Locus Magazine, Issue #708, January 2020

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

Locus Issue #708 (January 2020 has interviews with Joe Abercrombie and Arkady Martine. News includes Lois McMaster Bujold's induction as a SFWA Grand Master, an eleventh hour save for venerable San Diego bookstore Mysterious Galaxy, George R.R. Martin's new bookstore Beastly Books, the Prometheus Hall of Fame Award finalists, B&N news, and much more. Gahan Wilson, Andrew Weiner, Ian Covell, Andrew Clements, and Lisa Lepovetsky are remembered with obituaries. International Reports cover events and trends in Brazil, China, and Italy. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me". Reviews cover new titles by William Gibson, James Patrick Kelly, Naomi Kritzer, Charles Soule, Margo Lanagan, Sarah Gailey, Jenn Lyons, RJ Barker, Stephen Baxter, Helen Oyeyemi, Kerstin Hall, Jeanne Gomoll, ed., Naomi Booth, Joanna Kavenna, Marc-Uwe Kling, Sean Adams, Rivers Solomon, Yangsze Choo, Deborah Hewitt, Margaret Owen, Stephanie Burgis, D.J. Butler, Rachel Caine, Andrew Caldecott, Charlaine Harris, Mercedes Lackey, Garth Nix, Margaret Atwood, N.K. Jemisin, Stephen King, Erin Morgenstern, Philip Pullman, and others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Bourbon Penn 11/19 (Rich Horton)
Capricious SF 7/19 (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld 11/19 (Karen Burnham)
F&SF 1-2/20 (Rich Horton)
Fiyah Autumn '19 (Karen Burnham)
Galaxy's Edge 11/19 (Rich Horton)
Interzone 11-12/19 (Rich Horton)
Neo-Opsis #30 (Rich Horton)
The New Yorker 9/30/19 (Rich Horton)
Omenana 10/19 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 9/30/19 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 11-12/19 (Rich Horton)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Adams, Sean The Heap (Ian Mond)
Barker, R. J. The Bone Ships (Liz Bourke)
Baxter, Stephen World Engines: Destroyer (Russell Letson)
Booth, Naomi Sealed (Katharine Coldiron)
Burgis, Stephanie The Princess Who Flew With Dragons (Carolyn Cushman)
Butler, D. J. Witchy Kingdom (Carolyn Cushman)
Caine, Rachel Sword and Pen (Carolyn Cushman)
Caldecott, Andrew Lost Acre (Carolyn Cushman)
Choo, Yangsze The Night Tiger (Colleen Mondor)
Crowley, John And Go Like This (Rich Horton)
Gailey, Sarah Upright Women Wanted (Liz Bourke)
Gibson, William Agency (Gary K. Wolfe)
Gomoll, Jeanne, ed. Carl Brandon (Karen Burnham)
Hall, Kerstin The Border Keeper (Katharine Coldiron)
Harris, Charlaine A Longer Fall (Carolyn Cushman)
Hewitt, Deborah The Nightjar (Colleen Mondor)
Kavenna, Joanna Zed (Ian Mond)
Kelly, James Patrick King of the Dogs, Queen of the Cats (Gary K. Wolfe)
Kling, Marc-Uwe Qualityland (Ian Mond)
Kritzer, Naomi Catfishing on CatNet (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lackey, Mercedes The Case of the Spellbound Child (Carolyn Cushman)
Lanagan, Margo Stray Bats (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lee, Yoon Ha Hexarchate Stories (Rich Horton)
Lyons, Jenn The Name of All Things (Liz Bourke)
Nix, Garth Angel Mage (Carolyn Cushman)
Owen, Margaret The Merciful Crow (Colleen Mondor)
Oyeyemi, Helen Gingerbread (Katharine Coldiron)
Solomon, Rivers, & Daveed Diggs, with234 The Deep (Ian Mond)
Soule, Charles Anyone (Gary K. Wolfe)
VanderMeer, Ann, ed. Current Futures: A Sci-Fi Ocean Anthology (Karen Burnham)

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 ho

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