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Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, & horror publishing fields with book reviews, author interviews, news, & listings. Locus Issue # 649 February 2015 is the 2014 Year in Review issue with the annual Recommended Reading List, the Locus Poll & Survey, & Commentary by Liza Groen-Trombi, Gary K. Wolfe, & many others; plus an interview with Simon Ings, a column by Kameron Hurley, & reviews of short fiction and books by James Bradley, Brian Staveley, Keith Stevenson, Elizabeth Bear, and others. Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer): Analog January/ February 2015 (Rich Horton) Asimov’s January 2015 (Rich Horton) Beneath Ceaseless Skies December 2014 (Rich Horton) F&SF November/December 2014 (Rich Horton) Lightspeed January 2015 (Rich Horton) McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #48 (Rich Horton) Not One of Us October 2014 (Rich Horton) Tin House #62 Winter 2014 (Rich Horton) Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer): Adams, John Joseph, & Hugh Howey, eds. • The End Is Nigh (Gardner Dozois) Bear, Elizabeth • Karen Memory (Adrienne Martini) Bear, Elizabeth • Karen Memory (Liz Bourke) Black, Holly • The Darkest Part of the Forest (Adrienne Martini) Bova, Ben, & Eric Choi, eds. • Carbide Tipped Pens (Gardner Dozois) Bradley, James • Clade (Gary K. Wolfe) Elliott, Will • Shadow (Faren Miller) Gates, Jaym, & Andrew Liptak, eds. • War Stories: New Military Science Fiction (Gardner Dozois) Gunn, Eileen • Questionable Practices (Gardner Dozois) Hardinge, Frances • Cuckoo Song (Colleen Mondor) Hardinge, Frances • Cuckoo Song (Colleen Mondor) Lake, Jay • Last Plane to Heaven (Gardner Dozois) Lavender, Isiah, III • Black and Brown Planets: The Politics of Race in Science Fiction (Gary K. Wolfe) Link, Kelly • Get in Trouble (Gary K. Wolfe) Link, Kelly, & Gavin J. Grant, eds. • Monstrous Affections (Rich Horton) Littlewood, Alison • Path of Needles (Faren Miller) Martin, George R. R., & Gardner Dozois, eds. • Old Venus (Russell Letson) McAuley, Paul • Something Coming Through (Gary K. Wolfe) Staveley, Brian • The Providence of Fire (Faren Miller) Stevenson, Keith • Horizon (Adrienne Martini) Tidhar, Lavie • Black Gods Kiss (Gardner Dozois) Van Eekhout, Greg • Pacific Fire (Adrienne Martini) Vance, Jack • Grand Crusades: The Early Jack Vance, Volume Five (Russell Letson) Wilber, Rick • Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (Gardner Dozois) Wilce, Ysabeau S. • Prophecies, Libels, and Dreams (Gardner Dozois) About: Locus is the news magazine and trade journal for 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. February summarizes the previous year. The August issue has the Locus Awards, voted on by our readers from the best of the previous year. For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation(a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see www.