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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 #706 (November 2019) has interviews with Robert McCammon and L.X. Beckett. Main stories include the renaming of the Tiptree Award, Nobel wins for Tokarczuk and Handke, British Fantasy, Aurora, Booker Prize, Sunburst, and Sidewise winners, Link & Grant‘s new bookstore, King‘s house as a museum, the cancellation of Hour of the Wolf after almost 50 years on the air, and much more. Ehud Maimon provides a report on SF in Israel entitled “The Elephant Slowly Disappearing from the Room”. Cory Doctorow‘s column is entitled “Jeannette Ng Was Right: John W. Campbell Was a Fascist”. J.A. Pitts and Harold Bloom are remembered with obituaries. Reviews explore new titles by Dave Hutchinson, Tade Thompson, Walter Jon Williams, K.J. Parker, Tim Pratt, Valerie Valdes, Aliette de Bodard, Gary K. Wolfe (ed.), Gwyneth Jones, Sara Faring, Emma Berquist, Laura Ruby, Alexandra Rowland, Rebecca Roanhorse, Emily Devenport, Claire North, Nick Mamatas, Matt Tompkins, Nino Cipri, Ilona Andrews, Alexis Hall, Benedict Jacka, Juliet Marillier, Seanan McGuire, Tamsyn Muir, Margaret Rogerson, John Scalzi, Vivian Shaw, Joe Hill, Lisa Kröger & Melanie R. Anderson, T. Kingfisher, Stephen King, Desirina Boskovich (ed.), Stephen Jones (ed.), and more. Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)— Beneath Ceaseless Skies 8/29/19 (Karen Burnham) Clarkesworld 9/19 (Karen Burnham) Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores 8/19 (Karen Burnham) Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores 9/19 (Karen Burnham) F&SF 11-12/19 (Rich Horton) The Future Fire 8/19 (Karen Burnham) Galaxy’s Edge 9/19 (Rich Horton) Interzone 9-10/19 (Rich Horton) Lightspeed 10/19 (Karen Burnham) Not One of Us 10/19 (Rich Horton) Strange Horizons 9/19 (Karen Burnham) Tor.com 9/11/19 (Karen Burnham) Tor.com 9/18/19 (Karen Burnham) Uncanny 9-10/19 (Rich Horton) Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)— Andrews, Ilona • Sapphire Flames (Carolyn Cushman) Berquist, Emma • Missing, Presumed Dead (Colleen Mondor) Boskovich, Desirina • Lost Transmissions: The Untold History of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro) Chiang, Ted • Exhalation (Rich Horton) Cipri, Nino • Homesick: Stories (Ian Mond) De Bodard, Aliette • Of Wars, and Memories, and Starlight (Liz Bourke) Devenport, Emily • Medusa in the Graveyard (Katharine Coldiron) Faring, Sara • The Tenth Girl (Colleen Mondor) Hall, Alexis • The Affair of the Mysterious Letter (Carolyn Cushman) Hill, Joe • Full Throttle: Stories (Paula Guran) Hutchinson, Dave • The Return of the Incredible Exploding Man (Gary K. Wolfe) Jacka, Benedict • Fallen (Carolyn Cushman) Jones, Gwyneth • Joanna Russ (Russell Letson) Jones, Stephen • Best New Horror #29 (Arley Sorg) King, Stephen • The Institute (Stefan Dziemianowicz) Kingfisher, T. • The Twisted Ones (Paula Guran) Kröger, Lisa, & Melanie R. Anderson • Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror & Speculative Fiction (Paula Guran) Mamatas, Nick • Sabbath (Ian Mond) Marillier, Juliet • The Harp of Kings (Carolyn Cushman) McGuire, Seanan • Laughter at the Academy (Carolyn Cushman) Muir, Tamsyn • Gideon the Ninth (Carolyn Cushman) North, Claire • The Pursuit of William Abbey (Ian Mond) Parisien, Dominik, & Navah Wolfe, eds. • The Mythic Dream (Rich Horton) Parker, K.J. • My Beautiful Life (Gary K. Wolfe) Pratt, Tim • Miracles & Marvels: Stories (Niall Harrison) Pratt, Tim • The Forbidden Stars (Liz Bourke) Rambo, Cat, ed. • If This Goes On (Rich Horton) Roanhorse, Rebecca • Storm of Locusts (Katharine Coldiron) Rogerson, Margaret • Sorcery of Thorns (Carolyn Cushman) Rowland, Alexandra • A Choir of Lies (Katharine Coldiron) Ruby, Laura • Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All (Colleen Mondor)

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