The April 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Tim Pratt and Premee Mohamed and spotlights on artist Odera Igbokwe and the Analog Award for Emerging Black Voices, plus the 2021 US and UK Year in Review book summaries. News includes the 2021 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, SFWA’s name change, a school renamed for Octavia E. Butler, Liz Gorinsky’s departure from Erewhon, Sanderson Kickstarter successes, the BSFA shortlist, a new YA SF imprint from HarperCollins UK, Fireside to close, and much more. Ukraine news features “SF&F Writers and the War” by Borys Sydiuk and a letter from a fan in Moscow courtesy of File 770. Andy Remic, Faren Miller, Shirley Hughes, Melissa Mead, Priscilla Tolkien, and Aiki Flinthart are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Kelly Barnhill, Sam J. Miller, Alix E. Harrow, David Ritter & Daniel Ritter, Olivie Blake, T. Kingfisher, Rob Hart, Scotto Moore, Janelle Monáe (ed.), Rosiee Thor, Emily St. John Mandel, Jennifer Egan, Mónica Ojeda, Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang (eds), Mike Chen, Rebecca Podos, Lara Elena Donnelly, Brian Zepka, Sara A. Mueller, Charles Stross, and others.
 
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Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Barnhill, Kelly • When Women Were Dragons (Gary K. Wolfe)
Blake, Olivie • The Atlas Six (Adrienne Martini)
Chen, Mike • Light Years from Home (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Chen, Yu, & Regina Kanyu Wang, eds. • The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Donnelly, Lara Elena • Base Notes (Colleen Mondor)
Egan, Jennifer • The Candy House (Ian Mond)
Harrow, Alix E. • A Mirror Mended (Gary K. Wolfe)
Hart, Rob • The Paradox Hotel (Adrienne Martini)
Kingfisher, T. • Nettle & Bone (Adrienne Martini)
Mandel, Emily St. John • Sea of Tranquility (Ian Mond)
Miller, Sam J. • Boys, Beasts, & Men (Gary K. Wolfe)
Monáe, Janelle, ed. • The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer (Alex Brown)
Moore, Scotto • Battle of the Linguist Mages (Adrienne Martini)
Mueller, Sara A. • The Bone Orchard (Liz Bourke)
Ojeda, Mónica • Jawbone (Ian Mond)
Oliveira, Isabel, & Jed Sabin, eds. • Xenocultivars: Stories of Queer Growth (Charles Payseur)
Podos, Rebecca • From Dust, A Flame (Colleen Mondor)
Ritter, David, & Daniel Ritter • The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom, Volume Two: 1940 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Stross, Charles • Quantum of Nightmares (Russell Letson)
Thor, Rosiee • Fire Becomes Her (Alex Brown)
Zepka, Brian • The Temperature of You and Me (Colleen Mondor)
 
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