Locus Magazine, Issue 625, February 2013

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

Locus Issue #625, February 2013, the “Year in Review” issue; containing Locus‘ Recommended Reading List and commentaries by Gary K. Wolfe, Jonathan Strahan, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Tim Pratt, and many others; interviews with Catherynne M. Valente and Brian Slattery; short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Adrienne Martini, and others, of new books by Karen Lord, Frances Hardinge, Adam Roberts, Lois Lowry, and more.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog March 2013 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s February 2013 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies November 2012 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies December 2012 (Rich Horton)
Eclipse Online October 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Eclipse Online November 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Eclipse Online December 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Eclipse Online January 2013 (Rich Horton)
F&SF Jan/Feb 2013 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed January 2013 (Rich Horton)

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

Bachman, Stefan • The Peculiar (Carolyn Cushman)
Barnhill, Kelly • Iron Hearted Violet (Carolyn Cushman)
Barzak, Christopher • Before and Afterlives (Gary K. Wolfe)
Bear, Elizabeth • Shoggoths in Bloom (Gardner Dozois)
Buckell, Tobias S., & Joe Monti, eds. • Diverse Engines (Karen Burnham)
Christopher, Adam • Seven Wonders (Adrienne Martini)
Cooper, Elspeth • Trinity Rising (Faren Miller)
Corey, James S. A. • Gods of Risk (Rich Horton)
de Bodard, Aliette • On a Red Station, Drifting (Rich Horton)
Durst, Sarah Beth • Vessel (Carolyn Cushman)
Fine, Sarah • Sanctum (Carolyn Cushman)
Haldeman, Joe • The Best of Joe Haldeman (Gardner Dozois)
Hannett, Lisa L., & Angela Slatter, eds. • Midnight and Moonshine (Faren Miller)
Hardinge, Frances • A Face Like Glass (Faren Miller)
Johnson, Kij • At the Mouth of the River of Bees (Gardner Dozois)
Kessel, John • The Collected Kessel (Gardner Dozois)
Kress, Adrienne • The Friday Society (Adrienne Martini)
Le Guin, Ursula K. • The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume One: Where on Earth (Gardner Dozois)
Le Guin, Ursula K. • The Unreal and the Real: Selected Stories Volume Two: Outer Space, Inner Lands (Gardner Dozois)
Lord, Karen • The Best of All Possible Worlds (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lord, Karen • The Best of All Possible Worlds (James Bradley)
Lowry, Lois • Son (Carolyn Cushman)
McGuire, Seanan • Velveteen vs. the Junior Super-Patriots (Carolyn Cushman)
Modesitt, L. E., Jr. • Imager’s Battalion (Carolyn Cushman)
Park, Paul • Ghosts Doing the Orange Dance (Gary K. Wolfe)
Rawn, Melanie • Elsewhens (Faren Miller)
Roberts, Adam • By Light Alone (Adrienne Martini)
Selfors, Suzanne • The Sweetest Spell (Carolyn Cushman)
Steele, Allen • Sex and Violence in Zero-G: The Complete ‘‘Near Space’’ Stories: Expanded Edition (Gardner Dozois)
Taylor, Laini • Days of Blood & Starlight (Gwenda Bond)
Valente, Catherynne M. • Six-Gun Snow White (Adrienne Martini)
Valente, Catherynne M. • The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (Faren Miller)
Van Pelt, James • Flying in the Heart of the Lafayette Escadrille and Other Stories (Faren Miller)
Wolfe, Gary K., ed. • American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s (John Clute)

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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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