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The November 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with R.S.A. Garcia and Suzan Palumbo and a spotlight on artist Virginia Lee. News covers the 2024 World Fantasy Awards, Han Kang's Nobel Prize win, Margaret Owen's Endeavour win, the Cixin Liu Museum in Yangquan, the British Fantasy, SFPA, and Ditmar awards winners, and more. International reports look at SF in India and SF in Japan. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "Cory Doctorow: Hard (Sovereignty) Cases Make Bad (Internet) Law". Obituaries remember Fredric Jameson and Zoe Kaplan. Reviews cover new titles by authors Kate Heartfield, John Kessel, Susanna Clarke, R.S.A. Garcia, Sophie Burnham, Stephanie Burgis, Tara Campbell, Kay Chronister, Brian Evenson, Ryan Graudin, Lorraine Wilson, Hannu Rajaniemi, Yael Inokai, Kalynn Bayron, Kelly Murashige, TJ Klune, Sylvie Cathrall, Anna Moschovakis, Lauren C. Teffeau, Solvej Balle, Margaret Killjoy, Sung-il Kim, Charles Stross, Tobi Ogundiran, and editors Hugh Howey & John Joseph Adams, Harlan Ellison & J. Michael Straczynski, Allan Kaster, Chris Campbell, and more.
Table of Contents:
November 2024 • Issue 766 • Vol. 93 • No. 5
58th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview art & design by Francesca Myman.
INTERVIEWS
R.S.A. Garcia: Main Character Energy / 10
Suzan Palumbo: Don’t Look Away / 30
MAIN STORIES / 5 & 6
2024 World Fantasy Awards • Kang Wins Nobel Prize • NBA Finalists • British Fantasy Awards Winners • MacArthur Fellowships • SFPA Awards Winners • Owen Wins Endeavour
THE DATA FILE / 7
Ditmar Awards Winners • Cixin Liu Museum • SFWA News • Robinson Reads at UN Bookshop • Holmwood Wins WSFA Award • De Marcken Wins Le Guin Prize • Final Kitschies Shortlists • Australasian Shadows Awards • Future Worlds Prize Opens • Prix Utopiales Awards • Inaugural Andromeda Award • Scientific American Staff Picks • Shelfies Newsletter • SH@25 • Bookstore News • World Conventions News • Conventions News • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights • Audio Rights • Publications Received
PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Tim Lebbon, Samantha Mills, Tim Pratt, Alexis Hall, Jade Song, Kelley Armstrong, T. Kingfisher, and many others.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Hard (Sovereignty) Cases Make Bad (Internet) Law, 28 • Spotlight on Virginia Lee, 35 • Photo Story: Brooklyn Books and Booze, 57
INTERNATIONAL
SF in India, 32 • SF in Japan, 34
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: September, 37 • Books Received: September, 38 • Bestsellers, 50 • New & Notable, 51
OBITUARIES / 61
Fredric Jameson • Zoe Kaplan
EDITORIAL MATTERS / 62
World Fantasy • End of Year Giving • Social Media • This Issue/Next Issue
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Short Fiction Reviews by CHARLES PAYSEUR / 12
Zooscape 8/24; Flash Fiction Online 8/24; Escape Pod 8/22/24; Cast of Wonders 8/24/24; Strange Horizons 8/19/24, 8/26/24; Fusion Fragment 8/24; Lightspeed 9/24; Small Wonders 9/24; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/5/24, 9/19/24; GigaNotoSaurus 9/24; Diabolical Plots 9/24; Hexagon Fall ’24.
Short Fiction Reviews by PAULA GURAN / 14
Uncanny 9-10/24; Nightmare 10/24; Apex #146; The Dark 8/24, 9/24; The Sunday Morning Transport 7/21/24 – 9/15/24; Reactor 7/24/24 – 9/4/24.
Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. WISE / 15
Augur 7.1; Clarkesworld 9/24; Asimov’s 9-10/24.
Reviews by GARY K. WOLFE / 16
The Tapestry of Time, Kate Heartfield; The Presidential Papers, John Kessel; The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024, Hugh Howey & John Joseph Adams, eds.; The Last Dangerous Visions, Harlan Ellison & J. Michael Straczynski, eds.; SHORT TAKE: The Wood at Midwinter, Susanna Clarke.
Reviews by LIZ BOURKE / 18
The Nightward, R.S.A. Garcia; Sargassa, Sophie Burnham; Wooing the Witch Queen, Stephanie Burgis.
Reviews by IAN MOND / 20
City of Dancing Gargoyles, Tara Campbell; The Bog Wife, Kay Chronister; Good Night, Sleep Tight, Brian Evenson.
Reviews by ALEXANDRA PIERCE / 21
The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time 4, Allan Kaster, ed.; New Year, New You, Chris Campbell, ed.; The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois, Ryan Graudin.
Reviews by NIALL HARRISON / 22
We Are All Ghosts in the Forest, Lorraine Wilson; Darkome, Hannu Rajaniemi; A Simple Intervention, Yael Inokai.
Reviews by COLLEEN MONDOR / 17
Sleep Like Death, Kalynn Bayron; The Lost Souls of Benzaiten, Kelly Murashige; Somewhere Beyond the Sea, TJ Klune; A Letter to the Luminous Deep, Sylvie Cathrall.
Reviews by JAKE CASELLA BROOKINS / 25
An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth, Anna Moschovakis; A Hunger With No Name, Lauren C. Teffeau; On the Calculation of Volume I, Solvej Balle.
Reviews by Divers Hands: ALEX BROWN, SEAN DOWIE, RUSSELL LETSON, ARCHITA MITTRA / 26
The Sapling Cage, Margaret Killjoy; Blood of the Old Kings, Sung-il Kim; A Conventional Boy, Charles Stross; At the Fount of Creation, Tobi Ogundiran.
Magazines reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Zooscape 8/24 (Charles Payseur)
Flash Fiction Online 8/24 (Charles Payseur)
Escape Pod 8/22/24 (Charles Payseur)
Cast of Wonders 8/24/24 (Charles Payseur)
Strange Horizons 8/19/24, 8/26/24 (Charles Payseur)
Fusion Fragment 8/24 (Charles Payseur)
Lightspeed 9/24 (Charles Payseur)
Small Wonders 9/24 (Charles Payseur)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 9/5/24, 9/19/24 (Charles Payseur)
GigaNotoSaurus 9/24 (Charles Payseur)
Diabolical Plots 9/24 (Charles Payseur)
Hexagon Fall ’24 (Charles Payseur)
Uncanny 9-10/24 (Paula Guran)
Nightmare 10/24 (Paula Guran)
Apex #146 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 8/24, 9/24 (Paula Guran)
The Sunday Morning Transport 7/21/24 – 9/15/24 (Paula Guran)
Reactor 7/24/24 – 9/4/24 (Paula Guran)
Augur 7.1 (A.C. Wise)
Clarkesworld 9/24 (A.C. Wise)
Asimov’s 9-10/24 (A.C. Wise)
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Balle, Solvej • On the Calculation of Volume I (Jake Casella Brookins)
Bayron, Kalynn • Sleep Like Death (Colleen Mondor)
Burgis, Stephanie • Wooing the Witch Queen (Liz Bourke)
Burnham, Sophie • Sargassa (Liz Bourke)
Campbell, Chris, ed. • New Year, New You (Alexandra Pierce)
Campbell, Tara • City of Dancing Gargoyles (Ian Mond)
Cathrall, Sylvie • A Letter to the Luminous Deep (Colleen Mondor)
Chronister, Kay • The Bog Wife (Ian Mond)
Clarke, Susanna • The Wood at Midwinter (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ellison, Harlan, & J. Michael Straczynski, eds. • The Last Dangerous Visions (Gary K. Wolfe)
Evenson, Brian • Good Night, Sleep Tight (Ian Mond)
Garcia, R. S. A. • The Nightward (Liz Bourke)
Graudin, Ryan • The Enchanted Lies of Céleste Artois (Alexandra Pierce)
Heartfield, Kate • The Tapestry of Time (Gary K. Wolfe)
Howey, Hugh, & John Joseph Adams, eds. • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Inokai, Yael • A Simple Intervention (Niall Harrison)
Kaster, Allan, ed. • The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time (Alexandra Pierce)
Kessel, John • The Presidential Papers (Gary K. Wolfe)
Killjoy, Margaret • The Sapling Cage (Alex Brown)
Kim, Sung-il • Blood of the Old Kings (Sean Dowie)
Klune, Tj • Somewhere Beyond the Sea (Colleen Mondor)
Moschovakis, Anna • An Earthquake Is a Shaking of the Surface of the Earth (Jake Casella Brookins)
Murashige, Kelly • The Lost Souls of Benzaiten (Colleen Mondor)
Ogundiran, Tobi • At the Fount of Creation (Archita Mittra)
Rajaniemi, Hannu • Darkome (Niall Harrison)
Stross, Charles • A Conventional Boy (Russell Letson)
Teffeau, Lauren C. • A Hunger with No Name (Jake Casella Brookins)
Wilson, Lorraine • We Are All Ghosts in the Forest (Niall Harrison)
