Locus 715 - Locus Magazine, Issue #715, August 2020

Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.

Locus Issue #715 (August 2020) has interviews with Tochi Onyebuchi and John Hornor Jacobs. Main Stories include the SF&F Hall of Fame inductees, Fantasy relaunch, new copyright registration rules, misconduct allegations in the SF field, and the Shirley Jackson and Prometheus winners. There is a full report on the 2020 Locus Awards online event, with photos. Other news includes the Rhysling winners, Sunburst and Clarke shortlists, COVID-19 relief, World Conventions news, and the results of this year's Locus Survey. Kameron Hurley's column is entitled "Of Men and Monsters". Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Rudolfo Anaya, Jean-Pierre Moumon, and F. Alexander Brejcha are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Susanna Clarke, R.B. Lemberg, Cat Sparks, Justina Robson, Melissa Caruso, Jenn Lyons, Catherine Asaro, Algis Budrys, C.J. Cherryh, Marko Kloos, K.J. Parker, Veronica Roth, Karen Osborne, Myke Cole, David Mitchell, Samit Basu, Adam Cesare, Yoss, Kalynn Bayron, Alechia Dow, Sasha Laurens, Kyrie McCauley, Erica Waters, Jess Nevins, and others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—

Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/18/20 (Karen Burnham)
Black Static 5-6/20 (Paula Guran)
Clarkesworld 6/20 (Karen Burnham)
The Dark 5/20 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 6/20 (Paula Guran)
Galaxy’s Edge 5/20 (Rich Horton)
Interzone 5-6/20 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed 7/20 (Karen Burnham)
Mithila Review #14 (Karen Burnham)
Nightmare 6/20 (Paula Guran)
Nightmare 7/20 (Paula Guran)
Pulp Literature Spring ’20 (Rich Horton)
Reckoning 4 (Rich Horton)
Samovar 4/20 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 6/2/20 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 6/8/20 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 6/10/20 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 6/17/20 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 5-6/20 (Paula Guran)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Allen, Mike • Aftermath of an Industrial Accident (Rich Horton)
Allen, Mike, & C. S. E. Cooney, eds. • A Sinister Quartet (Rich Horton)
Asaro, Catherine • The Vanished Seas (Liz Bourke)
Basu, Samit • Chosen Spirits (Ian Mond)
Bayron, Kalynn • Cinderella Is Dead (Colleen Mondor)
Budrys, Algis • Beyond the Outposts: Essays on SF and Fantasy 1955-1996 (Russell Letson)
Caruso, Melissa • The Obsidian Tower (Liz Bourke)
Cesare, Adam • Clown in a Cornfield (Ian Mond)
Cherryh, C. J. • Divergence (Russell Letson)
Clarke, Susanna • Piranesi (Gary K. Wolfe)
Cole, Myke • Sixteenth Watch (Adrienne Martini)
Dow, Alechia • The Sound of Stars (Colleen Mondor)
Kloos, Marko • Ballistic (Adrienne Martini)
Laurens, Sasha • A Wicked Magic (Colleen Mondor)
Lemberg, R. B. • The Four Profound Weaves (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lyons, Jenn • The Memory of Souls (Liz Bourke)
McCauley, Kyrie • If These Wings Could Fly (Colleen Mondor)
Mitchell, David • Utopia Avenue (Ian Mond)
Nevins, Jess • Horror Fiction in the 20th Century: Exploring Literature’s Most Chilling Genre (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Osborne, Karen • Architects of Memory (Adrienne Martini)
Parker, K. J. • How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (Adrienne Martini)
Robson, Justina • Paper Hearts (Gary K. Wolfe)
Roth, Veronica • Chosen Ones (Adrienne Martini)
Sparks, Cat • Dark Harvest (Gary K. Wolfe)
Waters, Erica • Ghost Wood Song (Colleen Mondor)
Yoss • Red Dust (Ian Mond)

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Locus is the news magazine and trade journal for chain SF and fantasy buyers, independent bookstore SF and fantasy buyers, and independent distributors as well as librarians, editors, authors, publishing personnel, and interested readers. The magazine has been covering the SF and fantasy fields for over 40 years, and has won the Hugo Award, science fiction's premier honor, 30 times. The magazine's website, which contains a sampling of magazine content as well as additional genre news, media reviews, the Roundtable Blog, indexes of reviews and interviews published, the science fiction awards database, and much much more, can be found at http://www.locusmag.com. Information about advertising in the magazine can be found at http://locusmag.com/Magazine/RateCard.html or on the website at http://www.locusmag.com/Home/LocusOnlineRates.html.

Our Quarterly Forthcoming Book issues (March, June, September, and December) usually sell out, and are used by librarians, bookstores, publishers, and readers to keep abreast of forthcoming titles. Each contains publishing schedules from the major genre publishers – big houses to small presses – for the next nine months.

Our February issue summarizes the previous year, and includes a highly regarded annual Recommended Reading List. The August issue has the Locus Awards, voted on by our readers from the best of the previous year. The October and November issues cover the World SF Convention and are constant back issue favorites. All issues have a list of the new books that month, a list of recommended books and bestsellers, and interviews with leading authors.

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