Locus Magazine Issue #649 February 2015

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

Locus Issue # 649, February, 2015, is the 2014 Year in Review issue, with the annual Recommended Reading List, the Locus Poll & Survey ballot, and Commentary by Liza Groen-Trombi, Gary K. Wolfe, and many others; plus, an interview with Simon Ings, a column by Kameron Hurley, and reviews of short fiction and books by James Bradley, Brian Staveley, Keith Stevenson, Elizabeth Bear, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog January/ February 2015 (Rich Horton)

Asimov’s January 2015 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies December 2014 (Rich Horton)
F&SF November/December 2014 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed January 2015 (Rich Horton)
McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #48 (Rich Horton)
Not One of Us October 2014 (Rich Horton)

Tin House #62 Winter 2014 (Rich Horton)
 

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

Adams, John Joseph, & Hugh Howey, eds. • The End Is Nigh (Gardner Dozois)
Bear, Elizabeth • Karen Memory (Adrienne Martini)
Bear, Elizabeth • Karen Memory (Liz Bourke)
Black, Holly • The Darkest Part of the Forest (Adrienne Martini)
Bova, Ben, & Eric Choi, eds. • Carbide Tipped Pens (Gardner Dozois)
Bradley, James • Clade (Gary K. Wolfe)
Elliott, Will • Shadow (Faren Miller)
Gates, Jaym, & Andrew Liptak, eds. • War Stories: New Military Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois)
Gunn, Eileen • Questionable Practices (Gardner Dozois)
Hardinge, Frances • Cuckoo Song (Colleen Mondor)
Hardinge, Frances • Cuckoo Song (Colleen Mondor)
Lake, Jay • Last Plane to Heaven (Gardner Dozois)
Lavender, Isiah, III • Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction (Gary K. Wolfe)
Link, Kelly • Get in Trouble (Gary K. Wolfe)
Link, Kelly, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. • Monstrous Affections (Rich Horton)
Littlewood, Alison • Path of Needles (Faren Miller)
Martin, George R. R., & Gardner Dozois, eds. • Old Venus (Russell Letson)
McAuley, Paul • Something Coming Through (Gary K. Wolfe)
Staveley, Brian • The Providence of Fire (Faren Miller)
Stevenson, Keith • Horizon (Adrienne Martini)
Tidhar, Lavie • Black Gods Kiss (Gardner Dozois)
Van Eekhout, Greg • Pacific Fire (Adrienne Martini)
Vance, Jack • Grand Crusades: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five (Russell Letson)
Wilber, Rick • Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (Gardner Dozois)
Wilce, Ysabeau S. • Prophecies, Libels, and Dreams (Gardner Dozois)

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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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