Locus Magazine, Issue 638, March 2014

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

Locus Issue #638, March 2014, contain interviews with authors Joan Slonczewski and Paul Cornell; lists of forthcoming books through December 2014; a new column by Cory Doctorow titled “Cold Equations and Moral Hazard”; a spotlight on SF Signal; short fiction reviews by Rich Horton and Gardner Dozois, plus reviews by Gary K. Wolfe, Faren Miller, Russell Letson, Stefan Dziemianowicz, and Richard Lupoff, of new books by Christopher Priest, Jeff VanderMeer, Karl Schroeder, Reggie Oliver, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s January 2014 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s February 2014 (Rich Horton)
F&SF Jan/Feb 2014 (Gardner Dozois)
F&SF Jan/Feb 2014 (Rich Horton)
F&SF Mar/Apr 2014 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed February 2014 (Rich Horton)
Nightmare Magazine February 2014 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons January 2014 (Rich Horton)
Subterranean Winter 2014 (Gardner Dozois)
Subterranean Winter 2014 (Rich Horton)

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

Adaf, Shimon • Sunburnt Faces (Gary K. Wolfe)
Attebery, Brian • Stories About Stories: Fantasy and the Remaking of Myth (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ballantyne, Tony • Dream London (Faren Miller)
Campbell, Ramsey • The Last Revelation of Gla’aki (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Elliott, Will • The Pilgrims (Faren Miller)
Greenfield, Jeff • If Kennedy Lived (Richard A. Lupoff)
Greenfield, Jeff • Then Everything Changed (Richard A. Lupoff)
Gregory, Stephen • The Waking That Kills (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Gunn, Eileen • Questionable Practices (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lansdale, Joe R. • Bleeding Shadows (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Miyabe, Miyuki • Apparitions: Ghosts of Old Edo (Faren Miller)
Morris, Mark • It Sustains (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Oliver, Reggie • Flowers of the Sea (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Priest, Christopher • The Adjacent (Gary K. Wolfe)
Priest, Christopher • The Adjacent (Gary K. Wolfe)
Schroeder, Karl • Lockstep (Russell Letson)
Steele, Allen • V-S Day (Russell Letson)
VanderMeer, Jeff • Annihilation (Faren Miller)

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