Locus Magazine, Issue #674, March 2017
Fiction & Literature, Horror, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction, Fantasy
| Author: | Locus Magazine | ISBN: | 1230001569056 |
| Publisher: | Locus Publications | Publication: | March 1, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Locus Magazine |
| ISBN: | 1230001569056 |
| Publisher: | Locus Publications |
| Publication: | March 1, 2017 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.
Locus Issue # 674 (March 2017) features interviews with Jane Yolen and John Joseph Adams, listings of forthcoming books through December 2017, art book reviews by Karen Haber, a column by Cory Doctorow, an obituary with appreciations for Edward Bryant, and reviews of short fiction and books by Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lara Elena Donnelly, Henry Kuttner, Shaun Tan, and many others.
Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —
Apex Magazine January 2017 (Paula Guran)
Asimov’s January/February 2017 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies January 2017 (Paula Guran)
Black Static Jan-Feb 2017 (Paula Guran)
Clarkesworld January 2017 (Rich Horton)
Conjunctions 67: Other Aliens Fall 2016 (Rich Horton)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet December 2016 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed January 2017 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons January 2017 (Paula Guran)
The Dark January 2017 (Paula Guran)
The Dark February 2017 (Paula Guran)
The Fantasist December 2016 (Rich Horton)
The New Yorker January 2017 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com January 2017 (Paula Guran)
Uncanny January/February 2017 (Paula Guran)
Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) —
Craft, Kinuko Y. • Myth & Magic: An Enchanted Fantasy Coloring Book (Karen Haber)
Craft, Mahlon F., illustrated by Kinuko Craft • Beauty and the Beast (Karen Haber)
Daniels, April • Dreadnought (Liz Bourke)
Doctorow, Cory • Walkaway (Russell Letson)
Donnelly, Lara Elena • Amberlough (Liz Bourke)
Fleskes, John, ed. • Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Karen Haber)
Hand, Elizabeth • Fire (Gary K. Wolfe)
Harrison, Kim • The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death (Carolyn Cushman)
Hendee, Barb, & J. C. Hendee • The Dead Seekers (Carolyn Cushman)
Hurley, Kameron • The Stars Are Legion (Liz Bourke)
Kiernan, Caitlín R. • Agents of Dreamland (Liz Bourke)
Kirby, Matthew J. • A Taste for Monsters (Colleen Mondor)
Kushner, Ellen • Tremontaine (Liz Bourke)
Kuttner, Henry • The Early Kuttner, Volume Two: The Watcher at the Door (Richard A. Lupoff)
La Farge, Paul • The Night Ocean (Gary K. Wolfe)
Love, Jeffrey Alan • Notes from the Shadowed City (Karen Haber)
McGuire, Seanan • Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day (Paula Guran)
McGuire, Seanan • Magic for Nothing (Carolyn Cushman)
Miller, Ron • Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined (Karen Haber)
Moon, Elizabeth • Cold Welcome (Carolyn Cushman)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia • Certain Dark Things (John Langan)
Oliver, Jonathan, ed. • Five Stories High (Rich Horton)
Parisien, Dominik, & Navah Wolfe, eds. • The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (Rachel Swirsky)
Perry, Carol J. • Murder Go Round (Carolyn Cushman)
Phifer, Malcolm R., & Michael C. Phifer • The Fantasy Illustration Library: Gods & Goddesses: Volume Two (Karen Haber)
Pinborough, Sarah • They Say a Girl Died Here Once (John Langan)
Reynolds, Alastair • The Iron Tactician (Rich Horton)
Robinson, Kim Stanley • New York 2140 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Runge, Karen • Seven Sins: Stories (John Langan)
Shusterman, Neal • Scythe (Arley Sorg)
Sparks, Cat • Lotus Blue (Gary K. Wolfe)
Spencer, Wen • The Black Wolves of Boston (Carolyn Cushman)
Sterling, Bruce • Pirate Utopia (Karen Haber)
Stross, Charles • Empire Games (Russell Letson)
Tan, Shaun • The Singing Bones (Karen Haber)
Vaughn, Carrie • Martians Abroad (Carolyn Cushman)
Vess, Charles • Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie (Gary K. Wolfe)
Vess, Charles • Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie (Karen Haber)
Womack, Jack • …Flying Saucers Are Real! (Karen Haber)
Zelazny, Roger, & Vaughn Bodé • Here There Be Dragons (Karen Haber)
Zelazny, Roger, & Vaughn Bodé • Way Up High (Karen Haber)
About Locus:
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.
For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see www.lsff.net.
Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.
Locus Issue # 674 (March 2017) features interviews with Jane Yolen and John Joseph Adams, listings of forthcoming books through December 2017, art book reviews by Karen Haber, a column by Cory Doctorow, an obituary with appreciations for Edward Bryant, and reviews of short fiction and books by Kim Stanley Robinson, Cory Doctorow, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Lara Elena Donnelly, Henry Kuttner, Shaun Tan, and many others.
Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —
Apex Magazine January 2017 (Paula Guran)
Asimov’s January/February 2017 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies January 2017 (Paula Guran)
Black Static Jan-Feb 2017 (Paula Guran)
Clarkesworld January 2017 (Rich Horton)
Conjunctions 67: Other Aliens Fall 2016 (Rich Horton)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet December 2016 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed January 2017 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons January 2017 (Paula Guran)
The Dark January 2017 (Paula Guran)
The Dark February 2017 (Paula Guran)
The Fantasist December 2016 (Rich Horton)
The New Yorker January 2017 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com January 2017 (Paula Guran)
Uncanny January/February 2017 (Paula Guran)
Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) —
Craft, Kinuko Y. • Myth & Magic: An Enchanted Fantasy Coloring Book (Karen Haber)
Craft, Mahlon F., illustrated by Kinuko Craft • Beauty and the Beast (Karen Haber)
Daniels, April • Dreadnought (Liz Bourke)
Doctorow, Cory • Walkaway (Russell Letson)
Donnelly, Lara Elena • Amberlough (Liz Bourke)
Fleskes, John, ed. • Spectrum 23: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art (Karen Haber)
Hand, Elizabeth • Fire (Gary K. Wolfe)
Harrison, Kim • The Turn: The Hollows Begins with Death (Carolyn Cushman)
Hendee, Barb, & J. C. Hendee • The Dead Seekers (Carolyn Cushman)
Hurley, Kameron • The Stars Are Legion (Liz Bourke)
Kiernan, Caitlín R. • Agents of Dreamland (Liz Bourke)
Kirby, Matthew J. • A Taste for Monsters (Colleen Mondor)
Kushner, Ellen • Tremontaine (Liz Bourke)
Kuttner, Henry • The Early Kuttner, Volume Two: The Watcher at the Door (Richard A. Lupoff)
La Farge, Paul • The Night Ocean (Gary K. Wolfe)
Love, Jeffrey Alan • Notes from the Shadowed City (Karen Haber)
McGuire, Seanan • Dusk or Dark or Dawn or Day (Paula Guran)
McGuire, Seanan • Magic for Nothing (Carolyn Cushman)
Miller, Ron • Spaceships: An Illustrated History of the Real and the Imagined (Karen Haber)
Moon, Elizabeth • Cold Welcome (Carolyn Cushman)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia • Certain Dark Things (John Langan)
Oliver, Jonathan, ed. • Five Stories High (Rich Horton)
Parisien, Dominik, & Navah Wolfe, eds. • The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales (Rachel Swirsky)
Perry, Carol J. • Murder Go Round (Carolyn Cushman)
Phifer, Malcolm R., & Michael C. Phifer • The Fantasy Illustration Library: Gods & Goddesses: Volume Two (Karen Haber)
Pinborough, Sarah • They Say a Girl Died Here Once (John Langan)
Reynolds, Alastair • The Iron Tactician (Rich Horton)
Robinson, Kim Stanley • New York 2140 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Runge, Karen • Seven Sins: Stories (John Langan)
Shusterman, Neal • Scythe (Arley Sorg)
Sparks, Cat • Lotus Blue (Gary K. Wolfe)
Spencer, Wen • The Black Wolves of Boston (Carolyn Cushman)
Sterling, Bruce • Pirate Utopia (Karen Haber)
Stross, Charles • Empire Games (Russell Letson)
Tan, Shaun • The Singing Bones (Karen Haber)
Vaughn, Carrie • Martians Abroad (Carolyn Cushman)
Vess, Charles • Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie (Gary K. Wolfe)
Vess, Charles • Walking Through the Landscape of Faerie (Karen Haber)
Womack, Jack • …Flying Saucers Are Real! (Karen Haber)
Zelazny, Roger, & Vaughn Bodé • Here There Be Dragons (Karen Haber)
Zelazny, Roger, & Vaughn Bodé • Way Up High (Karen Haber)
About Locus:
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.
For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see www.lsff.net.
