Locus Magazine, Issue #679, August 2017

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

Locus Issue #679 (August 2017) features interviews with John Scalzi and Justina Ireland, a column by Kameron Hurley, results of this year’s Locus Survey, photos from the Locus Awards Weekend and Readercon and reviews of short fiction and books by Michael Poore, Callie Bates, Sarah Gailey, Charles Stross, Nancy Kress, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog July/August 2017 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies May 2017 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies June 2017 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld June 2017 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed January 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed February 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed March 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed April 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed May 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed July 2017 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons June 2017 (Rich Horton)
Tin House Summer 2017 (Rich Horton)
Tobias Buckell’s Patreon Apr 2017 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com June 2017 (Rich Horton)
Wired January 2017 (Gardner Dozois)

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

Aaronovitch, Ben • The Furthest Station (Adrienne Martini)
Adams, John Joseph, ed. • Cosmic Powers: The Saga Anthology of Far-Away Galaxies (Gardner Dozois)
Amano, Yoshitaka • Yoshitaka Amano: Illustrations (Karen Haber)
Anderson, M. T., & Andrea Offermann • Yvain: The Knight of the Lion (Karen Haber)
Andrews, Ilona • The Innkeeper Chronicles, Volume One (Carolyn Cushman)
Andrews, Ilona • Wildfire (Carolyn Cushman)
Bates, Callie • The Waking Land (Faren Miller)
Brennan, Sara Rees • In Other Lands (Colleen Mondor)
Brittain, C. Dale • An Autumn Haunting (Carolyn Cushman)
Chaon, Dan • Ill Will (John Langan)
Delon, Mélanie • Magica: The Art of Mélanie Delon (Karen Haber)
Forest, Laurie • The Black Witch (Carolyn Cushman)
Gailey, Sarah • River of Teeth (Adrienne Martini)
Gray, Andrew Neil, & J. S. Herbison • The Ghost Line (Adrienne Martini)
Harrold, A. E. • The Song from Somewhere Else (Colleen Mondor)
Johnson, Kij • The River Bank (Gary K. Wolfe)
Jones, Patrick J. • The Sci-Fi & Fantasy Art of Patrick J. Jones (Karen Haber)
Kelly, James Patrick • Mother Go (Gary K. Wolfe)
Kress, Nancy • Tomorrow’s Kin (Liz Bourke)
Kress, Nancy • Tomorrow’s Kin (Russell Letson)
Law, Stephanie • Descants & Cadences: The Art of Stephanie Law (Karen Haber)
Manomivibul, Michael • Fathoms: The Art of Michael Manomivibul (Karen Haber)
Matthews, Susan R. • Blood Enemies (Liz Bourke)
McDonald, Ed • Blackwing (Faren Miller)
Poore, Michael • Reincarnation Blues (Gary K. Wolfe)
Power, Dermot • The Art of the Film: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Karen Haber)
Pulley, Natasha • The Bedlam Stacks (Faren Miller)
Roeder, Katherine, & Eik Kahng • David Wiesner and the Art of Wordless Storytelling (Karen Haber)
Rossetti, Christina, & Omar Rayyan • Goblin Market (Karen Haber)
Rowe, Christopher • Telling the Map: Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Samatar, Sofia • Tender: Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Stross, Charles • The Delirium Brief (Liz Bourke)
Thomas, Scarlett • Dragon’s Green (Carolyn Cushman)
Turner, Megan Whalen • Thick as Thieves (Carolyn Cushman)
Valente, Catherynne M. • The Refrigerator Monologues (Liz Bourke)
Vaughn, Carrie • Bannerless (Adrienne Martini)
Vaughn, Carrie • Bannerless (Carolyn Cushman)
Wells, Martha • All Systems Red (Carolyn Cushman)

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