Locus Magazine, Issue #737, June 2022

The June 2022 issue of Locus has interviews with Nicola Griffith and V. Castro and a spotlight on The Science Fiction Outreach Project. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2023. Patricia A. McKillip (1948-2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. Other news covers the 2022 Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Awards, Zen Cho's Bradbury Prize win, the Sturgeon Award finalists, Lackey's removal from the Nebula Conference, Sergey Dyachenko (1945-2022), the closure of Fantast Three, and much more. StokerCon 2022 is covered with a report and photos. Reviews include new titles by Samit Basu, Rachel Swirsky, Vandana Singh, Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Max Gladstone, Paul Cornell, E. Catherine Tobler, Premee Mohamed, David Yoon, Isabel Cañas, Ottessa Moshfegh, A.G. Slatter, Shuang Xuetao, Kalynn Bayron, Lizz Huerta, Rachel Swirsky, Joma West, Eugen Bacon, Rio Youers, Rebecca Ross, Marion Deeds, Deborah Falaye, Holly Black, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Robert Jackson Bennett, and co-editors Scott Russell Duncan, Armando Rendón, and Jenny Irizary, among others.

TABLE of CONTENTS

June 2022 Issue 737 Vol. 88 No. 6
55th Year of Publication 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview art and design by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS
Nicola Griffith: Past Present / 10
V. Castro: No Limitations / 30

MAIN STORIES / 5
2022 Nebula Awards Winners Patricia A. McKillip (1948-2022) Appreciations from Stephen R. Donaldson, Lisa Goldstein, Real Musgrave, Terri Windling, and James Frenkel Bram Stoker Awards Cho Wins Bradbury Prize Sturgeon Award Finalists and Sturgeon Symposium Lackey Removed from Nebula Conference

THE DATA FILE / 7
Fantast Three Closing SFWA News Random House Worlds World Conventions News Grand Prix de I'imaginaire Winner Nommo Awards Shortlist IAFA News Inaugural SF Debuts Writing Prize Literary Laddership for Emerging African Authors Publishing News Maine Afrofuturism Project #DisneyMustPay Open Letter Announcements Edgar Awards Winners 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 Joshua Cohen, Robert J. Sawyer, P.C. Hodgell, Gwenda Bond, Eugen Bacon, Emily St. John Mandel, and many others

SPECIAL FEATURE
Spotlight on The Science Fiction Outreach Project / 49

FORTHCOMING BOOKS
US Forthcoming Books / 32 UK Forthcoming Books / 42

CONVENTIONS
StokerCon / 51

LISTINGS
Magazines Received: April / 52 Books Received: April / 54 British Books Received: March / 62 Bestsellers / 64 New & Notable / 65

OTHER OBITUARIES / 77
Sergey Dyachenko

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 78
Nebula Conference Patricia A. McKillip YouTube Locus Awards This Issue/Next Issue

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Short Fiction Reviews by Karen Burnham / 12
Solarpunk Magazine 1-2/22, 3-4/22; The Sunday Morning Transport 3/6, 3/27, 4/3/22; Clarkesworld 4/22; khré 3/22; Luna Station Quarterly 3/22; Shoreline of Infinity 3/22.

Short Fiction Reviews by Charles Payseur / 14
Shoreline of Infinity 3/22; Strange Horizons 3/21/22, 3/28/22, 4/4/22, 4/11/22; Escape Pod 3-4/22; Flash Fiction Online 3/22, 4/22; Fiyah 3/22; GigaNotoSaurus 4/22; Baffling Spring '22; Fireside Spring '22; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/7/22, 4/21/22; Diabolical Plots 3/22, 4/22; Lightspeed 5/22; Fantasy 5/22; F&SF 5-6/22.

Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran / 16
Tor.com 3/9/22, 3/16/22, 3/23/22, 4/13/22, 4/20/22, 4/27/22, 5/4/22, 5/11/22, 5/18/22; Uncanny 3-4/22; The Deadlands 3/22, 4/22; The Dark 3/22, 4/22; Nightmare 3/22, 4/22, 5/22; Apex #130; PodCastle 2/23/22; PseudoPod 3/11/22.

Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 18
Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance, Jonathan Strahan, ed.; Chosen Spirits, as

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