Locus Magazine, Issue #680, September 2017

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

Locus Issue #680 (September 2017) features interviews with Matt Ruff and Karin Tidbeck, a column by Cory Doctorow, an obituary and appreciations of Brian Aldiss, lists of forthcoming books through June 2018, and reviews of short fiction and books by Annalee Newitz, Josh Malerman, Kat Howard, Linda Nagata, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s July/August 2017 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld February 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld March 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld April 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld May 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld July 2017 (Rich Horton)
F&SF July/Aug 2017 (Rich Horton)
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination: People of Color Take Over Special Issue 2017 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com July 2017 (Rich Horton)
Uncanny July/August 2017 (Rich Horton)

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

Arsenault, Emily • The Leaf Reader (Colleen Mondor)
Cantero, Edgar • Meddling Kids (Faren Miller)
Cato, Beth • Call of Fire (Faren Miller)
Ford, Jeffrey • The Twilight Pariah (Gary K. Wolfe)
Gevers, Nick, ed. • Extrasolar (Gardner Dozois)
Gevers, Nick, ed. • Extrasolar (Rich Horton)
Howard, Kat • An Unkindness of Magicians (Liz Bourke)
Hutchinson, Dave • Acadie (Gary K. Wolfe)
Jones, Stephen Graham • Mapping the Interior (Paula Guran)
Jordan, Neil • Carnivalesque (Faren Miller)
Killjoy, Margaret • The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Liz Bourke)
King, Maggie Shen • An Excess Male (Rachel Swirsky)
Likitalo, Leena • The Five Daughters of the Moon (Liz Bourke)
Malerman, Josh • Black Mad Wheel (Faren Miller)
McGuire, Seanan • Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Paula Guran)
Merbeth, K. S. • Raid (Liz Bourke)
Nagata, Linda • The Last Good Man (Russell Letson)
Newitz, Annalee • Autonomous (Gary K. Wolfe)
Okorafor, Nnedi • Akata Warrior (Gary K. Wolfe)
Olukotun, Deji Bryce • After the Flare (Gary K. Wolfe)
Watson, Angus • You Die When You Die (Faren Miller)

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