Locus Magazine, Issue 754, November 2023

The November 2023 issue of Locus magazine is a special issue, "Dimensions of Wonder: Focus on Short Fiction," featuring interviews with Carmen Maria Machado and a roundtable on short fiction with Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, and Usman T. Malik. The issue also includes spotlights on khré, Omenana, and The Sunday Morning Transport, and essays on short fiction by Neil Clarke, A.T. Greenblatt, José Pablo Iriarte, Ai Jiang, Tobi Ogundiran, and Eugenia Triantafyllou. News covers the 2023 Hugo Awards winners, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Ditmar winners, Simon & Schuster news, and much more. Event coverage includes ICon: Tel Aviv 2023, Can*Con 2023, and the Science Fiction Research Association and Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung's joint annual conference, Disruptive Imaginations. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "Don't Be Evil". Obituaries remember Michael Flynn, Michael D. Toman, Rekka Korol Jay, Pat Diggs, and Helena Binns. Reviews cover new titles by Cadwell Turnbull, Christopher Barzak, E. Lily Yu, Sharon Emmerichs, Anna Smith Spark, Megan E. O'Keefe, Thea Guanzon, Francis Spufford, Naomi Alderman, Mónica Ojeda, Anya Johanna DeNiro, Rebekah Bergman, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Hiromi Kawakami, Sarah Davis-Goff, Anbara Salam, Ava Reid, Daniel Kraus, Yume Kitasei, Walter Mosley, Tananarive Due, C.J. Cherryh & Jane S. Fancher, Lavie Tidhar (ed), D.L. Soria, and more.

TABLE of CONTENTS
November 2023 Issue 754 Vol. 91 No. 5
56th Year of Publication 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview design by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS
Carmen Maria Machado: Core of Darkness / 10
The Fire in the Dark: Roundtable with Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, and Usman T. Malik / 28

MAIN STORIES/ 5 & 6
2023 Hugo Awards Winners 2023 World Fantasy Awards British Fantasy Awards Winners Ditmar Winners Simon & Schuster News

THE DATA FILE / 7
National Book Awards Finalists Le Guin Short Films HWA News Orbit Workshop SFPA Awards AI Lawsuit News Announcements Awards News Financial News

PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Nicola Griffith, Jonathan Lethem, Daryl Gregory, Zakiya Dalila Harris, Leigh Bardugo, Cherie Dimaline, and many others.

DIMENSIONS OF WONDER: SHORT FICTION / 30
George Saunders in a Haunted Mansion with Chocolate Mint by Eugenia Triantafyllou The Stormy Age of SFF Magazines by Neil Clarke Interview with Tobi Ogundiran Spotlight on khoreo Spotlight on Omenana A Ramble on How Short Stories Have Shaped my Chaotic Writing Career by Ai Jiang Writing Short Stories in the Margins by A.T. Greenblatt Spotlight on The Sunday Morning Transport Things Short Stories Did and Didn't Teach Me About Writing and Selling Novels by Jose Pablo Iriarte

SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Don't Be Evil, 38 Photo Story: Rio Hondo Writer's Workshop, 61 Photo Story: SF in SF, 62

CONVENTIONS
Can*Con 2023, 7 SFRA/GF: Disruptive Imaginations, 39 ICon, Tel Aviv 2023, 40

LISTINGS
Magazines Received: September, 41 Books Received: September 42 Bestsellers, 54 New & Notable, 55

OBITUARIES / 63
Michael Flynn Michael D. Toman Appreciation by Connie Willis Rekka Korol Jay Pat Diggs Appreciations by Laurie Toby Edison & Debbie Notkin, Francesca Myman, and Jacob Weisman Helena Binns

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 66
Focus on Short Fiction Chengdu Terry Bisson in the New Yorker Pat Diggs December and January Your Support

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS

Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. WISE / 13
Asimov's 9-10/23; Clarkesworld 8/23, 9/23.

Short Fiction Reviews by CHARLES PAYSEUR / 14
Zooscape 8/23; Cast of Wonders 8/29/23, 9/3/23; Worlds of Possibility 8/23; Strange Horizons 8/21/23, 8/28/23, 9/4/23, 9/11/23; Hexagon Fall '23; GigaNotoSaurus 7/23; Flash Ficti

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