The June 2022 issue of Locus has interviews with Nicola Griffith and V. Castro and a spotlight on The Science Fiction Outreach Project. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2023. Patricia A. McKillip (1948-2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. Other news covers the 2022 Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Awards, Zen Cho's Bradbury Prize win, the Sturgeon Award finalists, Lackey's removal from the Nebula Conference, Sergey Dyachenko (1945-2022), the closure of Fantast Three, and much more. StokerCon 2022 is covered with a report and photos. Reviews include new titles by Samit Basu, Rachel Swirsky, Vandana Singh, Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Max Gladstone, Paul Cornell, E. Catherine Tobler, Premee Mohamed, David Yoon, Isabel Cañas, Ottessa Moshfegh, A.G. Slatter, Shuang Xuetao, Kalynn Bayron, Lizz Huerta, Rachel Swirsky, Joma West, Eugen Bacon, Rio Youers, Rebecca Ross, Marion Deeds, Deborah Falaye, Holly Black, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Robert Jackson Bennett, and co-editors Scott Russell Duncan, Armando Rendón, and Jenny Irizary, among others.
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Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Bacon, Eugen • Mage of Fools (Gabino Iglesias)
Basu, Samit • Chosen Spirits (Gary K. Wolfe)
Basu, Samit • The City Inside (Gary K. Wolfe)
Bayron, Kalynn • This Wicked Fate (Alex Brown)
Bennett, Robert Jackson • Locklands (Tim Pratt)
Black, Holly • Book of Night (Colleen Mondor)
Cañas, Isabel • The Hacienda (Maya C. James)
Cornell, Paul • Rosebud (Adrienne Martini)
Deeds, Marion • Comeuppance Served Cold (Colleen Mondor)
Duncan, Scott Russell, & Armando Rendón, eds. • El Porvenir, ¡Ya!: Citlalzazanilli Mexicatl, a Chicano Sci-fi Anthology (Gabino Iglesias)
Falaye, Deborah • Blood Scion (Colleen Mondor)
Gladstone, Max • Last Exit (Adrienne Martini)
Herta, Lizz • The Lost Dreamer (Alex Brown)
Mohamed, Premee • And What Can We Offer You Tonight (Adrienne Martini)
Moshfegh, Ottessa • Lapvona (Ian Mond)
Ross, Rebecca • A River Enchanted (Colleen Mondor)
Singh, Vandana • Utopias of the Third Kind (Gary K. Wolfe)
Slatter, A. G. • The Path of Thorns (Ian Mond)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Someone in Time: Tales of Time-Crossed Romance (Gary K. Wolfe)
Swirsky, Rachel • January Fifteenth (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Swirsky, Rachel • January Fifteenth (Gary K. Wolfe)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian • Eyes of the Void (Russell Letson)
Tobler, E. Catherine • The Necessity of Stars (Adrienne Martini)
West, Joma • Face (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Xuetao, Shuang • Rouge Street: Three Novellas (Ian Mond)
Yoon, David • City of Orange (Maya C. James)
Youers, Rio • No Second Chances (Gabino Iglesias)
 
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