Locus Magazine, Issue #660, January 2016

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

The January 2016 issue features interviews with Mary Rickert and Charlie Jane Anders, a new column by Cory Doctorow, an international report from Brazil, and reviews of short fiction and books by China Miéville, Robert Jackson Bennett, V.H. Leslie, Stephen King, Nancy Kress, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog December 2015 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s December 2015 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld November 2015 (Rich Horton)
F&SF November/December 2015 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com November 2015 (Rich Horton)

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

Adams, John Joseph, & Hugh Howey, eds. • The End Has Come (Gardner Dozois)
Bennett, Robert Jackson • City of Blades (Faren Miller)
Blackwood, Algernon, edited by Mike Ashley • The Face of the Earth and Other Imaginings (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Bowen, Lila • Wake of Vultures (Liz Bourke)
Butcher, Jim • The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Carolyn Cushman)
Card, Orson Scott • Gatefather (Carolyn Cushman)
Carson, Rae • Walk on Earth a Stranger (Carolyn Cushman)
Cole, August, ed. • The Atlantic Council Art of Future Warfare Project: War Stories from the Future (Gardner Dozois)
Dalglish, David • Skyborn (Faren Miller)
Denzel, Jason • Mystic (Carolyn Cushman)
Dunstall, S. K. • Alliance (Carolyn Cushman)
Elliott, Kate • Court of Fives (Carolyn Cushman)
Grey, Orrin • Painted Monsters and Other Strange Beasts (Laird Barron)
Hartmann, Ivor W., ed. • AfroSF v2 (Karen Burnham)
Henshaw, Jennifer, & Allison Linn, eds. • Future Visions (Gardner Dozois)
Henshaw, Jennifer, & Allison Linn, eds. • Future Visions (Rich Horton)
Hudson, Andrew Leon, ed. • Ecotones: Ecological Stories from the Border Between Fantasy and Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois)
Jackson, Shirley • Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Kiernan, Caitlín R. • Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Gary K. Wolfe)
King, Stephen • The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Kress, Nancy • The Best of Nancy Kress (Russell Letson)
Landers, Melissa • Starflight (Colleen Mondor)
Leslie, V. H. • Skein and Bone (Laird Barron)
Miéville, China • This Census-Taker (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ness, Patrick • The Rest of Us Just Live Here (Carolyn Cushman)
Nix, Garth • Newt’s Emerald (Carolyn Cushman)
Polansky, Daniel • The Builders (Faren Miller)
Ruff, Matt • Lovecraft Country (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Scholz, Carter • Gypsy Plus… (Rich Horton)
Shawl, Nisi, & Bill Campbell, eds. • Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (Gardner Dozois)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Meeting Infinity (Gardner Dozois)
Taaffe, Sonya • Ghost Signs (Rich Horton)
Tregillis, Ian • The Rising (Faren Miller)
Wallace, Sean, ed. • The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk (Rich Horton)
Wray, John • The Lost Time Accidents (Gary K. Wolfe)

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.

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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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