The October 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Sarah Gailey and Peng Shepherd and a spotlight on Craig Laurance Gidney. Peter Straub (1943 – 2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations from Stephen King, Gary K. Wolfe, Elizabeth Hand, and others. Chicon 8 is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report. Awards season news includes the Hugo, Nommo, Lodestar, Astounding, British Fantasy, Ignyte, Seiun, Sidewise, and Dragon winners, and many others. News covers the Baker & Taylor ransomware attack, Nora Roberts’s efforts on behalf of the Patmos Library, the reopening of Uncle Hugo’s, the B&N ordering controversy, and more. Ahrvid Engholm reports on Swecon. Other obituaries remember Bruce Taylor, Maureen Kincaid Speller, and J.G. “Huck” Huckenpöhler. Reviews cover new titles by N.K. Jemisin, Ray Nayler, Eileen Gunn, M. Rickert, Grace Chan, Hiron Ennes, Frances Hardinge, Mur Lafferty, Alex Pheby, Massoud Hayoun, Bradford Morrow (ed.), Michael J. Seidlinger, Tim Lebbon, Nat Cassidy, Alex Jennings, Adalyn Grace, Adam Hamdy, Paul Kincaid, Bev Vincent, Aislinn Brophy, Eugen Bacon, Alastair Reynolds, and others. <>
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Bacon, Eugen • An Earnest Blackness (Maya C. James)
Brophy, Aislinn • How to Succeed in Witchcraft (Alex Brown)
Cassidy, Nat • Mary (Gabino Iglesias)
Chan, Grace • Every Version of You (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Ennes, Hiron • Leech (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Grace, Adalyn • Belladonna (Colleen Mondor)
Gunn, Eileen • Night Shift (Gary K. Wolfe)
Hamdy, Adam • The Other Side of Night (Colleen Mondor)
Hardinge, Frances • Unraveller (Alexandra Pierce)
Hayoun, Massoud • Last Night in Brighton (Ian Mond)
Jemisin, N. K. • The World We Make (Gary K. Wolfe)
Jennings, Alex • The Ballad of Perilous Graves (Colleen Mondor)
Kincaid, Paul • Brian W. Aldiss (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Lafferty, Mur • Station Eternity (Alexandra Pierce)
Lebbon, Tim • The Last Storm (Gabino Iglesias)
Morrow, Bradford, ed. • Conjunctions 78: Fear Itself (Ian Mond)
Nayler, Ray • The Mountain in the Sea (Gary K. Wolfe)
Pheby, Alex • Malarkoi (Ian Mond)
Reynolds, Alastair • Eversion (Russell Letson)
Rickert, M. • Lucky Girl, How I Became a Horror Writer (Gary K. Wolfe)
Seidlinger, Michael J. • Anybody Home? (Gabino Iglesias)
Vincent, Bev • Stephen King: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life and Influences (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
 
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