The June 2023 issue of Locus has interviews with Connie Willis and Emma Törzs and a spotlight on artist Eli John. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2024. News covers the 2023 Nebula Awards, Nicola Griffith’s Bradbury Prize win, HWA awards, the Orbit Works imprint launch, the Aurora Awards ballot, the book ban lawsuit in Florida, and much more. The SFWA Nebula Conference, 2023 Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards, and Hal-Con 2023 are covered with reports and photos, plus a photo story on the Bay Area Book Festival. Obituaries remember Martin Amis, Lee Harding, and Sara Schwager. Reviews include new titles by M.A. Carrick, S.L. Huang, K.B. Wagers, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Howard Waldrop, Josh Rountree, Niall Harrison, Christopher Hartland, Leslie Vedder, Jade Song, Matthew Cheney, Dilman Dila, María Fernanda Ampuero, Julianna Baggott, Xian Mao, Claire North, Joe R. Lansdale, Premee Mohamed, Nicholas Binge, Mark Oshiro, Lorraine Avila, Cynthia Leitich Smith, Ian R. MacLeod, Connie Willis, T. Kingfisher, Sara Hashem, and editors Chinelo Onwualu, Khadijah Queen, K. Ibura, and Allan Kaster, among others.<>
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
 
Ampurero, María Fernanda • Human Sacrifices (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Avila, Lorraine • The Making of Yolanda La Bruja (Colleen Mondor)
Baggott, Julianna • The Wick (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Binge, Nicholas • Ascension (Gabino Iglesias)
Carrick, M. A. • Labyrinth’s Heart (Liz Bourke)
Cheney, Matthew • The Last Vanishing Man (Ian Mond)
Dila, Dilman • Where Rivers Go to Die (Eugen Bacon)
Harrison, Niall • All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays (Gary K. Wolfe)
Harrison, Niall • All These Worlds: Reviews & Essays (Ian Mond)
Hartland, Christopher • Against the Stars (Alex Brown)
Hashem, Sara • The Jasad Heir (Archita Mittra)
Huang, S. L. • The Water Outlaws (Liz Bourke)
Kaster, Allan, ed. • The Year’s Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 7 (Alexandra Pierce)
Kingfisher, T. • Thornhedge (Adrienne Martini)
Kornher-Stace, Nicole • Flight & Anchor (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lansdale, Joe R. • The Donut Legion (Gabino Iglesias)
MacLeod, Ian R. • Ragged Maps (Russell Letson)
Mao, Xian • Apollo Weeps (Caren Gussoff Sumption)
Mohamed, Premee • No One Will Come Back for Us (Gabino Iglesias)
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia • Silver Nitrate (Gary K. Wolfe)
North, Claire • House of Odysseus (Alexandra Pierce)
Onwualu, Chinelo, ed. • Ex Marginalia: Essays from the Edges of Speculative Fiction (Eugen Bacon)
Oshiro, Mark • Into the Light (Colleen Mondor)
Queen, Khadijah, & K. Ibura, eds. • Infinite Constellations: An Anthology of Identity, Culture, and Speculative Conjunctions (Eugen Bacon)
Rountree, Josh • The Legend of Charlie Fish (Gary K. Wolfe)
Smith, Cynthia Leitich • Harvest House (Colleen Mondor)
Song, Jade • Chlorine (Ian Mond)
Vedder, Leslie • The Severed Thread (Alex Brown)
Wagers, K. B. • The Ghosts of Trappist (Liz Bourke)
Waldrop, Howard • H’ard Starts: The Early Waldrop (Gary K. Wolfe)
Willis, Connie • The Road to Roswell (Adrienne Martini)
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