The February 2022 issue of Locus is the annual Year in Review overview with essays and the Locus 2021 Recommended Reading List. The issue also features an interview with Marlon James and spotlights on artist Marcela Bolívar and writing workshop Aspen Words. Worldcon 79, DisCon III in Washington DC, is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report. Dave Wolverton (1958-2022) and Willie Siros (1952-2022) are remembered with obituaries and appreciations. News includes the PKD Award nominees, the arrest of manuscript thief Filippo Bernardini, DisCon III and World Fantasy news, and more. Additional obituaries remember Ron Goulart, John Jos. Miller, J. Brian Clark, Sally Gwylan, Jane E. Hawkins, Elizabeth Miller, Bill Wright, Chuck Verrill, and Athos Eichler Cardoso. Reviews cover new titles by Emily St. John Mandel, Richard Butner, Charlie Jane Anders, Kate Elliott, T. Kingfisher, Ken MacLeod, Charles Stross, Anthony Doerr, Lina Rather, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Premee Mohamed, Femi Fadugba, Wab Kinew, Samantha Cohoe, Adam Roberts, Kim Fu, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Sue Lynn Tan, Gwynne Garfinkle, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, and others.
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Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Anders, Charlie Jane • Dreams Bigger than Heartbreak (Gary K. Wolfe)
Butner, Richard • The Adventurists (Gary K. Wolfe)
Cohoe, Samantha • Bright Ruined Things (Colleen Mondor)
Cooney, C. S. E. • Dark Breakers (Rich Horton)
Doerr, Anthony • Cloud Cuckoo Land (Adrienne Martini)
Elliott, Kate • Servant Mage (Liz Bourke)
Fadugba, Femi • The Upper World (Colleen Mondor)
Fu, Kim • Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century (Ian Mond)
Garfinkle, Gwynne • Can’t Find My Way Home (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Kinew, Wab • Walking in Two Worlds (Colleen Mondor)
Kingfisher, T. • Nettle & Bone (Liz Bourke)
MacLeod, Ken • Beyond the Hallowed Sky (Russell Letson)
Mandel, Emily St. John • Sea of Tranquility (Gary K. Wolfe)
Mohamed, Premee • The Annual Migration of Clouds (Adrienne Martini)
Øyehaug, Gunnhild • Present Tense Machine (Ian Mond)
Rather, Lina • Sisters of the Forsaken Stars (Adrienne Martini)
Roberts, Adam • The This (Ian Mond)
Stross, Charles • Escape from Yokai Land (Russell Letson)
Tan, Sue Lynn • Daughter of the Moon Goddess (Maya C. James)
Tanizaki, Jun’ichirō • Longing and Other Stories (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian • Ogres (Adrienne Martini)
 
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