The August 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Suzanne Palmer and L. Penelope. News covers the World Fantasy Awards ballot, an obituary and appreciations for Eric Flint, the sale of DAW to Astra, Analog AnLab and Prometheus awards winners, Internet Archive’s lawsuit, the HarperCollins union strike, a BayCon 2022 report, the 2022 Locus Survey results, and much more. This year’s Locus Awards Weekend is covered with a full report and photos. Geoffrey H. Goodwin, Dorothy J. Heydt, Barbara Haldeman (AKA Barbara Delaplace), and Jonathan Lyons are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by R.B. Lemberg, Robert Freeman Wexler, Erin Swan, Becky Chambers, R.F. Kuang, Mary Robinette Kowal, Kirstyn McDermott, Karen Heuler, Steve Toltz, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Kimberly Unger, H.E. Edgmon, Rachel Hartman, Naz Kutub, Emily X.R. Pan, Blake Crouch, Ronald Malfi, Naben Ruthnum, Kelly Barnhill, Heather Kamins, Adi Alsaid, A.C. Wise, Foz Meadows, Linda Nagata, Tamsyn Muir, and many others. <>
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Alsaid, Adi • Before Takeoff (Colleen Mondor)
Barnhill, Kelly • The Ogress and the Orphans (Colleen Mondor)
Chambers, Becky • A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Adrienne Martini)
Crossley-Holland, Kevin, illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love • Across the Rainbow Bridge: Stories of Norse Gods and Humans (Karen Haber)
Crouch, Blake • Upgrade (Gabino Iglesias)
Dollo, Xavier, & Djibril Morissette-Phan • The History of Science Fiction: A Graphic Novel Adventure (Karen Haber)
Duffy, Damian, & John Jennings • Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower: A Graphic Novel Adaptation (Karen Haber)
Egmon, H. E. • The Fae Keeper (Alex Brown)
Fenner, Cathy, & Arnie Fenner, eds. • Spectrum Fantastic Art Quarterly, Volume One (Karen Haber)
Hartman, Rachel • In the Serpent’s Wake (Alex Brown)
Heuler, Karen • The Splendid City (Ian Mond)
Kamins, Heather • The Moth Girl (Colleen Mondor)
Kowal, Mary Robinette • The Spare Man (Adrienne Martini)
Kuang, R. F. • Babel (Adrienne Martini)
Kutub, Naz • The Loophole (Alex Brown)
Lemberg, R. B. • The Unbalancing (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lossel, Yoann, & Psyche Ophiuchus • Forgotten Gods: The Art of Yoann Lossel (Karen Haber)
Malfi, Ronald • Black Mouth (Gabino Iglesias)
McDermott, Kirstyn • Hard Places (Ian Mond)
Meadows, Foz • A Strange and Stubborn Endurance (Maya C. James)
Muir, Tamsyn • Nona the Ninth (Sam J. Miller)
Nagata, Linda • Needle (Russell Letson)
Okri, Ben • Every Leaf a Hallelujah (Karen Haber)
Orwell, George, & Fido Nesti • 1984: The Graphic Novel (Karen Haber)
Pan, Emily X. R. • An Arrow to the Moon (Alex Brown)
Ruthnum, Naben • Helpmeet (Gabino Iglesias)
Spoor, Todd • Infected by Art Volume 9 (Karen Haber)
Stufflebeam, Bonnie Jo • Where You Linger and Other Stories (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Swan, Erin • Walk the Vanished Earth (Gary K. Wolfe)
Toltz, Steve • Here Goes Nothing (Ian Mond)
Unger, Kimberly • The Extractionist (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Wexler, Robert Freeman • The Silverberg Business (Gary K. Wolfe)
Wise, A. C. • Hooked (Paula Guran)
 
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