Locus Magazine, Issue 613, February 2012

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

Locus Issue #613, February 2012, the annual year-in-review issue with the 2011 Recommended Reading List, the 2012 Locus Poll & Survey ballot, essays by Locus editors and reviewers on the year’s best books and stories, and summaries of the year’s book and magazine publications; an interview with Joe Haldeman; Graham Sleight’s “Yesterday’s Tomorrows” column on Samuel R. Delany; 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 Tim Powers, Kim Westwood, Clive Barker, and more.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Abyss & Apex 4th quarter 2011 (Rich Horton)
Analog March 2012 (Rich Horton)
Apex Magazine November 2011 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s February 2012 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies December 2011 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld November 2011 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld November 2011 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld January 2012 (Rich Horton)
Conjunctions Fall 2011 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed December 2011 (Rich Horton)
Redstone Science Fiction October 2011 (Rich Horton)
Redstone Science Fiction December 2011 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons October 2011 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com December 2011 (Gardner Dozois)

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

Anonymous, ed. • Eastercon Souvenir Book (Rich Horton)
Ashley, Mike, ed. • Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It (Karen Haber)
Baker, Kage • The Best of Kage Baker (Adrienne Martini)
Barker, Clive • Abarat Absolute (Gwenda Bond)
Barnhill, Kelly • The Mostly True Story of Jack (Carolyn Cushman)
Berg, Carol • The Daemon Prism (Carolyn Cushman)
Blok, Cor • A Tolkien Tapestry: Pictures to accompany The Lord of the Rings (Karen Haber)
Bunce, Elizabeth C. • Liar’s Moon (Carolyn Cushman)
Dane, Tarni • Blood of Eden (Carolyn Cushman)
Delany, Samuel R. • Aye, and Gomorrah: Stories (Graham Sleight)
Delany, Samuel R. • Dhalgren (Graham Sleight)
Delany, Samuel R. • Nova (Graham Sleight)
Doctorow, Cory • The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (Russell Letson)
du Maurier, Daphne • The Doll: The Lost Short Stories (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Foss, Chris • Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss (Karen Haber)
Geillor, Harrison • The Twilight of Lake Woebegotten (Adrienne Martini)
Gibson, William • Distrust That Particular Flavor (Gary K. Wolfe)
Gilman, Laura Anne • Tricks of the Trade (Carolyn Cushman)
Grossman, Leigh Ronald • Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois)
Guran, Paula, ed. • New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird (Gardner Dozois)
Hughes, Matthew • The Other (Russell Letson)
Jameson, Malcolm • Chariots of San Fernando and Other Stories: The Best of Malcolm Jameson: Volume 1 (Richard A. Lupoff)
Jones, Stephen, ed. • A Book of Horrors (Rich Horton)
Koch, Gini • Alien Proliferation (Carolyn Cushman)
Kosmatka, Ted • The Games (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lackey, Mercedes • Beauty and the Werewolf (Carolyn Cushman)
Lansdale, Joe R., & John L. Lansdale • Shadows West (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Lockhart, Ross E., ed. • The Book of Cthulhu (Gardner Dozois)
McCammon, Robert • The Hunter from the Woods (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Meyer, Melissa • Cinder (Adrienne Martini)
Monette, Sarah • Somewhere Beneath Those Waves (Faren Miller)
Ness, Patrick • A Monster Calls (Gwenda Bond)
Powers, Tim • Hide Me Among the Graves (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ruff, Matt • The Mirage (Tim Pratt)
Shirley, John • Everything Is Broken (Faren Miller)
Slonczewski, Joan • The Highest Frontier (Adrienne Martini)
Snyder, Lucy A. • Switchblade Goddess (Carolyn Cushman)
Snyder, Maria V. • Touch of Power (Carolyn Cushman)
Valente, Catherynne M. • The Folded World (Faren Miller)
Wade, Daniel • Exposé 9: Finest Digital Art in the Known Universe (Karen Haber)
Westwood, Kim • The Courier’s New Bicycle (Faren Miller)
Williams, Mazarkis • The Emperor’s Knife (Faren Miller)
Williams, Mazarkis • The Emperor’s Knife (Faren Miller)
Yovanoff, Brenna • The Space Between (Carolyn Cushman)
Zhao, Vincent • Fantasy+ 3: Best Hand-painted Illustrations (Karen Haber)
Ziegler, Rob • Seed (Adrienne Martini)

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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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