Locus Magazine

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

Locus Issue # 648, January, 2015, has interviews with Lauren Beukes and Robert Jackson Bennett, a column by Cory Doctorow, spotlights on David Pomerico and Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier, reports from Cheryl Morgan and Tobias S. Buckell, and reviews of short fiction and books by James Morrow, John Twelve Hawks, Elizabeth Bear, Ramsey Campbell, David Mitchell, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Asimov’s December 2014 (Gardner Dozois)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies October 2014 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld November 2014 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld December 2014 (Rich Horton)
F&SF November/December 2014 (Gardner Dozois)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet December 2014 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed November 2014 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed December 2014 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons November 2014 (Rich Horton)
The Dissident Blog May 2014 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com September 2014 (Rich Horton)
Uncanny November/December 2014 (Rich Horton)

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

Andrews, Ilona • Burn for Me (Carolyn Cushman)
Asher, Neal • Dark Intelligence (Russell Letson)
Bear, Elizabeth • Karen Memory (Russell Letson)
Boorman, Kate A. • Winterkill (Faren Miller)
Bova, Ben, & Eric Choi, eds. • Carbide Tipped Pens (Rich Horton)
Burns, Jim • Hyperluminal: The Art of Jim Burns (Karen Haber)
Campbell, Hayley • The Art of Neil Gaiman (Karen Haber)
Campbell, Ramsey • Think Yourself Lucky (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Donohue, Keith • The Boy Who Drew Monsters (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Ellison, Harlan • The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (Gary K. Wolfe)
Frommer, Jeremy, & Rick Schwartz, eds. • The Mind’s Eye: The Art of Omni (Karen Haber)
Froud, Brian, & Wendy Froud • Brian Froud’s Fairies’ Tales (Karen Haber)
Gaiman, Neil, & P. Craig Russell • The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume 1 (Karen Haber)
Gambino, Fred • Dark Shepherd: The Art of Fred Gambino (Karen Haber)
Hurley, Andrew Michael • The Loney (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Johnson, Alaya Dawn • Love Is the Drug (Faren Miller)
Lackey, Mercedes • Closer to Home (Carolyn Cushman)
Lackey, Mercedes, & James Mallory • The House of the Four Winds (Carolyn Cushman)
Lukyanenko, Sergei • The Genome (Faren Miller)
Lupoff, Richard A. • Man in a Hurry and Other Fantasy Stories (Richard A. Lupoff)
Mitchell, David • The Bone Clocks (Rich Horton)
Morrow, James • Galapágos Regained (Gary K. Wolfe)
Nix, Garth • Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen (Carolyn Cushman)
Perry, Carol J. • Caught Dead Handed (Carolyn Cushman)
Powers, Tim • Nobody’s Home (Gary K. Wolfe)
Prineas, Sarah • The Magic Thief: Home (Carolyn Cushman)
Shinn, Sharon • The Turning Season (Carolyn Cushman)
Stroud, Jonathan • Lockwood & Co. : The Whispering Skull (Carolyn Cushman)
Twelve Hawks, John • Spark (Faren Miller)
Vaughn, Carrie • Low Midnight (Carolyn Cushman)
Walton, Jo • The Just City (Gary K. Wolfe)
Weist, Jerry • Frank R. Paul: The Dead of Science Fiction Illustration (Karen Haber)
Whates, Ian, ed. • Paradox (Gardner Dozois)
Whates, Ian, ed. • Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois)

About Locus:

Locus is the news magazine and trade journal for chain SF and fantasy buyers, independent bookstore SF and fantasy buyers, and independent distributors as well as librarians, editors, authors, publishing personnel, and interested readers. The magazine has been covering the SF and fantasy fields for over 40 years, and has won the Hugo Award, science fiction's premier honor, 30 times. The magazine's website, which contains a sampling of magazine content as well as additional genre news, media reviews, the Roundtable Blog, indexes of reviews and interviews published, the science fiction awards database, and much much more, can be found at http://www.locusmag.com. Information about advertising in the magazine can be found at http://locusmag.com/Magazine/RateCard.html or on the website at http://www.locusmag.com/Home/LocusOnlineRates.html.

Our Quarterly Forthcoming Book issues (March, June, September, and December) usually sell out, and are used by librarians, bookstores, publishers, and readers to keep abreast of forthcoming titles. Each contains publishing schedules from the major genre publishers – big houses to small presses – for the next nine months.

Our February issue summarizes the previous year, and includes a highly regarded annual Recommended Reading List. The August issue has the Locus Awards, voted on by our readers from the best of the previous year. The October and November issues cover the World SF Convention and are constant back issue favorites. All issues have a list of the new books that month, a list of recommended books and bestsellers, and interviews with leading authors.
 

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