Magazines Received – March

This list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on those that publish fiction or reviews and criticism. To submit titles for listing on these pages, please send to Locus Publications, 655 13th St. #100, Oakland CA 94612 or email locus@locusmag.com.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact

  • Trevor Quachri, ed.
  • Vol. 93 Nos. 3 & 4
  • March/April 2023 includes fiction by
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New Books: 28 March 2023

Baer, Marianna: Wolfwood (Abrams/Amulet 9781419733710, $19.99, 384pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 3/28/2023)

In this young-adult horror novel, a teen whose mother was a famous painter before her breakdown secretly forges paintings by her mother and gets drawn into a dangerous magical world. This is an international edition with US, Canadian, and UK prices.

 

Carey, M.R.: Infinity Gate (Orbit UK 9780-356-51801-5, $18.99, 544pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 3/28/2023)

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New & Notable Books, March 2023

 

Dahlia Adler, ed., At Midnight (Flatiron 11/22) Familiar fairy tales get diverse and globally inclusive retellings in this young-adult original anthology of 14 tales, reimagined by noted YA authors including Tracy Deonn, H.E. Edgmon, Hafsah Faizal, Darcie Little Badger, Malinda Lo, and Rory Power. For comparison, this includes the original versions of the tales, most from notably male authors Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, and Charles Perrault.

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New Books: 21 March 2023

Ballingrud, Nathan: The Strange (Simon & Schuster/Saga Press 9781534449954, $27.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, 3/21/2023) An intriguing alternate timeline SF novel. 1931, New Galveston, Mars: Fourteen-year-old Anabelle Crisp sets off through the wastelands of the Strange to find Silas Mundt’s gang who have stolen her mother’s voice, destroyed her father, and left her solely with a need for vengeance.

 

Chong, Jinwoo: Flux (Melville House 9781685890346, $28.99, 352pp, formats: ...Read More

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New Books: 14 March 2023

Ashton, Edward: Antimatter Blues (St. Martin’s 978-1-250-27505-9, $26.99, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, 3/14/2023)

Far-future SF thriller, this is a thrilling follow up to Mickey7 in which an expendable heads out to explore new terrain for human habitation.. Mickey is still alive because Commander Marshall believes the alien neighbors have an antimatter bomb — and he wants it back.  Simultaneous with the UK (Solaris) edition.

 

Bakewell, Catherine: Flowerheart (HarperTeen 978-0-06-321459-0, ...Read More

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Weekly Bestsellers, 13 March 2023

Two fantasy novels debut this week, beginning with Samantha Shannon’s A Day of Fallen Night (Bloomsbury), a stand-alone prequel to her 2019 The Priory of the Orange Tree, ranking among the top 5 on three lists. Then Shannon Chakraborty’s The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Harper Voyager), first in a new series, ranking among the top 10 of two lists.

The USA Today bestseller list remains on hiatus.

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New Books: 7 March 2023

Afifi, Nadia: The Transcendent  (Flame Tree Press UK 978-1-78758-673-4, $26.95, 352pp, formats: hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, 3/7/2023)

Quasi-SF thriller/horror novel, third in the Cosmic trilogy begun in The Sentient. After a fateful confrontation with her former ally, Tony Barlow, Amira Valdez is on the run, pregnant with her own clone and desperate. The fundamentalist Trinity Compound has grown in strength and numbers, and with the help of the powerful mind-controlling ...Read More

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New Books: 28 February 2023

Barnhill, Kelly The Crane Husband (Tordotcom 978-1-250-85097-3, $19.99, 128pp, hardcover, ebook)

This is a feminist fantasy novella doing a contemporary retelling of “The Crane Wife” by the Newbery Medal-winning author of The Girl Who Drank the Moon: one fiercely pragmatic teen forced to grow up faster than was fair will do whatever it takes to protect her family.

 

Brown, Diane Marie Black Candle Women (Harlequin/Graydon House 978-1-5258-9991-1, $28.99, 368pp, ...Read More

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Magazines Received – February

This list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on those that publish fiction or reviews and criticism. To submit titles for listing on these pages, please send to Locus Publications, 655 13th St. #100, Oakland CA 94612 or email locus@locusmag.com.

Alien Dimensions

  • Neil A. Hogan, ed.
  • Issue #22, February 2023, $6.99 digi­tal/$19.95 print, irregular, 208pp, 15 x 23 cm.
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New & Notable Books, February 2023

Lily Brooks-Dalton, The Light Pirate (Grand Central 12/22) Critics applaud this near-future novel, which despite a stormy backdrop man­ages to be hopeful as it follows a girl with spe­cial gifts growing up in an apocalyptic future Florida suffering from extreme weather and ever-worse flooding.

 

 

A.R. Capetta & Roush Wade, eds., Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions (MiTeen 10/22) This young-adult anthology of ten all-new ...Read More

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New Books: 21 February 2023

Armstrong, Kelley: Murder at Haven’s Rock

(St. Martin’s Minotaur 978-1-250-86541-0, $27.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

Associational mystery novel from the NY Times bestselling author, the first in the Haven’s Rock series, a spinoff from the Rockton series.

 

 

Feehan, Brian: Harmony of Lies

(Penguin Random House/Jove 978-0-593-44055-1, $8.99, 336pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audio, February 21, 2023)

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New Books: 14 February 2023

brown, adrienne maree: Maroons

(AK Press 978-1-84935-480-6, $17.00, 216pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, February 14, 2023)

SF novel, sequel to Grievers, set in a plague-ravaged Detroit. Ebook also available. AK Press, 370 Ryan Avenue #100, Chico CA 95973; <www.akpress.org>.

 

 

Chokshi, Roshani: The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

(HarperCollins/Morrow 978-0063206502, $30.00, 304pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 14, 2023)

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Cover Reveal: They Split the Party by Elijah Menchaca

 

Cover Reveal!

We are so pleased to have a first look at this thrilling cover for They Split the Party by Elijah Menchaca, out this June from CamCat Books.

 

Praise for the Series:

“A fast-paced and diverting narrative . . .” —Booklist on They Met in a Tavern

“Moody and entertaining” —Publishers Weekly on They Met in a Tavern

 

About the Book:

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New Books: 7 February 2023

Balstrup, Sarah K.: The Way of Unity

(Burning Mirror Press 9780645474701, $17.99, 450pp, formats: trade paperback, February 6, 2023)

Fantasy novel. Velspar’s rulers move against the Intercessors, a psychic priesthood, but some people rebel at having to live in an alienated world without psychic soothing.

 

Blackwood, Lauren: Wildblood

(St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books 978-1-250-78713-2, $18.99, 336pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, February 7, 2023)

Young-adult dark fantasy novel about a teen Wildblood, ...Read More

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From the 2022 Recommended Reading List: Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology

Here’s a highlight from our 2022 Recommended Reading list: the anthology Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology, edited by Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H.D. Hunter & LP Kindred, out from Android Press.

From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science fiction and fantasy writers:

When a desperately mundane woman borrows clothing from her mother, a soucouyant goes searching for her skin. A Nigerian parent climbs mountains to heaven to ...Read More

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New Books: 31 January 2023

Anthony, Piers: Apoca Lips

(Open Road 978-1-5040-6693-8, $16.99, 200pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, January 31, 2023)

Fantasy novel, #47 in the Xanth series. As Prince Nolan goes on a quest to find his ideal bride, a “pundemic” spreads through Xanth.

 

Chen, Mike: Vampire Weekend

(Harlequin/Mira 978-0-7783-8696-4, $17.99, 368pp, formats: trade paperback, hardcover, ebook, audio, January 31, 2023)

Urban fantasy novel. Lonely punk vampire Louise Chao, living on blood ...Read More

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Magazines Received – January

This list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on those that publish fiction or reviews and criticism. To submit titles for listing on these pages, please send to Locus Publications, 655 13th St. #100, Oakland CA 94612 or email locus@locusmag.com.

Analog Science Fiction and Fact

  • Trevor Quachri, ed.
  • Vol. 92 Nos. 5 & 6, May/June 2022, $8.99, bimonthly, 208pp,
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New & Notable Books, January 2023

 

K-Ming Chang, Gods of Want (One World 7/22) A stellar collection getting plenty of critical praise, Chang’s latest explores the lives and myths of Asian American women in 16 stories, many with super­natural elements – including ghosts, goddesses, and women out of fairy tales – a powerful mix of darkness, humor, the strange, and the everyday.

 

 

N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Orbit US & UK 11/22) ...Read More

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New Books: 24 January 2023

 

Ali, Bachtyar: The Last Pomegranate Tree

(Archipelago Books 978-1-953861-40-5, $24.00, 321pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, January 24, 2023)

Fantasy novel/parable about a man freed from prison after 21 years, searching for the son he’s never known, and finding myths and legends instead. Translated from the Kurdish by Kareem Abdulrahman.

 

Burges, Audrey: The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone

(Penguin Random House/Berkley 978-0-593-54647-5, $16.99, 352pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, ...Read More

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New Books: 17 January 2023

Albo, Mike: Another Dimension of Us

(Penguin Random House/Penguin Workshop 978-0593223765, $18.99, 320pp, formats: hardcover, ebook, audio, January 17, 2023)

Young-adult gay fantasy romance novel of alternate dimensions and time travel. Teens accidentally swap minds and bodies across the astral plane, between 1986 and 2044, and one needs to be rescued from a demon.

 

Boey, Brandon Ying Kit: Karma of the Sun

(CamCat Books 978-0-7443-0760-3, $25.99, 352pp, formats: hardcover, ...Read More

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