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2023 Polari Prize ShortlistsOur Wives Under The Sea by Julia Armfield (Picador) is on the shortlist for the 2023 Polari Prize, given to writers born or based in the UK...
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Alex Brown Reviews Vampires of El Norte by Isabel CañasVampires of El Norte , Isabel Cañas (Berkeley 978-0-59343-672-1, $28.99, 400pp, hc) August 2023. I like historical fantasy as a subgenre, but I...
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Magazines Received – SeptemberThis list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on...
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Khalid Wins 2024 Bard Fiction PrizeZain Khalid is the winner of the 2024 Bard Fiction Prize for speculative debut novel Brother Alive (Grove Atlantic). The prize “is...
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2023 Baihua Literature Awards WinnersThe Baihua Literature and Art Publishing House has announced the winners of the 2023 Baihua Literature Awards. Winners are chosen by public vote,...
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Ian Mond Reviews Terrace Story by Hilary LeichterTerrace Story , Hilary Leichter (Ecco 978-0-06326-581-3, $28.00, 288pp, hc) August 2023. Hilary Leichter’s Temporary was one of the few joys...
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New Books: 26 September 2023Anderson, Taylor: Devil’s Battle (Orbit US 9780316443302, $18.99, 336pp, formats: trade paperback, ebook, audio, 09/26/2023) The...
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Alexandra Pierce Reviews A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina RatherA Season of Monstrous Conceptions , Lina Rather (Tordotcom 978-1-25088-401-5, $20.99, 160pp, hc) October 2023. Cover by Andrew Davis. In A...
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Forthcoming Books Through June 2024The Locus Selected Books by Author list has been updated on our Forthcoming Books page, with information from the September 2023 issue covering...
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2023 Elgin Awards WinnersThe Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SFPA) has announced the winners of the 2023 Elgin Awards, presented for the best poetry...
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2023 Diverse Writers and Diverse Worlds Grants WinnersThe Speculative Literature Foundation (SLF) announced that Ysabelle Cheung has won the 2023 Diverse Writers Grant for “Please, Get Out and...
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Weekly Bestsellers, 25 September 2023While Stephen King’s Holly now sits at #1 on all four print lists compiled here, a new novel by Jennifer L. Armentrout,...
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2023 Premio Italia FinalistsFinalists for the 2023 Premio Italia Awards have been announced: International SF Novel La cacciatrice di luce [ Light Chaser ], Peter...
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Summer WorkshopsClarion The Clarion workshop ran from June 25-August 5, 2023 in San Diego CA. Their 2023 faculty included Andy Duncan, Alaya Dawn Johnson,...
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New & Notable Books, September 2023Daniel Abraham, Blade of Dream (Orbit US 7/23) The second novel in the Kithamar trilogy tells the bloody history of Garreth...
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Gary K. Wolfe Reviews Thornhedge by T. KingfisherThornhedge , T. Kingfisher (Tor 978-1-250-24409-3, 128pp., $19.00, hc) August 2023. A few months ago, in reviewing Kelly Link’s White Cat,...
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Forthcoming Books Through June 2023The Locus Selected Books by Author list has been updated on our Forthcoming Books page, with information from the September 2023 issue covering...
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Liz Bourke Reviews He Who Drowned the World by Shelley Parker-ChanHe Who Drowned the World , Shelley Parker-Chan (Tor 978-1529043433, £20.00, 496pp, hc) August 2023. Shelley Parker-Chan’s highly accomplished...
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Ira M. Thornhill (1953-2023)Publisher and fan IRA M. THORNHILL, 69, died July 25, 2023 in Mississippi following a long illness. Ira Mitchell “Mitch” Thornhill was...
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Charles Payseur Reviews Short Fiction: Lightspeed and F&SFLightspeed 7/23 F&SF 7-8/23 Pushing on into July, Lightspeed opens with J.B. Park ’s timely ‘‘ Six Months After All Life on Titan Died ’’,...
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Alexandra Pierce Reviews The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time 3 edited by Allan KasterThe Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time 3 , Allan Kaster, ed. (Infinivox 978-1-88461-264-0, $18.99, 309pp, pb) August 2023. Cover by Maurizio...
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Alex Brown Reviews Sordidez by E.G. CondéSordidez , E.G. Condé (Stelliform 978-1-77768-236-1, $16.00, 141pp, tp) August 2023. Cover by Paulina Niño. In Sordidez , the debut novella...
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2023 Writers’ Award WinnersThe 2023 Writers’ Award winners, presented by Creative Future, has been announced. Winners of genre interest include “Bread and...
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Kimberley Atkins Named Head of Zeus Publishing DirectorKimberley Atkins has joined Head of Zeus as fiction publishing director, where she will “spearhead the strategy and publishing for the...
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Ian Mond Reviews Like Smoke, Like Light by Yukimi OgawaLike Smoke, Like Light , Yukimi Ogawa (Mythic Delirium 978-1-95652-200-6, $17.95, 260pp, tp) June 2023. Yukimi Ogawa is an exophonic writer....
