leslie Howle, (CRF) Collection of Frank M. Robinson, (F/CTM) Constance Myers, (F/LN) Luigi Novi under a Creative Commons License (“CCL”), (F/BTO) Bengt Oberger under a CCL, (MP) Marco Palmieri, (DGH) David G. Hartwell, (KTB) K. Tempest Bradford, (F) Furnished.

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