April 2021 • Issue 723 • Vol. 86 • No. 4
54th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS
Ursula Vernon: Shiny New Idea / 10
Isabel Yap: Full Circle / 28

MAIN STORIES / 5
2020 Nebula Awards Ballot • Nghi Vo Wins Crawford • British Fantasy Awards Winners • Philip K. Dick Award Judges • Weisskopf Removed as DisCon III GoH • Cherryh Wins 2021 Heinlein Award • Dell Award Winner • Stoker Awards Final Ballot

THE DATA FILE / 7
Carnegie and Greenaway Medal Shortlists • Ray Bradbury Prize Finalists • Analog Anlab Award Finalists • Asimov's Readers' Award Finalists • Lambda Awards Finalists • Octavia E. Butler News • BSFA Shortlist • Audie Awards Finalists • Black Creatives Fund • SFWA News • World Conventions News • Publishing News • Workshop News • Contest News • Announcements • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights

PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about John Varley, Susanna Clarke, Stephen King & Richard Chizmar, Charles Stross, N.K. Jemisin, and many others

SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary by Kameron Hurley: Plotting the Way Forward / 27 SF in India / 32

YEAR IN REVIEW
2020 British Book Summary / 30

LISTINGS
Magazines Received: February / 34 Books Received: February / 36 British Books Received: January / 46 Bestsellers / 48

OBITUARIES / 57
Norton Juster • Dean Morrissey • Michael G. Adkisson

LOCUS LETTERS / 57

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 58
There's a Light • Locus Awards Voting Deadline • This Issue/Next Issue

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS

Short Fiction Reviews by Rich Horton / 12
Curiosities Winter '20; Cossmass Infinities 9/20; On Spec #115; Analog 3-4/21; Asimov's 3-4/21.

Short Fiction Reviews by Paula Guran / 13
Uncanny 1-2/21; Apex #122; The Dark 1/21, 2/21; Nightmare 1/21, 2/21; Fantasy 2/21, 3/21; Baffling 1/21.

Short Fiction Reviews by Karen Burnham / 14
Clarkesworld 2/21; Lightspeed 2/21; Fiyah Winter 21; Tor.com 1/27, 2/3, 2/10, 2/24/21; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/28/21, 2/11/21; Strange Horizons 2/8, 2/15/21; Aurealis #137; Fantasy Magazine 2/21.

Reviews by Liz Bourke / 15
The Alien Stars and Other Novellas, Tim Pratt; Hold Fast Through the Fire, K.B. Wagers.

Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 16
The Best of World SF: Volume 1, Lavie Tidhar, ed.; Alias Space and Other Stories, Kelly Robson; I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories, Kim Bo-Young; On Fragile Waves, E. Lily Yu; Chaos on Catnet, Naomi Kritzer.

Reviews by Adrienne Martini / 18
What Abigail Did That Summer, Ben Aaronovitch; The Only Living Girl on Earth, Charles Yu; Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir; The Galaxy, and the Ground Within, Becky Chambers; A Psalm for the Wild-Built, Becky Chambers.

Reviews by Katharine Coldiron / 19
Unity, Elly Bangs; These Lifeless Things, Premee Mohamed; Skyward Inn, Aliya Whiteley.

Reviews by Ian Mond / 20
Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer; Peaces, Helen Oyeyemi; The White Library, Paul Voermans; Rabbit Island, Elvira Navarro.

Reviews by Colleen Mondor / 22
Written in Starlight, Isabel Ibañez; Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found, Rucker Moses & Theo Gangi; Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses, Kristen O'Neal.

Reviews by Divers Hands: Alex Brown, Paula Guran, Rich Horton, Gabino Iglesias, Maya C. James, Russell Letson, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro / 23
Written in Starlight, Isabel Ibañez; The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales, Angela Slatter; Driftwood, Marie Bren­nan; Ink, Jonathan Maberry; Disease, Sarah Tolmie; The Unbroken, C.L. Clark; A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine; Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder: A Critical Study of the Writings, Joe Sanders.

Audiobook Reviews by Amy Goldschlager / 26
The Mask of Mirrors, M.A. Carrick; The Witch in the Almond Tree and other stories, C.S.E. Cooney; The Map of Tiny Precious Things, Lev Grossman; The Tower of Fools, Andrzej Sapkowski; In the Empty Quarter, G. Willow Wilson.

Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 12, 17, 21, 23

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Analog 3-4/21 (Rich Horton)
Apex #122 (Paula Guran)
Asimov's 3-4/21 (Rich Horton)
Aurealis #137 (Karen Burnham)
Baffling 1/21 (Paula Guran)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/28/21 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/11/21 (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld 2/21 (Karen Burnham)
Cossmass Infinities 9/20 (Rich Horton)
Curiosities Winter '20 (Rich Horton)
The Dark 1/21 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 2/21 (Paula Guran)
Fantasy 2/21 (Paula Guran)
Fantasy 2/21 (Karen Burnham)
Fantasy 3/21 (Paula Guran)
Fiyah Winter '21 (Karen Burnham)
Lightspeed 2/21 (Karen Burnham)
Nightmare 1/21 (Paula Guran)
Nightmare 2/21 (Paula Guran)
On Spec #115 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons 2/8/21 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 2/15/21 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 1/27/21 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 2/3/21 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 2/10/21 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 2/24/21 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 1-2/21 (Paula Guran)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Aaronovitch, Ben • What Abigail Did That Summer (Adrienne Martini)
Bangs, Elly • Unity (Katharine Coldiron)
Bo-Young, Kim • I'm Waiting for You and Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Brennan, Marie • Driftwood (Rich Horton)
Chambers, Becky • A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Adrienne Martini)
Chambers, Becky • The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Adrienne Martini)
Clark, C. L. • The Unbroken (Maya C. James)
Ibañez, Isabel • Written in Starlight (Alex Brown)
Ibañez, Isabel • Written in Starlight (Colleen Mondor)
Kritzer, Naomi • Chaos on CatNet (Gary K. Wolfe)
Maberry, Jonathan • Ink (Gabino Iglesias)
Martine, Arkady • A Desolation Called Peace (Russell Letson)
Mohamad, Premee • These Lifeless Things (Katharine Coldiron)
Moses, Rucker, & Theo Gangi • Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found (Colleen Mondor)
Navarro, Elvira • Rabbit Island (Ian Mond)
O'Neal, Kristen • Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses (Colleen Mondor)
Oyeyemi, Helen • Peaces (Ian Mond)
Pratt, Tim • The Alien Stars and Other Novellas (Liz Bourke)
Robson, Kelly • Alias Space and Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Sanders, Joe • Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder: A Critical Study of the Writings (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Slatter, Angela • The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales (Paula Guran)
Tidhar, Lavie, ed. • The Best of World SF: Volume 1 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Tolmie, Sarah • Disease (Gabino Iglesias)
VanderMeer, Jeff • Hummingbird Salamander (Ian Mond)
Voermans, Paul • The White Library (Ian Mond)
Wagers, K. B. • Hold Fast through the Fire (Liz Bourke)
Weir, Andy • Project Hail Mary (Adrienne Martini)
Whiteley, Aliya • Skyward Inn (Katharine Coldiron)
Yu, Charles • The Only Living Girl on Earth (Adrienne Martini)
Yu, E. Lily • On Fragile Waves (Gary K. Wolfe)