The December 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Julie E. Czerneda and Saad Z. Hossain, and spotlights on artist Geneva Bowers and author Khan Wong. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2023. Stories include the World Fantasy Awards and convention report, the judge’s ruling to block the PRH/S&S merger, HarperCollins strike news, Harry Josephine Giles’s Clarke Award win, Donato Giancola and Wayne Barlowe exhibits, the Asimov’s Reader Awards winners, and more. People and publishing includes news this issue about Stephen Graham Jones, Mercedes Lackey, Tad Williams, Kim Harrison, Naomi Alderman, Ann Leckie, and many others. In this month’s obituaries and appreciations, Tom Maddox, Martin Morse Wooster, Jill Pinkwater, Sue Strong Hassler, Anne Fakhouri, Justin E.A. Busch, Ned Dameron, Aly Parsons, and J.G. “Huck” Huckenpöhler are remembered. Reviews cover new titles by Jonathan Carroll, Christopher Priest, Paul J. McAuley, Sam J. Miller, Wesley Chu, Naomi Novik, Ben Aaronovitch, Alex White, Walter Jon Williams, Justina Ireland, Catherine Yu, Hiroko Oyamada, Chris Flynn, Anil Menon, Leslye Penelope, Moses Ose Utomi, Rita Woods, Lauren Owen, Lisa Yaszek (ed.), Melissa Baron, Matthew Chrulew (ed.), Joan Marie Verba, Ethan Chatagnier, Olivie Blake, J.M. Lee, Umar Turaki, Stephen King, Matt Query & Harrison Query, and others.
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Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Aaronovitch, Ben • Amongst Our Weapons (Adrienne Martini)
Baron, Melissa • Twice in a Lifetime (Alexandra Pierce)
Blake, Olivie • The Atlas Paradox (Colleen Mondor)
Carroll, Jonathan • Mr. Breakfast (Gary K. Wolfe)
Chatagnier, Ethan • Singer Distance (Colleen Mondor)
Chrulew, Matthew, ed. • Phase Change: Imagining Energy Futures (Alexandra Pierce)
Chu, Wesley • The Art of Prophecy (Adrienne Martini)
Flynn, Chris • Here Be Leviathans (Ian Mond)
Ireland, Justina • Rust in the Root (Alex Brown)
King, Stephen • Fairy Tale (Gabino Iglesias)
Lee, J. M. • The Nightland Express (Colleen Mondor)
McAuley, Paul • Beyond the Burn Line (Gary K. Wolfe)
Menon, Anil • The Inconceivable Idea of the Sun (Ian Mond)
Miller, Sam J. • Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy (Gary K. Wolfe)
Novik, Naomi • The Golden Enclaves (Adrienne Martini)
Owen, Lauren • Small Angels (Alexandra Pierce)
Oyamada, Hiroko • Weasels in the Attic (Ian Mond)
Penelope, Leslye • The Monsters We Defy (Maya C. James)
Priest, Christopher • Expect Me Tomorrow (Gary K. Wolfe)
Query, Matt, & Harrison Query • Old Country (Gabino Iglesias)
Turaki, Umar • Such a Beautiful Thing to Behold (Gabino Iglesias)
Utomi, Moses Ose • The Lies of the Ajungo (Maya C. James)
Verba, Joan Marie • Twelve (Alexandra Pierce)
White, Alex • August Kitko and the Mechas from Space (Adrienne Martini)
Williams, Walter Jon • Imperium Restored (Russell Letson)
Woods, Rita • The Last Dreamwalker (Maya C. James)
Yaszek, Lisa, ed. • The Future is Female! Vol 2: the 1970s: More Classic Science Fiction by Women (Alexandra Pierce)
Yu, Catherine • Direwood (Alex Brown)
 
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