Locus Magazine

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

Locus Issue # 643, August, 2014, contains interviews with authors Ian McDonald and Ann Leckie, a new column by Kameron Hurley, an obituary with appreciations of Frank M. Robinson, results of this year's Locus Survey, and fiction reviews by Lucius Shepard, Jeff VanderMeer, James S.A. Corey, Chris Willrich, Nick Mamatas, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s July 2014 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s August 2014 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s August 2014 (Rich Horton)
F&SF July/August 2014 (Rich Horton)
Granta Spring 2014 (Rich Horton)
Harper’s June 2014 (Rich Horton)
Interzone May/June 2014 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed July 2014 (Rich Horton)

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

Bach, Rachel • Fortune’s Pawn (Adrienne Martini)
Bach, Rachel • Heaven’s Queen (Adrienne Martini)
Bach, Rachel • Honor’s Knight (Adrienne Martini)
Berg, Carol • Dust and Light (Carolyn Cushman)
Bradley, Darin • Chimpanzee (Tim Pratt)
Briggs, Patricia • Shifting Shadows (Carolyn Cushman)
Butler, Octavia E. • Unexpected Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Corey, James S. A. • Cibola Burn (Russell Letson)
Cornell, Paul • The Severed Streets (Gary K. Wolfe)
de Pierres, Marianne • Peacemaker (Adrienne Martini)
Foglio, Phil, & Kaja Foglio • Girl Genius #13: Agatha Heterodyne and the Sleeping City (Carolyn Cushman)
Gladstone, Max • Full Fathom Five (Adrienne Martini)
Gregory, Daryl • We Are All Completely Fine (Gary K. Wolfe)
Hearne, Kevin • Shattered (Carolyn Cushman)
Hobb, Robin • Fool’s Assassin (Faren Miller)
Mamatas, Nick • The Last Weekend (Tim Pratt)
Muir, Sharona • Invisible Beasts (Faren Miller)
Nelson, J. C. • Free Agent (Carolyn Cushman)
Parker, K. J. • Academic Exercises (Gary K. Wolfe)
Paull, Laline • The Bees (Faren Miller)
Shepard, Lucius • Beautiful Blood (Gary K. Wolfe)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Reach for Infinity (Gardner Dozois)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Reach for Infinity (Rich Horton)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Reach for Infinity (Russell Letson)
VanderMeer, Jeff • Acceptance (Faren Miller)
Willrich, Chris • The Silk Map (Adrienne Martini)

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.
 

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