Locus Magazine, Issue #730, November 2021

The November 2021 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Chuck Wendig and publisher Betsy Wollheim and a spotlight on artist Tehani Farr. News includes the British Fantasy, Sturgeon, Clarke, and Aurora Awards winners and the National Book Awards finalists. The Data File covers the new Le Guin prize for fiction, the Mythopoeic Awards winners, 2021 MacArthur Fellowships, and much more. FIYAHCON and ICon are covered with full reports and photos, and Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "The Unimaginable". People & Publishing includes news about John Williams, Ursula Vernon, Kelly Link, Gabino Iglesias, Tim Pratt, Mercedes Lackey, and many others. Obituaries remember Mary Kay Kare, Gary Paulsen, Lou Antonelli, Douglas Barbour, and Otacílio Costa D'Assunção Barros. Reviews cover new titles by Nnedi Okorafor, Charlie Jane Anders, Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Liselle Sambury, Jenny Elder Moke, Chandra Prasad, Jordan Ifueko, Jessica Lewis, Adam Soto, Nick Mamatas, David Liss, Hiromi Kawakami, Cassandra Khaw, Joe R. Lansdale, C. Dale Brittain, Sarah Beth Durst, Walter Goodwater, Laurell K. Hamilton, Kevin Hearne, Naomi Novik, Christine Riccio, F. Paul Wilson, Fonda Lee, Okezie Nwka, Alastair Reynolds, Saad Z. Hossain, Freya Marske, Ryka Aoki, Joy Sanchez-Taylor, and more.

TABLE of CONTENTS

November 2021 Issue 730 Vol. 87 No. 5
54th Year of Publication 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview design by Stephen Segal

INTERVIEWS
Chuck Wendig: Accidental Hauntings / 10
Betsy Wollheim: Alpha Daughter / 28

MAIN STORIES / 6
Campbell Wins Sturgeon British Fantasy Awards Winners McKay Wins Clarke Award National Book Awards Finalists Aurora Awards Winners

THE DATA FILE / 7
New Le Guin Prize for Fiction Mythopoeic Awards Winners 2021 MacArthur Fellowships Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist Conventions News Magazine News 2021 HWA Election Results Word Horde Store Elgin Awards Winners SF Opera Premiere Encyclopedia of Science Fiction Fourth Edition 100 Novels That Shaped Our New World Icons of Horror World Conventions News Supply Chain Woes Publishing News Agency News Announcements Awards News Financial News International Rights Audio Rights Publications Received

PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about John Williams, Ursula Vernon, Kelly Link, Gabino Iglesias, Tim Pratt, Mercedes Lackey, and many others

SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary by Cory Doctorow: The Unimaginable / 27 Spotlight on Tehani Farr / 33

CONVENTIONS
FIYAHCON / 30 ICon 2021 / 32

LISTINGS
Magazines Received: September / 34 Books Received: September / 35 British Books Received: August / 44 Bestsellers / 46

OBITUARIES / 57
Mary Kay Kare Gary Paulsen Lou Antonelli Douglas Barbour Otacílio Costa D'Assunção Barros

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 58
World Fantasy Online Conventions This Issue

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Short Fiction Reviews by Rich Horton / 13
Asimov's 9-10/21; Uncanny 9-10/21; On Spec 6/21, 9/21; Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories, Tobias S. Buckell; How to Get to Apocalypse and Other Disasters, Erica L. Satifka.

Short Fiction Reviews by Karen Burnham / 14
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/9, 9/23/21; Clarkesworld 9/21; Strange Horizons 8/21; Lightspeed 10/21; Nature: Futures 9/17/21; Abyss & Apex Summer '21; Lackington's Spring '21; Speculative City Spring '21; Hexagon Fall '21.

Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 16
Noor, Nnedi Okorafor; Even Greater Mistakes, Charlie Jane Anders; The Year's Best Science Fiction, Chandra Prasad. Redemptor, Jordan Ifueko; Bad Witch Burning, Jessica Lewis.

Reviews by Ian Mond / 20
This Weightless World, Adam Soto; The Second Shooter, Nick Mamatas; The Peculiarities, David Liss; People from My Neighbourhood, Hiromi Kawakami.

Reviews by Gab

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