Locus Magazine, Issue #709, February 2020

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

Locus Issue #709 (February 2020) is the annual Year in Review overview with essays, the Locus 2019 Recommended Reading List, and book and magazine summaries tracking the progress of the industry. The issue also features an interview with co-authors Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Mike Resnick (1942-2020) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News includes the Philip K. Dick Award nominees, the Stoker preliminary ballot, the full acquisition of Penguin Random House by Bertelsmann, the cancellation of the 2020 RITA Awards, and more. The column by Kameron Hurley is entitled "Into the Raging '20s, We Ride." Additional obituaries remember Steve Stiles, Christopher Tolkien, Neil Peart, Syd Mead, and Alasdair Gray. Reviews cover new titles by N.K. Jemisin, Ken Liu, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Nisi Shawl, R.E. Stearns, K.M. Szpara, Sarah Kozloff, Nancy Kress, Linda Nagata, Marie Brennan, Valerie Valdes, Kenneth Hunter Gordon, Ben Aaronovitch, Ben Okri, Anne Charnock, Gish Jen, Malka Older, Holly Black, Kate Milford, Ryan La Sala, Farah Naz Rishi, Jennifer Givhan, Kira Jane Buxton, Juliette Wade, Amy Binns, Benjamin Percy, Tochi Onyebuchi, Rick Berry, Nnedi Okorafor, and others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Asimov's 1-2/20 (Rich Horton)
Analog 1-2/20 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/24/19 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 11/21/19 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 12/5/19 (Paula Guran)
Black Static 11-12/19 (Paula Guran)
Clarkesworld 12/19 (Karen Burnham)
The Dark 11/19 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 12/19 (Paula Guran)
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 11/19 (Rich Horton)
Mithila Review 12/19 (Karen Burnham)
Mysterion 11-12/19 (Karen Burnham)
Nightmare 12/19 (Paula Guran)
On Spec #112 (Rich Horton)
Sirenia Digest #164 (Paula Guran)
Sirenia Digest #165 (Paula Guran)
Sirenia Digest #166 (Paula Guran)
Strange Horizons 10/19 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 11/19 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 11/6/19 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 11/13/19 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 12/4/19 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 12/11/19 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 11-12/19 (Paula Guran)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Aaronovitch False Value (Adrienne Martini)
Atwood, Margaret, & Renee Nault The Handmaid's Tale: The Graphic Novel (Katharine Coldiron)
Berry, Rick Invented People: Vol. 1 (Karen Haber)
Binns, Amy Hidden Wyndham: Life, Love, Letters (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Black, Holly The Queen of Nothing (Colleen Mondor)
Bohbot, Michel & Dominic Zintara and the Stones of Alu Cemah (Karen Haber)
Brennan, Marie Turning Darkness Into Light (Adrienne Martini)
Buxton, Kira Jane Hollow Kingdom (Katharine Coldiron)
Charnock, Anne Bridge 108 (Ian Mond)
Coates, Ta-Nehisi The Water Dancer (Gary K. Wolfe)
Givhan, Jennifer Trinity Sight (Katharine Coldiron)
Gordon, Kenneth Hunter One Bronze Knuckle (Adrienne Martini)
Jemisin, N. K. The City We Became (Gary K. Wolfe)
Jen, Gish The Resistors (Ian Mond)
Kozloff, Sarah A Broken Queen (Liz Bourke)
Kozloff, Sarah A Queen in Hiding (Liz Bourke)
Kozloff, Sarah The Cerulean Queen (Liz Bourke)
Kozloff, Sarah The Queen of Raiders (Liz Bourke)
Kress, Nancy Sea Change (Russell Letson)
La Sala, Ryan Reverie (Colleen Mondor)
Liu, Ken The Hidden Girl and Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Martin, George R. R., & Raya Golden Starport (Katharine Coldiron)
Milford, Kate The Thief Knot (Colleen Mondor)
Muth, Jon J. Stanislaw Lem's The Seventh Voyage (Karen Haber)
Nagata, Linda Silver (Russell Letson)
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