Locus Magazine, Issue #707, December 2019

Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings. Locus Issue #707 (December 2019) has interviews with Matthew Hughes and Rivers Solomon. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2020. News includes the World Fantasy Awards and convention report, photo reports on I-Con in Tel Aviv and Can*Con in Ottawa, the McIntyre bequest to Clarion West, the ChiZine Publications controversy, the Prix Utopiales and Endeavour winners, Tokarczuk‘s new foundation, Macmillan’s conflict with the ALA, the Yahoo Groups deletion and related fan preservation efforts, and the impending end of Mysterious Galaxy‘s lease and subsequent urgent last call for a new owner to rescue the bookstore. Kameron Hurley‘s column is entitled “The Power of Giving a Damn”. Michael Blumlein, Charlee Jacob, Norman Clarke Metcalf, Sabrina Chin, Jack Weaver, and Jacques Conia (AKA Jacques Hoven) are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Rivers Solomon (with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson & Jonathan Snipes), Margaret Atwood, Joe Abercombie, Aliette de Bodard, Susan Palwick, John Crowley, William Gibson, C.J. Cherryh, T. Kingfisher, Drew Williams, Jackson Ford, Erin Morgenstern, Becky Chambers, Jeff VanderMeer, Charles Soule, Hiroko Oyamada, Rodrigo Márquez Tizano, Jimmy Cajoleas, Cassandra Clare (ed.), Michelle Ruiz Keil, L.L. McKinney, Derek Künsken, Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson. Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)— Analog 11-12/19 (Rich Horton) Asimov’s 11-12/19 (Rich Horton) Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/26/19 (Karen Burnham) Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/10/19 (Karen Burnham) Black Static 9-10/19 (Paula Guran) Clarkesworld 10/19 (Karen Burnham) The Dark 9/19 (Paula Guran) The Dark 10/19 (Paula Guran) Factor Four 7/19 (Karen Burnham) Lightspeed 11/19 (Karen Burnham) New Myths 9/19 (Karen Burnham) Nightmare 10/19 (Paula Guran) On Spec #110 (Rich Horton) Popshot Quarterly Summer ‘19 (Rich Horton) Three-lobed Burning Eye 8/19 (Paula Guran) Tor.com 9/25/19 (Karen Burnham) Tor.com 10/23/19 (Karen Burnham) Uncanny 9-10/19 (Paula Guran) Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)— Abercrombie, Joe • A Little Hatred (Gary K. Wolfe) Atwood, Margaret • The Testaments (Gary K. Wolfe) Cajoleas, Jimmy • Minor Prophets (Colleen Mondor) Chambers, Becky • To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Adrienne Martini) Cherryh, C. J. • Resurgence (Russell Letson) Clare , Cassandra, ed. • Ghosts of the Shadow Market (Colleen Mondor) Crowley, John • Reading Backwards: Essays and Reviews, 2005-2018 (Gary K. Wolfe) De Bodard, Aliette • The House of Sundering Flames (Gary K. Wolfe) Ford, Jackson • The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind (Adrienne Martini) Gibson, William • Agency (Russell Letson) Kingfisher, T. • Minor Mage (Adrienne Martini) Kröger, Lisa, & Melanie R. Anderson • Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro) Künsken, Derek • The Quantum Garden (Adam Roberts) Lanagan, Margo • Stray Bats (Rich Horton) McKinney, L. L. • A Dream So Dark (Colleen Mondor) Morgenstern, Erin • The Starless Sea (Adrienne Martini) Oyamada, Hiroko • The Factory (Ian Mond) Palwick, Susan • All Worlds Are Real (Gary K. Wolfe) Ruiz, Michelle • All of Us With Wings (Colleen Mondor) Solomon, Rivers, & Daveed Diggs, with234 • The Deep (Gary K. Wolfe) Soule, Charles • Anyone (Ian Mond) Takács, Bogi, ed. • Transcendent 4: The Year’s Best Transgender Speculative Fiction (Karen Burn-ham) Tizano, Rodrigo Marquez • Jakarta (Ian Mond) Vandermeer, Jeff • Dead Astronauts (Ian Mond) Williams, Drew • A Chain Across the Dawn (Adrienne Martini)

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