The March 2023 issue of Locus has interviews with Nisi Shawl and Ayize Jama-Everett. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through December 2023. News covers Jimenez’s Crawford win, Madeline McIntosh stepping down as PRH CEO, a new HarperCollins contract and layoffs, Tor’s new romance imprint, the Stoker Awards preliminary ballot, Monteleone’s expulsion from the HWA, WFA judges change, plus Dell, ALA, and Butler awards winners and much more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “End to End”. Obituaries remember Ray Nelson, Paul La Farge, and Cai Emmons. Reviews cover new titles by Peter S. Beagle, Catherynne M. Valente, Sarah Pinsker, Lee Mandelo, Brandon Ying Kit Boey, Stina Leicht, Andy Mientus, Megan Paasch, Seanan McGuire, Ian McDonald, Sean Adams, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Lucy A. Snyder, Alison Rumfitt, Josh Malerman, Greg Egan, Emily Tesh, Nisi Shawl (ed.), Trang Thanh Tran, Priya Sharma, and others. Vote now in the Locus Poll and Survey at poll.voting.locusmag.com. <>
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Adams, Sean • The Thing in the Snow (Ian Mond)
Beagle, Peter S. • The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume 1: Lila the Werewolf and Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Beagle, Peter S. • The Essential Peter S. Beagle, Volume 2: Oakland Dragon Blues and Other Stories (Gary K. Wolfe)
Boey, Brandon Ying Kit • Karma of the Sun (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Egan, Greg • Scale (Alexandra Pierce)
Egan, Greg • Sleep and the Soul (Russell Letson)
Leicht, Stina • Loki’s Ring (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Malerman, Josh • Daphne (Gabino Iglesias)
Mandelo, Lee • Feed Them Silence (Gary K. Wolfe)
McDonald, Ian • Hopeland (Ian Mond)
Mcguire, Seanan • Lost in the Moment and Found (Colleen Mondor)
Mientus, Andy • Fraternity (Colleen Mondor)
Øyehaug, Gunnhild • Evil Flowers: Stories (Ian Mond)
Paasch, Megan • Dream to Me (Colleen Mondor)
Pinsker, Sarah • Lost Places (Gary K. Wolfe)
Rumfitt, Alison • Tell Me I’m Worthless (Gabino Iglesias)
Sharma, Priya • Pomegranates (Archita Mittra)
Shawl, Nisi, ed. • New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color (Eugen Bacon)
Snyder, Lucy A. • Sister, Maiden, Monster (Gabino Iglesias)
Tesh, Emily • Some Desperate Glory (Alexandra Pierce)
Tran, Trang Thanh • She Is a Haunting (Alex Brown)
Valente, Catherynne M. • The Best of Catherynne M. Valente, Volume One (Gary K. Wolfe)
 
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