Locus Magazine, Issue 648, January 2015

Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.

Issue # 648, January, 2015, has interviews with Lauren Beukes and Robert Jackson Bennett, a column by Cory Doctorow, spotlights on David Pomerico and Randy & Jean-Marc Lofficier, reports from Cheryl Morgan and Tobias S. Buckell, and reviews of short fiction and books by James Morrow, John Twelve Hawks, Elizabeth Bear, Ramsey Campbell, David Mitchell, and others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —
Asimov’s December 2014 (Gardner Dozois)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies October 2014 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld November 2014 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld December 2014 (Rich Horton)
F&SF November/December 2014 (Gardner Dozois)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet December 2014 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed November 2014 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed December 2014 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons November 2014 (Rich Horton)
The Dissident Blog May 2014 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com September 2014 (Rich Horton)
Uncanny November/December 2014 (Rich Horton)

Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) —
Andrews, Ilona • Burn for Me (Carolyn Cushman)
Asher, Neal • Dark Intelligence (Russell Letson)
Bear, Elizabeth • Karen Memory (Russell Letson)
Boorman, Kate A. • Winterkill (Faren Miller)
Bova, Ben, & Eric Choi, eds. • Carbide Tipped Pens (Rich Horton)
Burns, Jim • Hyperluminal: The Art of Jim Burns (Karen Haber)
Campbell, Hayley • The Art of Neil Gaiman (Karen Haber)
Campbell, Ramsey • Think Yourself Lucky (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Donohue, Keith • The Boy Who Drew Monsters (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Ellison, Harlan • The Top of the Volcano: The Award-Winning Stories of Harlan Ellison (Gary K. Wolfe)
Frommer, Jeremy, & Rick Schwartz, eds. • The Mind’s Eye: The Art of Omni (Karen Haber)
Froud, Brian, & Wendy Froud • Brian Froud’s Fairies’ Tales (Karen Haber)
Gaiman, Neil, & P. Craig Russell • The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume 1 (Karen Haber)
Gambino, Fred • Dark Shepherd: The Art of Fred Gambino (Karen Haber)
Hurley, Andrew Michael • The Loney (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Johnson, Alaya Dawn • Love Is the Drug (Faren Miller)
Lackey, Mercedes • Closer to Home (Carolyn Cushman)
Lackey, Mercedes, & James Mallory • The House of the Four Winds (Carolyn Cushman)
Lukyanenko, Sergei • The Genome (Faren Miller)
Lupoff, Richard A. • Man in a Hurry and Other Fantasy Stories (Richard A. Lupoff)
Mitchell, David • The Bone Clocks (Rich Horton)
Morrow, James • Galapágos Regained (Gary K. Wolfe)
Nix, Garth • Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen (Carolyn Cushman)
Perry, Carol J. • Caught Dead Handed (Carolyn Cushman)
Powers, Tim • Nobody’s Home (Gary K. Wolfe)
Prineas, Sarah • The Magic Thief: Home (Carolyn Cushman)
Shinn, Sharon • The Turning Season (Carolyn Cushman)
Stroud, Jonathan • Lockwood & Co. : The Whispering Skull (Carolyn Cushman)
Twelve Hawks, John • Spark (Faren Miller)
Vaughn, Carrie • Low Midnight (Carolyn Cushman)
Walton, Jo • The Just City (Gary K. Wolfe)
Weist, Jerry • Frank R. Paul: The Dead of Science Fiction Illustration (Karen Haber)
Whates, Ian, ed. • Paradox (Gardner Dozois)
Whates, Ian, ed. • Solaris Rising 3: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois)

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