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Paul Di Filippo Reviews Two Vancian Novels by Wm. Michael Mott locusmag.com/2024/07...

Paul Di Filippo Reviews Two Vancian Novels by Wm. Michael Mottlocusmag.com Pulsifer: a Fable, Wm. Michael Mott (Splatterlight Press 978-1619474918, trade paperback, 306pp, $16.95) Jan 2024 Land of Ice, a Velvet Knife, Wm. Michael Mott (Splatterlight Press 978-1619474932, …

New Books This Week Video Is Up! 7/2/24 locusmag.com/2024/07...

New Books This Week Video Is Up! 7/2/24locusmag.com Hang out with us for a few and find out about the books that are hitting shelves this week!

A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction: Analog, khōréō, and Clarkesworld locusmag.com/2024/07...

A.C. Wise Reviews Short Fiction: Analog, khōréō, and Clarkesworldlocusmag.com Analog 3-4/24 khōréō 3.4 Clarkesworld 4/24 The March/April 2024 issue of Analog opens with “Enough” by William Ledbetter, wherein a graffiti artist encounters tech designed to resist tagging and r…

Paul Di Filippo Reviews Ghost of the Neon God by T.R. Napper locusmag.com/2024/07...

Paul Di Filippo Reviews Ghost of the Neon God by T.R. Napperlocusmag.com Ghost of the Neon God, T. R. Napper (Titan 978-1803368115, hardcover, 128pp, $17.99) June 2024 This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the publication of William Gibson’s Neuromancer, and, argu…

First Hugo Trophy Auctioned locusmag.com/2024/07...

First Hugo Trophy Auctionedlocusmag.com The first Hugo Award trophy, presented to Forrest J Ackerman by Isaac Asimov at the 1953 Worldcon, was put up for sale by Hindman Auctions in May 2024. The Worldcon Heritage Organization won the au…

Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Three: 1941 by David Ritter, Daniel Ritter, Sam McDonald, & John L. Coker III locusmag.com/2024/07...

Gary K. Wolfe Reviews The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Three: 1941 by David Ritter, Daniel Ritter, Sam McDonald, & John L. Coker IIIlocusmag.com The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Three: 1941, David Ritter, Daniel Ritter, Sam McDonald, & John L. Coker III (First Fandom Experience 978-1-73665-965-6, $149.00, 504pp, hc)…

Photo Story: Brooklyn Books & Booze locusmag.com/2024/07...

Photo Story: Brooklyn Books & Boozelocusmag.com The third anniversary Brooklyn Books & Booze reading series event was held May 21, 2024 at Barrow’s Intense Tasting Room, Industry City, Brooklyn NY. The readers were Nicholas Kaufmann, M.M. De…

Davies Wins Wales Book of the Year Award locusmag.com/2024/07...

Davies Wins Wales Book of the Year Awardlocusmag.com Literature Wales has announced the English-language winners of the 2024 Wales Book of the Year Awards. Of genre interest, Skrimsli by Nicola Davies (Firefly) won the Bute Energy Children & Youn…

Liz Bourke Reviews Foul Days by Genoveva Dimova locusmag.com/2024/07...

Liz Bourke Reviews Foul Days by Genoveva Dimovalocusmag.com Foul Days, Genoveva Dimova (Tor 978-1-250-87731-4, $17.99, 368pp, tp) June 2024. Cover by Rovina Cai. Foul Days is Scotland-based Genoveva Dimova’s debut novel. It mixes folklore and modernity, set…

Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Escape Pod, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Strange Horizons locusmag.com/2024/07...

Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Escape Pod, Three-Lobed Burning Eye, and Strange Horizonslocusmag.com Escape Pod 3/21/24, 3/28/24 Three-Lobed Burning Eye 3/24 Strange Horizons 3/18/24, 3/25/24, 4/1/24, 4/8/24 March’s Escape Pod features a unique post-catastrophe world in Pragathi Bala’s “Summitting…

RWA Files for Bankruptcy locusmag.com/2024/07...

RWA Files for Bankruptcylocusmag.com Romance Writers of America filed for bankruptcy in May 2024 in the Southern District of Texas. The RWA was unable to pay the hotel contracts for their annual conferences after membership plummeted …

Magazines Received – June locusmag.com/2024/07...

Magazines Received – Junelocusmag.com This list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on those that publish fiction or reviews and criticism.…

2024 Eugie Award Finalists locusmag.com/2024/07...

2024 Eugie Award Finalistslocusmag.com The finalists for the 2024 Eugie Foster Memorial Award for Short Fiction for “stories that are irreplaceable, that inspire, enlighten, and entertain” have been announced: “Tantie Merle …

Paula Guran Reviews Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle edited by George R.R. Martin & Melinda M. Snodgrass locusmag.com/2024/07...

Paula Guran Reviews Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle edited by George R.R. Martin & Melinda M. Snodgrasslocusmag.com Wild Cards: Sleeper Straddle, George R.R. Martin & Melinda M. Snodgrass, eds. (Bantam 978-0-59335-783-5, 402pp, $28.00, hc) February 2024. The Wild Cards universe is a fertile playground for …

Spotlight on: Wang Jinkang locusmag.com/2024/07...

Spotlight on: Wang Jinkanglocusmag.com WANG JINKANG (1948—), a Chinese science fiction writer, senior engineer, and multiple Yinhe Award winner. He spent several years in a countryside commune, before being sent to work in an iron found…

Locus Magazine is looking for a Bay Area local in-person volunteer to give us a hand a couple days a week with book wrangling & administrative work. If interested, please fill out a volunteer form! Interest in science fiction and fantasy books is a plus! locusmag.com/aboutlo...

2024 TikTok Book Awards Shortlist locusmag.com/2024/07...

2024 TikTok Book Awards Shortlistlocusmag.com TikTok has announced the shortlist for its second annual Book Awards for the UK and Ireland. Shortlisted titles and authors of genre interest are below. Several categories have changed since last y…

Niall Harrison Reviews Elephants in Bloom by Cécile Cristofari locusmag.com/2024/07...

Niall Harrison Reviews Elephants in Bloom by Cécile Cristofarilocusmag.com Elephants in Bloom, Cécile Cristofari (NewCon Press 978-1-91495-367-5, 240pp, £26.99, hc) January 2024. Cover by Enrique Meseguer. Cécile Cristofari’s debut collection Elephants in Bloom is, as d…

Weekly Bestsellers, 1 July 2024 locusmag.com/2024/07...

Cory Doctorow: Reckoning locusmag.com/2024/07...

Cory Doctorow: Reckoninglocusmag.com CORY EFRAM DOCTOROW was born July 17, 1971 in Toronto, Canada. He attended alternative schools and worked at SF specialty store Bakka Books, but dropped out of high school at 17 and briefly moved t…

Robert Irwin (1946-2024) locusmag.com/2024/07...

Robert Irwin (1946-2024)locusmag.com Author, editor, and scholar Robert Irwin, 77, died June 28, 2024 in London. Irwin is the author of several books of genre interest, most notably his debut novel The Arabian Nightmare (1983). Robert…

Adrienne Martini Reviews The Hermit Next Door by Kevin Hearne locusmag.com/2024/07...

Adrienne Martini Reviews The Hermit Next Door by Kevin Hearnelocusmag.com The Hermit Next Door, Kevin Hearne (Subterranean Press 978-1-64524-195-9, $40.00, 96pp, hc) June 2024. Cover by Dominic Harmon. The Hermit Next Door, a novella by Kevin Hearne, is a lighthearted r…

Colleen Mondor Reviews The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee by Ellen Oh locusmag.com/2024/07...

Colleen Mondor Reviews The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee by Ellen Ohlocusmag.com The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee, Ellen Oh (Crown 978-0-593-12594-6, $19.99, hc, 295pp) January 2024. Cover by Audrey Mok. In Ellen Oh’s The Colliding Worlds of Mina Lee, the title character has a …

Issue 762 Table of Contents, July 2024 locusmag.com/2024/07...

Issue 762 Table of Contents, July 2024locusmag.com The July 2024 issue of Locus has interviews with Cory Doctorow and Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ. News covers the 2024 Locus Awards winners and Locus Poll writeup, as well as the 2023 Nebula Awards, Bram Sto…

Liz Bourke Reviews Lady Eve’s Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow locusmag.com/2024/06...

Liz Bourke Reviews Lady Eve’s Last Con by Rebecca Fraimowlocusmag.com Lady Eve’s Last Con, Rebecca Fraimow (Solaris 978-1-83786-159-0, $16.99, 368pp, tp.) June 2024. Lady Eve’s Last Con is Rebecca Fraimow’s debut novel, and what an interesting debut it is. Set in a f…

Read @hawkwing_lb’s review of @ryfkah (@rebeccafraimow.bsky.social)’s LADY EVE’S LAST CON: “This is an immensely enjoyable romp. I have a feeling I’ll be recommending it quite a bit over the next while.” locusmag.com/2024/06...@rebeccafraimow.bsky.social)’s LADY EVE’S LAST CON: “This is an immensely enjoyable romp. I have a feeling I’ll be recommending it quite a bit over the next while.” locusmag.com/2024/06...

Check out @martinimade’s review of THE CAUTIOUS TRAVELLER’S GUIDE TO THE WASTELANDS by Sarah Brooks, a novel that “makes a great extended metaphor for life itself.” locusmag.com/2024/06...

Adrienne Martini Reviews The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brookslocusmag.com The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands, Sarah Brooks (Flatiron Books 978-1-250-87861-8, $28.99, 336pp, hc) July 2024. Trains make great narrative devices. You can get all of your charact…

“While it’s a tragedy that Shibusawa died at the peak of his powers, I can only hope that interest in this wonderfully strange novel will lead to translations of his other novel-length works.” @Mondyboy reviews TAKAOKA’S TRAVELS by Tatsuhiko Shibusawa locusmag.com/2024/06...

Ian Mond Reviews Takaoka’s Travels by Tatsuhiko Shibusawalocusmag.com Takaoka’s Travels, Tatsuhiko Shibusawa (Stone Bridge/Monkey 979-8-98868-870-9, $18.95, 178pp, tp) May 2024. In 865, at the age of 65, Imperial Japanese Prince Takaoka, the third son of Emperor Heiz…

Colleen Mondor Reviews The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bond locusmag.com/2024/06...

Colleen Mondor Reviews The Frame-Up by Gwenda Bondlocusmag.com The Frame-Up, Gwenda Bond (Del Rey 978-0-593-59773-6, $10.00, tp, 325pp) February 2024. Author Gwenda Bond hit the NY Times bestseller list for the Stranger Things tie-in Suspicious Minds and prio…

Adrienne Martini Reviews The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks locusmag.com/2024/06...