| Author: | Locus Magazine | ISBN: | 1230003210789 |
| Publisher: | Locus Publications | Publication: | May 1, 2019 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Locus Magazine |
| ISBN: | 1230003210789 |
| Publisher: | Locus Publications |
| Publication: | May 1, 2019 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.
Locus Issue #700 (May 2019) has interviews with G. Willow Wilson and Ilana C. Myer. Grand Master Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) and Vonda N. McIntyre (1948-2019) are remembered with obituaries and appreciations. News includes the 2019 Hugo Awards ballot, 1944 Retro Hugos ballot, Audrey Shulman's Philip K. Dick Award win, the new Tor horror imprint, Gabriela Damián Miravete's Tiptree win, the closure of the Gemmell Awards, Saga's move to Gallery, and more. Awards season news also covers BSFA, Spectrum, Kitschie, and Guggenheim winners, and finalists or shortlists for the Prometheus, Seiun, and Ditmar Awards, among others. Convention coverage with photos and reports includes the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards, and the 2019 Williamson Lectureship. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled "Steering with the Windshield Wipers". Other obituaries and appreciations remember Carol Emshwiller, W.H. Pugmire, and Frances Yerxa Hamling. Reviews cover new titles by Ted Chiang, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jo Walton, Sarah Tolmie, S.M. Stirling, Gareth L. Powell, Fran Wilde, Iona Datt Sharma, Greg Egan, Jack Skillingstead, Waubgeshig Rice, Bryan Camp, Karen Russell, Max Porter, Dave Hutchinson, Michelle Sagara, Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Anna-Marie McLemore, J.S. Breukelaar, Stephen R. Donaldson, Nisi Shawl (ed.), and many others.
Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #273 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #274 (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld 3/19 (Karen Burnham)
Diabolical Plots #47 (Karen Burnham)
Diabolical Plots #48 (Karen Burnham)
F&SF 3-4/19 (Rich Horton)
Galaxy’s Edge 3/19 (Rich Horton)
Interzone 3-4/19 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed 4/19 (Karen Burnham)
Mad Scientist Journal Winter 2019 (Karen Burnham)
Mithila Review #10 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 3/19 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 2/19 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 3/19 (Karen Burnham)
Zyzzyva Winter ’18 (Rich Horton)
Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Breukelaar, J.S. • Collision (Paula Guran)
Camp, Bryan • Gather the Fortunes (Katharine Coldiron)
Chiang, Ted • Exhalation (Gary K. Wolfe)
Clark, P. Djèlí • The Black God's Drums (Rich Horton)
Di Filippo, Paul • Aeota (Rich Horton)
Donaldson, Stephen R. • The War Within (Tom Whitmore)
Drake, David • The Storm (Carolyn Cushman)
Egan, Greg • Perihelion Summer (Russell Letson)
Guran, Paula, ed. • Mythic Journeys (Rich Horton)
Hearne, Kevin, & Lila Bowen • Death & Honey (Carolyn Cushman)
Heartfield, Kate • Alice Payne Arrives (Rich Horton)
Heartfield, Kate • Alice Payne Rides (Rich Horton)
Hutchinson, Dave • Nomads (Ian Mond)
Kay, Guy Gavriel • A Brightness Long Ago (Gary K. Wolfe)
Kwaymullina, Ambelina, & Ezekial Kwaymullina • The Things She's Seen (Colleen Mondor)
Maresca, Marshall Ryan • A Parliament of Bodies (Carolyn Cushman)
McLemore, Anna-Marie • Blanca & Roja (Colleen Mondor)
Meyer, Joanna Ruth • Echo North (Carolyn Cushman)
Morden, Simon • Macsen Against the Jugger (Ian Mond)
Palmer, Philip • Morpho (Ian Mond)
Porter, Max • Lanny (Ian Mond)
Powell, Gareth L. • Fleet of Knives (Liz Bourke)
Rice, Waubgeshig • Moon of the Crusted Snow (Katharine Coldiron)
Roberts, Adam • The Man Who Would Be Kling (Ian Mond)
Russell, Karen • Orange World and Other Stories (Ian Mond)
Sagara, Michelle • Cast in Oblivion (Carolyn Cushman)
Sappingfield, Eliot • The Unspeakable Unknown (Carolyn Cushman)
Sharma, Iona Datt • Not For Use in Navigation (Liz Bourke)
Shawl, Nisi, ed. • New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (Rich Horton)
Skillingstead, Jack • The Chaos Function (Russell Letson)
Stirling, S.M. • Theater of Spies (Liz Bourke)
Stout, Dan • Titanshade (Carolyn Cushman)
Tolmie, Sarah • The Little Animals (Gary K. Wolfe)
Walton, Jo • Lent (Gary K. Wolfe)
Wilde, Fran • The Fire Opal Mechanism (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.
Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.
Locus Issue #700 (May 2019) has interviews with G. Willow Wilson and Ilana C. Myer. Grand Master Gene Wolfe (1931-2019) and Vonda N. McIntyre (1948-2019) are remembered with obituaries and appreciations. News includes the 2019 Hugo Awards ballot, 1944 Retro Hugos ballot, Audrey Shulman's Philip K. Dick Award win, the new Tor horror imprint, Gabriela Damián Miravete's Tiptree win, the closure of the Gemmell Awards, Saga's move to Gallery, and more. Awards season news also covers BSFA, Spectrum, Kitschie, and Guggenheim winners, and finalists or shortlists for the Prometheus, Seiun, and Ditmar Awards, among others. Convention coverage with photos and reports includes the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards, and the 2019 Williamson Lectureship. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled "Steering with the Windshield Wipers". Other obituaries and appreciations remember Carol Emshwiller, W.H. Pugmire, and Frances Yerxa Hamling. Reviews cover new titles by Ted Chiang, Guy Gavriel Kay, Jo Walton, Sarah Tolmie, S.M. Stirling, Gareth L. Powell, Fran Wilde, Iona Datt Sharma, Greg Egan, Jack Skillingstead, Waubgeshig Rice, Bryan Camp, Karen Russell, Max Porter, Dave Hutchinson, Michelle Sagara, Ambelin & Ezekiel Kwaymullina, Anna-Marie McLemore, J.S. Breukelaar, Stephen R. Donaldson, Nisi Shawl (ed.), and many others.
Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #273 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies #274 (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld 3/19 (Karen Burnham)
Diabolical Plots #47 (Karen Burnham)
Diabolical Plots #48 (Karen Burnham)
F&SF 3-4/19 (Rich Horton)
Galaxy’s Edge 3/19 (Rich Horton)
Interzone 3-4/19 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed 4/19 (Karen Burnham)
Mad Scientist Journal Winter 2019 (Karen Burnham)
Mithila Review #10 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 3/19 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 2/19 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 3/19 (Karen Burnham)
Zyzzyva Winter ’18 (Rich Horton)
Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Breukelaar, J.S. • Collision (Paula Guran)
Camp, Bryan • Gather the Fortunes (Katharine Coldiron)
Chiang, Ted • Exhalation (Gary K. Wolfe)
Clark, P. Djèlí • The Black God's Drums (Rich Horton)
Di Filippo, Paul • Aeota (Rich Horton)
Donaldson, Stephen R. • The War Within (Tom Whitmore)
Drake, David • The Storm (Carolyn Cushman)
Egan, Greg • Perihelion Summer (Russell Letson)
Guran, Paula, ed. • Mythic Journeys (Rich Horton)
Hearne, Kevin, & Lila Bowen • Death & Honey (Carolyn Cushman)
Heartfield, Kate • Alice Payne Arrives (Rich Horton)
Heartfield, Kate • Alice Payne Rides (Rich Horton)
Hutchinson, Dave • Nomads (Ian Mond)
Kay, Guy Gavriel • A Brightness Long Ago (Gary K. Wolfe)
Kwaymullina, Ambelina, & Ezekial Kwaymullina • The Things She's Seen (Colleen Mondor)
Maresca, Marshall Ryan • A Parliament of Bodies (Carolyn Cushman)
McLemore, Anna-Marie • Blanca & Roja (Colleen Mondor)
Meyer, Joanna Ruth • Echo North (Carolyn Cushman)
Morden, Simon • Macsen Against the Jugger (Ian Mond)
Palmer, Philip • Morpho (Ian Mond)
Porter, Max • Lanny (Ian Mond)
Powell, Gareth L. • Fleet of Knives (Liz Bourke)
Rice, Waubgeshig • Moon of the Crusted Snow (Katharine Coldiron)
Roberts, Adam • The Man Who Would Be Kling (Ian Mond)
Russell, Karen • Orange World and Other Stories (Ian Mond)
Sagara, Michelle • Cast in Oblivion (Carolyn Cushman)
Sappingfield, Eliot • The Unspeakable Unknown (Carolyn Cushman)
Sharma, Iona Datt • Not For Use in Navigation (Liz Bourke)
Shawl, Nisi, ed. • New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (Rich Horton)
Skillingstead, Jack • The Chaos Function (Russell Letson)
Stirling, S.M. • Theater of Spies (Liz Bourke)
Stout, Dan • Titanshade (Carolyn Cushman)
Tolmie, Sarah • The Little Animals (Gary K. Wolfe)
Walton, Jo • Lent (Gary K. Wolfe)
Wilde, Fran • The Fire Opal Mechanism (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.
