Locus Magazine, Issue #715, August 2020

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

Locus Issue #715 (August 2020) has interviews with Tochi Onyebuchi and John Hornor Jacobs. Main Stories include the SF&F Hall of Fame inductees, Fantasy relaunch, new copyright registration rules, misconduct allegations in the SF field, and the Shirley Jackson and Prometheus winners. There is a full report on the 2020 Locus Awards online event, with photos. Other news includes the Rhysling winners, Sunburst and Clarke shortlists, COVID-19 relief, World Conventions news, and the results of this year's Locus Survey. Kameron Hurley's column is entitled "Of Men and Monsters". Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Rudolfo Anaya, Jean-Pierre Moumon, and F. Alexander Brejcha are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Susanna Clarke, R.B. Lemberg, Cat Sparks, Justina Robson, Melissa Caruso, Jenn Lyons, Catherine Asaro, Algis Budrys, C.J. Cherryh, Marko Kloos, K.J. Parker, Veronica Roth, Karen Osborne, Myke Cole, David Mitchell, Samit Basu, Adam Cesare, Yoss, Kalynn Bayron, Alechia Dow, Sasha Laurens, Kyrie McCauley, Erica Waters, Jess Nevins, and others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/18/20 (Karen Burnham)
Black Static 5-6/20 (Paula Guran)
Clarkesworld 6/20 (Karen Burnham)
The Dark 5/20 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 6/20 (Paula Guran)
Galaxy's Edge 5/20 (Rich Horton)
Interzone 5-6/20 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed 7/20 (Karen Burnham)
Mithila Review #14 (Karen Burnham)
Nightmare 6/20 (Paula Guran)
Nightmare 7/20 (Paula Guran)
Pulp Literature Spring '20 (Rich Horton)
Reckoning 4 (Rich Horton)
Samovar 4/20 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 6/2/20 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 6/8/20 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 6/10/20 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 6/17/20 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 5-6/20 (Paula Guran)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)
Allen, Mike Aftermath of an Industrial Accident (Rich Horton)
Allen, Mike, & C. S. E. Cooney, eds. A Sinister Quartet (Rich Horton)
Asaro, Catherine The Vanished Seas (Liz Bourke)
Basu, Samit Chosen Spirits (Ian Mond)
Bayron, Kalynn Cinderella Is Dead (Colleen Mondor)
Budrys, Algis Beyond the Outposts: Essays on SF and Fantasy 1955-1996 (Russell Letson)
Caruso, Melissa The Obsidian Tower (Liz Bourke)
Cesare, Adam Clown in a Cornfield (Ian Mond)
Cherryh, C. J. Divergence (Russell Letson)
Clarke, Susanna Piranesi (Gary K. Wolfe)
Cole, Myke Sixteenth Watch (Adrienne Martini)
Dow, Alechia The Sound of Stars (Colleen Mondor)
Kloos, Marko Ballistic (Adrienne Martini)
Laurens, Sasha A Wicked Magic (Colleen Mondor)
Lemberg, R. B. The Four Profound Weaves (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lyons, Jenn The Memory of Souls (Liz Bourke)
McCauley, Kyrie If These Wings Could Fly (Colleen Mondor)
Mitchell, David Utopia Avenue (Ian Mond)
Nevins, Jess Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature's Most Chilling Genre (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Osborne, Karen Architects of Memory (Adrienne Martini)
Parker, K. J. How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (Adrienne Martini)
Robson, Justina Paper Hearts (Gary K. Wolfe)
Roth, Veronica Chosen Ones (Adrienne Martini)
Sparks, Cat Dark Harvest (Gary K. Wolfe)
Waters, Erica Ghost Wood Song (Colleen Mondor)
Yoss Red Dust (Ian Mond)

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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

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