Locus Magazine, Issue 636, January 2014

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

Locus Issue #636, January 2014, contains interviews with Stephen Baxter and Stina Leicht; a new column by Cory Doctorow titled “Cheap Writing Tricks”; spotlights on author and editor Annalee Newitz and artist Galen Dara; a special report on the second International Science Fiction Symposium in Japan by Pat Murphy; and short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Stefan Dziemianowicz, and others, of new books by Ian McDonald, Joe Haldeman, Brain Staveley, Alastair Reynolds, Ramsey Campbell, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

F&SF Nov/Dec 2013 (Gardner Dozois)

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

Andreadis, Athena, & Kay T. Holt, eds. • The Other Half of the Sky (Gardner Dozois)
Andreadis, Athena, & Kay T. Holt, eds. • The Other Half of the Sky (Rich Horton)
Campbell, Ramsey • Holes for Faces (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Campbell, Ramsey • The Pretence (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Cass, Stephen, ed. • Twelve Tomorrows (Rich Horton)
Cheney, J. Kathleen • The Golden City (Carolyn Cushman)
Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (Gardner Dozois)
Durst, Sarah Beth • Conjured (Carolyn Cushman)
Fernandes, Fabio, & Djibril al-Ayad, eds. • We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology (Gardner Dozois)
Guran, Paula, ed. • Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales (Faren Miller)
Guran, Paula, ed. • Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales (Rich Horton)
Haldeman, Joe • Work Done for Hire (Gary K. Wolfe)
Haldeman, Joe • Work Done for Hire (Russell Letson)
Hill, Susan • The Small Hand and Dolly (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Jones, Gareth P. • Constable & Toop (Carolyn Cushman)
Joss, Sharon • Brothers of the Fang (Carolyn Cushman)
Krohn, Leena • Datura, or A Delusion We All See (Faren Miller)
Krohn, Leena • Datura, or A Delusion We All See (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lake, Jay, & Ken Scholes, eds. • METAtropolis: Green Space (Gardner Dozois)
Lanagan, Margo • We Three Kids (Rich Horton)
MacLeod, Ian R. • Snodgrass and Other Illusions: The Best Short Stories of Ian R. MacLeod (Gardner Dozois)
Martin, George R. R., & Gardner Dozois, eds. • Old Mars (Rich Horton)
McDevitt, Jack • Starhawk (Russell Letson)
McDonald, Ian • Empress of the Sun (Gary K. Wolfe)
McDonald, Ian • Empress of the Sun (Gary K. Wolfe)
Modesitt, L. E., Jr. • The One-Eyed Man (Carolyn Cushman)
Newman, Emma • All Is Fair (Carolyn Cushman)
Reynolds, Alastair • On the Steel Breeze (Russell Letson)
Smith, Michael Marshall • Everything You Need (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Staveley, Brian • The Emperor’s Blades (Faren Miller)
Stroud, Jonathan • Lockwood & Co. (Carolyn Cushman)
Vainonen, Jyrki • The Explorer and Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Waldrop, Howard • Horse of a Different Color (Gardner Dozois)
Weber, David, & Jane Lindskold • Treecat Wars (Carolyn Cushman)
Williams, Tad • Happy Hour in Hell (Carolyn Cushman)
Winterson, Jeanette • The Daylight Gate (Faren Miller)

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