Locus Magazine, Issue 617, June 2012

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

Locus Issue #617, June 2012, contains interviews with William F. Nolan and Genevieve Valentine; reports from this year’s Nebula Awards Banquet, Writers and Illustrators of the Future event, and Hal-Con 2012; listings of Forthcoming Books through March 2013; 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 Gardner Dozois, Kate Griffin, S.A. Corey, John Scalzi, David Weber, and more.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog June 2012 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s June 2012 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies April 2012 (Rich Horton)
Fireside Magazine Spring 2012 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed January 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed February 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed March 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed April 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed May 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed May 2012 (Rich Horton)
Not One of Us April 2011 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com April 2012 (Gardner Dozois)
Weird Tales Winter 2012 (Rich Horton)

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

Abraham, Daniel • The King’s Blood (Faren Miller)
Adams, John Joseph, ed. • Armored (Rich Horton)
Alexander, William • Goblin Secrets (Gwenda Bond)
Bacigalupi, Paolo • The Drowned Cities (Gary K. Wolfe)
Bernobich, Beth • Queen’s Hunt (Faren Miller)
Black, Holly • Black Heart (Gwenda Bond)
Coates, Deborah • Wide Open (Carolyn Cushman)
Corey, James S. A. • Caliban’s War (Russell Letson)
Dozois, Gardner, ed. • The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Twenty-ninth Annual Collection (Gary K. Wolfe)
Duncan, Andy • The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories (Gardner Dozois)
Flynn, Michael • Captive Dreams (Russell Letson)
Gilman, Carolyn Ives • Ison of the Isles (Faren Miller)
Gilman, Laura Anne • From Whence You Came (Rich Horton)
Griffin, Kate • The Minority Council (Faren Miller)
Guran, Paula, ed. • Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful (Rich Horton)
Hartwell, David G., & Kathryn Cramer, eds. • Year’s Best SF 17 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Holm, Chris F. • Dead Harvest (Carolyn Cushman)
Hopkinson, Nalo • The Chaos (Gary K. Wolfe)
Jacka, Benedict • Cursed (Carolyn Cushman)
Jerome, Celia • Life Guards in the Hamptons (Carolyn Cushman)
Kress, Nancy • After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall (Adrienne Martini)
Locke, Kate • God Save the Queen (Carolyn Cushman)
Mamatas, Nick, & Masumi Washington, eds. • The Future Is Japanese (Rich Horton)
Mandelo, Brit, ed. • Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction (Karen Burnham)
Mills, K. E. • Wizard Undercover (Carolyn Cushman)
Pelland, Jennifer • Machine (Adrienne Martini)
Pinborough, Sarah • The Chosen Seed (Tim Pratt)
Sagara, Michelle • Silence (Carolyn Cushman)
Scalzi, John • Redshirts (Adrienne Martini)
Sebold, Gaie • Babylon Steel (Adrienne Martini)
Stephenson, Neal, & Greg Bear • The Mongoliad (Adrienne Martini)
Stoddard, Jason • Winning Mars (Adrienne Martini)
Weber, David • War Maid’s Choice (Carolyn Cushman)

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