Locus Magazine, Issue 603, April 2011

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

Locus Issue #603, April 2011, contains interviews with Oscar Award-winning artist Shaun Tan and writer-brother team Dani & Eytan Kollin; features on Potlatch, FOGcon, and a Spotlight on editor Sean Wallace; Graham Sleight's "Yesterday's Tomorrows" column, on Fritz Leiber; bibliographic listings of the month's New Books and Magazines published in the US and UK; short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Paul Witcover, Adrienne Martini, and others, of books by Carol Emshwiller, Daniel Abraham, Frederik Pohl, John Scalzi, Brian Lumley, and more.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov's March 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov's April/May 2011 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld January 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld February 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
F&SF Mar/Apr 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Fantasy Magazine April 2011 (Rich Horton)
GigaNotoSaurus January 2011 (Rich Horton)
GigaNotoSaurus February 2011 (Rich Horton)
Interzone Jan-Feb 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Interzone Jan-Feb 2011 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed April 2011 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons April 2011 (Rich Horton)
Subterranean Winter 2011 (Rich Horton)
 

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

Aaronovitch, Ben • Midnight Riot (Carolyn Cushman)
Aaronovitch, Ben • Moon Over Soho (Faren Miller)
Aaronovitch, Ben • Rivers of London (Carolyn Cushman)
Abercrombie, Joe • The Heroes (Paul Witcover)
Abraham, Daniel • The Dragon's Path (Faren Miller)
Barnes, John • Daybreak Zero (Russell Letson)
Beagle, Peter S. • Sleight of Hand (Gary K. Wolfe)
Berg, Carol • The Soul Mirror (Carolyn Cushman)
Briggs, Patricia • River Marked (Carolyn Cushman)
Britain, Kristen • Blackveil (Carolyn Cushman)
Cisco, Michael • The Great Lover (Faren Miller)
Emshwiller, Carol • The Collected Stories of Carol Emshwiller, Volume One (Gary K. Wolfe)
Foster, Alan Dean • The Human Blend (Adrienne Martini)
Fox, Daniel • Hidden Cities (Faren Miller)
Frost, P. R. • Forest Moon Rising (Carolyn Cushman)
Gilman, Laura Anne • Pack of Lies (Carolyn Cushman)
Griffin, Kate • A Madness of Angels (Faren Miller)
Griffin, Kate • The Midnight Mayor (Faren Miller)
Griffin, Kate • The Midnight Mayor (Faren Miller)
Holt, Tom • Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Sausages (Adrienne Martini)
Jones, Darynda • First Grave on the Right (Carolyn Cushman)
Leiber, Fritz • Conjure Wife (Graham Sleight)
Leiber, Fritz • Our Lady of Darkness (Graham Sleight)
Leiber, Fritz • Swords and Deviltry (Graham Sleight)
Leiber, Fritz • The Wanderer (Graham Sleight)
Leiber, Fritz, edited by Jonathan Strahan & -3- • Selected Stories (Graham Sleight)
Livdahl, Kristin, ed. • A Brood of Foxes (Rich Horton)
Lumley, Brian • The Fly-By-Nights (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
McNeil, Carla Speed • Finder: Voice (Carolyn Cushman)
Pohl, Frederik • All the Lives He Led (Russell Letson)
Saknussemm, Kris • Enigmatic Pilot: A Tall Tale Too True (Gary K. Wolfe)
Scalzi, John • Fuzzy Nation (Adrienne Martini)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Engineering Infinity (Gardner Dozois)
Swanwick, Michael • Dancing With Bears (Adrienne Martini)
van Eekhout, Greg • The Boy at the End of the World (Gregory Benford)
Van Gelder, Gordon, ed. • Welcome to the Greenhouse (Rich Horton)
Verne, Jules, & Peter Schulman, trans • The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz: The First English Translation of Verne’s Original Manuscript (Gary K. Wolfe)

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