Locus Magazine, Issue 612, January 2012

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

Locus Issue #612, January 2012, contains interviews with Lois McMaster Bujold and Claude Lalumière; “A Vocabulary for Speaking about the Future,” a new column by Cory Doctorow; obituaries of Anne McCaffrey and Darrell K. Sweet; short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Paul Witcover, and others, of new books by Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Michael Dirda, and more.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog January/February 2012 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s December 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s January 2012 (Rich Horton)
F&SF Nov/Dec 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Interzone July-August 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Interzone Sep-Oct 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Interzone Nov-Dec 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
On Spec Summer 2011 (Rich Horton)
Realms of Fantasy October 2011 (Rich Horton)

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

Bishop, Michael • The Door Gunner and Other Perilous Flights of Fancy (Paul Witcover)
Campbell, Ramsey • Ghosts Know (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Dempsey, Michael • Necropolis (Faren Miller)
Dirda, Michael • On Conan Doyle (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Duncan, Hal • An A-Z of the Fantastic City (Rich Horton)
Files, Gemma • A Rope of Thorns (Faren Miller)
Haldeman, Joe • Earthbound (Russell Letson)
Katsu, Alma • The Taker (Faren Miller)
Lain, Douglas • Fall Into Time (Rich Horton)
Lain, Douglas • Wave of Mutilation (Rich Horton)
Lanagan, Margo • Sea Hearts (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lanagan, Margo • The Brides of Rollrock Island (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lanagan, Margo • The Brides of Rollrock Island (Gary K. Wolfe)
McIntosh, Will • Hitchers (Gary K. Wolfe)
Oates, Joyce Carol • The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Reeve, Philip • A Web of Air (Faren Miller)
Reeve, Philip • A Web of Air (Faren Miller)
Rosen, Lev AC • All Men of Genius (Faren Miller)
Rucker, Rudy • Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (Paul Witcover)
Rucker, Rudy • Nested Scrolls: A Writer’s Life (Paul Witcover)
Saramago, José, translated by Margaret Jull Costa • Cain (Gary K. Wolfe)
Sís, Peter • The Conference of the Birds (Gwenda Bond)
Sterling, Bruce • Gothic High-Tech (Russell Letson)
Wright, John C. • Count to a Trillion (Paul Witcover)
Young, Moira • Blood Red Road (Gwenda Bond)

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