Locus Magazine, Issue #739, August 2022

The August 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Suzanne Palmer and L. Penelope. News covers the World Fantasy Awards ballot, an obituary and appreciations for Eric Flint, the sale of DAW to Astra, Analog AnLab and Prometheus awards winners, Internet Archive's lawsuit, the HarperCollins union strike, a BayCon 2022 report, the 2022 Locus Survey results, and much more. This year's Locus Awards Weekend is covered with a full report and photos. Geoffrey H. Goodwin, Dorothy J. Heydt, Barbara Haldeman (AKA Barbara Delaplace), and Jonathan Lyons are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by R.B. Lemberg, Robert Freeman Wexler, Erin Swan, Becky Chambers, R.F. Kuang, Mary Robinette Kowal, Kirstyn McDermott, Karen Heuler, Steve Toltz, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Kimberly Unger, H.E. Edgmon, Rachel Hartman, Naz Kutub, Emily X.R. Pan, Blake Crouch, Ronald Malfi, Naben Ruthnum, Kelly Barnhill, Heather Kamins, Adi Alsaid, A.C. Wise, Foz Meadows, Linda Nagata, Tamsyn Muir, and many others.

TABLE of CONTENTS

August 2022 Issue 739 Vol. 89 No. 2
55th Year of Publication 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview art and design by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS
Suzanne Palmer: Rational Optimism / 10
L. Penelope: Community Magic / 30

MAIN STORIES / 5
2022 World Fantasy Awards Ballot Eric Flint (1947 2022) DAW Sold to Astra Macmillan Security Incident Analog AnLab Awards Winners Internet Archive Lawsuit

THE DATA FILE / 7
HarperCollins Union Strike Canedy Leaving S&S Prometheus Awards Winners Clarke Award Shortlist Sidewise Award Nominees Eugie Award Finalists SFWA News Publishing News Legal News World Conventions News Convention News Announcements Awards News Financial News International Rights Audio Rights

PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Rudy Rucker, Jesmyn
Ward, Salman Rushdie, Jennifer Roberson, and many others

SPECIAL FEATURES
Photo Story: Sycamore Hill 2022 / 9 2022 Locus Survey Results / 32

CONVENTIONS
2022 Locus Awards Online / 34 BayCon 2022 / 36

LISTINGS
Magazines Received: June / 37 Books Received: June / 39 Bestsellers / 50 New & Notable / 51

OBITUARIES / 59
Appreciations for Eric Flint by Toni Weisskopf, Nancy Kress, Walt Boyes, Charles E. Gannon, Shahid Mahmud, Jim Minz, and John Goodwin Geoffrey H. Goodwin Dorothy J. Heydt Appreciation by Karen Brenchley Barbara Haldeman [AKA Barbara Delaplace] Appreciation by Lorena Haldeman DEATH NOTED: Jonathan Lyons

LOCUS LETTERS / 62

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 63
Eric Flint The State of Locus This Issue

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS

Short Fiction Reviews by Karen Burnham / 12
Clarkesworld 6/22; Asimov's 5-6/22; Future Fire 4/22; Augur Spring '22; Flash Fiction Online 5/22; Lost Colony Winter- Spring '22; Slate Future Tense 5/22.

Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran / 13
Uncanny 5-6/22; Apex #131; Tor.com 5/25/22, 6/1/22, 6/15/22, 7/13/22, 7/20/22, 7/27/22; Podcastle 5/24/22, 5/3/22; PseudoPod 6/3/22, 6/17/22; The Dark 5/22, 6/22; The Deadlands 5/22, 6/22; Nightmare 6/22, 7/22.

Short Fiction Reviews by Charles Payseur / 14
Black Cat Weekly 4/9/22, 4/15/22; Fusion Fragment 5/22; Cast of Wonders 5/22; Strange Horizons 5/16/22, 5/23/22, 5/30/22, 6/6/22; Hexagon 5/22; Diabolical Plots 6/22; GigaNotoSaurus 6/22; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/2/22, 6/16/22; Escape Pod 6/22; Fantasy 7/22; Lightspeed 7/22; F&SF 7-8/22.

Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 16
The Unbalancing, R.B. Lemberg; The Silverberg Business, Robert Freeman Wexler; Walk the Vanished Earth, Erin
Swan.

Reviews by Adrienne Martini / 17
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, Becky Chambers; Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the
Oxford Translators' Revolution, R.F. Kua

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