Locus Magazine, Issue #695, December 2018

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

Locus Issue #695 (December 2018) issue features interviews with Kim Stanley Robinson and Becky Chambers; World Fantasy, National Book, and Prix Utopiales awards winners; Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and Amazon Best of the Year lists; a column by Kameron Hurley; a photo story on Forbidden Planet Halloween Signing; World Fantasy and SF in Brazil convention reports; US and British Forthcoming Books; obituaries for Dave Duncan, William Goldman, and Stan Lee; and reviews of short fiction and books by Shaun Tan, Molly Tanzer, David Weber, Tricia Sullivan, and many others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Analog 11-12/18 (Rich Horton)
Apex 9/18 (Karen Burnham)
Apex 10/18 (Karen Burnham)
Asimov’s 11-12/18 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/8/18 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/22/18 (Karen Burnham)
Black Static 9-10/18 (Paula Guran)
Clarkesworld 9/18 (Karen Burnham)
Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores 9/18 (Karen Burnham)
The Dark 10/18 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 11/18 (Paula Guran)
e-flux 9/18 (Karen Burnham)
Fireside 10/18 (Karen Burnham)
Lightspeed 11/18 (Karen Burnham)
Nightmare 11/18 (Paula Guran)
Omenana #12 8/18 (Karen Burnham)
Shimmer 9/18 (Paula Guran)
Terraform 9/14/18 (Karen Burnham)
Terraform 9/23/18 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 9-10/18 (Paula Guran)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Aaronovitch, Ben • Lies Sleeping (Adrienne Martini)
Aaronovitch, Ben • Lies Sleeping (Carolyn Cushman)
Arden, Katherine • Small Spaces (Carolyn Cushman)
Bishop, Michael • The Sacerdotal Owl and Three Other Long Tales (Gary K. Wolfe)
Cogman, Genevieve • The Mortal Word (Carolyn Cushman)
Cogman, Genevieve • The Mortal Word (Liz Bourke)
Czerneda, Julie E. • Search Image (Carolyn Cushman)
Datlow, Ellen, ed. • The Best of the Best Horror of the Year: 10 Years of Essential Short Horror Fiction (Ian Mond)
de Bodard, Aliette • In the Vanishers’ Palace (Gary K. Wolfe)
Dozois, Gardner, ed. • The Book of Magic (Rich Horton)
Drayden, Nicky • Temper (Tom Whitmore)
Duncan, Andy • An Agent of Utopia (Rich Horton)
Fallon, Amber, ed. • Fright Into Flight (Arley Sorg)
Goodwater, W. L. • Breach (Carolyn Cushman)
Grant, Mira • Kingdom of Needle and Bone (Tom Whitmore)
Heilig, Heidi • For a Muse of Fire (Carolyn Cushman)
Jemisin, N. K. • How Long ’Til Black Future Month? (Gary K. Wolfe)
Kemp, Juliet • The Deep and Shining Dark (Liz Bourke)
Lackey, Mercedes • The Bartered Brides (Carolyn Cushman)
Locke, John • The Things Incredible! The Secret Origins of Weird Tales (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Ma, Ling • Severance (Ian Mond)
Maresca, Marshall Ryan • The Way of the Shield (Liz Bourke)
Martin, George R. R., & Melinda M. Snodgrass, eds. • Knaves Over Queens (Paula Guran)
Moriarty, Jaclyn • The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone (Carolyn Cushman)
Nevala-Lee, Alec • Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Nix, Garth, & Sean Williams • Let Sleeping Dragons Lie (Carolyn Cushman)
Parisien, Dominik, & Navah Wolfe, eds. • Robots vs. Fairies (Rich Horton)
Reynolds, Alastair • Shadow Captain (Russell Letson)
Rosenberg, Jordy • Confessions of the Fox (Adrienne Martini)
Sanderson, Brandon • Legion: The Many Lives of Stephen Leeds (Carolyn Cushman)
Scalzi, John • The Consuming Fire (Adrienne Martini)
Schwab, Victoria • City of Ghosts (Colleen Mondor)
Sharma, Priya • All the Fabulous Beasts (Gary K. Wolfe)
Stoker, Dacre, & J. D. Barker • Dracul (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Stross, Charles • The Labyrinth Index (Russell Letson)
Sullivan, Tricia • Occupy Me (Ian Mond)
Suma, Nova Ren • A Room Away from the Wolves (Colleen Mondor)
Tan, Shaun • Tales from the Inner City (Gary K. Wolfe)
Tanzer, Molly • Creatures of Want and Ruin (Liz Bourke)
van den Berg, Laura • The Third Hotel (Ian Mond)
Weber, David • Through Fiery Trials (Liz Bourke)
Williams, Katie • Tell the Machine Goodnight (Adrienne Martini)

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