Issue 745 Table of Contents, February 2023

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Locus Magazine, Science Fiction Fantasy


TABLE of CONTENTS
February 2023 • Issue 745 • Vol. 90 • No. 2

55th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview design by Stephen H.Segal

INTERVIEW / 10
Suyi Davies Okungbowa: Truth & Freedom & Power

MAIN STORIES / 5
Chengdu Worldcon Delay • PKD Award Finalists • Random House President Retires • World Fantasy Awards Judges • HarperCollins Strike News

THE DATA FILE / 6
NAACP Image Awards • Nebula Conference Registration • Psychopomp.com Launch • Manuscript Thief Pleads Guilty • Apple’s AI Audio • CW Goes Virtual for 2023 • Galaxy’s Edge Switches Format • WSFA Small Press Award Open • Horror University Workshops • Obama’s Top Books of 2022 • Announcements • World Conventions News • Publishing News • Escape Artists Goes Nonprofit • Galactic Philadelphia Returns • Edgar Awards Nominations • Your Personal Odyssey Workshop • SFPA News • Emeka Walter Dinjos Award Finalists • Voyage to the Edge of Imagination Exhibition • Giger and Sorayama Exhibition • Vernacular Books Closes • Chilean SF News • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights

PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Laird Barron, Harlan Ellison, Ada Palmer, Jo Walton, Cory Doctorow, Wole Talabi, and many others

2022: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
2022 Recommended Reading by Liza Groen Trombi (with Laurel Amberdine, Tim Pratt & Francesca Myman), Gary K. Wolfe, Maya James, Gabino Iglesias, Adrienne Martini, Arley Sorg, Alex Brown, Paula Guran, Russell Letson, Tim Pratt, Ian Mond, Colleen Mondor, Charles Payseur, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, and Graham Sleight / 26 2022 Recommended Reading List / 39 2022 Magazine Summary / 49

LISTINGS
Books Received: December / 59 Bestsellers / 70 New & Notable / 71 Magazines Received: December / 78

OBITUARIES / 76
Suzy McKee Charnas • Appreciations by Debbie Notkin, Jeanne Gomoll, Ellen Datlow • Henry Morrison Richard Bober

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 79
February and Fonts • WorldCon • Next Up • Locus Poll & Survey and Locus Awards

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS

Short Fiction Reviews by KAREN BURNHAM / 12
Future SF Digest 12/22; Asimov’s 11-12/22; Clarkesworld 12/22; Assemble Artifacts Summer ‘22; Under- land Arcana Summer ‘22.

Short Fiction Reviews by PAULA GURAN / 13
Tor.com 12/1/22, 12/24/22, 1/11/23, 1/18/23, 1/25/23; The Dark 11/22, 12/22; Nightmare 11/22, 12/22; The Deadlands 11/22, 12/22; PodCastle 12/20/22; Dark Matter 11-12/22.

Short Fiction Reviews by CHARLES PAYSEUR / 14
Cast of Wonders 11/15/22, 12/11/22; Escape Pod 11/17/22, 12/8/22; Strange Horizons 11/14/22, 11/21/22, 11/28/22, 12/5/22; Fantasy 12/22; Lightspeed 12/22; Hexagon 12/22; Fusion Fragment 12/22; Diabolical Plots 12/22; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/1/22, 12/15/22; GigaNotoSaurus 12/22; Flash Fiction Online 12/22; Three-Lobed Burning Eye 12/22; F&SF 1-2/23.

Reviews by GARY K. WOLFE / 16
White Cat, Black Dog, Kelly Link; The Crane Husband, Kelly Barnhill.

Reviews by ADRIENNE MARTINI / 17
The Origin of Storms, Elizabeth Bear; Dead Country, Max Gladstone; Illuminations, T. Kingfisher; Tsalmoth, Steven Brust.

Reviews by IAN MOND / 18
The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff; I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself, Marisa Crane; Empathy, Hoa Pham.

Reviews by ALEX BROWN / 19
Soul of the Deep, Natasha Bowen; Blood Like Fate, Liselle Sambury.

Reviews by CAREN GUSSOFF SUMPTION / 20
Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls, Charles de Lint; A Slice of the Dark and Other Stories, Karen Heuler; Dreams for a Broken World, Julie C. Day & Ellen Meeropol, eds.; Unbreakable, Mira Grant.

Reviews by MAYA C. JAMES / 22
All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From, Izzy Wasserstein; Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove, Rati Mehrotra.

Reviews by COLLEEN MONDOR / 23
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Sangu Mandanna; Grave Things Like Love, Sara Bennett Wealer; The Wicked Remain, Laura Pohl.

Reviews by Divers Hands:
SEAN DOWIE, RUSSELL LETSON, ALEXANDRA PIERCE / 24

The Strange, Nathan Ballingrud; The City of Last Chances, Adrian Tchaikovsky; Nightwatch Over Windscar, K. Eason.

TERRY BISSON: This Month in History / 12, 15, 19, 21


Magazines reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—

Future SF Digest 12/22 (Karen Burnham)
Asimov’s 11-12/22 (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld 12/22 (Karen Burnham)
Assemble Artifacts Summer ‘22 (Karen Burnham)
Underland Arcana Summer ‘22 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 12/1/22, 12/24/22, 1/11/23, 1/18/23, 1/25/23 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 11/22, 12/22 (Paula Guran)
Nightmare 11/22, 12/22 (Paula Guran)
The Deadlands 11/22, 12/22 (Paula Guran)
PodCastle 12/20/22 (Paula Guran)
Dark Matter 11-12/22 (Paula Guran)
Cast of Wonders 11/15/22, 12/11/22 (Charles Payseur)
Escape Pod 11/17/22, 12/8/22 (Charles Payseur)
Strange Horizons 11/14/22, 11/21/22, 11/28/22, 12/5/22 (Charles Payseur)
Fantasy 12/22 (Charles Payseur)
Lightspeed 12/22 (Charles Payseur)
Hexagon 12/22 (Charles Payseur)
Fusion Fragment 12/22 (Charles Payseur)
Diabolical Plots 12/22 (Charles Payseur)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/1/22, 12/15/22 (Charles Payseur)
GigaNotoSaurus 12/22 (Charles Payseur)
Flash Fiction Online 12/22 (Charles Payseur)
Three-Lobed Burning Eye 12/22 (Charles Payseur)
F&SF 1-2/23 (Charles Payseur)


Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—

Ballingrud, Nathan • The Strange (Sean Dowie)
Barnhill, Kelly • The Crane Husband (Gary K. Wolfe)
Bear, Elizabeth • The Origin of Storms (Adrienne Martini)
Bowen, Natasha • Soul of the Deep (Alex Brown)
Brust, Steven • Tsalmoth (Adrienne Martini)
Crane, Marisa • I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself (Ian Mond)
Day, Julie C., & Ellen Meeropol, eds. • Dreams for a Broken World (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
de Lint, Charles • Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Eason, K. • Nightwatch over Windscar (Alexandra Pierce)
Gladstone, Max • Dead Country (Adrienne Martini)
Grant, Mira • Unbreakable (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Heuler, Karen • A Slice of the Dark and Other Stories (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Kingfisher, T. • Illuminations (Adrienne Martini)
Link, Kelly • White Cat, Black Dog (Gary K. Wolfe)
Mandanna, Sangu • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Colleen Mondor)
Mehrotra, Rati • Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove (Maya C. James)
Pham, Hoa • Empathy (Ian Mond)
Pohl, Laura • The Wicked Remain (Colleen Mondor)
Ruff, Matt • The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country (Ian Mond)
Sambury, Liselle • Blood Like Fate (Alex Brown)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian • City of Last Chances (Russell Letson)
Wasserstein, Izzy • All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From (Maya C. James)
Wealer, Sara Bennett • Grave Things Like Love (Colleen Mondor)

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