Locus Magazine, Issue #724, May 2021

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

Locus Issue #724 (May 2021) has interviews with Nnedi Okorafor and Nghi Vo and a spotlight on Spanish magazine Windumanoth. News includes the 2021 Hugo Awards Ballot, changes to the 2021 Worldcon dates and venue, Pillai's promotion to head Tor, News Corp's acquisition of HMH, Stine's Philip K. Dick Award win, Jones's Bradbury Prize win, BSFA winners, and more. Photo reports cover the 2021 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and Norwescon 43. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "Qualia" and a special feature by Douglas F. Dluzen & Christopher Mark Rose examines "Seasonal Bias in Speculative Fiction Awards Nominations". Obituaries remember John C. Pelan, Wanda June Alexander, and Margaret Wander Bonanno. Reviews cover new titles by P. Djèlí Clark, Sarah Pinsker, Zen Cho, Karin Tidbeck, Nick Mamatas, Katherine Addison, T. Kingfisher, Django Wexler, Alexandra Oliva, Robbie Arnott, Natasha Pulley, Sam Riviere, Priyanka Champaneri, Patrick Allington, Nino Cipri, Kate Milford, Kosoko Jackson, Anna Carey, Nadia Afifi, Joe R. Lansdale, Rivers Solomon, Namina Forna, Bruce Sterling, David Brin, and others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/25/21 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/11/21 (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld 3/21 (Karen Burnham)
Departure Mirror Quarterly Winter '21 (Karen Burnham)
Flash Fiction Online 3/21 (Karen Burnham)
Fusion Fragment 3/21 (Rich Horton)
Galaxy's Edge 3/21 (Rich Horton)
Giganotosaurus 2/21 (Karen Burnham)
Giganotosaurus 3/21 (Karen Burnham)
Lightspeed 3/21 (Karen Burnham)
The New Yorker 3/8/21 (Rich Horton)
Pulp Literature Winter '21 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons 3/1/21 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 3/15/21 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 3/3/21 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 3/24/21 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 3-4/21 (Rich Horton)
Weird Tales #364 (Rich Horton)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)
Addison, Katherine The Witness for the Dead (Liz Bourke)
Afifi, Nadia The Sentient (Gabino Iglesias)
Allington, Patrick Rise & Shine (Ian Mond)
Arnott, Robbie The Rain Heron (Katharine Coldiron)
Brin, David Vivid Tomorrows: On Science Fiction and Hollywood (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Carey, Anna This is Not the Jess Show (Colleen Mondor)
Champaneri, Priyanka The City of Good Death (Ian Mond)
Cho, Zen Black Water Sister (Gary K. Wolfe)
Cipri, Nino Defekt (Ian Mond)
Clark, P. Djèlí A Master of Djinn (Gary K. Wolfe)
Forna, Namina The Gilded Ones (Maya C. James)
Jackson, Kosoko Yesterday Is History (Colleen Mondor)
Kingfisher, T. Paladin's Strength (Liz Bourke)
Lansdale, Joe R. Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories (Gabino Iglesias)
Mamatas, Nick The Planetbreaker's Son (Gary K. Wolfe)
Milford, Kate The Raconteur's Commonplace Book (Colleen Mondor)
Oliva, Alexandra Forget Me Not (Katharine Coldiron)
Pinsker, Sarah We Are Satellites (Gary K. Wolfe)
Pulley, Natasha The Kingdoms (Katharine Coldiron)
Riviere, Sam Dead Souls (Ian Mond)
Solomon, Rivers Sorrowland (Paula Guran)
Sterling, Bruce Robot Artists and Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories (Russell Letson)
Tidbeck, Karin The Memory Theater (Gary K. Wolfe)
Wexler, Django Hard Reboot (Liz Bourke)

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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 has

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