Locus Magazine, Issue 611, December 2011

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

Locus Issue #611, December 2011, contains interviews with Charles Stross and Gemma Files; report on the 2011 World Fantasy Convention; Graham Sleight's “Yesterday's Tomorrows” column on Roger Zelazny; complete lists of forthcoming books through September 2012; short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Adrienne Martini, and others, of new books by Alastair Reynolds, Gregory Maguire, Ian R MacLeod, Libba Bray, Kim Harrison, and more.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Albedo One #40 2011 (Rich Horton)
Asimov's December 2011 (Rich Horton)
F&SF Nov/Dec 2011 (Rich Horton)
Tin House Fall 2011 (Rich Horton)

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

Anderton, Jo • Debris (Carolyn Cushman)
Andrews, Ilona • Fate's Edge (Carolyn Cushman)
Baker, Kage • Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Trainwrecks of the Silent Screen (Richard A. Lupoff)
Baxter, Stephen • Gravity Dreams (Gardner Dozois)
Bray, Libba • Beauty Queen (Adrienne Martini)
Cass, Stephen, ed. • Technology Review: Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois)
Cass, Stephen, ed. • Technology Review: Science Fiction (Rich Horton)
Crowther, Peter, & Nick Gevers, eds. • Postscripts 24/25: The New and Perfect Man (Gardner Dozois)
Duncan, Dave • When the Saints (Faren Miller)
Durst, Sarah Beth • Drink, Slay, Love (Carolyn Cushman)
Harper, Steven • The Doomsday Vault (Carolyn Cushman)
Harrison, Kim • The Hollows Insider (Carolyn Cushman)
Healey, Karen • The Shattering (Gwenda Bond)
Jerome, Celia • Fire Works in the Hamptons (Carolyn Cushman)
Kadrey, Richard • Aloha from Hell (Adrienne Martini)
Link, Kelly, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. • Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories (Rich Horton)
MacLeod, Ian R. • Wake Up and Dream (Faren Miller)
MacLeod, Ian R. • Wake Up and Dream (Russell Letson)
Maguire, Gregory • Out of Oz (Faren Miller)
McAuley, Paul • In the Mouth of the Whale (Gary K. Wolfe)
McDevitt, Jack • Firebird (Russell Letson)
McHugh, Maureen F. • After the Apocalypse (Rich Horton)
Oliver, Jonathan, ed. • House of Fear (Tim Pratt)
Oliver, Reggie • Mrs Midnight and Other Stories (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Pierce, Tamora • Mastiff (Carolyn Cushman)
Powell, Gareth L. • The Recollection (Russell Letson)
Pratt, Tim • Briarpatch (Adrienne Martini)
Pratt, Tim • Briarpatch (Faren Miller)
Priest, Cherie • Hellbent (Adrienne Martini)
Reynolds, Alastair • Blue Remembered Earth (Gary K. Wolfe)
Reynolds, Alastair • Blue Remembered Earth (Gary K. Wolfe)
Sagara, Michelle • Cast in Ruin (Carolyn Cushman)
Sanderson, Brandon • The Alloy of Law (Faren Miller)
Sherman, Delia • The Freedom Maze (Gwenda Bond)
Straub, Peter • The Ballad of Ballard and Sandrine (Gary K. Wolfe)
Whates, Ian, ed. • Fables from the Fountain (Rich Horton)
Whates, Ian, ed. • Further Conflicts (Rich Horton)
Whates, Ian, ed. • Solaris Rising: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois)
Zelazny, Roger • Lord of Light (Graham Sleight)
Zelazny, Roger • The Chronicles of Amber (Graham Sleight)
Zelazny, Roger • The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth (Graham Sleight)

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