Locus Magazine, Issue #661, February 2016

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

The February issue is the annual Year in Review issue, with the 2015 Recommended Reading List, essays on the year’s works by Gary K. Wolfe, Ellen Datlow, Paul Kincaid, and many others, and the 2015 Locus Poll and Survey ballot; there’s also an interview with Tom Doherty, an obituary of David G. Hartwell, and reviews of short fiction and books by Tim Powers, John Wray, Carter Scholz, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog January/February 2016 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s December 2015 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s January 2016 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies November 2015 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld August 2015 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld September 2015 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld October 2015 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld November 2015 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld December 2015 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld December 2015 (Rich Horton)
Fantasy Magazine December 2015 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed December 2015 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com December 2015 (Rich Horton)

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

Adams, John Joseph, ed. • Operation Arcana (Gardner Dozois)
Anonymous, ed. • Pwning Tomorrow: Short Fiction from the Electronic Frontier (Gardner Dozois)
Berg, Carol • Ash and Silver (Carolyn Cushman)
Bishop, Anne • Marked in Flesh (Carolyn Cushman)
Black, Holly, & Cassandra Clare • The Copper Gauntlet (Carolyn Cushman)
Braunbeck, Gary • Halfway Down the Stairs (Laird Barron)
Brittain, C. Dale • The Starlight Raven (Carolyn Cushman)
Chambers, Becky • The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Adrienne Martini)
Cheney, J. Kathleen • Dreaming Death (Faren Miller)
Funke, Cornelia • Reckless: The Golden Yarn (Carolyn Cushman)
Galenorn, Yasmine • Autumn Thorns (Carolyn Cushman)
Goodman, Alison • The Dark Days Club (Liz Bourke)
Hand, Elizabeth • Wylding Hall (Rich Horton)
Hernandez, Carlos • The Assimilated Cuban’s Guide to Quantum Santeria (Gary K. Wolfe)
Hines, Jim C. • Revisionary (Carolyn Cushman)
Hogan, Mitchell • A Crucible of Souls (Faren Miller)
Howard, Jonathan L. • Carter & Lovecraft (Laird Barron)
Kadrey, Richard • The Everything Box (Adrienne Martini)
Koja, Kathe, & Michael Kelly, eds. • Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume Two (Laird Barron)
LaValle, Victor • The Ballad of Black Tom (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lyris, Sonia Orin • The Seer (Tom Whitmore)
Magoon, Kekla • Shadows of Sherwood (Colleen Mondor)
McDevitt, Jack • Thunderbird (Russell Letson)
McGuire, Seanan • Chaos Choreography (Carolyn Cushman)
Merril, Judith • The Merril Theory of Lit’ry Criticism (Gary K. Wolfe)
Older, Malka • Infomocracy (Adrienne Martini)
Page, Michael R. • Frederik Pohl (Gary K. Wolfe)
Powers, Tim • Medusa’s Web (Gary K. Wolfe)
Pulver, Joe, ed. • Cassilda’s Song (Laird Barron)
Sagara, Michelle • Cast in Honor (Carolyn Cushman)
Schmidt, Bryan Thomas, ed. • Mission: Tomorrow (Gardner Dozois)
Scholz, Carter • Gypsy Plus… (Russell Letson)
Woolston, Blythe • MARTians (Adrienne Martini)
Wray, John • The Lost Time Accidents (Faren Miller)

About Locus:

Locus is the news magazine and trade journal for chain SF and fantasy buyers, independent bookstore SF and fantasy buyers, and independent distributors as well as librarians, editors, authors, publishing personnel, and interested readers. The magazine has been covering the SF and fantasy fields for over 40 years, and has won the Hugo Award, science fiction's premier honor, 30 times. The magazine's website, which contains a sampling of magazine content as well as additional genre news, media reviews, the Roundtable Blog, indexes of reviews and interviews published, the science fiction awards database, and much much more, can be found at http://www.locusmag.com. Information about advertising in the magazine can be found at http://locusmag.com/Magazine/RateCard.html or on the website at http://www.locusmag.com/Home/LocusOnlineRates.html.

Our Quarterly Forthcoming Book issues (March, June, September, and December) usually sell out, and are used by librarians, bookstores, publishers, and readers to keep abreast of forthcoming titles. Each contains publishing schedules from the major genre publishers – big houses to small presses – for the next nine months.

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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