Locus Online The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field

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James Patterson is continuing the Patterson Partnership with Scholastic Book Clubs for a sixth year, this time pledging $2.5 million to libraries in classrooms. He will give 5,000 teachers grants of $500 each (with Scholastic Book Clubs offering matching funds in the form of bonus points) to buy books for the classroom. The 5,000 winners were chosen from over 100,000 entries.For more information, including the complete list of recipients, ...Read More September 30, 2020 locusmag 0 Ghost Wood Song, Erica Waters (Harper Teen 978-0-06-289422-9, $17.99, 360pp, hc) July 2020.While urban fantasy is a thriving fantasy sub­genre, its rural counterpart has been far less explored. Erica Waters goes all in with Ghost Wood Song, a contemporary title not only set in a small, woodsy Florida town, but also cen­tered around bluegrass music. Her protagonist is a fiddle-playing teen determined to uncover family secrets, who ...Read More September 29, 2020 locusmag 0 The Four Profound Weaves, R.B. Lemberg (Tachyon 978-1-61696-334-7, $14.95, 192pp, tp) September 2020.For nearly a decade, R.B. Lemberg has been developing their Birdverse world in a number of stories and poems, and I confess to having seen only a handful of them prior to reading their first novel The Four Profound Weaves. But the novel provides most of what you need to know about this universe, which ...Read More September 28, 2020 locusmag 0 Architects of Memory, Karen Osborne (Tor 978-1-250-21547-5, $17.99, 336pp, tp) August 2020.Imagined futures where corporations have remade societies so that they always provide a profit are a common backdrop for speculative fiction. That isn t a value judgement, mind. There are only so many backdrops to go around, and this future feels increasingly likely with each passing day.In Karen Osborne s version, Architects of Memory, Ash is a ...Read More September 25, 2020 locusmag 0 Clown in a Cornfield, Adam Cesare (HarperTeen 978-0062854599, $17.99, 352pp, hc) August 2020.I ve not previously read the work of Adam Cesare, but I was drawn to his new teen horror novel, Clown in a Cornfield, because of its strik­ing red and black cover, of a cornfield fashioned in the image (you guessed it) of a grinning clown. It s a cover that gave me pleasing flashbacks to the ...Read More September 24, 2020 locusmag 0 The Memory of Souls, Jenn Lyons (Tor 978-1-250-17557-1, $27.99, 640pp, hc) August 2020.Like The Obsidian Tower, Jenn Lyons s The Memory of Souls (the third volume in her Chorus of Dragons quartet) focuses as much on individual characters and relationships as it does on the great events in which they are caught up. At the heart of this series is a strong suspicion towards power (either embodied in ...Read More September 23, 2020 LocEditor 0 Hench, by Natalie Zina Walschots (William Morrow 978-0062978578, 416pp, $27.99, hardcover) September 2020Have we reached Peak Deconstruction of Superheroes yet? One could reasonably argue that the trend harks back at least as far as Mad magazine’s “Superduperman” and “Batboy and Rubin” parodies from 1953. Marvel and DC both poked fun at the conventions of the genre during the Sixties, with titles like The Inferior Five and Not Brand ...Read More September 25, 2020 locusmag 0 Chosen Spirits by Samit Basu (Simon Schuster) and Moustache by S. Hareesh (HarperCollins India) are on the five-title shortlist for the 2020 JCB Prize.The Rs 25-lakh prize is presented each year to a distinguished work of fiction by an Indian author. This year s judges are Aruni Kashyap, Tejaswini Niranjana, Ramu Ramanathan, and Deepika Sorabjee.Shortlisted authors receive Rs 1 lakh, and their translators, where applicable, receive Rs 50,000. ...Read More September 24, 2020 locusmag 0 The Artist Relief initiative, created in April 2020 to support artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19, has announced that it will extend its grant distribution through December 2020. The initiative distributes unrestricted $5,000 grants and has so far given over $13.5 million to more than 2,700 individual artists. It has raised nearly $20 million since its inception, including $1 million from individual donations. Grants are distributed each Friday, ...Read More September 24, 2020 locusmag 0 The Science Fiction Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the 2020 Elgin Awards, presented for the best poetry chapbook and the best full-length poetry book in the speculative genre. The Elgin Awards are named after the founder of SFPA, Suzette Haden Elgin.Best Full-Length CollectionFirst Place: Soft Science, Franny Choi (Alice James)Second Place: Elemental Haiku, Mary Soon Lee (Ten Speed)Third Place ...Read More The City in the Middle of the Night, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan)The Light Brigade, Kameron Hurley (Saga; Angry Robot UK)A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine (Tor)Cage of Souls, Adrian Tchaikovsky ...Read More September 23, 2020 locusmag 1 Divergence, C.J. Cherryh (DAW 978-0-756-41430-6, $26.00, 339pp, hc) September 2020. Cover by Todd Lockwood.C.J. Cherryh s Divergence is not a minor book, but after 20 previous entries in this long-running series, your faithful reviewer is reduced to recommending the entire Foreigner sequence yet again and assuring those already familiar with its pleasures that even after so many books, Cherryh s hand has not lost its cunning and that there are ...Read More September 22, 2020 locusmag 0 Seven of Infinities, Aliette de Bodard (Subterranean 978-1-59606-976-3; $40.00, 176pp, hc) October 2020.I ve always been impressed by the ways in which different genres can use each other, especially in the hands of an adroit writer who is also an adroit reader. Alix E. Harrow is one example and Aliette de Bodard, who adapted Beauty and the Beast into a far-future post colonialist fable with In the Vanishers Palace ...Read More September 22, 2020 locusmag 0 Of the Blood by Cameo Renae (self-published) is on five-title shortlist for the 2020 Kindle Storyteller Award. The award, inaugurated in 2017, comes with a £20,000 prize and is open to writers publishing in English in any genre, who publish their work through Kindle Direct Publishing on Amazon.co.uk.For more information, see the award page.While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time or ...Read More September 22, 2020 locusmag 0 The International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA) announced that ICFA 42, scheduled for March 17-20, 2021, will be held as an online-only event, instead of in person. This is the first 2021 virtual-only announcement we ve seen for the con circuit.Dale Knickerbocker, president of the IAFA, said,The Board has been monitoring the ongoing situation with the pandemic closely and has met twice this summer to consider ...Read More September 22, 2020 locusmag 0 Pine by Francine Toon (Doubleday) has won the 2020 McIlvanney Prize, given by the Scottish writing festival Bloody Scotland to the best Scottish Crime book of the year. Toon receives a £1,000 prize and nationwide promotion in Waterstones. Judges were Stuart Cosgrove, James Crawford, and Karen Robinson.For more information, see the Bloody Scotland website.While you are here, please take a moment to support Locus with a one-time or ...Read More September 22, 2020 locusmag 0 Bestiary by K-Ming Chang (One World) and How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead) are among the honorees of the National Book Foundation s 5 Under 35, a se­­lection of five fiction writers under the age of 35 whose debut work promises to leave a lasting impression on the literary landscape. Each winner receives $1,000 and will be honored in an online ceremony on October 20, ...Read More September 22, 2020 locusmag 0 How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It, K.J. Parker (Orbit 978-0-316-49867-8, $16.99, 400pp, tp) August 2020.Many years on, the walled city in K.J. Parker s Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City is still under siege. The city still needs to be defended from Ogus, the leader of a rival empire who is keen on wiping out every last person in the Robur empire, most of ...Read More WINNER: Collision, J.S. Breukelaar (Meerkat) ...Read More Trade paperback editions of novels by Stephen King, Margaret Atwood, and Cixin Liu dominate lists this week. ...Read More September 21, 2020 locusmag 2 Piranesi, Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury 978-1-635575637, $27.00, 244pp, hc) September 2020.The first thing everyone is going to notice about Piranesi, Susanna Clarke s long-awaited second novel following her enor­mously popular Jonathan Strange and Mr Nor­rell, is that it s something like a third the length of that blockbuster. The second is that it bears no direct relation to the densely imagined magical 19th century of that novel and of ...Read More September 20, 2020 locusmag 0 Beneath Ceaseless Skies 6/18/20Strange Horizons 6/2/20, 6/8/20Samovar 4/20Mithila Review #14Beneath Ceaseless Skies #306 opens with Kill the Witchman by William Broom. A man is drugged and brainwashed with a mission to kill the witchman and his son. As he hunts them he lives in an almost eternal present with no idea of the past and little conception of the future. When he finds ...Read More September 19, 2020 locusmag 0 Red Dust, Yoss (Restless Books 978-1632062468, $16.99, 208pp, tp) July 2020.Red Dust, Yoss s latest novel to be translated into English, is an entertaining yarn narrated by a positronic robot (or pozzie ) named Ray­mond in honour of its favourite author. Alongside its fellow automatons, Raymond guards the corridors and docking bays of space-station, the William S. Burroughs, under the eagle-eye of the Galactic Trade Confederation, and its mem­ber ...Read More September 18, 2020 locusmag 0 The American Booksellers Association (ABA) has appointed Jake Cumsky-Whitlock of Solid State Books in Washington DC and Melanie Knight of Books Inc. in San Francisco CA to the board, to serve until board elections in April 2021. This follows changes to bylaws which bring the number of board members to 13 (from 11) and that require the board to include at least four booksellers who are Black, Indigenous, or People ...Read More September 18, 2020 locusmag 0 Longlists for the National Book Awards (NBA) in the Fiction, Young People s Literature, and Translated Literature categories have been announced, including titles of genre interest.The Fiction category includes Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam (Ecco), If I Had Two Wings by Randall Kenan (Norton), A Children’s Bible by Lydia Millet (Norton), and Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu (Pantheon).The Young People s Literature category includes King and the Dragonflies ...Read More September 18, 2020 locusmag 0 Publisher Two Dollar Radio won the 2020 Voice of the Heartland Award, given to individuals and organizations who uphold the value of independent bookselling and who have made a significant contribution to bookselling in our combined regions. The award is given by the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association (GLIBA) and the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association (MIBA). Nominating bookseller Gary Lovely of Book Loft in Columbus, OH called them “a shining ...Read More September 18, 2020 locusmag 0 Co-editors Coral Alejandra Moore and Eliana González Ugarte announced the creation of Constelación Magazine, a bilingual magazine of speculative fiction. Publishing quarterly, each themed issue will feature original artwork. Stories can be submitted in either English or Spanish; selections will be translated and published in both. Submissions for the first issue open in October, concurrent with the launch Kickstarter.Joining Moore and Ugarte on staff are Christina Jurado and Libia ...Read More Avid science fiction reader and down-low nerd Atticus Freeman AKA Tic (Jonathan Majors) returns to Chicago from the Korean War and a stint in Florida to find that his father has gone missing. The only clue left behind is a strange letter talking about a secret legacy, enticing Tic to journey to Ardham MA, deep within the borders of Lovecraft Country. Courtney B. Vance plays Uncle George Freeman, author and ...Read More Patricia Oren Kearney was born September 10, 1953 in Schenectady NY and grew up in Fitchburg MA. She attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she studied theater, and the University of Kansas, where she studied SF writing under James Gunn, graduating in 1975. She met first husband Rufus Cadigan at UMass-Amherst; they transferred to the University of Kansas in Lawrence where she completed her undergraduate degree while he did ...Read More PLEASE SUPPORT LOCUS WITH A DONATION TODAY!Everyone in the publishing industry has taken a hit during the coronavirus crisis, and that includes Locus. We are a non-profit, and rely on donations and subscribers to stay alive. Now losing our remaining retailers and distributors to the lockdowns, Locus needs your support to keep publishing the high quality reviews, book and community news, and articles you read here. Our online readers (there are a lot of you!) could support everything Locus does, if each reader donated $5 once a year. But only 1% of our audience pitches in. Please consider making your donation today!

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