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September 2016 • Issue 668 • Vol. 77 • No. 3
49th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS
Charles Stross: Future Vision / 10
Eleanor Arnason: Unfolding / 22
MAIN STORIES / 5
2016 Hugo Awards Winners • MidAmeriCon II • 1941 Retro Hugo Awards Winners • 2016 Chesley Awards Winners • 2016 Alfie Awards • Lerman Wins Campbell, Link Wins Sturgeon • Tor Reorganized • Worlcon and NASFiC Site Selections • 2016 Dragon Awards Shortlist
THE DATA FILE / 7
Sidewise Awards Winners • 2016 Mythopoeic Awards Winners • 2016 Aurora Awards Winners • Baen Fantasy Adventure Awards Winners • Forbes’s Top-Earning Authors • PRH Combines Headquarters • Presidential Picks • Orwell Statue • Persistent Visions • Awards News • Amazon News • Publishing News • World Conventions News • Legal News • Announcements • Harry Potter News • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Audiobooks Received • Publications Received • Catalogs Received
PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Philip Pullman, James Gunn, Michael Crichton, Frank Herbert, Catherine Asaro, Janny Wurts, Tamora Pierce, Roger Zelazny, and many others.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary by Cory Doctorow: The Privacy Wars Are About to Get a Whole Lot Worse / 21 2016 Summer Workshops / 64 2016 Locus Survey Results / 66
FORTHCOMING BOOKS
US Forthcoming Books / 24 British Forthcoming Books / 34
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: July / 40 Books Received: July / 41 British Books Received: June / 52 Bestsellers / 54
CONVENTIONS
Celsius 232 by Lavie Tidhar / 69
EDITORIAL MATTERS / 70
Alfie! • This Issue/ Next Issue
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Short Fiction Reviews by Rich Horton / 13
F&SF 7-8/16; Asimov’s 9/16; Clarkesworld 6/16, 7/16; Lightspeed 8/16; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 7/21/16; Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 7/16; Swords v. Cthulhu, Jesse Bullington & Molly Tanzer, eds.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 14
The Gradual, Christopher Priest; Everfair, Nisi Shawl; Summerlong, Peter S. Beagle; The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year, Volume Ten, Jonathan Strahan, ed.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 17
Breath of Earth, Beth Cato; Eterna and Omega, Leanne Renee Hieber; Arabella of Mars, David D. Levine; The Obelisk Gate, N.K. Jemisin; SHORT TAKES: Poison City, Paul Crilley; Red Right Hand, Levi Black; Nightshades, Melissa F. Olson.
Reviews by John Langan / 18
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock, Paul Tremblay; The Vegetarian, Han Kang; Singing with All My Skin and Bone, Sunny Moraine; Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror, Lynne Jamneck, ed.
Reviews by Divers Hands: Tom Whitmore, Colleen Mondor & Liz Bourke / 20
Summerlong, Peter S. Beagle; Making Conversation, Teresa Nielsen Hayden; A Fierce and Subtle Poison, Samantha Mabry; Cloudbound, Fran Wilde.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 13, 15, 17, 19

 

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s September 2016 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies July 2016 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld June 2016 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld July 2016 (Rich Horton)
F&SF July/Aug 2016 (Rich Horton)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet July 2016 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed August 2016 (Rich Horton)

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

Beagle, Peter S. • Summerlong (Gary K. Wolfe)
Beagle, Peter S. • Summerlong (Tom Whitmore)
Black, Levi • Red Right Hand (Faren Miller)
Bullington, Jesse, & Molly Tanzer, eds. • Swords v. Cthulhu (Rich Horton)
Cato, Beth • Breath of Earth (Faren Miller)
Crilley, Paul • Poison City (Faren Miller)
Hieber, Leanna Renee • Eterna and Omega (Faren Miller)
Jamneck, Lynne, ed. • Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror (John Langan)
Jemisin, N. K. • The Obelisk Gate (Faren Miller)
Kang, Han, translated by Deborah Smith • The Vegetarian (John Langan)
Levine, David D. • Arabella of Mars (Faren Miller)
Mabry, Samantha • A Fierce and Subtle Poison (Colleen Mondor)
Moraine, Sunny • Singing with All My Skin and Bone (John Langan)
Nielsen Hayden, Teresa • Making Conversation (Tom Whitmore)
Olson, Melissa F. • Nightshades (Faren Miller)
Priest, Christopher • The Gradual (Gary K. Wolfe)
Shawl, Nisi • Everfair (Gary K. Wolfe)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • The Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume Ten (Gary K. Wolfe)
Tremblay, Paul • Disappearance at Devil’s Rock (John Langan)
Wilde, Fran • Cloudbound (Liz Bourke)