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Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.

Locus Issue #714 (July 2020) has interviews with Steven Erikson and Veronica Roth. The 2020 Locus Awards winners and 2019 Nebula Awards winners are announced. Additional awards news covers the Asimovs Readers Awards and Analog Anlab Awards, Lambda, and Greenaway winners, the Sturgeon Memorial and Shirley Jackson nominees, and more. Also covered: full reports on the 2020 SFWA Nebula Conference, WisCon 44, SF in India, and Foundry, the Locus Poll 2020 writeup, damage to Uncle Hugos and Dreamhaven bookstores during the riots, the Rowling controversy, the SFWA Statement on Black Lives Matter, DC Drops Diamond, Internet Archive suspends lending, and much more. Cory Doctorows column is entitled Full Employment. Editorial includes a Black Lives Matter statement from Locus. Obituaries remember Marshall B. Tymn and Colin Manlove. Reviews cover new titles by Jonathan Strahan (ed.), Molly Tanzer, Cixin Liu, Tim Powers, Meg Elison, Kat Dunn, Alex White, Yoon Ha Lee, Tamsyn Muir, William Schafer (ed.), Josh Malerman, Gerard Houarner, Kay Chronister, Kathleen Jennings, Katherine Addison, Jeff VanderMeer, Daisy Johnson, Samanta Schweblin, Lydia Millet, Suzanne Collins, Rebecca Roanhorse, Bethany C. Morrow, Rin Chupeco, Dan Byrne-Smith (ed.), and others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Analog 5-6/20 (Rich Horton)
Asimovs 5-6/20 (Rich Horton)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/23/20 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/7/20 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 5/21/20 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/4/20 (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld 5/20 (Karen Burnham)
F&SF 7-8/20 (Rich Horton)
Lightspeed 5/20, 6/20 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 4/6/20 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 4/13/20 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 5/11/20 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 5/19/20 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 4/29/20 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 5/13/20 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 5/20/20 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 5-6/20 (Rich Horton)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)

Addison, Katherine The Angel of the Crows (Katharine Coldiron)
Byrne-Smith, Dan, ed. Science Fiction (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Chronister, Kay Thin Places (Paula Guran)
Chupeco, Rin Wicked As You Wish (Colleen Mondor)
Collins, Suzanne The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Colleen Mondor)
Dunn, Kat Dangerous Remedy (Liz Bourke)
Elison, Meg Big Girl (Gary K. Wolfe)
Houarner, Gerard Sleepers (Paula Guran)
Jennings, Kathleen Flyaway (Katharine Coldiron)
Johnson, Daisy Sisters (Ian Mond)
Lee, Yoon Ha Phoenix Extravagant (Liz Bourke)
Liu, Cixin Of Ants and Dinosaurs (Gary K. Wolfe)
Malerman, Josh Malorie (Paula Guran)
Millet, Lydia A Childrens Bible (Ian Mond)
Morrow, Bethany C. A Song Below Water (Colleen Mondor)
Muir, Tamsyn Harrow the Ninth (Liz Bourke)
Powers, Tim The Properties of Rooftop Air (Gary K. Wolfe)
Roanhorse, Rebecca Race to the Sun (Colleen Mondor)
Schafer, William, ed. Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 3 (Paula Guran)
Schneyer, Kenneth Anthems Outside of Time and Other Strange Voices (Rich Horton)
Schweblin, Samanta Little Eyes (Ian Mond)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. The Book of Dragons (Gary K. Wolfe)
Tanzer, Molly Creatures of Charm and Hunger (Gary K. Wolfe)
Vandermeer, Jeff A Peculiar Peril (Ian Mond)
White, Alex The Worst of All Possible Worlds (Liz Bourke)

About Locus:

Locus is the news magazine and trade journal for chain SF and fantasy buyers, independent bookstore SF and fantasy buyers, and independent distributors as well as librarians, editors, authors, publishing personnel, and interested readers. The magazine has been covering the SF and fantasy fields for over 40 years, and has won the Hugo Award, science fictions premier honor, 30 times. The magazines website, which contains a sampling of magazine content as well as additional genre news, media reviews, the Roundtable Blog, indexes of reviews and interviews published, the science fiction awards database, and much much more, can be found at http://www.locusmag.com. Information about advertising in the magazine can be found at http://locusmag.com/Magazine/RateCard.html or on the website at http://www.locusmag.com/Home/LocusOnlineRates.html.

Our Quarterly Forthcoming Book issues (March, June, September, and December) usually sell out, and are used by librarians, bookstores, publishers, and readers to keep abreast of forthcoming titles. Each contains publishing schedules from the major genre publishers big houses to small presses for the next nine months.

Our February issue summarizes the previous year, and includes a highly regarded annual Recommended Reading List. The August issue has the Locus Awards, voted on by our readers from the best of the previous year. The October and November issues cover the World SF Convention and are constant back issue favorites. All issues have a list of the new books that month, a list of recommended books and bestsellers, and interviews with leading authors.

For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see www.lsff.net.

Locus Magazine, Issue #714, July 2020

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