Locus Magazine, Issue #683, December 2017

Locus Issue #683 (December 2017) features interviews with Seanan McGuire and Mike Allen, a column by Kameron Hurley, an obituary for Gregory Bernard Banks, reports from World Fantasy Convention and ICon, a special feature on Borderlands Books 20th Anniversary, and reviews of short fiction and books by Rivers Solomon, Louise Erdrich, S.A. Chakraborty, Ken MacLeod, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s September/October 2017 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies September 28, 2017 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld October 2017 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed November 2017 (Rich Horton)
Omni Winter ’17 (Gardner Dozois)
Tor.com October 2017 (Rich Horton)

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

Brin, David, & Stephen W. Potts, eds. • Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World (Gardner Dozois)
Chakraborty, S. A. • The City of Brass (Faren Miller)
Coles, Bennett R. • March of War (Tom Whitmore)
Erdrich, Louise • Future Home of the Living God (Faren Miller)
Forsyth, Kate, & Kim Wilkins • The Silver Well (Angela Slatter)
Gailey, Sarah • The Fisher of Bones (Rachel Swirsky)
Gunn, James • Star-Begotten: A Life Lived in Science Fiction (Russell Letson)
Hall, Sarah • Madame Zero (Rachel Swirsky)
Harrison, M. John • You Should Come With Me Now: Stories of Ghosts (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lanagan, Margo • Singing My Sister Down and other stories (Rich Horton)
Le Guin, Ursula K. • The Hainish Novels & Stories, Volumes I & II (Gardner Dozois)
Leckie, Ann • Provenance (Adrienne Martini)
Likitalo, Leena • The Sisters of the Crescent Empress (Liz Bourke)
MacLeod, Ken • The Corporation Wars: Emergence (Russell Letson)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia • Prime Meridian (Rich Horton)
Murphy, Emily Bain • The Disappearances (Colleen Mondor)
Okorafor, Nnedi • Binti: The Night Masquerade (Liz Bourke)
Pierce, Alexandra • Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler (Gary K. Wolfe)
Pratt, Tim • The Wrong Stars (Adrienne Martini)
Reeve, Philip • Black Light Express (Colleen Mondor)
Rivera, K. Arsenault • The Tiger’s Daughter (Liz Bourke)
Singh, Nalini • Taty Went West (Niall Harrison)
Slatter, Angela • Corpse Light (Faren Miller)
Sloan, Robin • Sourdough (Adrienne Martini)
Solomon, Rivers • An Unkindness of Ghosts (Gary K. Wolfe)
Tanzer, Molly • Creatures of Will and Temper (Gary K. Wolfe)
Thompson, Tade • The Murders of Molly Southbourne (Liz Bourke)
Thompson, Tade • The Murders of Molly Southbourne (Rachel Swirsky)
Weir, Andy • Artemis (Adrienne Martini)
Zelazny, Trent, & Warren Lapine, eds. • Shadows & Reflections: Stories From the Worlds of Roger Zelazny (Gardner Dozois)
Ziemska, Liz • Mandelbrot the Magnificent (Rachel Swirsky)

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