Staff Picks: War of the Maps by Paul McAuley

December 17, 2020December 16, 2020 locusmag 0 Comments

It’s Locus’s 2020 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!

Gary K. Wolfe picks War of the Maps by Paul McAuley, “inventive high-concept SF (people questing around on the exterior of a Dyson sphere!) which reads like epic fantasy, with an archetypal protagonist called the Lucidor.”

You can read Gary’s full review online or in the March 2020 issue of Locus, and Paul Di Filippo’s review online here!

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Kaaron Warren was born July 3, 1965 in Melbourne Australia. She began publishing SF with “White Bed” in 1993, and has since published over a hundred stories, including Aurealis Awards winners “A Positive” (1998) and “Air, Water and the Grove” (2013); Ditmar Award winners “Fresh Young Widow” (2005), “The Grinding House” (2005), and “Crisis Apparition” (2018); Stoker Award finalist “All You Can Do Is Breathe” (2011); and World Fantasy Award