Locus Magazine, Issue #673, February 2017

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

Locus Issue # 673 (February 2017) features interviews with an interview with Alastair Reynolds and the annual Year in Review with essays by Gary K. Wolfe, Paul Kincaid, Geoff Ryman, Gardner Dozois, and many others; the Locus Recommended Reading List; the Locus Poll and Survey ballot; a column by Kameron Hurley; and reviews of short fiction and books by Kameron Hurley, S. Jae-Jones, Ian McDonald, Ken MacLeod, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog January/February 2017 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s December 2016 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies December 2016 (Rich Horton)
Persistent Visions October 2016 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com December 2016 (Rich Horton)
Wired January 2017 (Rich Horton)
 

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

Aaronovitch, Ben • The Hanging Tree (Adrienne Martini)
Arden, Katherine • The Bear and the Nightingale (Carolyn Cushman)
Arden, Katherine • The Bear and the Nightingale (Faren Miller)
Beagle, Peter S. • In Calabria (Faren Miller)
Beagle, Peter S. • In Calabria (Gary K. Wolfe)
Bear, Greg • Take Back the Sky (Russell Letson)
Bishop, Anne • Etched in Bone (Carolyn Cushman)
Bledsoe, Alex • Gather Her Round (Liz Bourke)
Briggs, Patricia • Silence Fallen (Carolyn Cushman)
Britain, Kristen • Firebrand (Carolyn Cushman)
Brust, Steven, & Skyler White • The Skill of Our Hands (Carolyn Cushman)
Bujold, Lois McMaster • Penric’s Mission (Rich Horton)
Carey, Jacqueline • Miranda and Caliban (Faren Miller)
Cogman, Genevieve • The Burning Page (Carolyn Cushman)
Fowler, Karen Joy, ed. • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2016 (Rich Horton)
Gladstone, Max • Bookburners (Liz Bourke)
Hurley, Kameron • The Stars Are Legion (Gary K. Wolfe)
Jacka, Benedict • Bound (Carolyn Cushman)
Jae-Jones, S. • Winterlong (Faren Miller)
Le Guin, Ursula K. • The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin (Gardner Dozois)
Liu, Ken • The Wall of Storms (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lyons, Susan W. • Time’s Oldest Daughter (Faren Miller)
MacLeod, Ken • The Corporation Wars: Dissidence (Russell Letson)
MacLeod, Ken • The Corporation Wars: Insurgence (Russell Letson)
Mastai, Elan • All Our Wrong Todays (Adrienne Martini)
McDonald, Ian • The Best of Ian McDonald (Gardner Dozois)
Milford, Kate • The Left-Handed Fate (Colleen Mondor)
Reynolds, Alastair, edited by Jonathan Strahan & -3- • Beyond the Aquila Rift: The Best of Alastair Reynolds (Gardner Dozois)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Bridging Infinity (Russell Letson)
Stross, Charles • Empire Games (Liz Bourke)
Swanwick, Michael • Not So Much, Said the Cat (Gardner Dozois)
Vaughn, Carrie • Amaryllis and Other Stories (Gardner Dozois)
Vaughn, Carrie • Martians Abroad (Adrienne Martini)
Wallace, Matt • Pride’s Spell (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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