February is the annual “Year in Review” issue, with Locus‘ Recommended Reading List and commentaries by Gary K. Wolfe, Jonathan Strahan, and many others; plus, interviews with Catherynne M. Valente and Brian Slattery, and reviews of new books by Karen Lord, Frances Hardinge, Adam Roberts, Lois Lowry, and many others.

Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Iain M. Banks’ The Hydrogen Sonata, George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows, David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, and titles by Robert Kirkman & Jay Bonansinga and Karen Traviss

January New and Notable books include William Alexander’s Goblin Secrets and other titles by Abercrombie, Baxter, Bujold, Gilman, Grant, Jones, Le Guin, Marshall, McDevitt & Resnick, Rajaniemi, Sedia, Steele, Strahan, and Van Pelt.

The January issue features interviews with Delia Sherman and James S.A. Corey (Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck), a new column by Cory Doctorow, an obituary of Boris Strugatsky, and reviews of short fiction and new books by Nick Harkaway, Rudy Rucker, Steven Gould, Tad Williams, and many others.