The April 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Nalo Hopkinson and Ken MacLeod and a spotlight on artist Sara Felix. News includes the 2023 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, Chandrasekera's Crawford win, Doherty's Heinlein Award win, Patrick Nielsen Hayden's shift to editor-at-large, the BSFA Awards finalists, and much more. Obituaries remember Brian Stableford, Jaime Lee Moyer, Dick Jenssen, and Sue Arroyo, with additional appreciations for Steve Miller. Reviews cover new titles by Charlotte Bond, Park Seolyeon, Aliette de Bodard, Samantha Mills, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, John Wyndham, Harlan Ellison, Sami Ellis, Darcie Little Badger, Alastair Reynolds, Linda Nagata, Kathleen Jennings, Yoon Ha Lee, GennaRose Nethercott, Lucy Holland, Bogi Takács, Yun Ko-Eun, Matthew Cheney, Mustafa Gündodu & Orsola Casagrande (eds.), Gareth Brown, Steven Dos Santos, Camille Gomera-Tavarez, Ronald Malfi, Marie-Helene Bertino, and others.
TABLE of CONTENTS
April 2024 Issue 759 Vol. 92 No. 4
57th Year of Publication 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview art and design by Francesca Myman
INTERVIEWS
Nalo Hopkinson: What the Magic Is / 10
Ken MacLeod: So Many Shocks / 26
MAIN STORIES / 5 , 6
2023 Nebula Awards Ballot Stoker Awards Final Ballot Doherty Wins Heinlein Award Patrick Nielsen Hayden Becomes Editor-at-Large LA Times Book Prize Finalists Chandrasekera Wins Crawford BSFA Awards Finalists
THE DATA FILE / 7
Tchaikovsky and Mills Release Hugo Statements Tanith Lee Wins Infinity Award Clarkesworld Readers' Poll Winners Asimov's Readers' Awards Finalists Analog AnLab Awards Finalists Philip K. Dick Award Judges World Conventions News Otherwise Award Hiatus Aurealis Awards Shortlist Edgar Awards Nominations Jim Baen Memorial Award Finalists Jo Fletcher Books Becomes Arcadia Bards and Sages to Close Audie Award Winners Tidhar Pens Animated Series British Book Awards Shortlists Lee & Low Diversity Report Publishing News Announcements Awards News Financial News
PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Stephen Graham Jones, Sarah Pinborough, Melissa Marr, Michelle Sagara, Brian Keene, Tasha Suri, and many others
OBITUARIES / 52
Brian Stableford Jaime Lee Moyer Dick Jenssen Sue Arroyo Appreciations for Steve Miller by Sharon Lee, Toni Weisskopf, Kevin J. Anderson, Lawrence M. Schoen, and Michael D. Pederson
EDITORIAL MATTERS / 55
Fundraiser Locus Awards Weekend This Issue/Next Issue
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Short Fiction Reviews by CHARLES PAYSEUR / 12
Reckoning Spring '24; F&SF 1-2/24; Strange Horizons 1/29/24, 2/5/24, 2/12/24; Worlds of Possibility 2/24; Lightspeed 2/24; GigaNotoSaurus 2/24; Diabolical Plots 2/24; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/8/24, 2/22/24.
Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. WISE / 14
Analog 1-2/24; khré 3.3; Clarkesworld 2/24.
Reviews by LIZ BOURKE / 15
The Fireborne Blade, Charlotte Bond; A Magical Girl Retires, Park Seolyeon; Navigational Entanglements, Aliette de Bodard.
Reviews by GARY K. WOLFE / 16
The Wings Upon Her Back, Samantha Mills; Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa; Logical Fantasy: The Many Worlds of John Wyndham, John Wyndham; Greatest Hits, Harlan Ellison.
Reviews by ALEX BROWN / 18
Dead Girls Walking, Sami Ellis; Sheine Lende, Darcie Little Badger.
Reviews by RUSSELL LETSON / 19
Machine Vendetta, Alastair Reynolds; Blade, Linda Nagata.
Reviews by ALEXANDRA PIERCE / 20
Kindling, Kathleen Jennings; Moonstorm, Yoon Ha Lee; Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart, GennaRose Nethercott; S