The November 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Charles Stross and Xiran Jay Zhao and spotlights on author N.E. Davenport and The Korshak Collection. Robert A. Madle (1920-2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers Hopkinson’s Sturgeon win, Kensington’s acquisition of Erewhon, the Ditmar Awards winners, the Ellison Art and Comics Auction, and much more. International reports include SF in Ukraine: Ten Ukrainian SF/F Writers You Never Knew You Must Read, ICon: Tel Aviv 2022, and Can*Con 2022. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Structural Adjustment”. Other obituaries remember Albert E. Cowdrey, Hilary Mantel, Matthew Mather, and Lani Forbes. Reviews cover new titles by K.J. Parker, Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Nghi Vo, Liz Williams, Cassandra Khaw, Paul Tremblay, Eugen Bacon, Sayaka Murata, Rudy Ruiz, Mado Nozaki, Claire North, GennaRose Nethercott, Malka Older, Aimee Pokwatka, Lavie Tidhar (ed.), Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Freya Marske, Isaac Fellman, Sara Farizan, Xiran Jay Zhao, Debbie Rigaud, Tasha Suri, Stephen Baxter, and editors Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, & Zelda Knight.
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Bacon, Eugen • Chasing Whispers (Paula Guran)
Baxter, Stephen • The Thousand Earths (Russell Letson)
Farizan, Sara • Dead Flip (Colleen Mondor)
Fellman, Isaac • The Two Doctors Górski (Jake Casella Brookins)
Khaw, Cassandra • Breakable Things (Paula Guran)
Marske, Freya • A Restless Truth (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Murata, Sayaka • Life Ceremony (Ian Mond)
Nethercott, GennaRose • Thistlefoot (Alexandra Pierce)
North, Claire • Ithaca (Alexandra Pierce)
Nozaki, Mado • Titan (Ian Mond)
Nozaki, Mado • Titan (Jake Casella Brookins)
Older, Malka • The Mimicking of Known Successes (Alexandra Pierce)
Parker, K. J. • Pulling the Wings Off Angels (Gary K. Wolfe)
Pokwatka, Aimee • Self-Portrait with Nothing (Alexandra Pierce)
Rigaud, Debbie • A Girl’s Guide to Love & Magic (Alex Brown)
Ruiz, Rudy • Valley of Shadows (Ian Mond)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Tomorrow’s Parties: Life in the Anthropocene (Gary K. Wolfe)
Stufflebeam, Bonnie Jo • Glorious Fiends (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Suri, Tasha • The Oleander Sword (Maya C. James)
Thomas, Sheree Renée, & Ochenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, eds. • Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Isiah Lavender III)
Tidhar, Lavie • The Best of World SF: Volume 2 (Alexandra Pierce)
Tremblay, Paul • The Pallbearers Club (Paula Guran)
Vo, Nghi • Into the Riverlands (Gary K. Wolfe)
Williams, Liz • Embertide (Gary K. Wolfe)
Zhao, Xiran Jay • Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Colleen Mondor)
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