Locus Magazine, Issue #754, November 2023

by Liza Groen Trombi

The November 2023 issue of Locus magazine is a special issue, “Dimensions of Focus on Short Fiction,” featuring interviews with Carmen Maria Machado and a roundtable on short fiction with Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, and Usman T. Malik. The issue also includes spotlights on khōréō, Omenana, and The Sunday Morning Transport, and essays on short fiction by Neil Clarke, A.T. Greenblatt, José Pablo Iriarte, Ai Jiang, Tobi Ogundiran, and Eugenia Triantafyllou. News covers the 2023 Hugo Awards winners, World Fantasy Awards, British Fantasy Awards, Ditmar winners, Simon & Schuster news, and much more. Event coverage includes Tel Aviv 2023, Can*Con 2023, and the Science Fiction Research Association and Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung’s joint annual conference, Disruptive Imaginations. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Don’t Be Evil”. Obituaries remember Michael Flynn, Michael D. Toman, Rekka Korol Jay, Pat Diggs, and Helena Binns. Reviews cover new titles by Cadwell Turnbull, Christopher Barzak, E. Lily Yu, Sharon Emmerichs, Anna Smith Spark, Megan E. O’Keefe, Thea Guanzon, Francis Spufford, Naomi Alderman, Mónica Ojeda, Anya Johanna DeNiro, Rebekah Bergman, Maureen Kincaid Speller, Hiromi Kawakami, Sarah Davis-Goff, Anbara Salam, Ava Reid, Daniel Kraus, Yume Kitasei, Walter Mosley, Tananarive Due, C.J. Cherryh & Jane S. Fancher, Lavie Tidhar (ed), D.L. Soria, and more.

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347 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 1, 2023