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January 2016 • Issue 660 • Vol. 76 • No. 1
49th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and Interview Designs by Francesca Myman

INTERVIEWS
Mary Rickert: Resonance / 6
Charlie Jane Anders: Whimsy Death Match / 54
PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Guy Gavriel Kay, Joe R. Lansdale, Stephen Baxter, Michael Swanwick, Margaret Atwood, and many others
MAIN STORIES / 10
Shusterman Wins National Book Award • 2015 Aurora Awards Winners • Lake Wins Endeavor • Beagle vs. Cochran • World Fantasy Awards Trophy Submissions
THE DATA FILE / 11
Fellowships and Grants • 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards • Patterson’s Holiday Bonuses • Random House Australia Restructures • Awards News • Bookstore News • Publishing News • Legal News • Announcements • Financial News • International Rights • Other Rights • Audiobooks Received • Publications Received • Catalogs Received
SPECIAL FEATURES
Photo Story: Carriger Tea 2015 / 9 Commentary: Cory Doctorow: Wicked Problems: Resilience Through Sensing / 27 Spotlight on: Dominica Phetteplace, Writer / 31
INTERNATIONAL / 28
International Report from Brazil
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: November / 32 Books Received: November / 33 British Books Received: October / 44 Bestsellers / 46
OBITUARIES / 52
Peter Dickinson • Appreciation by Tom Whitmore • David Rain • Appreciations by Farah Mendlesohn and Liz Williams • Perry Chapdelaine • Jon Arfstrom
LOCUS LETTERS / 53
EDITORIAL MATTERS / 58
Locus Parties • February Recommended Reading List • This Issue/Next Issue
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Gardnerspace: A Short Fiction Column by Gardner Dozois / 12
Meeting Infinity, Jonathan Strahan, ed.; Future Visions, Jennifer Henshaw & Allison Linn, eds.; The Atlantic Council Art of Future Warfare Project: War Stories from the Future, August Cole, ed.; Stories For Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany, Nisi Shawl & Bill Campbell, eds.; The End Has Come, John Joseph Adams & Hugh Howey, eds.; Ecotones: Ecological Stories from the Border Between Fantasy and Science Fiction, Andrew Leon Hudson, ed.
Short Fiction Reviews by Rich Horton / 13
Asimov’s 12/15; Gypsy Plus…, Carter Scholz; F&SF 11-12/15; Analog 12/15; Clarkesworld 11/15; Tor.com 11/15; Future Visions, Jennifer Henshaw & Allison Linn, eds.; The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk, Sean Wallace, ed; Ghost Signs, Sonya Taaffe.
Reviews by Gary K. Wolfe / 14
This Census-Taker, China Miéville; The Lost Time Accidents, John Wray; Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: The Best of Caitlín Kiernan, Volume Two, Caitlín Kiernan.
Reviews by Faren Miller / 16
City of Blades, Robert Jackson Bennett; The Rising, Ian Tregillis; Skyborn, David Dalglish; The Builders, Daniel Polansky.
Review by Laird Barron / 17
Skein and Bone, V.H. Leslie; Painted Monsters and Other Strange Beasts, Orrin Grey.
Reviews by Stefan Dziemianowicz / 18
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, Stephen King; Let Me Tell You, Shirley Jackson; The Face of the Earth and Other Imaginings, Algernon Blackwood; Lovecraft Country, Matt Ruff.
Reviews by Carolyn Cushman / 21
The Aeronaut’s Windlass, Jim Butcher; Gatefather, Orson Scott Card; Walk on Earth a Stranger, Rae Carson; Mystic, James Denzel; Alliance, S.K. Dunstall; Court of Fives, Kate Elliott; The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness; Newt’s Emerald, Garth Nix.
Reviews by Divers Hands: Russell Letson, Liz Bourke, Colleen Mondor & Karen Burnham / 22
The Best of Nancy Kress, Nancy Kress; Wake of Vultures, Lila Bowen; Starflight, Melissa Landers; AfroSF v2, Ivor W. Hartmann, ed.
Locus Listens to Audiobooks: Amy Goldschlager / 25
The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood; Walk on Earth a Stranger, Rae Carson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson; Bookburners, Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty & Brian Francis Slattery; Tremontaine, Ellen Kushner, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Malinda Lo, Joel Derfner, Racheline Maltiese & Patty Bryant, The Shepherd’s Crown, Terry Pratchett; Magnus Chase and The Gods of Asgard: The Sword of Summer, Rick Riordan; Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, Salman Rushdie.
Terry Bisson: This Month in History / 13, 16, 19, 23

 

Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) —

Analog December 2015 (Rich Horton)
Asimov’s December 2015 (Rich Horton)
Clarkesworld November 2015 (Rich Horton)
F&SF November/December 2015 (Rich Horton)
Tor.com November 2015 (Rich Horton)

Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) —

Adams, John Joseph, & Hugh Howey, eds. • The End Has Come (Gardner Dozois)
Bennett, Robert Jackson • City of Blades (Faren Miller)
Blackwood, Algernon, edited by Mike Ashley • The Face of the Earth and Other Imaginings (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Bowen, Lila • Wake of Vultures (Liz Bourke)
Butcher, Jim • The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Carolyn Cushman)
Card, Orson Scott • Gatefather (Carolyn Cushman)
Carson, Rae • Walk on Earth a Stranger (Carolyn Cushman)
Cole, August, ed. • The Atlantic Council Art of Future Warfare Project: War Stories from the Future (Gardner Dozois)
Dalglish, David • Skyborn (Faren Miller)
Denzel, Jason • Mystic (Carolyn Cushman)
Dunstall, S. K. • Alliance (Carolyn Cushman)
Elliott, Kate • Court of Fives (Carolyn Cushman)
Grey, Orrin • Painted Monsters and Other Strange Beasts (Laird Barron)
Hartmann, Ivor W., ed. • AfroSF v2 (Karen Burnham)
Henshaw, Jennifer, & Allison Linn, eds. • Future Visions (Gardner Dozois)
Henshaw, Jennifer, & Allison Linn, eds. • Future Visions (Rich Horton)
Hudson, Andrew Leon, ed. • Ecotones: Ecological Stories from the Border Between Fantasy and Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois)
Jackson, Shirley • Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays, and Other Writings (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Kiernan, Caitlín R. • Beneath an Oil-Dark Sea: The Best of Caitlín R. Kiernan (Gary K. Wolfe)
King, Stephen • The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Kress, Nancy • The Best of Nancy Kress (Russell Letson)
Landers, Melissa • Starflight (Colleen Mondor)
Leslie, V. H. • Skein and Bone (Laird Barron)
Miéville, China • This Census-Taker (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ness, Patrick • The Rest of Us Just Live Here (Carolyn Cushman)
Nix, Garth • Newt’s Emerald (Carolyn Cushman)
Polansky, Daniel • The Builders (Faren Miller)
Ruff, Matt • Lovecraft Country (Stefan Dziemianowicz)
Scholz, Carter • Gypsy Plus… (Rich Horton)
Shawl, Nisi, & Bill Campbell, eds. • Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany (Gardner Dozois)
Strahan, Jonathan, ed. • Meeting Infinity (Gardner Dozois)
Taaffe, Sonya • Ghost Signs (Rich Horton)
Tregillis, Ian • The Rising (Faren Miller)
Wallace, Sean, ed. • The Mammoth Book of Dieselpunk (Rich Horton)
Wray, John • The Lost Time Accidents (Gary K. Wolfe)