The January 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Annalee Newitz and Alex Jennings and spotlights on author adrienne maree brown and the Portolan Project. Greg Bear (1951-2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers the fallout from the antitrust ruling preventing the proposed Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger, Kindle’s magazine shutdown, a HarperCollins strike update, the 2022 #BlackSpecFic report, and much more. People and publishing covers news this issue about Robin McKinley, Ruoxi Chen, James Patterson & Michael Crichton, Brandon Sanderson, Diana M. Pho, and many others. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Social Quitting”, and there is an article on Italian Speculative Fiction in Translation by Rachel S. Cordasco. Other obituaries remember Anne Harris and Marcus Sedgwick. Reviews cover new titles by Annalee Newitz, Aliette de Bodard, Jane Yolen, Ray Bradbury, Rebecca Roanhorse, Nikki Erlick, Grady Hendrix, Adam Soto, Dario Floreano & Nicola Nosengo, Mizuki Tsujimura, Cara Hoffman, Mat Johnson, Rebecca Mix, Sue Lynn Tan, Catriona Ward, Camilla Bruce, Tim Lebbon, C.L. Polk, Sara Shepard, Kenneth Oppel, Philip Pullman, Kate Elliott, Dave Hutchinson, Jack McDevitt, Charles Vess, Michael Moorcock, Derek Künsken, and editors Donna Scott, Seán O’Connor, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H.D. Hunter, & LP Kindred
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Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Bradbury, Ray • Ray Bradbury: Novels & Story Cycles (Gary K. Wolfe)
Bradbury, Ray • Ray Bradbury: The Illustrated Man, The October Country, Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Bruce, Camilla • The Witch in the Well (Gabino Iglesias)
de Bodard, Aliette • The Red Scholar’s Wake (Gary K. Wolfe)
Elliott, Kate • The Keeper’s Six (Liz Bourke)
Erlick, Nikki • The Measure (Alexandra Pierce)
Floreano, Dario, & Nicola Nosengo • Tales from a Robotic World: How Intelligent Machines Will Shape Our Future (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Hendrix, Grady • How to Sell a Haunted House (Ian Mond)
Hoffman, Cara • RUIN (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Hutchinson, Dave • Cold Water (Paul Kincaid)
Johnson, Mat • Invisible Things (Maya C. James)
Kagunda, Shingai Njeri, & Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, eds. • Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology (Alex Brown)
Künsken, Derek • Flight From the Ages and Other Stories (Wole Talabi)
Lebbon, Tim • All Nightmare Long (Gabino Iglesias)
McDevitt, Jack • Return to Glory (Russell Letson)
Mix, Rebecca • The Ones We Burn (Maya C. James)
Moorcock, Michael • The Citadel of Forgotten Myths (Christopher Rowe)
Newitz, Annalee • The Terraformers (Gary K. Wolfe)
O’Connor, Seán, ed. • Revelations: Horror Writers for Climate Action (Maya C. James)
Oppel, Kenneth • Ghostlight (Colleen Mondor)
Polk, C. L. • Even Though I Knew the End (Colleen Mondor)
Pullman, Philip • The Collectors (Colleen Mondor)
Roanhorse, Rebecca • Tread of Angels (Alex Brown)
Scott, Donna • Best of British Science Fiction 2021 (Alexandra Pierce)
Shepard, Sara • Wait for Me (Colleen Mondor)
Soto, Adam • Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep: Ghost Stories (Ian Mond)
Tan, Sue Lynn • Heart of the Sun Warrior (Maya C. James)
Tsujimura, Mizuki • Lonely Castle in the Mirror (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Vess, Charles • The Queen of Summer’s Twilight (Archita Mittra)
Ward, Catriona • Little Eve (Gabino Iglesias)
Yolen, Jane • The Scarlet Circus (Gary K. Wolfe)
 
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