Locus Magazine, Issue #717, October 2020

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

Locus Issue #717 (October 2020) has interviews with Naomi Kritzer and Marshall Ryan Maresca and spotlights on Ho Che Anderson and Francesca Myman. Main Stories are "Sargent Leaves Macmillan", "Diversity in Publishing Initiatives", and the Dragon, Sunburst, Seiun, and Ditmar Awards winners. People & Publishing includes notes on milestones, awards, books sold, and more, with news this issue about Howard V. Hendrix, Walter Mosley, Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, Shannon Messenger, Jennifer Roberson, Cixin Liu, and many others. The Outer Dark Symposium online is covered with a report and photos and Kameron Hurley's column is entitled "Measuring Life in Keurig Cups". Terry Goodkind, Charles R. Saunders, and H. Paul Honsinger are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Kim Stanley Robinson, Alix E. Harrow, P. Djèlí Clark, Aliette de Bodard, Christopher Priest, Melissa Bashardoust, Michelle Sagara, Elizabeth Bear, Tamsyn Muir, Lauren Beukes, Sayaka Murata, Mike Allen, C.S.E. Cooney, Amanda J. McGee, Jessica P. Wick, Christiane Vadnais, Naomi Novik, Derek Künsken, Jackson Ford, T. Kingfisher, Jeremy Robert Johnson, S.L. Huang, Charles Stross, Mintie Das, Margaret Owen, Quan Barry, and others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Analog 9-10/20 (Rich Horton)
Apparition 7/20 (Karen Burnham)
Asimov's 9-10/20 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 7/30/20 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 8/13/20 (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld 8/20 (Karen Burnham)
Curiosities #7 (Rich Horton)
The Dark 7/20 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 8/20 (Paula Guran)
Fiyah Spring '20 (Karen Burnham)
Kasma 8/20 (Karen Burnham)
Luna Station Quarterly 6/20 (Karen Burnham)
Nightmare 8/20 (Paula Guran)
Nightmare 9/20 (Paula Guran)
Shoreline of Infinity #18 (Paula Guran)
Slate Future Tense 7/20 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 7/13/20 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 7/29/20 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 8/12/20 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 8/19/20 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 7-8/20 (Paula Guran)
Uncanny, 7-8/20 (Rich Horton)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)
Allen, Mike, C.S.E. Cooney, Amanda J. McGee & Jessica P. Wick A Sinister Quartet (Ian Mond)
Barry, Quan We Ride Upon Sticks (Colleen Mondor)
Bashardoust, Melissa Girl, Serpent, Thorn (Liz Bourke)
Bear, Elizabeth Machine (Liz Bourke)
Beukes, Lauren Afterland (Ian Mond)
Clark, P. Djèlí Ring Shout (Gary K. Wolfe)
Das, Mintie Brown Girl Ghosted (Colleen Mondor)
de Bodard, Aliette Seven of Infinities (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ford, Jackson Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air (Adrienne Martini)
Harrow, Alix E. The Once and Future Witches (Gary K. Wolfe)
Huang, S.L. Burning Roses (Katharine Coldiron)
Jennings, Kathleen Flyaway (Rich Horton)
Johnson, Jeremy Robert The Loop (Katharine Coldiron)
Kingfisher, T. A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking (Adrienne Martini)
Künsken, Derek The House of Styx (Adrienne Martini)
Muir, Tamsyn Princess Floralinda and the Forty-Flight Tower (Liz Bourke)
Murata, Sayaka Earthlings (Ian Mond)
Novik, Naomi A Deadly Education (Adrienne Martini)
Owen, Margaret The Faithless Hawk (Colleen Mondor)
Priest, Christopher Episodes: A Collection (Gary K. Wolfe)
Robinson, Kim Stanley The Ministry for the Future (Gary K. Wolfe)
Sagara, Michelle The Emperor's Wolves (Liz Bourke)
Stross, Charles Dead Lies Dreaming (Russell Letson)
Vadnais, Christiane Fauna (Ian Mond)

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