Locus Magazine, Issue 623, December 2012

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

Locus Issue #623, December 2012, contains interviews with Elizabeth Bear and Ted Kosmatka; a report on the World Fantasy Convention 2012; lists of forthcoming books through September 2013; short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Adrienne Martini, and others, of new books by Ursula K. Le Guin, Allen Steele, Kage Baker & Kathleen Bartholomew, and more.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog January/February 2013 (Rich Horton)
Arc 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s December 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s December 2012 (Rich Horton)
Eclipse Online October 2012 (Rich Horton)
Eclipse Online November 2012 (Rich Horton)
Electric Velocipede Summer 2012 (Rich Horton)
F&SF Nov/Dec 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
F&SF Nov/Dec 2012 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons October 2012 (Rich Horton)

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

Baker, Kage, & Kathleen Bartholomew • Nell Gwynne’s on Land and at Sea (Adrienne Martini)
Baker, Kage, & Kathleen Bartholomew • Nell Gwynne’s on Land and at Sea (Richard A. Lupoff)
Bray, Libba • The Diviners (Gwenda Bond)
Curran, Kim • Shift (Adrienne Martini)
Datlow, Ellen, & Terri Windling, eds. • After (Gwenda Bond)
Gilman, Felix • The Rise of Ransom City (Faren Miller)
Gropp, Richard E. • Bad Glass (Faren Miller)
Hand, Elizabeth • Errantry (Gary K. Wolfe)
Hartmann, Ivor W. • AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers (Karen Burnham)
Johnson, Les, & Jack McDevitt, eds. • Going Interstellar (Gardner Dozois)
Kadrey, Richard • Devil Said Bang (Faren Miller)
Le Guin, Ursula K. • The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth (Gary K. Wolfe)
Le Guin, Ursula K. • The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands (Gary K. Wolfe)
McDevitt, Jack, & Mike Resnick • The Cassandra Project (Russell Letson)
Mosley, Walter • Merge/Disciple (Adrienne Martini)
Nicholas, Douglas • Something Red (Cecilia Holland)
Niven, Larry, & Edward M. Lerner • Fate of Worlds (Russell Letson)
Pratchett, Terry • Dodger (Faren Miller)
Pratchett, Terry • Dodger (Faren Miller)
Priest, Cherie • The Inexplicables (Faren Miller)
Reid, Rob • Year Zero (Adrienne Martini)
Roberts, Adam • Jack Glass (Gary K. Wolfe)
Steele, Allen • Apollo’s Outcasts (Russell Letson)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Edge of Infinity (Gardner Dozois)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Edge of Infinity (Rich Horton)
VanderMeer, Ann, ed. • Steampunk III: Steampunk Revolution (Rich Horton)

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