Locus Magazine, Issue 601, February 2011

Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields, with reviews, interviews, news, and listings.

Locus Issue #601, February 2011, contains the annual Year in Review, with recommended reading essays by Liza Groen Trombi, Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Jonathan Strahan, and many others; the Locus 2010 Recommended Reading List; summaries of the years in Books and Magazines; interviews with author Alastair Reynolds and editor Sharyn November; Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" column, on Doris Lessing; bibliographic listings of the month's New Books and Magazines published in the US and UK; short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois, Rich Horton, Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Adrienne Martini, Carolyn Cushman, and others, of books by Jonathan Strahan, Mark Chadbourn, Philip José Farmer, Stephen King, and more.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog March 2011 (Rich Horton)
Asimov's February 2011 (Rich Horton)
F&SF Jan/Feb 2011 (Rich Horton)
Intergalactic Medicine Show December 2010 (Rich Horton)
Interzone November-December 2010 (Rich Horton)
New Yorker December 2010 (Rich Horton)

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

Adams, John Joseph, ed. • The Way of the Wizard (Gardner Dozois)
Adani, Z. S., & Eric T. Reynolds, eds. • Destination: Future (Gardner Dozois)
Ballantine, Philippa • Geist (Carolyn Cushman)
Barlough, Jeffrey E. • A Tangle in Slops (Faren Miller)
Beukes, Lauren • Zoo City (Adrienne Martini)
Chadbourn, Mark • The Scar-Crow Men (Faren Miller)
Collins, Nancy A. • Right Hand Magic (Carolyn Cushman)
Condie, Ally • Matched (Adrienne Martini)
Cornish, D. M. • Factotum (Carolyn Cushman)
Cornish, D. M. • Factotum (Carolyn Cushman)
Datlow, Ellen, & Terri Windling, eds. • The Beastly Bride: Tales of the Animal People (Gardner Dozois)
Farmer, Philip José • Up the Bright River (Russell Letson)
Feeley, Gregory • Kentauros (Rich Horton)
Foglio, Phil, & Kaja Foglio • Agatha H. and the Airship City (Adrienne Martini)
Giancola, Donato • Middle-Earth: Visions of a Modern Myth (Karen Haber)
Harrison, Kim • Pale Demon (Carolyn Cushman)
Hughes, Matthew • Quartet and Triptych (Gardner Dozois)
Ingham, John L. • Into Your Tent: The Life, Work and Family Background of Eric Frank Russell (Gary K. Wolfe)
King, Stephen • The Secretary of Dreams, Volume 2 (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Krasnostein, Alisa, ed. • Sprawl (Rich Horton)
Lessing, Doris • The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (Graham Sleight)
Lessing, Doris • The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five (Graham Sleight)
Lessing, Doris • The Sentimental Agents in the Volyen Empire (Graham Sleight)
Lessing, Doris • Shikasta (Graham Sleight)
Lessing, Doris • The Sirian Experiments (Graham Sleight)
Matheson, Richard • Matheson Uncollected, Volume Two (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
McIntosh, Will • Soft Apocalypse (Gary K. Wolfe)
McKinley, Robin • Pegasus (Carolyn Cushman)
Menges, Jeff A. • Maidens, Monsters & Heroes: The Fantasy Illustrations of H.J. Ford (Karen Haber)
Merriam, Daniel • Daniel Merriam Taking Reality by Surprise (Karen Haber)
Meseldzija, Petar • The Legend of Steel Bashaw (Karen Haber)
Navarro, Yvonne • Highborn (Carolyn Cushman)
Okorafor, Nnedi • The Akata Witch (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ortiz, Luis • Outermost: The Art + Life of Jack Gaughan (Karen Haber)
Pevel, Pierre • The Alchemist in the Shadows (Faren Miller)
Pevel, Pierre • The Alchemist in the Shadows (Faren Miller)
Phillips, Scott • Rut (Adrienne Martini)
Revis, Beth • Across the Universe (Gwenda Bond)
Rinzler, J. W., ed. • Star Wars Art: Visions (Karen Haber)
Smith, Clark Ashton • The Collected Fantasies of Clark Ashton Smith Volume 5: The Last Hieroglyph (Richard A. Lupoff)
Stout, William • Hallucinations (Karen Haber)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Five (Gary K. Wolfe) Tidhar, Lavie • The Bookman (Faren Miller)
Tidhar, Lavie • Cloud Permutations (Gardner Dozois)
Yovanoff, Brenna • The Replacement (Carolyn Cushman)

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Our February issue summarizes the previous year, and includes a highly regarded annual Recommended Reading List. The August issue has the Locus Awards, voted on by our readers from the best of the previous year. The October and November issues cover the World SF Convention and are constant back issue favorites. All issues have a list of the new books that month, a list of recommended books and bestsellers, and interviews with leading authors.
 

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