Locus Magazine, Issue #684, January 2018

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

Locus Issue #684 (January 2018) features interviews with John Crowley and JY Yang, a column by Cory Doctorow, a report on SF in Ukraine, photos from the Locus Holiday Party, Best of 2017 lists from Amazon, Audible, Goodreads, and PW, and reviews of short fiction and books by Henry Wessells, Victor LaValle, Maggie Stiefvater, Maggie Shen King, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog November/December 2017 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s November/December 2017 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies November 2017 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld November 2017 (Rich Horton)
F&SF Nov/Dec 2017 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed December 2017 (Rich Horton)
Not One of Us October 2017 (Rich Horton)
Omni Winter 2017 (Rich Horton)
Uncanny September/October 2017 (Rich Horton)

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

Alexander, Alma, ed. • Children of a Different Sky (Gardner Dozois)
Brust, Steven • Vallista (Liz Bourke)
Caine, Rachel • Ash and Quill (Carolyn Cushman)
Cashore, Kristin • Jane, Unlimited (Carolyn Cushman)
Cogman, Genevieve • The Lost Plot (Carolyn Cushman)
Corey, James S. A. • Persepolis Rising (Russell Letson)
Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Mad Hatters and March Hares (Gardner Dozois)
Díaz, Junot, ed. • Global Dystopias (Gardner Dozois)
Díaz, Junot, ed. • Global Dystopias (Rich Horton)
Hendrix, Grady • Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of ’70s and ’80s Horror Fiction (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Hill, Joe • Strange Weather: Four Short Novels (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Hines, Jim C. • Terminal Alliance (Liz Bourke)
Hutchinson, Dave • Acadie (Rich Horton)
Jones, Stephen Graham • Mapping the Interior (John Langan)
Kiste, Gwendolyn • Pretty Marys All in a Row (John Langan)
Lavalle, Victor • The Changeling (John Langan)
Law, Lucas K., & Derwin Mak, eds. • Where the Stars Rise: Asian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Gardner Dozois)
Mauro, Laura • Naming the Bones (John Langan)
McKean, Dave, & William Schafer, eds. • The Weight of Words (Gary K. Wolfe)
Milford, Kate • Ghosts of Greenglass House (Colleen Mondor)
Nix, Garth, & Sean Williams • Have Sword, Will Travel (Carolyn Cushman)
Parisien, Dominik, & Navah Wolfe, eds. • Robots vs. Fairies (Gary K. Wolfe)
Parker, K. J. • The Father of Lies (Gary K. Wolfe)
Pierce, Tamora • Tortall: A Spy’s Guide (Carolyn Cushman)
Radford, Irene • A Spoonful of Magic (Carolyn Cushman)
Reynolds, Alastair • Elysium Fire (Russell Letson)
Rogerson, Margaret • An Enchantment of Ravens (Carolyn Cushman)
Stiefvater, Maggie • All the Crooked Saints (Colleen Mondor)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Infinity Wars (Rich Horton)
Swift, E. J. • Paris Adrift (Liz Bourke)
Szilágyi, Anca L. • Daughters of the Air (Katharine Coldiron)
Thompson, Tade • The Murders of Molly Southbourne (John Langan)
Twain, Mark, & Philip Stead • The Purloining of Prince Oleomargarine (Carolyn Cushman)
Wagner, Phoebe, & Brontë Christopher Wieland, eds. • Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation (Gardner Dozois)
Wessells, Henry • A Conversation Larger than the Universe: Readings in Science Fiction and the Fantastic 1762–2017 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ziemska, Liz • Mandelbrot the Magnificent (Liz Bourke)

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.

For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see www.lsff.net.