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September 2015 • Issue 656 • Vol. 75 • No. 3
48th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS
Sarah Monette: The Key to the Library / 8
Daniel José Older: Crossroads / 69
MAINSTORIES / 7 & 12
2015 Hugo Awards Winners • 2015 Gemmell Awards Winners • 2015 British Fantasy Awards Nominees • Antonelli’s Crazy Uncle
PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 10
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Anna Smaill, Patricia McKillip, Holly Black, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Michael Cassutt, and many others
THE DATA FILE / 13
Sidewise Awards Winners • 2015 Mythopoeic Awards Winners • 2015 SFPA Grand Masters Announced • Book Sales Up Slightly • B&N News • World Conventions News • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Audiobooks Received • Publications Received • Catalogs Received
SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary by Cory Doctorow: What If People Were Sensors, Not Things to be Sensed? / 29
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
US Forthcoming Books / 30 British Forthcoming Books / 40
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: July / 46 Books Received: July / 47 British Books Received: June / 58 Bestsellers / 60
LOCUS LETTERS / 64
Paula Guran
OBITUARIES / 65
Robert Conquest • Adrienne Martine-Barnes
EDITORIAL MATTERS / 66
We’re Moving

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Gardnerspace: A Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois / 14
F&SF 7-8/15; Asimov’s 8/15; The Best of Nancy Kress, Nancy Kress.
Short Fiction Reviews by Rich Horton / 15
Asimov’s 7/15; Asimov’s 8/15; F&SF 7-8/15; Analog 9/15; Lightspeed 8/15; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/25/15; Uncanny #5.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 16
Luna: New Moon, Ian McDonald; Chasing the Phoenix, Michael Swanwick; The House of Shattered Wings, Aliette de Bodard; Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 19
Fool’s Quest, Robin Hobb; The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin; Cracking the Sky, Brenda Cooper.
Reviews by Russell Letson / 21
Chasing the Phoenix, Michael Swanwick; The Annihilation Score, Charles Stross.
Reviews by Stefan Dziemianowicz / 22
The Border, Robert R. McCammon; A Head Full of Ghosts, Paul Tremblay; Letters to Lovecraft, Jesse Bullington, ed.
Reviews by Divers Hands: Karen Burnham, Laird Barron, Ysabeau Wilce, Liz Bourke, and Colleen Mondor / 25
After the Saucers Landed, Douglas Lain; Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists, Steve Berman, ed.; Ghost Summer: Stories, Tananarive Due; The Captive Condition, Kevin P. Keating; Archangel, Marguerite Reed; Sorcerer to the Crown, Zen Cho; The Girl at Midnight, Melissa Grey; Beastly Bones, William Ritter.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 15, 17, 19, 27

 

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog September 2015 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s July 2015 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s August 2015 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s August 2015 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies June 2015 (Rich Horton)
F&SF July/Aug 2015 (Gardner Dozois)
Lightspeed August 2015 (Rich Horton)
Uncanny July/August 2015 (Rich Horton)

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

Berman, Steve, ed. • Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists (Karen Burnham)
Bullington, Jesse, ed. • Letters to Lovecraft: Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Cho, Zen • Sorcerer to the Crown (Gary K. Wolfe)
Cho, Zen • Sorcerer to the Crown (Liz Bourke)
Cooper, Brenda • Cracking the Sky (Faren Miller)
de Bodard, Aliette • The House of Shattered Wings (Gary K. Wolfe)
Due, Tananarive • Ghost Summer: Stories (Liz Bourke)
Grey, Melissa • The Girl at Midnight (Colleen Mondor)
Hobb, Robin • Fool’s Quest (Faren Miller)
Jemisin, N. K. • The Fifth Season (Faren Miller)
Keating, Kevin P. • The Captive Condition (Liz Bourke)
Kress, Nancy • The Best of Nancy Kress (Gardner Dozois)
Lain, Douglas • After the Saucers Landed (Karen Burnham)
McCammon, Robert • The Border (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
McDonald, Ian • Luna: New Moon (Gary K. Wolfe)
Reed, Marguerite • Archangel (Ysabeau Wilce)
Ritter, William • Beastly Bones (Colleen Mondor)
Stross, Charles • The Annihilation Score (Russell Letson)
Swanwick, Michael • Chasing the Phoenix (Gary K. Wolfe)
Swanwick, Michael • Chasing the Phoenix (Russell Letson)
Tremblay, Paul • A Head Full of Ghosts (Stefan Dziemianowicz)