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• Title: Locus, #238 October 1980 (View All Issues) (View Issue Grid)
• Editors: Charles N. Brown
• Year: 1980-10-00
• Publisher: Locus Publications
• Price: $1.25
• Pages: 24
• Binding: quarto
• Type: FANZINE
• Title Reference: Locus - 1980 (Fanzine)
• ISFDB Record Number: 267607
• Notes: Vol. 13, No. 10
  Most uncredited news items are not indexed here.
  The Books Received listing includes several mini-reviews (one or two line comments) by Jack Rems, Charles N. Brown, Jeff Frane, and Rachel E. Holmen. None are indexed here.
  Pages 2, 8, 10, 19, and 23 are full-page ads.
  This issue includes the Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation, dated October 1, 1980. Total paid circulation: 4928 (twelve-month average) and 5271 (last issue).
• Bibliographic Comments: Add new Publication comment (LOCUSOCT1980)

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 4 • People and Publishing (Locus #238) • essay by uncredited
• 4 • Market Notes (Locus #238) • essay by uncredited
• 5 • Not Quite Fantasy Books (Locus #238) • essay by Fritz Leiber
• 5 • Review of the nonfiction work "In Search of Ancient Astronomies" by E. C. Krupp • essay by Fritz Leiber
• 6 • Conventions (Locus #238) • essay by uncredited
• 6 •   Review: Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley • review by Fritz Leiber
• 6 • Review of the nonfiction work "Tides and the Pull of the Moon" by Francis E. Wylie • essay by Fritz Leiber
• 7 • PEP and Other Accelerators • essay by Paul Preuss
• 9 • Stayin' Alive (Locus #238) • [Stayin' Alive] • essay by Norman Spinrad
• 11 • Locus Looks at Books (Locus #238) • essay by Jeff Frane
• 11 •   Review: Dark Forces by Kirby McCauley • review by Jeff Frane
• 11 •   Review: New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by Ramsey Campbell • review by Jeff Frane
• 11 •   Review: Shadowland by Peter Straub • review by Jeff Frane
• 12 • Octocon III • essay by uncredited
• 13 • Beneluxcon 7/SFanCon 11 • essay by Jay Haldeman
• 13 •  Letter (Locus #238) • essay by F. M. Busby
• 13 •  Letter (Locus #238) • essay by Neil Barron
• 13 •  Letter (Locus #238) • essay by Terry Carr
• 13 •  Letter (Locus #238) • essay by Daniel Gilbert
• 13 •  Letter (Locus #238) • essay by Vincent Di Fate
• 14 •   Review: The Northern Girl by Elizabeth A. Lynn • review by Jeff Frane
• 16 • September (1980) Books • essay by Jack Rems and Charles N. Brown
• 17 • Locus Monthly Bestseller List (Locus #238) • essay by uncredited

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