The March 2022 issue of Locus has interviews with Kelly Barnhill and Maurice Broaddus, a spotlight on artist Terry Lee, and a Year in Review magazine summary tracking the progress of the industry. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through December 2022. News covers the 2022 Dell Awards, the Chesley Awards, a new home for Uncle Hugo’s, the World Fantasy Awards judges announcement, Usman T. Malik’s Crawford win, the ALA Awards, Tom Lin’s Carnegie Medal win, and more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Vertically Challenged”. Obituaries remember Angélica Gorodischer, Tom Dupree, and Harold R. Johnson. Reviews cover new titles by Nicola Griffith, Sarah Tolmie, Peng Shepherd, Saad Z. Hossain, K.J. Parker, Daniel Pinkwater, Laura Pohl, Dhonielle Clayton, Tara Goedjen, Zoraida Córdova (ed), Alechia Dow, Sheree Renée Thomas & Pan Morigan & Troy L. Wiggins (eds.), Lucius Shepard, C.S.E. Cooney, Grégoire Courtois, Zin E. Rocklyn, Edward Ashton, Richard Thomas, Christopher Golden, Cassandra Rose Clarke, Sara A. Mueller, Brett Riley, Sarah Tolmie, Kelly Braffet, Stephen Baxter, and others. Vote now in the Locus Poll and Survey at poll.voting.locusmag.com. <>
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—

Ashton, Edward • Micky7 (Gabino Iglesias)
Baxter, Stephen • Galaxias (Russell Letson)
Braffet, Kelly • The Broken Tower (Maya C. James)
Clarke, Cassandra Rose • The Beholden (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Clayton, Dhonielle • Shattered Midnight (Colleen Mondor)
Cooney, C. S. E. • Dark Breakers (Ian Mond)
Córdova, Zoraida, ed. • Reclaim the Stars (Alex Brown)
Courtois, Grégoire • The Agents (Ian Mond)
Dow, Alechia • The Kindred (Alex Brown)
Goedjen, Tara • No Beauties or Monsters (Colleen Mondor)
Golden, Christopher • Road of Bones (Gabino Iglesias)
Griffith, Nicola • Spear (Gary K. Wolfe)
Hossain, Saad Z. • Kundo Wakes Up (Gary K. Wolfe)
Mueller, Sara A. • The Bone Orchard (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Parker, K. J. • The Long Game (Gary K. Wolfe)
Pinkwater, Daniel • Crazy in Poughkeepsie (Gary K. Wolfe)
Pohl, Laura • The Grimrose Girls (Colleen Mondor)
Riley, Brett • Freaks (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Rocklyn, Zin E. • Flowers for the Sun (Gabino Iglesias)
Shepard, Lucius • The Best of Lucius Shepard, Vol. 2 (Ian Mond)
Shepherd, Peng • The Cartographers (Gary K. Wolfe)
Thomas, Richard • Spontaneous Human Combustion (Gabino Iglesias)
Thomas, Sheree Renée, & Pan Morigan, eds. • Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue (Alex Brown)
Tolmie, Sarah • All the Horses of Iceland (Gary K. Wolfe)
Tolmie, Sarah • All the Horses of Iceland (Paula Guran)
 
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