Locus Magazine #650 March 2015

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

Locus Issue #650 March 2015 features interviews with Garth Nix and Stephanie Burgis, a new column by Cory Doctorow, lists of forthcoming books through December, awards and publishing news, and reviews of short fiction and books by Neil Gaiman, Sam Sykes, Paul McAuley, Benjamin Percy, Jonatham Lethem, and many others.

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog March 2015 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s January 2015 (Gardner Dozois)
Asimov’s February 2015 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies December 2014 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld January 2015 (Rich Horton)
F&SF January/February 2015 (Gardner Dozois)
Ricepaper Fall 2014 (Rich Horton)
Uncanny January/February 2015 (Rich Horton)
 

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

Abercrombie, Joe • Half the World (Gary K. Wolfe)
Allen, Mike • Unseaming (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Carr, Viola • The Diabolical Miss Hyde (Liz Bourke)
Cooper, Brenda • Edge of Dark (Faren Miller)
Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Nightmare Carnival (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Datlow, Ellen, ed. • The Doll Collection (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Elliott, Kate • The Very Best of Kate Elliott (Faren Miller)
Gaiman, Neil • Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances (Gary K. Wolfe)
Gregory, Daryl • Harrison Squared (Gary K. Wolfe)
Kelly, Lee • City of Savages (Colleen Mondor)
Lethem, Jonathan • Lucky Alan and Other Stories (Karen Burnham)
MacFarlane, Alex Daily, ed. • The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (Karen Burnham)
MacFarlane, Alex Dally, ed. • The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women (Karen Burnham)
McAuley, Paul • Something Coming Through (Russell Letson)
McDevitt, Jack • Coming Home (Russell Letson)
Percy, Benjamin • The Dead Lands (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Sykes, Sam • The City Stained Red (Faren Miller)
Sykes, Sam • The City Stained Red (Faren Miller)
Trenary, Roland, ed. • Mahlon Blaine’s Blooming Bally Bloody Book (Richard A. Lupoff)
Valentine, Genevieve • Dream Houses (Gary K. Wolfe)
Valentine, Genevieve • Persona (Gary K. Wolfe)
Vance, Jack • Grand Crusades: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five (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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