Locus Issue #728 (September 2021) has interviews with Lavie Tidhar and Zen Cho. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2022. Awards news covers the Seiun, Shirley Jackson, and Arthur C. Clarke Foundation Awards winners and the Dragon Awards ballot, and Readercon 31 coverage includes a report and photos. Elizabeth Anne Hull (1937-2021) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News includes museums honoring Butler and Afrofuturism, Worldcon to require vaccinations for attendance, Gene Wolfe’s induction to the Hall of Fame, NPR’s 50 favorite SF/F books of the decade, and much more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Breaking In”. Additional obituaries remember Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, C. Dean Andersson, J.W. Rinzler, Ron Weighell, Lorna Toolis, and Judi B. Castro. Reviews cover new titles by Cadwell Turnbull, Nina Allan, Bo-Young Kim, Brenda Peynado, Tasha Suri, Laura Sebastian, Ellen Datlow (ed.), Christina Henry, Richard Powers, Monica Byrne, Ruth Ozeki, Keenan Norris, Michelle Ruiz Keil, Kelly Devos, A.S. King, Stephen Graham Jones, Brent Spiner, Alastair Reynolds, Andrew Nette & Iain McIntyre (eds.), and others. <>
Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Allan, Nina • The Art of Space Travel and Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Byrne, Monica • The Actual Star (Ian Mond)
Datlow, Ellen, ed. • Body Shocks (Gabino Iglesias)
Devos, Kelly • Eat Your Heart Out (Colleen Mondor)
Gable, Scott, & C. Dombrowski, eds. • Whether Change (Rich Horton)
Henry, Christina • Near the Bone (Gabino Iglesias)
Jones, Stephen Graham • My Heart Is a Chainsaw (Paula Guran)
Keil, Michelle Ruiz • Summer in the City of Roses (Colleen Mondor)
Kim, Bo-Young • On the Origin of Species and Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
King, A. S. • Switch (Colleen Mondor)
Nette, Andrew, & Iain McIntyre, eds. • Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Norris, Keenan • The Confession of Copeland Cane (Ian Mond)
Ozeki, Ruth • The Book of Form and Emptiness (Ian Mond)
Paynado, Brenda • The Rock Eaters: Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Payseur, Charles • The Burning Day and Other Strange Stories (Rich Horton)
Powers, Richard • Bewilderment (Ian Mond)
Reynolds, Alastair • Inhibitor Phase (Russell Letson)
Rountree, Josh • Fantastic Americana (Rich Horton)
Sebastian, Laura • Half Sick of Shadows (Maya C. James)
Spiner, Brent • Fan Fiction (Alethea Kontis)
Suri, Tasha • The Jasmine Throne (Maya C. James)
Turnbull, Cadwell • No Gods, No Monsters (Gary K. Wolfe)
 
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