Author: | Locus Magazine | ISBN: | 1230003344088 |
Publisher: | Locus Publications | Publication: | July 31, 2019 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Locus Magazine |
ISBN: | 1230003344088 |
Publisher: | Locus Publications |
Publication: | July 31, 2019 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.
Locus Issue #703 (August 2019) issue of Locus magazine has interviews with William Gibson and Lesley Nneka Arimah. Awards news includes the Campbell, Sturgeon, Clarke, Shirley Jackson, Chesley, and Prometheus awards winners. Other news includes an update on the Beagle legal battle, the retirement of DC's Vertigo imprint, Amazon legal developments, the results of this year's Locus Survey, and more. Kameron Hurley's column is entitled "Writing Through the News Cycle". Convention reports cover the Locus Awards Weekend, Readercon 30, and Another Planet Science Fiction Convention in Beijing. Edward P. Berglund and Leonard Wolf are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Saad Z. Hossain, Nina Allan, Kameron Hurley, Max Gladstone, David Walton, Suzanne Palmer, Katherine Howe, Sarah Maria Griffin, Pat Cummings, Julie Berry, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Sofia Rhei, Tara Campbell, Emily Tesh, Nathan Sumsion, Kate Hope Day, Patricia Briggs, Gail Carriger, Mercedes Lackey, Rajani LaRocca, Megan O’Keefe, JY Yang, Michael M. Levy & Farah Mendlesohn (eds.), Jeffrey Alan Love, and many more.
Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Analog 7-8/19 (Rich Horton)
Apex 5/19 (Paula Guran)
Asimov’s 7-8/19 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/6/19 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/20/19 (Karen Burnham)
Big Echo 1/19 (Karen Burnham)
Black Static 5-6/19 (Paula Guran)
The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol 9 No 2. (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld 6/19 (Karen Burnham)
The Dark 5/19 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 6/19 (Paula Guran)
F&SF 5-6/19 (Rich Horton)
Fiyah Spring ’19 (Karen Burnham)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet Summer ’19 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed 7/19 (Karen Burnham)
New York Times 5/27/19 (Karen Burnham)
Nightmare 6/19 (Paula Guran)
Nightmare 7/19 (Paula Guran)
Terraform 5/13/19 (Karen Burnham)
Tin House Summer ’19 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com 6/5/19 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 5-6/19 (Paula Guran)
Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Allan, Nina • The Dollmaker (Gary K. Wolfe)
Bartlett, Claire Eliza • We Rule the Night (Carolyn Cushman)
Bell, Maureen Cawthorn • James Cawthorn: The Man and His Art (Karen Haber)
Berry, Julie • Lovely War (Colleen Mondor)
Bob-Waksberg, Raphael • Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories (Ian Mond)
Boehme, Jillian • Stormrise (Carolyn Cushman)
Briggs, Patricia • Storm Cursed (Carolyn Cushman)
Brown, Christopher • Rule of Capture (Russell Letson)
Bruce, Georgina • The House of Wounds (Paula Guran)
Campbell, Tara • Midnight at the Organporium (Ian Mond)
Carriger, Gail • Reticence (Carolyn Cushman)
Cummings, Pat • Trace (Colleen Mondor)
Day, Kate Hope • If, Then (Katharine Coldiron)
Gladstone, Max • Empress of Forever (Adrienne Martini)
Gorges, Florent • Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography/Beyond the Fantasy (Karen Haber)
Greenberger, Robert • DC Comics Super Heroines: 100 Greatest Moments (Karen Haber)
Hossain, Saad Z. • The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday (Gary K. Wolfe)
Howe, Katherine • The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs (Adrienne Martini)
Hurley, Kameron • Meet Me in the Future (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lackey, Mercedes • Eye Spy (Carolyn Cushman)
LaRocca, Rajani • Midsummer's Mayhem (Carolyn Cushman)
Leimbacher, Ed • Fantastic Worlds: The Art of William Stout (Karen Haber)
Levy, Michael M., & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. • Aliens in Popular Culture: A Guide to Visitors from Outer Space (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Love, Jeffrey Alan • The Thousand Demon Tree (Karen Haber)
Maria, Sarah • Other Words for Smoke (Colleen Mondor)
McGuire, Seanan • The Unkindest Tide (Carolyn Cushman)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia • Gods of Jade and Shadow (Gary K. Wolfe)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia • Gods of Jade and Shadow (Ian Mond)
O'Keefe, Megan E. • Velocity Weapon (Liz Bourke)
Palmer, Suzanne • Finder (Adrienne Martini)
Punchantz, Don • Don Punchatz: A Retrospective (Karen Haber)
Rhei, Sofia • Everything Is Made of Letters (Ian Mond)
Shirahama, Kamome • Witch Hat Atelier 2 (Carolyn Cushman)
Spoor, Todd, & Bill Cox, eds. • Infected by Art Volume 6 (Karen Haber)
Stålenhag, Simon • The Electric State (Karen Haber)
Sumsion, Nathan • Necropolis PD (Katharine Coldiron)
Tesh, Emily • Silver in the Wood (Katharine Coldiron)
Walton, David • Three Laws Lethal (Adrienne Martini)
Yang, JY • The Ascent to Godhood (Liz Bourke)
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.
For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see www.lsff.net.
Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.
Locus Issue #703 (August 2019) issue of Locus magazine has interviews with William Gibson and Lesley Nneka Arimah. Awards news includes the Campbell, Sturgeon, Clarke, Shirley Jackson, Chesley, and Prometheus awards winners. Other news includes an update on the Beagle legal battle, the retirement of DC's Vertigo imprint, Amazon legal developments, the results of this year's Locus Survey, and more. Kameron Hurley's column is entitled "Writing Through the News Cycle". Convention reports cover the Locus Awards Weekend, Readercon 30, and Another Planet Science Fiction Convention in Beijing. Edward P. Berglund and Leonard Wolf are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Saad Z. Hossain, Nina Allan, Kameron Hurley, Max Gladstone, David Walton, Suzanne Palmer, Katherine Howe, Sarah Maria Griffin, Pat Cummings, Julie Berry, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Sofia Rhei, Tara Campbell, Emily Tesh, Nathan Sumsion, Kate Hope Day, Patricia Briggs, Gail Carriger, Mercedes Lackey, Rajani LaRocca, Megan O’Keefe, JY Yang, Michael M. Levy & Farah Mendlesohn (eds.), Jeffrey Alan Love, and many more.
Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Analog 7-8/19 (Rich Horton)
Apex 5/19 (Paula Guran)
Asimov’s 7-8/19 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/6/19 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/20/19 (Karen Burnham)
Big Echo 1/19 (Karen Burnham)
Black Static 5-6/19 (Paula Guran)
The Cascadia Subduction Zone Vol 9 No 2. (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld 6/19 (Karen Burnham)
The Dark 5/19 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 6/19 (Paula Guran)
F&SF 5-6/19 (Rich Horton)
Fiyah Spring ’19 (Karen Burnham)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet Summer ’19 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed 7/19 (Karen Burnham)
New York Times 5/27/19 (Karen Burnham)
Nightmare 6/19 (Paula Guran)
Nightmare 7/19 (Paula Guran)
Terraform 5/13/19 (Karen Burnham)
Tin House Summer ’19 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com 6/5/19 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 5-6/19 (Paula Guran)
Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Allan, Nina • The Dollmaker (Gary K. Wolfe)
Bartlett, Claire Eliza • We Rule the Night (Carolyn Cushman)
Bell, Maureen Cawthorn • James Cawthorn: The Man and His Art (Karen Haber)
Berry, Julie • Lovely War (Colleen Mondor)
Bob-Waksberg, Raphael • Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory: Stories (Ian Mond)
Boehme, Jillian • Stormrise (Carolyn Cushman)
Briggs, Patricia • Storm Cursed (Carolyn Cushman)
Brown, Christopher • Rule of Capture (Russell Letson)
Bruce, Georgina • The House of Wounds (Paula Guran)
Campbell, Tara • Midnight at the Organporium (Ian Mond)
Carriger, Gail • Reticence (Carolyn Cushman)
Cummings, Pat • Trace (Colleen Mondor)
Day, Kate Hope • If, Then (Katharine Coldiron)
Gladstone, Max • Empress of Forever (Adrienne Martini)
Gorges, Florent • Yoshitaka Amano: The Illustrated Biography/Beyond the Fantasy (Karen Haber)
Greenberger, Robert • DC Comics Super Heroines: 100 Greatest Moments (Karen Haber)
Hossain, Saad Z. • The Gurkha and the Lord of Tuesday (Gary K. Wolfe)
Howe, Katherine • The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs (Adrienne Martini)
Hurley, Kameron • Meet Me in the Future (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lackey, Mercedes • Eye Spy (Carolyn Cushman)
LaRocca, Rajani • Midsummer's Mayhem (Carolyn Cushman)
Leimbacher, Ed • Fantastic Worlds: The Art of William Stout (Karen Haber)
Levy, Michael M., & Farah Mendlesohn, eds. • Aliens in Popular Culture: A Guide to Visitors from Outer Space (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Love, Jeffrey Alan • The Thousand Demon Tree (Karen Haber)
Maria, Sarah • Other Words for Smoke (Colleen Mondor)
McGuire, Seanan • The Unkindest Tide (Carolyn Cushman)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia • Gods of Jade and Shadow (Gary K. Wolfe)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia • Gods of Jade and Shadow (Ian Mond)
O'Keefe, Megan E. • Velocity Weapon (Liz Bourke)
Palmer, Suzanne • Finder (Adrienne Martini)
Punchantz, Don • Don Punchatz: A Retrospective (Karen Haber)
Rhei, Sofia • Everything Is Made of Letters (Ian Mond)
Shirahama, Kamome • Witch Hat Atelier 2 (Carolyn Cushman)
Spoor, Todd, & Bill Cox, eds. • Infected by Art Volume 6 (Karen Haber)
Stålenhag, Simon • The Electric State (Karen Haber)
Sumsion, Nathan • Necropolis PD (Katharine Coldiron)
Tesh, Emily • Silver in the Wood (Katharine Coldiron)
Walton, David • Three Laws Lethal (Adrienne Martini)
Yang, JY • The Ascent to Godhood (Liz Bourke)
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.
For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see www.lsff.net.