Architects of Memory, Karen Osborne (Tor 978-1-250-21547-5, $17.99, 352pp, tp) September 2020. Cover by Mike Heath.
Of late, my desire and ability to read fiction has been at a low ebb. In every professional reviewer’s career, there comes a point – or perhaps more than one – where much that is purported to be fresh and new seems to be tired, quotidian, even overdone; or worse, can’t hold a ...Read More
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* Anderson, Taylor : Deadly Shores (Roc 978-0-451-46566-5, $26.95, 464pp, hardcover, May 2014) • Nominal Publication Date: Tue 6 May 2014 • Ebook ISBN [link to Amazon Kindle edition]: 9780698145580 • Destroyerman #9
Alternate history SF novel, ninth in the “Destroyermen” series following Into the Storm, Crusade, Maelstrom, Distant Thunders, Rising Tides, Firestorm, Iron Gray Sea (2012), and Storm Surge (2013), about a World
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez (Del Rey) is the winner of the 2023 Crawford Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) for a first book of fantasy fiction. “Jimenez had previously published a well-received science fiction novel, The Vanished Birds (2020), but The Spear Cuts Through Water is his first fantasy book, making it eligible for the award.”
The awards
Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List!
We are so pleased to share this list of excellent fiction! Published in Locus magazine’s February 2023 issue, the list is assembled by Locus editors, columnists, outside reviewers, and other professionals and well-known critics of genre fiction and non-fiction. We looked at 982 titles from 2022 in short fiction and long fiction. The final recommendations, trimmed down to a somewhat reasonable-length ...Read More
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The January 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Annalee Newitz and Alex Jennings and spotlights on author adrienne maree brown and the Portolan Project. Greg Bear (1951-2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers the fallout from the antitrust ruling preventing the proposed Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger, Kindle’s magazine shutdown, a HarperCollins strike update, the 2022 #BlackSpecFic report, and much more. People
The December 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Julie E. Czerneda and Saad Z. Hossain, and spotlights on artist Geneva Bowers and author Khan Wong. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2023. Stories include the World Fantasy Awards and convention report, the judge’s ruling to block the PRH/S&S merger, HarperCollins strike news, Harry Josephine Giles’s Clarke Award win, Donato Giancola and Wayne Barlowe ...Read More
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The November 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Charles Stross and Xiran Jay Zhao and spotlights on author N.E. Davenport and The Korshak Collection. Robert A. Madle (1920-2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers Hopkinson’s Sturgeon win, Kensington’s acquisition of Erewhon, the Ditmar Awards winners, the Ellison Art and Comics Auction, and much more. International reports include SF in Ukraine: Ten Ukrainian SF/F Writers You ...Read More
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The October 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Sarah Gailey and Peng Shepherd and a spotlight on Craig Laurance Gidney. Peter Straub (1943 – 2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations from Stephen King, Gary K. Wolfe, Elizabeth Hand, and others. Chicon 8 is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report. Awards season news includes the ...Read More
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The September 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Zoraida Córdova and Grady Hendrix. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2023. News covers the PRH and S&S Merger Trial, the attack on Salman Rushdie, the Imaginales Festival Controversy, the Mythopoeic Awards winners, Scribe Awards winners and much more. This month’s commentary by Cory Doctorow is entitled Moneylike. Photo stories cover SF in SF and Charm ...Read More
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The Locus Awards took place online on June 22-25, 2022, in its third year as a virtual-only event. Connie Willis emceed the awards ceremony, with editor-in-chief of Locus Liza Trombi co-hosting. There were over 150 registrations, and full members received a Locus Awards t-shirt or gift book, and the awards program. There was also a sliding scale, attendance-only membership rate.
A mini-convention, the online events had eight reading sessions, scheduled ...Read More
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The August 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Suzanne Palmer and L. Penelope. News covers the World Fantasy Awards ballot, an obituary and appreciations for Eric Flint, the sale of DAW to Astra, Analog AnLab and Prometheus awards winners, Internet Archive’s lawsuit, the HarperCollins union strike, a BayCon 2022 report, the 2022 Locus Survey results, and much more. This year’s Locus Awards Weekend is covered with a full ...Read More
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The July 2022 issue of Locus has interviews with Daniel Abraham and Nadia Afifi. Main Stories include the 2022 Locus Awards winners, Atwood’s fireproof book auction, Aurealis Awards winners, Jo Fletcher’s departure from Jo Fletcher Books, UTA’s acquisition of Curtis Brown UK, and more. The SFWA Nebula Conference and WisCon 45 are covered with reports and photos. Additional coverage includes Balen’s Carnegie Medal win, SF author Glukhovsky on a Russian ...Read More
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The June 2022 issue of Locus has interviews with Nicola Griffith and V. Castro and a spotlight on The Science Fiction Outreach Project. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2023. Patricia A. McKillip (1948-2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. Other news covers the 2022 Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Awards, Zen Cho’s Bradbury Prize win, the Sturgeon Award finalists, Lackey’s removal from the ...Read More
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The May 2022 issue of Locus has interviews with Adrian Tchaikovsky and Dhonielle Clayton and a spotlight on artist Alyssa Winans. News includes the 2022 Hugo Awards ballot, Kali Wallace’s Philip K. Dick Award win, the BSFA and Baen Memorial Award winners, SFWA’s statement of support for Ukraine, Prometheus Award finalists, the founding of the Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award, and more. Photo reports cover the 2022 International Conference on ...Read More
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The April 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Tim Pratt and Premee Mohamed and spotlights on artist Odera Igbokwe and the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices, plus the 2021 US and UK Year in Review book summaries. News includes the 2021 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, SFWA’s name change, a school renamed for Octavia E. Butler, Liz Gorinsky’s departure from Erewhon, Sanderson Kickstarter successes, ...Read More
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Analog 1-2/22 Asimov’s 1-2/22 Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 12/21
This is a farewell – 20 years ago my first short fiction column appeared in Locus, and this will be the final one. (I do plan to continue to contribute occasional work to this wonderful magazine!) When I began writing for Locus, my aim was simple: to read as much of the field as I could, and write about what I ...Read More
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The March 2022 issue of Locus has interviews with Kelly Barnhill and Maurice Broaddus, a spotlight on artist Terry Lee, and a Year in Review magazine summary tracking the progress of the industry. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through December 2022. News covers the 2022 Dell Awards, the Chesley Awards, a new home for Uncle Hugo’s, the World Fantasy Awards judges announcement, Usman T. Malik’s Crawford ...Read More
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This issue of Locus is the 20th anniversary of my first column on short fiction for the magazine. It also contains my last such column. (Not to worry (or perhaps to worry?) I’ll still be contributing occasional work to Locus.) That issue also contained my first “end of the year summary” essay, so this is my 21st. While I expect I’ll continue writing these in coming years, it seems worthwhile ...Read More
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Usman T. Malik’s story collection Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan (Kitab) is the winner of the 2022 Crawford Award, presented annually by the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) for a first book of fantasy fiction.
Runners-up were:
Participating in this year’s nomination and selection process were Karen Burnham, Candas ...Read More
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Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List!
Published in Locus magazine’s February 2022 issue, this list is assembled by Locus editors, columnists, outside reviewers, and other professionals and well-known critics of genre fiction and non-fiction. This year we considered over 900 titles between short fiction and long fiction. The final recommendations, combined and trimmed to a somewhat reasonable-length list, are our best recommendations for your consideration. We know there ...Read More
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The February 2022 issue of Locus is the annual Year in Review overview with essays and the Locus 2021 Recommended Reading List. The issue also features an interview with Marlon James and spotlights on artist Marcela Bolívar and writing workshop Aspen Words. Worldcon 79, DisCon III in Washington DC, is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report. Dave Wolverton ...Read More
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You started reviewing short fiction for Locus in the February 2002 issue, 20 years ago. What a career! What’s the origin story for you as a reviewer; what brought you into this?
I started reviewing for the short fiction reviewzine Tangent – back when it was a print fanzine. Dave Truesdale posted a notice somewhere saying he was looking for reviewers, and I thought, ‘‘I like short fiction’’ – even ...Read More
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The January 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Simon Jimenez and Eugen Bacon and spotlights on artist/author Nilah Magruder and reviewer Rich Horton. News covers the 2021 Hugo Awards winners at DisCon III, the 2023 Worldcon in China bid win, the new Ad Astra Center and Gunn Center updates, the Penguin Random House response to the Department of Justice, the Nommo, Lodestar, Astounding, Sidewise, and Ditmar winners, a ...Read More
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The December 2021 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Maggie Tokuda-Hall and Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and a spotlight on artist Gary Villarreal. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2022. Stories include the World Fantasy Awards and convention report, a report on the 2021 Writers and Illustrators of the Future event, the Department of Justice challenge to the PRH and S&S merger, the creation of ...Read More
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The November 2021 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Chuck Wendig and publisher Betsy Wollheim and a spotlight on artist Tehani Farr. News includes the British Fantasy, Sturgeon, Clarke, and Aurora Awards winners and the National Book Awards finalists. The Data File covers the new Le Guin prize for fiction, the Mythopoeic Awards winners, 2021 MacArthur Fellowships, and much more. FIYAHCON and ICon are covered with full reports and ...Read More
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The October 2021 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Tade Thompson and R.B. Lemberg and a spotlight on Sana Takeda, artist. Main Stories are Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki’s Otherwise win, Karen Tei Yamashita’s National Book Foundation medal win, and the Ignyte, Dragon, and Asimov’s Readers’ Awards winners. People & Publishing includes notes on milestones, awards, books sold, and more, with news this issue about N.K. Jemisin, Nancy Pearl, Susanna Clarke, ...Read More
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The September 2021 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Lavie Tidhar and Zen Cho. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2022. Awards news covers the Seiun, Shirley Jackson, and Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Awards winners and the Dragon Awards ballot, and Readercon 31 coverage includes a report and photos. Elizabeth Anne Hull (1937-2021) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News includes museums honoring Butler ...Read More
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The August 2021 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Stephen Graham Jones and TJ Klune. Main Stories include the World Fantasy Awards ballot, an obituary and appreciations for William F. Nolan, DisCon III upheavals, and the Analog AnLab, Prometheus, and Aurealis awards winners. A full report with photos covers the 2021 Locus Awards Online event. Other news includes the Kitschies and SFRA awards winners, shortlists ...Read More
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