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2011 Posts
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 7 June 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Dean Koontz' Frankenstein: The Dead Town debuts at #1; Aaron Allston's Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Conviction debuts at #3.
Web and Print Magazines: early June 2011Sunday 5 June 2011 | Monitor; Directories
Fiction by Bradley P. Beaulieu, Darrell Schweitzer, Genevieve Valentine, Karen Joy Fowler, and Malinda Lo, and articles and reviews by Bud Webster, Mike Resnick, Sarah Goslee, Sarah Einstein, and Colin Steele, are in new issues of Black Gate, Clarkesworld, Redstone SF, SF Commentary, Subterranean, and other 'zines.
New Books : late May - early JuneSaturday 4 June 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Catherynne M. Valente's The Girl who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (first time in print), anthologies from Ellen Datlow, David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer, and John Klima, and other titles by Battis, Esslemont, Le Guin, Marr, and Miller
Classic Reprints: June 2011Thursday 2 June 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Library of America's Kurt Vonnegut: Novels & Stories 1963-1973, and new editions of Tim Powers' On Stranger Tides and novels by Charles de Lint and Christopher Pike
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 31 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
China Miéville's Embassytown debuts; Charlaine Harris' Dead Reckoning still ranks #1; George R.R. Martin's stock continues to rise.
Web and Print Magazines: late May 2011Monday 30 May 2011 | Monitor; Directories
What's new with Fantasy Magazine, Interzone, Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New Books : fourth week MaySaturday 28 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Nebula Awards Showcase 2011, the 27th annual L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, and books by Akers, Douglas, Fallon, Freeman, Green, Jay, Macallan, Martinez, Navarro, Rusch, and Stirling
E-Books : MayFriday 27 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Infinities, an Infinity Plus sampler, two classic titles from Norman Spinrad, and other titles by Carmen Webster Buxton, Garry Kilworth, Mark Lund, Neil Williamson, and David Niall Wilson
New in Paperback: late MayThursday 26 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Stephen King's Full Dark, No Stars, Justin Cronin's The Passage, China Miéville's Kraken, and titles by Baxter, Harrison, Shteyngart, Stirling, and Tate
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 24 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Charlaine Harris' Dead Reckoning still ranks #1; John Scalzi, Albert Brooks, and Catherynne M. Valente debut; George R.R. Martin's stock continues to rise.
Web and Print Magazines: mid-May 2011Monday 23 May 2011 | Monitor; Directories
The last issue (for now) of Salon Futura, plus what's new with Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Murky Depths, The New York Review of Science Fiction, SF Signal, SF Site, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New Books : third week MaySunday 22 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
China Miéville's Embassytown, Michael Swanwick's Dancing with Bears, Andrea Hairston's Redwood and Wildfire, and other titles by Baker, Bisson, Caldwell & Haffner, Canavan, Gresh, Hearne, Lalumière, Nye, Tidhar, and Vanderhooft & Lundoff
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 17 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Charlaine Harris' Dead Reckoning ranks #1 on four lists.
Print Magazines: early May 2011Monday 16 May 2011 | Monitor; Directories
Fiction and poetry by Edward M. Lerner, Joe Haldeman, Paul Cornell, Kristin Kathryn Rusch, Norman Spinrad, Theodora Goss, Bruce McAllister, G.O. Clark, and others, are in new issues of Analog, Asimov's, and Jupiter.
New Books : second week MaySunday 15 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
John Scalzi's Fuzzy Nation, Albert Brooks' 2030, Genevieve Valentine's Mechanique, the US edition of Hannu Rajaniemi's The Quantum Thief, and other titles by Cleage, Henderson, Hobson, Ringo, Whates, and White & Gannon
New in Paperback: MayFriday 13 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Trade paperback editions of Guy Gavriel Kay's Under Heaven, Iain M. Banks' Surface Detail, Greg Egan's Zendegi, and other titles by Aimee Bender, Jennifer Egan, Dani & Eytan Kollin, David Mitchell, and Dan Simmons
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 10 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
New hardcovers by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Jack Campbell debut.
New Books : first week MaySunday 8 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Jeff VanderMeer & S.J. Chambers' The Steampunk Bible, Jonathan Strahan's Eclipse Four, Nnedi Okorafor's Akata Witch, Charlaine Harris' Dead Reckoning, and other titles by Ballantine & Morris, Benedict, Black, Campbell, Correia, Farnsworth, Hobb, Jerome, Morden, Strieber, Weis & Krammes, Whates, and Wooding
Web Magazines: early May 2011Friday 6 May 2011 | Monitor; Directories
Fiction by Annalee Newitz, Genevieve Valentine, and Cat Rambo, plus interviews with Lauren Beukes and Charles A. Tan and columns and reviews by Dominic Cilli, Adam Roberts, Paul Kincaid, and Vandana Singh, are among contents of May issues of Apex Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Quantum Muse, Redstone SF, SF Site, and Strange Horizons.
Print Magazines: late April to early May 2011Wednesday 4 May 2011 | Monitor; Directories
Fiction by Tim Pratt, Cat Rambo, Alan Wall, Tim Lees, Lisa Goldstein, Michelle M. Welch, and others, plus interviews and essays by Theodora Goss, Jonathan Strahan, Hannu Rajaniemi, Christopher Fowler, Joan Gordon, Tom Purdom, and Gregory Benford, are in new issues of Black Static, Bull Spec, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy.
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 3 May 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Seth Grahame-Smith's Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, George R.R. Martin, Jennifer Egan
New Books : last week AprilSaturday 30 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Joan Aiken's The Monkey's Wedding and Other Stories, Catherynne Valente's Deathless, Gordon Van Gelder's Welcome to the Greenhouse, and others titles by Bakker, Fforde, Hodder, Hulick, Hunt, Morden, Murphy, Redick, Sykes, and Wells
E-Books : January-AprilWednesday 27 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
This new, occasional and selective, page of recently released e-books leads with a new edition of Robert Sheckley's Immortality, Inc., a memoir by Tom Purdom, a novelette by Norman Spinrad, and other titles by Aaron Rosenberg and Don Swaim
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 26 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Kelley Armstrong's The Gathering, Raymond E. Feist's A Kingdom Besieged, and George R.R. Martin's backlist
New Books : third week AprilSunday 24 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Frederik Pohl's All the Lives He Led, Jonathan Strahan's anthology Life on Mars, and other titles by Banks, Bateman, Bullington, Cherryh, Datlow & Windling, Feist, Forbeck, Knapp, Monk, Orullian, Pehov, and Vaughn
New Magazines: mid-April 2011Saturday 23 April 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Analog, Focus, Shimmer, Star*Line, and Vector
New Websites: mid-April 2011Thursday 21 April 2011 | Monitor; Directories
What's new at Abyss & Apex, Adventures in SciFi Publishing, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, Quantum Muse, Salon Futura, SF Signal, SF Site, Strange Horizons, Subterranean, and Tor.com
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 19 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Cassandra Clare, George R.R. Martin, Jennifer Egan, Iain M. Banks
New in Paperback: AprilMonday 18 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
The first half of George R.R. Martin & Gardner Dozois' anthology Warriors, plus titles by Armstrong, Bova, Canavan, Feist, Jones, Martinez, Pitts, and Yolen & Snyder
New Magazines: second week April 2011Sunday 17 April 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Asimov's Science Fiction and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
New Books : second week AprilSaturday 16 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Graham Joyce's The Silent Land, Robert J. Sawyer's WWW: Wonder, Elizabeth Bear's Grail, M.M. Buckner's The Gravity Pilot, and other titles by Abnett, Baker, Guran, Kerr, Koch, Kratman, and Murphy
Classic Reprints: April 2011Thursday 14 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
The final volume of The Collected Stories of Jack Williamson, and anthologies from Joe R. Lansdale and David Drake & Bill Fawcett
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 12 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Titles by Charlaine Harris, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson (and Jean Auel) debut.
Magazines & Websites: early April 2011Monday 11 April 2011 | Monitor; Directories
The debut issue of Cascadia Subduction Zone, the 50th issue of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and other new issues of Apex Magazine, Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Neo-Opsis
New Books : first week AprilFriday 8 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Daniel Abraham's The Dragon's Path, Peter S. Beagle's Sleight of Hand, Eric Brown's The Kings of Eternity, Will McIntosh's Soft Apocalypose, and titles by Beaulieu, Bledsoe, Brust, Flint, Griffin, Lachlan, Moon, Sedia, and Williams
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 5 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Titles by Paul S. Kemp and Cassandra Clare debut.
Magazines & Websites: late March - early April 2011Monday 4 April 2011 | Monitor; Directories
What's in new online issues of Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Redstone SF, Salon Futura, SF Site, and Strange Horizons
New Books : late MarchSaturday 2 April 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson's Hellhole, Aliette de Bodard's Harbinger of the Storm, Sophie Littlefield's Aftertime, and other titles by Adams, Compton, Dinsmore, Green & Carrera, Mead, Modesitt, Morehouse, Ramsey, Savile, Sniegoski, and Watson
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 29 March 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Paperback reprints by Peter Straub, John Barnes, and David Mitchell debut.
Magazines & Websites: third week March 2011Sunday 27 March 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Interzone and Weird Tales
Classic Reprints: March 2011Saturday 26 March 2011 | Monitor, Directories
New editions of Earl Kemp's Who Killed Science Fiction?, and titles by Poul Anderson and Glen Cook
New Books : mid-MarchFriday 25 March 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Paolo Bacigalupi's The Alchemist, Howard Andrew Jones' The Desert of Souls, Richard Matheson's Other Kingdoms, and other titles by Aaronovitch, Adams, Anderson, Briggs, Buettner, Douglas, Herbert & Anderson, Jamieson, Marmell, Pierce, and Stauber
New Books : early MarchWednesday 23 March 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Patrick Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear, Steven Erikson's The Crippled God, Robert Silverberg's Musings and Meditations, and other titles by Barnes, Benson, Bishop, Blackthorne, Broaddus, Frost, Greatshell, Hunter, Lackey et al, McGuire, Thurman, and Waggoner
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 22 March 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Jasper Fforde's One of Our Thursdays Is Missing debuts on two lists.
Magazines & Websites: second week March 2011Wednesday 16 March 2011 | Monitor; Directories
Latest issues of Analog, The New York Review of Science Fiction, On Spec, and Vector
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 15 March 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Patrick Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear is #1 at the New York Times; titles by Patricia Briggs, Anne Bishop, and Steven Erikson also debut.
New in Paperback: February-MarchSaturday 12 March 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Peter Straub's A Dark Matter, Allen Steele's Coyote Destiny, Charles Stross' The Trade of Queens, and other titles, by Barnes, Brett, Briggs, Brust, Flynn, Hobb, Merciel, Modesitt, Moon, Nahin, Pehov, Robinson, Vaughn, and Weber
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 8 March 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Kim Harrison's Pale Demon debuts strongly; forthcoming titles by George R.R. Martin and Stephen King are selling at Amazon
Magazines & Websites: first week March 2011Monday 7 March 2011 | Monitor; Directories
Latest issues of Apex Magazine, Asimov's Science Fiction, Black Static, Clarkesworld, Fantasy Magazine, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Quantum Muse, Redstone Science Fiction, SF Site, and Strange Horizons, plus what's new on the Black Gate website
New Books : second half FebruarySaturday 5 March 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Jonathan Strahan's The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Five, Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches, Martha Wells' The Cloud Roads, nonfiction Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future edited by Gary Westfahl, et al, and other titles by Aaronovitch, Abercrombie, Antczak et al, Caine, Chadbourn, Deas, Harrison, Martin, Remic, Swann, Taylor, and Weber
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 1 March 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Patrick Rothfuss' The Wise Man's Fear, on sale today, ranks high on Amazon lists.
Magazines & Websites: last week February 2011Monday 28 February 2011 | Monitor; Directories
Latest issues of Adventures in SciFi Publishing, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantasy Magazine, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Lightspeed, SF Site, and Strange Horizons, plus what's new on the Black Gate website, SF Signal, and Tor.com
Classic Reprints: February 2011Wednesday 23 February 2011 | Monitor, Directories
New editions of books by Ted Chiang, Philip José Farmer, Noriki Ogiwara, Melissa Scott, and Michael Swanwick
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 22 February 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Deborah Harkness' A Discovery of Witches and Karen Russell's Swamplandia! debut
Magazines & Websites: third week February 2011Sunday 20 February 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Murky Depths, The New York Review of Science Fiction, and Realms of Fantasy
New Books : second week FebruarySaturday 19 February 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Ben Bova's Leviathans of Jupiter, Walter Jon Williams' Deep State, and other titles by Kristen Britain, S.T. Joshi, Jasper Kent, Hunter Ligoure, Adrian Phoenix, Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., and Alayna Williams
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 15 February 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Kristen Britain's Blackveil debuts in 12th place on two hardcover fiction lists; New York Times begins reporting e-book bestsellers.
Magazines & Websites: second week February 2011Monday 14 February 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New issue of Salon Futura, plus what's new at io9, SF Signal, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New Books : first week FebruarySaturday 12 February 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Kevin Brockmeier's The Illumination, Gary K. Wolfe's Evaporating Genres, Phil & Kaja Foglio's Agatha H. and the Airship City, and other titles by Kristina Douglas, Ben Hatke, Robin D. Owens, Allison Pang, Fred Phillips, Jonathan Thomas, and D. Harlan Wilson
New Books : late JanuaryWednesday 9 February 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Gwyneth Jones' The Universe of Things and other collections by Tanith Lee and Sandra McDonald, Jon Courtenay Grimwood's The Fallen Blade, Cherie Priest's Bloodshot, and other novels by Col Buchanan, Emily Gee, Laura Anne Gilman, Jesse Petersen, Tow Ubukaka, and Kaaron Warren
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 8 February 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Paperback reprints by Dean Koontz and Patricia Briggs debut.
Magazines & Websites: first week February 2011Sunday 6 February 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Analog, Apex Magazine, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Quantum Muse, Redstone SF, and SF Site, plus what's online at Adventures in Scifi Publishing and the Black Gate website
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 1 February 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Karen Marie Moning's Shadowfever debuts at #1 on three lists.
Magazines & Websites: fourth week January 2011Saturday 29 January 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Abyss & Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Bull Spec, Interzone, Lightspeed, Salon Futura, and Strange Horizons, plus what's new online at Fantasy Magazine, io9, SF Signal, and Tor.com
New Books : 2010 leftoversWednesday 26 January 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Notable 2010 titles not previously listed are by Michal Ajvaz, Elizabeth Bear, Benford & Zebrowski, Brian Conn, D.M. Cornish, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand, Grace Krilanovich, L. Jagi Lampligher, Larry Niven, Robert Silverberg, and Peter Straub
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 25 January 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Debuts by Ben Aaronovitch, Joe Abercrombie, and James Lovegrove; P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast's Awakened is still #1
Classic Reprints: January 2011Monday 24 January 2011 | Monitor, Directories
An anthology of dystopian stories from John Joseph Adams, and new editions of works by Kelley Eskridge, Harry Harrison, Joe R. Lansdale, and Bruce McAllister
Magazines & Websites: third week January 2011Sunday 23 January 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New print issues of Black Static, Crimewave, Dreams and Nightmares, Leading Edge, and The New York Review of Science Fiction
New Books : mid JanuarySaturday 22 January 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Gene Wolfe's Home Fires, Jo Walton's Among Others, Paul McAuley's Cowboy Angels, debut novels by Kameron Hurley and Stina Leicht, and other titles by Carey, Forbeck, Green, Greenberg & Hughes, Henry, Holzner, Knight, McDermott, Ringo, and Zahn
New in Paperback: JanuaryThursday 20 January 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Kim Stanley Robinson's Galileo's Dream, Joe Haldeman's Starbound, Dia Reeves' Bleeding Violet, and titles by Berg, Card, Farland, Huston, Redick, Ringo & Kratman, Weber & Flint, and West
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 18 January 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Awakened, eighth book in P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast's YA vampire series, debuts at #1.
Magazines & Websites: second week January 2011Sunday 16 January 2011 | Monitor; Directories
What's new online at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, io9, Quantum Muse, SF Signal, SF Site, Tangent, and Tor.com
New Books : early JanuaryFriday 14 January 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Orson Scott Card's The Lost Gate, Dean Koontz' What the Night Knows, K.J. Parker's The Hammer, a treatise on science fiction and realism called Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep?, and other titles by Barclay, Dukas, Fisher, Greatshell, Hendee & Hendee, Peeler, Resnick, Revis, Rowland, Taylor, and West
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 11 January 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Dean Koontz' What the Night Knows debuts at #1.
Magazines & Websites: early January 2011Monday 10 January 2011 | Monitor; Directories
New issues of Analog, Andromeda Spaceways, Apex, Asimov's, Clarkesworld, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Redstone, SF Site, Star*Line, and Strange Horizons
New Books : second half DecemberSaturday 8 January 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Lauren Beukes' Zoo City, Jonathan Strahan's Engineering Infinity, Rachel Swirsky & Sean Wallace's People of the Book, and other titles by Anthony, Collins, Estep, Francis, Lovegrove, and Robertson
This Week's BestsellersTuesday 4 January 2011 | Monitor, Directories
Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad places on New York Times' list for the first time since publication seven months ago.
Magazines & Websites: end December 2010Monday 3 January 2011 | Monitor; Directories
End of December posts at Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantasy Magazine, io9, Lightspeed, SF Signal, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
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Locus Online's Monitor pages list selected newly published science fiction, fantasy, and horror books and magazines seen or received by the website. (Locus Online does not have access to materials sent to Locus Magazine). We also compile a weekly table of genre books on general bestseller lists, and gather references to all listings, reviews, and bestseller citations in annual Directory pages, divided by type of book.
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