Also in the issue:

• Interview with Garth Nix
• News about author and Locus columnist Edward Bryant, taken ill.
• Awards news--Tiptree winners, British SF nominees, Stoker preliminary ballot
• Reviews of Sheri S. Tepper's The Family Tree, Mary Doria Russell's Tiptree-winner The Sparrow, Alison Sinclair's Blueheart, Walter Jon Williams's City on Fire, Dean Koontz's Sole Survivor, Michaela Roessner's The Stars Dispose, Sarah Zettel's Fool's War, and many more.