Locus Magazine, Issue 628, May 2013

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

Locus Issue #628, May 2013, contains interviews with Tim Powers and Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Hayden; a column by Cory Doctorow titled “Improving Book Publicity in the 21st Century”; a section on The Small & Independent Presses; coverage of Writers of the Future and ICFA; short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, and others, of new books by Paul Cornell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Neal Asher, Nancy Kress, Laird Barron, and more.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s March 2013 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s April/May 2013 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies March 2013 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld March 2013 (Rich Horton)
F&SF May/June 2013 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed April 2013 (Rich Horton)
Subterranean Spring 2013 (Rich Horton)

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

Allan, Nina • Spin (Gary K. Wolfe)
Asher, Neal • Zero Point (Russell Letson)
Asher, Neal • Zero Point (Russell Letson)
Barron, Laird • The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Blaylock, James P. • The Aylesford Skull (Faren Miller)
Bowes, Richard • The Queen, the Cambion, and Seven Others (Rich Horton)
Brennan, Thomas • Doktor Glass (Faren Miller)
Burgis, Stephanie • Stolen Magic (Carolyn Cushman)
Cornell, Paul • London Falling (Faren Miller)
Cornell, Paul • London Falling (Gary K. Wolfe)
Cornell, Paul • London Falling (Faren Miller)
Cornell, Paul • London Falling (Gary K. Wolfe)
George, Jessica Day • Wednesdays in the Tower (Carolyn Cushman)
Gorodischer, Angelica • Trafalgar (Rich Horton)
Guran, Paula, ed. • Future Games (Gardner Dozois)
Healey, Karen • When We Wake (Gwenda Bond)
Held, Rhiannon • Tarnished (Carolyn Cushman)
Higgins, Peter • Wolfhound Century (Faren Miller)
Horton, Rich, ed. • Superheroes (Gardner Dozois)
Kowal, Mary Robinette • Without a Summer (Faren Miller)
Kress, Nancy • Flash Point (Carolyn Cushman)
Langan, John • The Wide Carnivorous Sky and Other Monstrous Geographies (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Lipsett, Edward, ed. • Speculative Japan 3: Silver Bullet and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy, (Karen Burnham)
Madison, Bennett • September Girls (Gwenda Bond)
Modesitt, L. E., Jr. • Antiagon Fire (Carolyn Cushman)
Planck, M. C. • The Kassa Gambit (Russell Letson)
Sasarman, Gheorghe • Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony (Gary K. Wolfe)
Sasarman, Gheorghe • Squaring the Circle: A Pseudotreatise of Urbogony (Rich Horton)
Scott, M. J. • Iron Kin (Carolyn Cushman)
Tidhar, Lavie • Martian Sands (Gary K. Wolfe)
Vance, Jack, edited by Terry Dowling & -3- • Magic Highways: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Three (Gardner Dozois)
Vaughn, Carrie • Kitty Rocks the House (Carolyn Cushman)
Wolf, Carol • Binding (Carolyn Cushman)

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