Locus Magazine, Issue #735, April 2022

In this issue:

The April 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Tim Pratt and Premee Mohamed and spotlights on artist Odera Igbokwe and the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices, plus the 2021 US and UK Year in Review book summaries. News includes the 2021 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, SFWA's name change, a school renamed for Octavia E. Butler, Liz Gorinsky's departure from Erewhon, Sanderson Kickstarter successes, the BSFA shortlist, a new YA SF imprint from HarperCollins UK, Fireside to close, and much more. Ukraine news features "SF&F Writers and the War" by Borys Sydiuk and a letter from a fan in Moscow courtesy of File 770. Andy Remic, Faren Miller, Shirley Hughes, Melissa Mead, Priscilla Tolkien, and Aiki Flinthart are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Kelly Barnhill, Sam J. Miller, Alix E. Harrow, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter, Olivie Blake, T. Kingfisher, Rob Hart, Scotto Moore, Janelle Monáe (ed.), Rosiee Thor, Emily St. John Mandel, Jennifer Egan, Mónica Ojeda, Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang (eds), Mike Chen, Rebecca Podos, Lara Elena Donnelly, Brian Zepka, Sara A. Mueller, Charles Stross, and others.

Table of Contents:

April 2022 Issue 735 Vol. 88 No. 4
55th Year of Publication 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview art and design by Stephen H. Segal

INTERVIEWS
Tim Pratt: By Dreams Imprisoned / 10
Premee Mohamed: Post-Apocalyptic Possibilities / 26

MAIN STORIES / 5
2021 Nebula Awards Ballot Stoker Awards Final Ballot SFWA Name Change School Renamed For Butler Gorinsky Leaves Erewhon Sanderson Kickstarter Soars BSFA Shortlist

THE DATA FILE / 7
New YA SF Imprint from HarperCollins UK Fireside to Close The Future of Conjunctions Cossmass Infinities Changes Amazon Closing Their Bookstores The Great Resignation 2022 Nebula Conference Will Be Virtual Bradbury Prize Finalists PEN Awards Audie Awards Winners Uncanny Magazine Reader Poll Clarkesworld Readers' Poll Winners Analog AnLab Finalists Asimov's Readers' Awards Finalists Carnegie and Greenaway Medal Shortlist Lambda Awards Finalists Australian Shadows Finalists Esquire's 50 Best Fantasy Books HWA Summer Scares Word Horde Emporium Moves World Conventions News Publishing News Bookstores News Announcements Awards News Financial News

PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Joanne Harris, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dean Koontz, Brit Hvide, John Kessel, and many others

SPECIAL FEATURES
Spotlight on the Analog Awards for Emerging Black Voices / 25 Spotlight on Artist Odera Igbokwe / 36

2021 THE YEAR IN REVIEW
2021 US Book Summary / 28 2021 UK Book Summary / 32

UKRAINE / 34
Ukraine News Ukraine SF&F Writers and the War by Borys Sydiuk Letter from a Fan in Moscow

LISTINGS
Magazines Received: February / 37 Books Received: February / 39 British Books Received: January / 48 Bestsellers / 50 New & Notable / 51

OBITUARIES / 60
Andy Remic Faren Miller Appreciation by Anna Tambour, Kirsten Gong-Wong, and Tom Whitmore Shirley Hughes Melissa Mead Priscilla Tolkien Death Noted: Aiki Flinthart

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 62
Ukraine ICFA Locus Poll & Survey Patreon Support This Issue/Next Issue

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS

Short Fiction Reviews by Karen Burnham / 12
Clarkesworld 2/22; Analog 3-4/2022; The Sunday Morning Transport 1/23/2022; Metaphorosis 2/2022; Apparition Lit 1/2022; Mysterion 1-2/2022.

Short Fiction Reviews by Charles Payseur / 13
Escape Pod 1/22, 2/22; Cast of Wonders 2/22; GigaNotoSaurus 2/22; Flash Fiction Online 2/22; Fireside 2/22; Strange Horizons 2/7/22, 2/14/22; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/10/22, 2/24/22; Dia- bolical Plots 2-3/22; F&SF 3-4/22; Fantasy 3/22; L

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