July 2023 • Issue 750 • Vol. 91 • No. 1 
56th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner 
Cover and interview design by Stephen H. Segal 

INTERVIEWS
Ann Leckie: Gods, Words & Models / 10 
Kemi Ashing-Giwa: Assassins & Megafauna / 28 

MAINSTORIES / 5 & 6 
2023 Locus Awards Winners • Bram Stoker Awards ® • Clarke Award Shortlist • Aurealis Awards Winners • Sturgeon Award Finalists • AI Writing News

THE DATA FILE / 7 
Asimov’s Readers’ Award Winners • Analog AnLab Winners • Sir Julius Vogel Awards Winners • Ignyte Awards Finalists • Lambda Awards Winners • ESFS Awards Winners • Clarion West Write- a-Thon • HWA News • Dark Matter to Close • SFWA News • Publishing News • Announcements • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights • Audio Rights

PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8 
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Catriona Ward, Dhonielle Clayton, Carrie Vaughn, Michael Wehunt, Peter S. Beagle, and many others

SPECIAL FEATURES 
Locus Poll 2023, 5 • Commentary by Cory Doctorow: SF Doesn‘t Predict, It Contests, 27

INTERNATIONAL / 30 
SF in India

CONVENTION / 38 
WisCon 46

LISTINGS 
Magazines Received: May, 39 • Books Received: May, 40 • Bestsellers, 50 • New & Notable, 51 

OBITUARIES / 61 
Cormac McCarthy • Nick Wood • Appreciation by Tade Thompson • Rajnar Vajra • Frances Collin • DEATH NOTED: Phillip Mann 

EDITORIAL MATTERS / 62 
The Locus Awards • This Issue/Next Issue

LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS 

Short Fiction Reviews by CHARLES PAYSEUR / 12 
Drabblecast 3-4/23; Zooscape 4/23; Worlds of Possibility 4/23; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/20/23, 5/4/23, 5/18/23; Strange Horizons 4/17/23, 4/24/23, 5/1/23, 5/8/23, 5/15/23; Fantasy 5/23; Diabolical Plots 4/23; GigaNotoSaurus 4/23; Flash Fiction Online 4/23; Lightspeed 5/23.

Short Fiction Reviews by SEAN DOWIE / 14 
Asimov’s 3-4/23; Analog 3-4/23; Clarkesworld 3/23; Lightspeed 3/23; Translunar Travelers Lounge 2/23.

Reviews by ALEX BROWN / 15 
Abeni’s Song, P. Djèlí Clark; Many Worlds, or the Simulacra, Cadwell Turnbull & Josh Eure, eds.; You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight, Kalynn Bayron.

Reviews by GARY K. WOLFE / 16 
The Road to Roswell, Connie Willis; The Book of Witches, Jonathan Strahan, ed.; The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar, Indra Das; Red Team Blues, Cory Doctorow; The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories, Gene Wolfe.

Reviews by RUSSELL LETSON / 18 
The Best of Michael Swanwick: Volume Two, Michael Swanwick.

Reviews by IAN MOND / 19 
Bang Bang Bodhisattva, Aubrey Wood ; The Fortunate Isles, Lisa L. Hannett; Hit Parade of Tears, Izumi Suzuki.

Reviews by ALEXANDRA PIERCE / 20 
Psyche and Eros, Luna McNamara; Emergent Properties, Aimee Ogden; Atalanta, Jennifer Saint; Ink Blood Sister Scribe, Emma Törzs.

Reviews by CAREN GUSSOFF SUMPTION / 22 
The Night Flowers, Sara Herchenroether; The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw.

Reviews by GABINO IGLESIAS / 23 
The Salt Grows Heavy, Cassandra Khaw; Bad Cree, Jessica Johns; Where Darkness Blooms, Andrea Hannah; Black Tide, KC Jones.

Reviews by COLLEEN MONDOR / 24 
Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves, Quinn Connor; The Shadow Sister, Lily Meade; The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill, Rowenna Miller.

Reviews by Divers Hands: SEAN DOWIE, ARCHITA MITTRA, WOLE TALABI / 25 
No Edges: Swahili Stories, Sarah Coolidge, ed.; The Moon Represents My Heart, Pim Wangtechawat; More Perfect, Temi Oh.

Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 13, 17, 18, 26 

Magazines reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—

Drabblecast 3-4/23 (Charles Payseur)
Zooscape 4/23 (Charles Payseur)
Worlds of Possibility 4/23 (Charles Payseur)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/20/23, 5/4/23, 5/18/23 (Charles Payseur)
Strange Horizons 4/17/23, 4/24/23, 5/1/23, 5/8/23, 5/15/23 (Charles Payseur)
Fantasy 5/23 (Charles Payseur)
Diabolical Plots 4/23 (Charles Payseur)
GigaNotoSaurus 4/23 (Charles Payseur)
Flash Fiction Online 4/23 (Charles Payseur)
Lightspeed 5/23 (Charles Payseur)
Asimov’s 3-4/23 (Sean Dowie)
Analog 3-4/23 (Sean Dowie)
Clarkesworld 3/23 (Sean Dowie)
Lightspeed 3/23 (Sean Dowie)
Translunar Travelers Lounge 2/23 (Sean Dowie)

Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—

Bayron, Kalynn • You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight (Alex Brown)
Clark, P. Djèlí • Abeni's Song (Alex Brown)
Connor, Quinn • Cicadas Sing of Summer Graves (Colleen Mondor)
Coolidge, Sarah, ed. • No Edges: Swahili Stories (Sean Dowie)
Das, Indra • The Last Dragoners of Bowbazar (Gary K. Wolfe)
Doctorow, Cory • Red Team Blues (Gary K. Wolfe)
Hannah, Andrea • Where Darkness Blooms (Gabino Iglesias)
Hannett, Lisa L. • The Fortunate Isles (Ian Mond)
Herchenroether, Sara • The Night Flowers (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Johns, Jessica • Bad Cree (Gabino Iglesias)
Jones, KC • Black Tide (Gabino Iglesias)
Khaw, Cassandra • The Salt Grows Heavy (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Khaw, Cassandra • The Salt Grows Heavy (Gabino Iglesias)
McNamara, Luna • Psyhe and Eros (Alexandra Pierce)
Meade, Lily • The Shadow Sister (Colleen Mondor)
Miller, Rowenna • The Fairy Bargains of Prospect Hill (Colleen Mondor)
Ogden, Aimee • Emergent Properties (Alexandra Pierce)
Oh, Temi • More Perfect (Wole Talabi)
Saint, Jennifer • Atalanta (Alexandra Pierce)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • The Book of Witches (Gary K. Wolfe)
Suzuki, Izumi • Hit Parade of Tears (Ian Mond)
Swanwick, Michael • The Best of Michael Swanwick, Volume Two (Russell Letson)
Törzs, Emma • Ink Blood Sister Scribe (Alexandra Pierce)
Turnbull, Cadwell, & Josh Eure, eds. • Many Worlds, or the Simulacra (Alex Brown)
Wangtechawat, Pim • The Moon Represents My Heart (Archita Mittra)
Willis, Connie • The Road to Roswell (Gary K. Wolfe)
Wolfe, Gene • The Dead Man and Other Horror Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Wood, Aubrey • Bang Bang Bodhisattva (Ian Mond)