Locus Magazine, Issue #693, October 2018

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

Locus Issue #693 (October 2018) issue features interviews with N.K. Jemisin and Kate Elliott; obituaries for K.C. Ball and Roger Lee Vernon; a column by Kameron Hurley; the Dragon and Dwarf Stars awards winners; Worldcon 76 and Hugo Voting reports; DragonCon; 2018 National Book Awards Longlists; The New Academy Prize Shortlist; Space and Time Magazine news; photo stories; and reviews of short fiction and books by F. Brett Cox, Tade Thompson, L. Timmel Duchamp, Priya Sharma, and many others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Abyss & Apex 7/18 (Karen Burnham)
Amazing Stories Fall ’18 (Rich Horton)
Analog 9-10/18 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s 9-10/18 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/18 (Karen Burnham)
Black Static 7-8/18 (Paula Guran)
Cascadia Subduction Zone, Vol 8, No. 3. (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld 8/18 (Karen Burnham)
The Dark 8/18 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 9/18 (Paula Guran)
Fireside Magazine 9/18 (Karen Burnham)
Fiyah Summer ’18 (Karen Burnham)
Future Tense 7/23/18 (Karen Burnham)
GigaNotoSaurus 8/18 (Karen Burnham)
Lightspeed 8/18 (Karen Burnham)
Lightspeed 9/18 (Karen Burnham)
Nightmare 8/18 (Paula Guran)
Nightmare 9/18 (Paula Guran)
On Spec #108 (Rich Horton)
Shimmer 7/18 (Paula Guran)
Tor.com 7/19/18 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 8/1/18 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 7-8/18 (Paula Guran)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Andrews, Ilona • Magic Triumphs (Carolyn Cushman)
B., David • Hâsib & the Queen of Serpents: A Tale of a Thousand and One Nights (Karen Haber)
Bachang, Tianxia • The City of Sand (Colleen Mondor)
Berry, Tamara • Séances Are for Suckers (Carolyn Cushman)
Brown, Eric • The Martian Simulacra (Rich Horton)
Caine, Rachel • Smoke and Iron (Carolyn Cushman)
Catling, B. • The Cloven (Katharine Coldiron)
Clarke, Neil, ed. • The Final Frontier (Russell Letson)
Cox, F. Brett • The End of All Our Exploring (Rich Horton)
Dillon, Diane • I Can Be Anything! Don’t Tell Me I Can’t (Karen Haber)
Duchamp, L. Timmel • Chercher La Femme (Ian Mond)
Ellis, Doug, & Bob Garcia, eds. • Weinberg Tales: Collecting Fantasy Art (Karen Haber)
Emezi, Akwaeke • Freshwater (Ian Mond)
Fenn, Jaine • Hidden Sun (Liz Bourke)
Hurley, Kameron • Apocalypse Nyx (Adrienne Martini)
Maresca, Marshall Ryan • The Way of the Shield (Carolyn Cushman)
McGuire, Seanan • Night and Silence (Carolyn Cushman)
McKinney, L. L. • A Blade So Black (Colleen Mondor)
Miller, Ron • Aliens: Past, Present, Future (Karen Haber)
Monge, Jean-Baptiste • Celtic Faeries, English Deluxe Edition (Karen Haber)
Nevala-Lee, Alec • Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction (Gary K. Wolfe)
Newman, Emma • Before Mars (Adrienne Martini)
Odell, Sandra M. • Godfall and Other Stories (Rich Horton)
Pini, Wendy • Line of Beauty: The Art of Wendy Pini (Karen Haber)
Priest, Cherie • The Agony House (Colleen Mondor)
Robinson, Kim Stanley • Red Moon (Gary K. Wolfe)
Robson, Justina • Salvation’s Fire (Liz Bourke)
Rothfuss, Patrick • The Name of the Wind: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Karen Haber)
Ruocchio, Christopher • Empire of Silence (Carolyn Cushman)
Sharma, Priya • All the Fabulous Beasts (Paula Guran)
Smith, Clark Ashton • In The Realms of Mystery and Wonder: Collected Prose Poems and Artwork of Clark Ashton Smith (Karen Haber)
Tawada, Yoko • The Emissary (Ian Mond)
Thompson, Tade • Rosewater (Gary K. Wolfe)
Tolkien, J. R.R. • Beren and Lúthien (Karen Haber)
Unno, Hiroshi • The Art of Fantasy, Sci-Fi and Steampunk (Karen Haber)
Vaughn, Carrie • The Wild Dead (Adrienne Martini)
Ward, Cynthia • The Adventure of the Dux Bellorum (Liz Bourke)
White, Corey J. • Static Ruin (Liz Bourke)
Williams, Drew • The Stars Now Unclaimed (Adrienne Martini)
Wolfe, William B. • The Phantom Files: Twain’s Treasure (Carolyn Cushman)
Yaszek, Lisa, ed. • The Future Is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin (Gary K. Wolfe)

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