Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.
Locus Issue #704 (September 2019) issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Cadwell Turnbull. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through June 2020. Awards news includes the Hugo Awards winners, the 1944 Retro-Hugo Awards, World Fantasy Awards ballot, Dragon Awards nominees, Seiun Awards winners, and a name change for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Additional news covers Worldcon site selection, Audible's caption controversy, immigrant authors protesting US border conditions, photo stories on the summer workshops, and more. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "DRM Broke Its Promise". Obituaries remember Toni Morrison, Barry Hughart, J. Neil Schulman, Robert N. Stephenson, and Sam Gafford. Reviews cover new titles by Annalee Newitz, Alix E. Harrow, Sarah Pinsker, Lisa Goldstein, D.B. Jackson, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone, Aliette de Bodard, Becky Chambers, Chuck Wendig, Caitlin Starling, Claire G. Coleman, Sarah Davis-Goff, Yoko Ogawa, Molly Gloss, Craig Davidson, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Ferrett Steinmetz, K. Ancrum, Samira Ahmed, Reed King, Christine Wunnicke, Paul Tremblay, Ellen Datlow (ed.), Richard Kadrey, and others.
Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)
Ahmed, Samira Internment (Katharine Coldiron)
Ancrum, K. The Weight of the Stars (Colleen Mondor)
Campbell, John W., Jr. Frozen Hell (Richard A. Lupoff)
Cardinal, Ann Dávila Five Midnights (Colleen Mondor)
Chambers, Becky To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Liz Bourke)
Coleman, Claire G. The Old Lie (Ian Mond)
Datlow, Ellen, ed. Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories (Paula Guran)
Davidson, Craig The Saturday Night Ghost Club (Colleen Mondor)
Davis-Goff, Sarah Last Ones Left Alive (Ian Mond)
De Bodard, Aliette The House of Sundering Flames (Liz Bourke)
Drayden, Nicky Escaping Exodus (Tom Whitmore)
El-Mohtar, Amal, & Max Gladstone This Is How You Lose the Time War (Liz Bourke)
Gloss, Molly Outside the Gates (Ian Mond)
Goldstein, Lisa Ivory Apples (Gary K. Wolfe)
Harrow, Alix E. The Ten Thousand Doors of January (Gary K. Wolfe)
Jackson, D.B. Time's Demon (Liz Bourke)
Kadrey, Richard The Grand Dark (Tom Whitmore)
King, Reed FKA USA (Katharine Coldiron)
Newitz, Annalee The Future of Another Timeline (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ogawa, Yoko The Memory Police (Ian Mond)
Pinsker, Sarah A Song for a New Day (Gary K. Wolfe)
Starling, Caitlin The Luminous Dead (Tim Pratt)
Steinmetz, Ferret The Sol Majestic (Colleen Mondor)
Tremblay, Paul Growing Things and Other Stories (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Wendig, Chuck Wanderers (Tim Pratt)
Wunnicke, Christine The Fox and Dr. Shimamura (Katharine Coldiron)
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