The February 2023 issue of Locus is the annual Year in Review overview with essays, the Locus 2022 Recommended Reading List, and the magazine summary tracking the progress of the industry. The issue also features an interview with Suyi Davies Okungbowa. News includes the Chengdu Worldcon delay and updates, PKD Award finalists, the retirement of Random House president Gina Centrello, the empanelment of the World Fantasy Awards judges, HarperCollins strike news, and more. Obituaries remember Suzy McKee Charnas, Henry Morrison, and Richard Bober. Reviews cover new titles by Kelly Link, Kelly Barnhill, Elizabeth Bear, Max Gladstone, T. Kingfisher, Steven Brust, Matt Ruff, Marisa Crane, Hoa Pham, Natasha Bowen, Liselle Sambury, Charles de Lint, Karen Heuler, Julie C. Day & Ellen Meeropol (eds.), Mira Grant, Izzy Wasserstein, Rati Mehrotra, Sangu Mandanna, Sara Bennett Wealer, Laura Pohl, Nathan Ballingrud, Adrian Tchaikovsky, K. Eason, and others. <>
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Ballingrud, Nathan • The Strange (Sean Dowie)
Barnhill, Kelly • The Crane Husband (Gary K. Wolfe)
Bear, Elizabeth • The Origin of Storms (Adrienne Martini)
Bowen, Natasha • Soul of the Deep (Alex Brown)
Brust, Steven • Tsalmoth (Adrienne Martini)
Crane, Marisa • I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself (Ian Mond)
Day, Julie C., & Ellen Meeropol, eds. • Dreams for a Broken World (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
de Lint, Charles • Juniper Wiles and the Ghost Girls (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Eason, K. • Nightwatch over Windscar (Alexandra Pierce)
Gladstone, Max • Dead Country (Adrienne Martini)
Grant, Mira • Unbreakable (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Heuler, Karen • A Slice of the Dark and Other Stories (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Kingfisher, T. • Illuminations (Adrienne Martini)
Link, Kelly • White Cat, Black Dog (Gary K. Wolfe)
Mandanna, Sangu • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches (Colleen Mondor)
Mehrotra, Rati • Night of the Raven, Dawn of the Dove (Maya C. James)
Pham, Hoa • Empathy (Ian Mond)
Pohl, Laura • The Wicked Remain (Colleen Mondor)
Ruff, Matt • The Destroyer of Worlds: A Return to Lovecraft Country (Ian Mond)
Sambury, Liselle • Blood Like Fate (Alex Brown)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian • City of Last Chances (Russell Letson)
Wasserstein, Izzy • All the Hometowns You Can’t Stay Away From (Maya C. James)
Wealer, Sara Bennett • Grave Things Like Love (Colleen Mondor)
 
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