Locus Magazine, Issue 624, January 2013

Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.

Locus Issue #624, January 2013, contains interviews with Delia Sherman and James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck); a new column by Cory Doctorow titled “Where Characters Come From”; an obituary of Boris Strugatsky; reports on the 2012 Sunburst Award Winners and Sail to Success writer's workshop; short fiction reviews by Gardner Dozois and Rich Horton, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, and others, of new books by Nick Harkaway, Rudy Rucker, Steven Gould, Tad Williams, and more.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s January 2013 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies November 2012 (Rich Horton)
Eclipse Online December 2012 (Rich Horton)
Phantom Drift Fall 2012 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons November 2012 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons December 2012 (Rich Horton)

Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) —

Adams, John Joseph, ed. • Armored (Gardner Dozois)
Adams, John Joseph, ed. • Epic (Gardner Dozois)
Andrews, Ilona • Steel’s Edge (Carolyn Cushman)
Bardugo, Leigh • Shadow and Bone (Gwenda Bond)
Belcher, R. S. • The Six-Gun Tarot (Faren Miller)
Bishop, Anne, & Anthony Francis • Stranded (Rich Horton)
Boccacino, Michael • Charlotte Markham and the House of Darkling (Carolyn Cushman)
Bullington, Jesse • The Folly of the World (Faren Miller)
Carson, Rae • The Crown of Embers (Gwenda Bond)
Connolly, Tina • Ironskin (Carolyn Cushman)
Dart-Thornton, Cecilia • The Midnight Game (Carolyn Cushman)
Datlow, Ellen, & Terri Windling, eds. • After (Rich Horton)
Dozois, Gardner, ed. • Rip-Off! (Rich Horton)
Fort, Ilene Susan, & Tere Arcq, eds. • In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States (Karen Haber)
Froud, Brian, & Wendy Froud • Brian Froud’s Trolls (Karen Haber)
Fuentes, Carlos • Vlad (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Gould, Steven • Impulse (Russell Letson)
Gramazio, Ronnie • Exposé 10 (Karen Haber)
Guinan, Paul, & Anina Bennett • Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention (Karen Haber)
Guran, Paula, ed. • Rock On: The Greatest Science Fiction & Fantasy Hits (Gardner Dozois)
Harkaway, Nick • Angelmaker (Gary K. Wolfe)
Hockney, David • Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm with Illustrations by David Hockney (Karen Haber)
Horton, Rich, & Sean Wallace, eds. • Robots: Recent AI (Gardner Dozois)
Horton, Rich, & Sean Wallace, eds. • War and Space: Recent Combat (Gardner Dozois)
Huff, Tanya • The Silvered (Carolyn Cushman)
Joshi, S. T., ed. • Black Wings 2 (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Lockhart, Ross E. • The Book of Cthulhu II (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Phillips, Holly • At the Edge of Waking (Faren Miller)
Powers, Tim • Salvage and Demolition (Gary K. Wolfe)
Reed, Kit • Son of Destruction (Gary K. Wolfe)
Resnick, Laura • Polterheist (Carolyn Cushman)
Rucker, Rudy • Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel (Faren Miller)
Saler, Michael • As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary PreHistory of Virtual Reality (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Sedia, Ekaterina, ed. • Bloody Fabulous (Rich Horton)
Smith, Jad • John Brunner (Gary K. Wolfe)
Stiefvater, Maggie • The Raven Boys (Gwenda Bond)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Under My Hat: Tales from the Cauldron (Gardner Dozois)
Tardi, Jacques • The Arctic Marauder (Karen Haber)
Temple, William F. • A Niche in Time and Other Stories: The Best of William F. Temple, Volume 1 (Richard A. Lupoff)
Tierney, Kathleen • Blood Oranges (Gary K. Wolfe)
Walton, Evangeline • Above Ker-Is and Other Stories (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Weber, David, & Jane Lindskold • Fire Season (Carolyn Cushman)
Williams, Tad • The Dirty Streets of Heaven (Carolyn Cushman)
Wolfe, Gary K., ed. • American Science Fiction: Nine Classic Novels of the 1950s (Russell Letson)
Wrede, Patricia C. • The Far West (Carolyn Cushman)

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