The May 2022 issue of Locus has interviews with Adrian Tchaikovsky and Dhonielle Clayton and a spotlight on artist Alyssa Winans. News includes the 2022 Hugo Awards ballot, Kali Wallace’s Philip K. Dick Award win, the BSFA and Baen Memorial Award winners, SFWA’s statement of support for Ukraine, Prometheus Award finalists, the founding of the Emeka Walter Dinjos Memorial Award, and more. Photo reports cover the 2022 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Writers and Illustrators of the Future, Norwescon 44, and the Williamson Lectureship. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Six Weeks Is a Long Time”. Obituaries remember Robert C. Cornett, Bill Johnson, Valerio Evangelisti, Joël Houssin, Carlos Emílio C. Lima, and Lygia Fagundes Telles. Reviews cover new titles by Nghi Vo, Guy Gavriel Kay, John Kessel, Christopher Rowe, Tim Pratt, Katherine Addison, John M. Ford, James S.A. Corey, Patrick McCabe, Vauhini Vara, John Elizabeth Stintzi, NoViolet Bulawayo, Marcial Gala, Helene Bukowski, Benjamin Percy, Alma Katsu, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Jo Harkin, Ren Hutchings, Rebecca Roanhorse, Vanessa Len, Lisa Stringfellow, and others. <>
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Addison, Katherine • The Grief of Stones (Liz Bourke)
Bukowski, Helene • Milk Teeth (Gabino Iglesias)
Bulawayo, NoViolet • Glory (Maya C. James)
Corey, James S. A. • Memory’s Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection (Russell Letson)
Ford, John M. • Aspects (Russell Letson)
Gala, Marcial • Call Me Cassandra (Maya C. James)
Harkin, Jo • Tell Me an Ending (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Hutchings, Ren • Under Fortunate Stars (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Johnson, Jeremy Robert • All the Wrong Ideas (Gabino Iglesias)
Katsu, Alma • The Fervor (Gabino Iglesias)
Kay, Guy Gavriel • All the Seas of the World (Gary K. Wolfe)
Kessel, John • The Dark Ride: The Best Short Fiction of John Kessel (Gary K. Wolfe)
Len, Vanessa • Only a Monster (Colleen Mondor)
McCabe, Patrick • Poguemahone (Ian Mond)
Percy, Benjamin • The Unfamiliar Garden (Gabino Iglesias)
Pratt, Tim • Prison of Sleep (Liz Bourke)
Roanhorse, Rebecca • Fevered Star (Alex Brown)
Rowe, Christopher • These Prisoning Hills (Gary K. Wolfe)
Stintzi, John Elizabeth • My Volcano (Ian Mond)
Stringfellow, Lisa • A Comb of Wishes (Colleen Mondor)
Vara, Vauhini • The Immortal King Rao (Ian Mond)
Vo, Nghi • Siren Queen (Gary K. Wolfe)
 
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