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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 #724 (May 2021) has interviews with Nnedi Okorafor and Nghi Vo and a spotlight on Spanish magazine Windumanoth. News includes the 2021 Hugo Awards Ballot, changes to the 2021 Worldcon dates and venue, Pillai’s promotion to head Tor, News Corp’s acquisition of HMH, Stine’s Philip K. Dick Award win, Jones’s Bradbury Prize win, BSFA winners, and more. Photo reports cover the 2021 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts and Norwescon 43. Cory Doctorow‘s column is entitled “Qualia” and a special feature by Douglas F. Dluzen & Christopher Mark Rose examines “Seasonal Bias in Speculative Fiction Awards Nominations”. Obituaries remember John C. Pelan, Wanda June Alexander, and Margaret Wander Bonanno. Reviews cover new titles by P. Djèlí Clark, Sarah Pinsker, Zen Cho, Karin Tidbeck, Nick Mamatas, Katherine Addison, T. Kingfisher, Django Wexler, Alexandra Oliva, Robbie Arnott, Natasha Pulley, Sam Riviere, Priyanka Champaneri, Patrick Allington, Nino Cipri, Kate Milford, Kosoko Jackson, Anna Carey, Nadia Afifi, Joe R. Lansdale, Rivers Solomon, Namina Forna, Bruce Sterling, David Brin, and others.

Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—

Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/25/21 (Karen Burnham)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/11/21 (Karen Burnham)
Clarkesworld 3/21 (Karen Burnham)
Departure Mirror Quarterly Winter ’21 (Karen Burnham)
Flash Fiction Online 3/21 (Karen Burnham)
Fusion Fragment 3/21 (Rich Horton)
Galaxy’s Edge 3/21 (Rich Horton)
Giganotosaurus 2/21 (Karen Burnham)
Giganotosaurus 3/21 (Karen Burnham)
Lightspeed 3/21 (Karen Burnham)
The New Yorker 3/8/21 (Rich Horton)
Pulp Literature Winter ’21 (Rich Horton)
Strange Horizons 3/1/21 (Karen Burnham)
Strange Horizons 3/15/21 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 3/3/21 (Karen Burnham)
Tor.com 3/24/21 (Karen Burnham)
Uncanny 3-4/21 (Rich Horton)
Weird Tales #364 (Rich Horton)

Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Addison, Katherine • The Witness for the Dead (Liz Bourke)
Afifi, Nadia • The Sentient (Gabino Iglesias)
Allington, Patrick • Rise & Shine (Ian Mond)
Arnott, Robbie • The Rain Heron (Katharine Coldiron)
Brin, David • Vivid Tomorrows: On Science Fiction and Hollywood (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Carey, Anna • This is Not the Jess Show (Colleen Mondor)
Champaneri, Priyanka • The City of Good Death (Ian Mond)
Cho, Zen • Black Water Sister (Gary K. Wolfe)
Cipri, Nino • Defekt (Ian Mond)
Clark, P. Djèlí • A Master of Djinn (Gary K. Wolfe)
Forna, Namina • The Gilded Ones (Maya C. James)
Jackson, Kosoko • Yesterday Is History (Colleen Mondor)
Kingfisher, T. • Paladin’s Strength (Liz Bourke)
Lansdale, Joe R. • Fishing for Dinosaurs and Other Stories (Gabino Iglesias)
Mamatas, Nick • The Planetbreaker’s Son (Gary K. Wolfe)
Milford, Kate • The Raconteur’s Commonplace Book (Colleen Mondor)
Oliva, Alexandra • Forget Me Not (Katharine Coldiron)
Pinsker, Sarah • We Are Satellites (Gary K. Wolfe)
Pulley, Natasha • The Kingdoms (Katharine Coldiron)
Riviere, Sam • Dead Souls (Ian Mond)
Solomon, Rivers • Sorrowland (Paula Guran)
Sterling, Bruce • Robot Artists and Black Swans: The Italian Fantascienza Stories (Russell Letson)
Tidbeck, Karin • The Memory Theater (Gary K. Wolfe)
Wexler, Django • Hard Reboot (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 fiction's premier honor, 30 times. The magazine's 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.

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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.

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