The May 2023 issue of Locus has interviews with Mary Robinette Kowal and C.L. Clark and a spotlight on artist Ed Binkley. News includes Unger’s Philip K. Dick Award win, the Internet Archive lawsuit loss, Whitehead’s National Humanities Medal, Satifka’s Endeavour win, the BSFA Awards Winners, the Tokuda-Hall and Scholastic controversy, and more. Photo reports cover the 2023 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Norwescon 45, and the Williamson Lectureship. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have a Point”. Obituaries remember Rachel Pollack, Eric Brown, Michael Reaves, Joseph Wrzos, and Anne Perry. Reviews cover new titles by Peter S. Beagle, K.J. Parker, Fonda Lee, Barbara Hambly, Moniquill Blackgoose, Charles Stross, Ann Leckie, Nick Harkaway, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Han Song, Garth Nix, Rebecca Ross, Roshani Chokshi, V. Castro, Mariana Enriquez, Jeremy C. Shipp, Stephen Graham Jones, Owen King, and others. <>
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame • Chain-Gang All-Stars (Ian Mond)
Beagle, Peter S. • The Way Home (Gary K. Wolfe)
Blackgoose, Moniquill • To Shape a Dragon’s Breath (Liz Bourke)
Castro, V. • The Haunting of Alejandra (Gabino Iglesias)
Chokshi, Roshani • The Last Tale of the Flower Bride (Colleen Mondor)
Enriquez, Mariana • Our Share of Night (Gabino Iglesias)
Hambly, Barbara • The Iron Princess (Liz Bourke)
Harkaway, Nick • Titanium Noir (Ian Mond)
Jones, Stephen Graham • Don’t Fear the Reaper (Angela Slatter)
King, Owen • The Curator (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Leckie, Ann • Translation State (Russell Letson)
Lee, Fonda • Untethered Sky (Gary K. Wolfe)
Nix, Garth • The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (Colleen Mondor)
Parker, K. J. • Under My Skin (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ross, Rebecca • Divine Rivals (Colleen Mondor)
Shipp, Jeremy C. • The Merry Dredgers (Gabino Iglesias)
Song, Han • Hospital (Ian Mond)
Stross, Charles • Season of Skulls (Russell Letson)
 
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