Locus magazine, issue #654, july 2015

Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings.   Locus Issue #654 July features interviews with Joanne Harris and Max Gladstone, a new essay by Cory Doctorow, complete results of this year?s Locus Awards and Poll, coverage of Nebula Awards Weekend, Wiscon 39 and BayCon 2015, and reviews of short fiction and books by Kim Stanley Robinson, China Miéville, Zachary Brown, Mercedes Lackey, Daniel José Older, and many others.   Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) ? Asimov?s June 2015 (Rich Horton) Beneath Ceaseless Skies April 2015 (Rich Horton) Beneath Ceaseless Skies May 2015 (Rich Horton) Clarkesworld May 2015 (Rich Horton) F&SF May/June 2015 (Gardner Dozois) F&SF May/June 2015 (Rich Horton) Interzone January/February 2015 (Gardner Dozois) Interzone Mar-Apr 2015 (Gardner Dozois) Lightspeed June 2015 (Rich Horton)   Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) ? Benford, Gregory ? The Best of Gregory Benford (Gardner Dozois) Bishop, Anne ? Vision in Silver (Carolyn Cushman) Brown, Zachary ? The Darkside War (Russell Letson) Caine, Rachel ? Ink and Bone: The Great Library (Carolyn Cushman) Cambias, James L. ? Corsair (Russell Letson) Carroll, Jonathan ? Teaching the Dog to Read (Gary K. Wolfe) Cooney, C. S. E. ? Bone Swans (Rich Horton) Duncan, Dave ? Irona 700 (Faren Miller) Gilman, Carolyn Ives ? Dark Orbit (Karen Burnham) Hand, Elizabeth ? Wylding Hall (Gary K. Wolfe) Kornher-Stace, Nicole ? Archivist Wasp (Colleen Mondor) Kosmatka, Ted ? The Flicker Men (Gary K. Wolfe) Lackey, Mercedes ? Hunter (Carolyn Cushman) Maas, Sarah J. ? A Court of Thorns and Roses (Carolyn Cushman) Manieri, Evie ? Fortune?s Blight (Faren Miller) Miéville, China ? Three Moments of an Explosion (Faren Miller) Millhauser, Steven ? Voices in the Night (Faren Miller) Mok, DK ? Hunt for Valamon (Carolyn Cushman) Murray, Susan ? The Waterborne Blade (Carolyn Cushman) Older, Daniel José ? Shadowshaper (Colleen Mondor) Parker, K. J. ? Savages (Gary K. Wolfe) Peeler, Nicole ? Jinn and Juice (Carolyn Cushman) Pulley, Natasha ? The Watchmaker of Filigree Street (Faren Miller) Reynolds, Alastair ? Slow Bullets (Russell Letson) Robinson, Kim Stanley ? Aurora (Gary K. Wolfe) Robson, Justina ? The Glorious Angels (Liz Bourke) Scott, M. J. ? The Shattered Court (Carolyn Cushman) Steele, Allen ? Tales of Time and Space (Russell Letson) Vaughn, Carrie ? Kitty Saves the World (Carolyn Cushman)   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. Our Quarterly Forthcoming Book issues (March, June, September, and December) usually sell out, and are used by librarians, bookstores, publishers, and readers to keep abreast of forthcoming titles. Each contains publishing schedules from the major genre publishers ? big houses to small presses ? for the next nine months. 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.   For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see www.lsff.net.