Locus Magazine, Issue #656, September 2015

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

Locus Issue #656 The September issue features interviews with Sarah Monette and Daniel José Older, results of this year’s Hugo Awards, a new column by Cory Doctorow, lists of forthcoming books through June 2016, and reviews of short fiction and books by Ian McDonald, Robin Hobb, Michael Swanwick, Robert R. McCammon, Zen Cho, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog September 2015 (Rich Horton)

Asimov’s July 2015 (Rich Horton)

Asimov’s August 2015 (Gardner Dozois)

Asimov’s August 2015 (Rich Horton)

Beneath Ceaseless Skies June 2015 (Rich Horton)

F&SF July/Aug 2015 (Gardner Dozois)

Lightspeed August 2015 (Rich Horton)

Uncanny July/August 2015 (Rich Horton)

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

Berman, Steve, ed. • Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists (Karen Burnham)

Bullington, Jesse, ed. • Letters to Lovecraft: Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness (Stefan Dziemianowicz)

Cho, Zen • Sorcerer to the Crown (Gary K. Wolfe)

Cho, Zen • Sorcerer to the Crown (Liz Bourke)

Cooper, Brenda • Cracking the Sky (Faren Miller)

de Bodard, Aliette • The House of Shattered Wings (Gary K. Wolfe)

Due, Tananarive • Ghost Summer: Stories (Liz Bourke)

Grey, Melissa • The Girl at Midnight (Colleen Mondor)

Hobb, Robin • Fool’s Quest (Faren Miller)

Jemisin, N. K. • The Fifth Season (Faren Miller)

Keating, Kevin P. • The Captive Condition (Liz Bourke)

Kress, Nancy • The Best of Nancy Kress (Gardner Dozois)

Lain, Douglas • After the Saucers Landed (Karen Burnham)

McCammon, Robert • The Border (Stefan Dziemianowicz)

McDonald, Ian • Luna: New Moon (Gary K. Wolfe)

Reed, Marguerite • Archangel (Ysabeau Wilce)

Ritter, William • Beastly Bones (Colleen Mondor)

Stross, Charles • The Annihilation Score (Russell Letson)

Swanwick, Michael • Chasing the Phoenix (Gary K. Wolfe)

Swanwick, Michael • Chasing the Phoenix (Russell Letson)

Tremblay, Paul • A Head Full of Ghosts (Stefan Dziemianowicz)

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