The April 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Charlie Jane Anders and Ray Nayler, a spotlight on artist Eli Minaya, and the 2022 Year in Review book summary. News includes the 2022 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, the SFWA Awards winners, the BSFA and Aurealis shortlists, and much more. Boskone 60 is covered with a report and photos. Christopher Fowler, John Jakes, Valerie Smith, John Teehan, Kenzaburo Oe, and Dave Pether are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Nina Allan, Theodora Goss, James Tiptree, Jr., James Morrow, T. Kingfisher, Martha Wells, Ann Leckie, Arkady Martine, Jack McDevitt, J.S. Dewes, H.G. Parry, Jinwoo Chong, Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ, Marie Hélène Poitras, Juan Martinez, Lee Mandelo, Jaroslav Kalfař, H.S. Valley, Ai Jiang, Brittany N. Williams, Ness Brown, Christopher Golden, Johnny Compton, Kristin Cashore, Heather Fawcett, Lauren Blackwood, Gareth L. Powell, Mia Tsai, Tobi Ogundiran, and others. <>
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Allan, Nina • Conquest (Gary K. Wolfe)
Blackwood, Lauren • Wildblood (Colleen Mondor)
Brown, Ness • The Scourge Between Stars (Gabino Iglesias)
Cashore, Kristin • Seasparrow (Archita Mittra)
Chong, Jinwoo • Flux (Ian Mond)
Compton, Johnny • The Spite House (Gabino Iglesias)
Dewes, J. S. • Rubicon (Liz Bourke)
Emelumadu, Chikodili • Dazzling (Ian Mond)
Fawcett, Heather • Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Colleen Mondor)
Golden, Christopher • All Hallows (Gabino Iglesias)
Goss, Theodora • The Collected Enchantments (Gary K. Wolfe)
Jiang, Ai • Linghun (Alex Brown)
Kalfar, Jaroslav • A Brief History of Living Forever (Jake Casella Brookins)
Kingfisher, T. • A House With Good Bones (Adrienne Martini)
Leckie, Ann • Translation State (Adrienne Martini)
Mandelo, Lee • Feed Them Silence (Jake Casella Brookins)
Martine, Arkady • Rose/House (Jake Casella Brookins)
Martine, Arkady • Rose/House (Russell Letson)
Martinez, Juan • Extended Stay (Jake Casella Brookins)
McDevitt, Jack • Village in the Sky (Russell Letson)
Morrow, James • Behold the Ape (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ogundiran, Tobi • Jackal, Jackal: Tales of the Dark and Fantastic (Wole Talabi)
Parry, H. G. • The Magician’s Daughter (Liz Bourke)
Poitras, Marie Hélène • Sing, Nightingale (Ian Mond)
Powell, Gareth L. • Descendant Machine (Alexandra Pierce)
Tiptree, James, Jr. • The Voice That Murmers in the Darkness (Gary K. Wolfe)
Tsai, Mia • Bitter Medicine (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Valley, H. S. • Tim Te Maro and the Subteerranean Heartsick Blues (Alex Brown)
Wells, Martha • Witch King (Adrienne Martini)
Williams, Brittany N. • That Self-Same Metal (Alex Brown)
 
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