Locus Bay Area Writers Workshop: Writing Master Class with Ellen Klages, March 2020

DUE TO CONCERNS ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS COVID-19, THE MARCH 2020 LOCUS WRITING MASTER CLASS WITH ELLEN KLAGES HAS BEEN CANCELED. STAY HEALTHY! Locus Magazine HQ Preservation ParkDowntown Oakland (near the 12th St BART)

“Whenever I start to read a new story by the incomparable Ellen Klages, I feel as if I’m on the edge of my seat in the front row of the theater: keen-eyed and determined, this time, to ...Read More

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Issues 

Issue 706 Table of Contents, November 2019

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The November 2019 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Robert McCammon and L.X. Beckett. Main stories include the renaming of the Tiptree Award, Nobel wins for Tokarczuk and Handke, British Fantasy, Aurora, Booker Prize, Sunburst, and Sidewise winners, Link & Grant‘s new bookstore, King‘s house as a museum, the cancellation of Hour of the Wolf after almost 50 years on the ...Read More

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Features Interviews 

Silvia Moreno-Garcia: Take a Road Trip with the Mayan God of Death!

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia was born April 25, 1981 in Baja California, Mexico, and grew up in various places throughout the country. She attended Endicott College in Massachusetts, where she studied communications, then returned to Mexico, where she married her hus­band; they immigrated to Canada 15 years ago, and have two children. She studied journalism in Canada and recently earned a Master’s in science and technology studies. She now works in communications ...Read More

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Issue 704 Table of Contents, September 2019

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The September 2019 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Cadwell Turnbull. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through June 2020. Awards news includes the Hugo Awards winners, the 1944 Retro-Hugo Awards, World Fantasy Awards ballot, Dragon Awards nominees, Seiun Awards winners, and a name change for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Additional news covers Worldcon site selection, Audible’s ...Read More

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S.A. Chakraborty: Feels Like Magic

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SHANNON CHAKRABORTY was born December 7, 1985 in New Jersey. She studied international relations and Middle Eastern history at American University before moving to Brooklyn to work in a medical office. While working in healthcare, she joined the Brooklyn Speculative Fictions Writers group and began developing her craft with early stories set in the world that would become the Daevabad trilogy, an epic political fantasy inspired by medieval Islamic history. ...Read More

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Features 

Year-in-Review: 2018 Magazine Summary

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We are mixing it up a little this year. The following sections are sorted by Hugo Eligibility: Professional, Semiprozine, etc., and by the SFWA qualifying standard for pay rate, then sorted loosely by pay rate and amount of fiction published. We covered 70 magazines, 14 audio sites, and nine critical magazines.

The short fiction market held strong through 2018, with more new voices, more inclusivity, and more translations than we’ve ...Read More

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Issue 694 Table of Contents, November 2018

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The November issue features an interview with Andy Duncan; MacArthur Genius Grant news; British Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, Copper Cylinder, Geffen, and Elgin awards winners; a column by Cory Doctorow; photo stories on Galactic Philadelphia, the Neukom Awards ceremony, George R.R. Martin, and Genrepalooza; international reports on Israel and Estonia; obituaries for Pat Lupoff, Anthea Bell, and David ...Read More

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Issue 691 Table of Contents, August 2018

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The August issue features interviews with Martha Wells and Curtis Chen; appreciations for Harlan Ellison; obituaries for Eugene E. Olson and Clive King; a column by Kameron Hurley; the World Fantasy Award Finalists; the winners of the Campbell, Sturgeon, Clarke, Shirley Jackson, Gemmell, and Prometheus awards; convention reports from the Locus Awards Weekend and Readercon 29; reports on international ...Read More

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Roundtable 

Steve Rasnic Tem Guest Post–“The Long Gestation Period of UBO”

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The journeys taken by my most recent novels from idea to completion have been lengthy and complex. Deadfall Hotel (Solaris, 2012) began as a novelette first published in Charlie Grant’s Shadows series in 1986. My southern gothic Blood Kin (Solaris, 2014) started with a few paragraphs written during my senior year in high school in 1968. And now comes UBO (Solaris, February 2017), a dark science fictional exploration of violence, ...Read More

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Issue 670 Table of Contents, November 2016

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The November issue features interviews with Pat Cadigan and Cat Rambo, a column by Cory Doctorow, a report on Japanese Science Fiction, and reviews of short fiction and books by Alastair Reynolds, Juliet Marillier, Laird Barron, Ilona Andrews, Jonathan Strahan, and many others.

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Books Reviews 

Gary K. Wolfe Reviews Nina Allan’s The Race

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The Race, Nina Allan (Newcon Press 978-1907069703, £12.99, 256pp, tp) August 2014. Cover by Ben Baldwin. (Titan Books 9781785650369, $14.95 US, 448pp, tp) July 2016.

Nina Allan has seemed on the verge of novel-making for much of her career, with novellas such as Spin and Harlequin and linked story collections like The Silver Wind and Stardust, the latter consist­ing of stories that loop and weave around each other

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New & Notable Books, August 2016

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Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Harper Voyager Jul 2016)

Chambers’s character-driven first novel focuses on a woman joining the diverse crew of an aging spaceship that has been offered a dangerous job making hyperspace tunnels between worlds. Originally self-published to consid­erable acclaim – nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the British Fantasy Awards’ Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer, and even The Kitschies.

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Issue 659 December 2015 Table of Contents

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The December issue features interviews with Chuck Wendig and Beth Cato, lists of Forthcoming Books through September 2016, a new column by Kameron Hurley, a report on the World Fantasy Convention, and reviews of short fiction and books by Charlie Jane Anders, Leena Krohn, Linda Nagata, Cherie Priest, Gemma Files, and many others.

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Issue 656 Table of Contents, September 2015

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The September issue features interviews with Sarah Monette and Daniel José Older, results of this year’s Hugo Awards, a new column by Cory Doctorow, lists of forthcoming books through June 2016, and reviews of short fiction and books by Ian McDonald, Robin Hobb, Michael Swanwick, Robert R. McCammon, Zen Cho, and many others.

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Table of Contents, November 2012

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Locus Magazine • November 2012 • Issue 622 • Vol. 69 No. 5

The November issue features interviews with Gregory Benford and Tim Pratt, a new column by Cory Doctorow, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Hannu Rajaniemi, Lois McMaster Bujold, Iain M. Banks, Stephen King & Stewart O’Nan, David Levithan, and many others.

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New Books, 8 May

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* Burton, James A. : Powers (Prime Books 978-1607013365, $14.95, 336pp, trade paperback, May 2012, cover art Matthew Hughes) • Nominal Publication Date: Sun 6 May 2012

Contemporary fantasy novel about a gifted blacksmith, Albert Johannson, who is called on to assist a demon. • Prime’s site has this description. • Amazon’s “Look Inside” function provides an excerpt. • The book is copyright by James A. Hetley.

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April 2012 Table of Contents

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Locus Magazine • April 2012 • Issue 615 • Vol. 68 No. 4

April is a special Science Fiction & Fantasy Art issue, with art and commentary by Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell, Stephan Martiniere, Charles Vess, and a dozen others. Plus: full interviews with Brom and John Picacio, and reviews of new books by Terry Bisson, Paula Brandon, Karl Schroeder, Kim Harrison

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Awards 

Howe Steps Down as BFS Chair

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Following the controversy over his possible conflict of interest regarding some winners of the British Fantasy Awards, David Howe has resigned his position as Chairman of the British Fantasy Society.

Statements from both BFS President Ramsey Campbell and now-acting BFS Chairman Graham Joyce followed the resignation. Campbell’s statement exonerates Howe of any wrongdoing:

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Table of Contents, December 1997

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CHARLES N. BROWN Publisher & Editor-in-Chief MARIANNE S. JABLON Managing Editor FAREN C. MILLER CAROLYN F. CUSHMAN Editors KIRSTEN GONG-WONG Assistant Editor EDWARD BRYANT MARK R.
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Table of Contents, December 1989

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THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SCIENCE FICTION FIELD ISSN-0049-4959 EDITOR & PUBLISHER Charles N. Brown ASSOCIATE EDITOR Faren C. Miller ASSOCIATE MANAGER Shelly Rae Clift PRODUCTION ASSOCIATE
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Table of Contents, December 1986

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THE NEWSPAPER OF THE SCIENCE FICTION FIELD ISSN-0047-4959 EDITOR & PUBLISHER Charles N. Brown ASSOCIATE EDITOR Faren Miller EDITORIAL ASSISTANT Carolyn F. Cushman EDITORIAL TRAINEE Pamela
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Reviews Short Fiction 

A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction: khōréō

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khōréō 3.3

khōréō 3.3 includes two short stories and a nov­elette in two parts. The one I found to be most effective of the three is “The Blue Glow” by Lisa Hosokawa, which follows a failed suicide pilot as he returns home in search of his family, and finds only destruction. His journey is plagued by ghosts, but he holds onto hope that his mother and baby ...Read More

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A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction from Clarkesworld

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Clarkesworld 1/24

January’s Clarkesworld opens on a high note with “Nothing of Value” by Aimee Ogden. Skip technology allows people to travel long distances by allowing all the information about themselves to be downloaded into a new body at their des­tination while the old version is destroyed. The unnamed protagonist travels to Mars to meet up with a former friend/lover in hopes of rekindling their relationship. One of ...Read More

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Awards News 

2024 Jhalak Prize Shortlist

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Both the Jhalak Prize for Book of the Year and the Children’s & Young Adult prize shortlists were announced today. The Children’s & YA shortlist includes Wild Song by Candy Gourlay (David Fickling).

The award seeks “to celebrate books by British/British resident BAME writers” and accepts “entries published in the UK by writers of colour. These include (and not limited to) fiction, non-fiction, short stories, graphic novels, poetry and all ...Read More

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A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction: Asimov’s

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Asimov’s 1-2/24

The January/February 2024 issue of Asimov’s is bookended by two novellas, each involving the investigation of a crime. In Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “Proof of Concept”, Orli is a detective on an intergalactic cruise ship, investigating a seemingly straightforward mur­der. However, when she arrives at the crime scene, Orli discovers the body is actually a sophisticated hologram, leaving her to unravel what crime has actually been ...Read More

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A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction: Augur

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Augur 6.2

Several stories in Augur issue 6.2 draw on vari­ous traditions and fairy tales for inspiration. In “Moon-Eaters & Monsoons” by Rachel Evange­line Chiong, twin brothers Amihan and Hagbat set out to determine what is ailing one of their realm’s gods. They haven’t spoken in years, and the journey is fraught, their failure to listen to and understand each other putting both of them in danger. “ ...Read More

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Nalo Hopkinson: What the Magic Is

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NALO HOPKINSON was born December 20, 1960 in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up there and in Trinidad and Guyana, though she also spent some time in the US as a child. Her father was noted Guyanese poet Muhammad Abdur-Rahman Slade Hopkinson. She moved with her family to Toronto, Canada in 1977, where she lived until relocating to Riverside CA in 2011. She earned a Master’s degree in Writing Popular Fiction ...Read More

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Issues 

Issue 759 Table of Contents, April 2024

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The April 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Nalo Hopkinson and Ken MacLeod and a spotlight on artist Sara Felix. News includes the 2023 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, Chandrasekera’s Crawford win, Doherty’s Heinlein Award win, Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s shift to editor-at-large, the BSFA Awards finalists, and much more. Obituaries remember Brian Stableford, Jaime Lee Moyer, Dick Jenssen, and Sue Arroyo, with additional appreciations for ...Read More

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