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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 Gündoğdu & 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
SPECIAL FEATURES
Spotlight on Sara Felix, 30
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: February, 31 • Books Received: February, 32 • Bestsellers, 42 • New & Notable, 43
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; Lightspeed2/24; 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; khōréō 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; Song of the Huntress, Lucy Holland.
Reviews by IAN MOND / 22
Power to Yield, Bogi Takács; Table for One, Yun Ko-Eun; Changes in the Land, Matthew Cheney.
Reviews by NIALL HARRISON / 23
Kurdistan + 100, Mustafa Gündoğdu & Orsola Casagrande, eds.
Reviews by COLLEEN MONDOR / 24
The Book of Doors, Gareth Brown; Malicia, Steven Dos Santos; The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat, Camille Gomera-Tavarez.
Reviews by GABINO IGLESIAS / 25
Small Town Horror, Ronald Malfi; Beautyland, Marie-Helene Bertino.
Magazines reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Reckoning Spring ’24 (Charles Payseur)
F&SF 1-2/24 (Charles Payseur)
Strange Horizons 1/29/24, 2/5/24, 2/12/24 (Charles Payseur)
Worlds of Possibility 2/24 (Charles Payseur)
Lightspeed 2/24 (Charles Payseur)
GigaNotoSaurus 2/24 (Charles Payseur)
Diabolical Plots 2/24 (Charles Payseur)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/8/24, 2/22/24 (Charles Payseur)
Analog 1-2/24 (A.C. Wise)
khōréō 3.3 (A.C. Wise)
Clarkesworld 2/24 (A.C. Wise)
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Bertino, Marie-Helene • Beautyland (Gabino Iglesias)
Bond, Charlotte • The Fireborne Blade (Liz Bourke)
Brown, Gareth • The Book of Doors (Colleen Mondor)
Cheney, Matthew • Changes in the Land (Ian Mond)
de Bodard, Aliette • Navigational Entanglements (Liz Bourke)
Dos Santos, Steven • Malicia (Colleen Mondor)
Ellis, Sami • Dead Girls Walking (Alex Brown)
Ellison, Harlan • Greatest Hits (Gary K. Wolfe)
Gomera-Tavarez, Camille • The Girl, the Ring, & the Baseball Bat (Colleen Mondor)
Gündo?du, Mustafa, & Orsola Casagrande, eds. • Kurdistan + 100 (Niall Harrison)
Holland, Lucy • Song of the Huntress (Alexandra Pierce)
Jennings, Kathleen • Kindling (Alexandra Pierce)
Ko-Eun, Yun • Table for One (Ian Mond)
Lee, Yoon Ha • Moonstorm (Alexandra Pierce)
Little Badger, Darcie • Sheine Lende (Alex Brown)
Malfi, Ronald • Small Town Horror (Gabino Iglesias)
Mills, Samantha • The Wings Upon Her Back (Gary K. Wolfe)
Nagata, Linda • Blade (Russell Letson)
Nethercott, GennaRose • Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart (Alexandra Pierce)
Okungbowa, Suyi Davies • Lost Ark Dreaming (Gary K. Wolfe)
Reynolds, Alastair • Machine Vendetta (Russell Letson)
Seolyeon, Park • A Magical Girl Retires (Liz Bourke)
Takács, Bogi • Power to Yield (Ian Mond)
Wyndham, John • Logical Fantasy: The Many Worlds of John Wyndham (Gary K. Wolfe)
