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September 2017 • Issue 680 • Vol. 79 • No. 3
50th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS
Matt Ruff: Lovecraft Country / 10
Karin Tidbeck: Language Matters / 30
MAINSTORIES / 5
Brian Aldiss (1925 – 2017) • 2017 Hugo Award Winners • Worldcon 75 • Dragon Awards News
THE DATA FILE / 7
Whitehead Wins Clarke Award • 2017 Seiun Awards Winners • 2016 Sidewise Awards Winners • 2017 Mythopoeic Awards Winners • 2017 Scribe Awards Winners • 2017 Man Booker Longlist • 2017 Endeavour Award Nominees • Jay Kay Klein Photographs Digitized • Macmillan to Leave Flatiron Building • New Sendak Picture Book Found • Galaktika Infringement Agreement • Skybound Books • Forbes’s Top-Earning Authors • Awards News • World Conventions News • Announcements • Financial News • International Rights • Audio Rights • Audiobooks Received • Publications Received
PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Lynne M. Thomas, Philip Stephensen-Payne, Sheree Renée Thomas, William Gibson & Michael St. John Smith, Jim Butcher, Richard Powers, Colleen Lindsay, Octavia E. Butler, and many others
SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Demon-Haunted World / 29 Summer Workshops / 69 Convention Report: Estcon 2017 / 70
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
US Forthcoming Books / 32 British Forthcoming Books / 44
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: July / 50 Books Received: July / 51 British Books Received: June / 62 Bestsellers / 64
OBITUARIES
Brian Aldiss (1925-2017) / 5 Appreciations from Gregory Benford, Christopher Priest, Paul McAuley, Joe Haldeman, Gary K. Wolfe, John Clute, and Andy Duncan / 5 Jeff Carlson / 77 William Sanders / 77 Jordin Kare / 77 Mustafá Ibn Ali Kanso / 77
EDITORIAL MATTERS / 78
Helsinki • Brian Aldiss • The Office • This Issue/Next Issue
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Short Fiction Reviews by Gardner Dozois / 13
Clarkesworld, 2/17, 3/17, 4/17, 5/17; Extrasolar, Nick Gevers, ed.
Short Fiction Reviews by Rich Horton / 15
Asimov’s 7-8/17; F&SF 7-8/17; Uncanny 7-8/17; Clarkesworld 7/17; Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, People of Color Take Over Special Issue; Tor.com 7/17; Extrasolar, Nick Gevers, ed.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 17
Autonomous, Annalee Newitz; Akata Warrior, Nnedi Okorafor; After the Flare, Deji Bryce Olukotun; The Twilight Pariah, Jeffrey Ford; Acadie, Dave Hutchinson.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 21
Black Mad Wheel, Josh Malerman; Carnivalesque, Neil Jordan; You Die When You Die, Angus Watson; Call of Fire, Beth Cato. SHORT TAKE: Meddling Kids, Edgar Cantero.
Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran / 23
Sirenia Digest 7/17; Black Static 7/8-17; Uncanny 7-8/17; Nightmare 7/17; Down Among the Sticks and Bones, Seanan McGuire; Mapping the Interior, Stephen Graham Jones.
Reviews by Liz Bourke / 24
An Unkindness of Magicians, Kat Howard; Raid, K.S. Merbeth; The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion, Margaret Killjoy; Five Daughters of the Moon, Leena Likitalo.
Reviews by Divers Hands: Russell Letson, Rachel Swirsky, Colleen Mondor / 27
The Last Good Man, Linda Nagata; An Excess Male, Maggie Shen King; The Leaf Reader, Emily Arsenault.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 15, 19, 21, 25

 

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s July/August 2017 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld February 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld March 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld April 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld May 2017 (Gardner Dozois)
Clarkesworld July 2017 (Rich Horton)
F&SF July/Aug 2017 (Rich Horton)
Fantastic Stories of the Imagination: People of Color Take Over Special Issue 2017 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com July 2017 (Rich Horton)
Uncanny July/August 2017 (Rich Horton)

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

Arsenault, Emily • The Leaf Reader (Colleen Mondor)
Cantero, Edgar • Meddling Kids (Faren Miller)
Cato, Beth • Call of Fire (Faren Miller)
Ford, Jeffrey • The Twilight Pariah (Gary K. Wolfe)
Gevers, Nick, ed. • Extrasolar (Gardner Dozois)
Gevers, Nick, ed. • Extrasolar (Rich Horton)
Howard, Kat • An Unkindness of Magicians (Liz Bourke)
Hutchinson, Dave • Acadie (Gary K. Wolfe)
Jones, Stephen Graham • Mapping the Interior (Paula Guran)
Jordan, Neil • Carnivalesque (Faren Miller)
Killjoy, Margaret • The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Liz Bourke)
King, Maggie Shen • An Excess Male (Rachel Swirsky)
Likitalo, Leena • The Five Daughters of the Moon (Liz Bourke)
Malerman, Josh • Black Mad Wheel (Faren Miller)
McGuire, Seanan • Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Paula Guran)
Merbeth, K. S. • Raid (Liz Bourke)
Nagata, Linda • The Last Good Man (Russell Letson)
Newitz, Annalee • Autonomous (Gary K. Wolfe)
Okorafor, Nnedi • Akata Warrior (Gary K. Wolfe)
Olukotun, Deji Bryce • After the Flare (Gary K. Wolfe)
Watson, Angus • You Die When You Die (Faren Miller)

These reviews, and all book reviews in Locus Magazine since 1984, and special to Locus Online since 2001, are indexed here by author.