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Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, & horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings. Locus #655 August features interviews with Neal Stephenson & Wesley Chu, an essay by Kameron Hurley, results of this year’s Locus Survey, coverage of Locus Awards Weekend & Readercon 2015, and reviews of short fiction & books by Gardner Dozois, Richard Kadrey, Max Gladstone, James S.A. Corey, Kim Harrison, and others. Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer): Analog July/August 2015 (Rich Horton) Asimov’s June 2015 (Gardner Dozois) Asimov’s July 2015 (Gardner Dozois) Clarkesworld June 2015 (Rich Horton) Galaxy’s Edge May 2015 (Rich Horton) Interzone May/June 2015 (Gardner Dozois) Interzone May/June 2015 (Rich Horton) Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet June 2015 (Rich Horton) Lightspeed July 2015 (Rich Horton) The Dark November 2014 (Rich Horton) Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer): Abercrombie, Joe • Half a War (Gary K. Wolfe) Andrews, Ilona • Magic Shifts (Carolyn Cushman) Belcher, R. S. • Nightwise (Faren Miller) Clamp, Cathy • Forbidden (Carolyn Cushman) Connolly, Harry • A Key, an Egg, an Unfortunate Remark (Carolyn Cushman) Connolly, Tina • Seriously Wicked (Carolyn Cushman) Corey, James S. A. • Nemesis Games (Russell Letson) Dozois, Gardner, ed. • The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection (Gary K. Wolfe) Fortune, Margaret • Nova (Liz Bourke) Gladstone, Max • Last First Snow (Adrienne Martini) Grimes, Linda • The Big Fix (Carolyn Cushman) Haber, Karen • The Sweet Taste of Regret (Karen Burnham) Harris, Charlaine • Day Shift (Carolyn Cushman) Harrison, Kim • The Drafter (Carolyn Cushman) Jackson, D. B. • Dead Man’s Reach (Faren Miller) Kadrey, Richard • Killing Pretty (Faren Miller) Kornher-Stace, Nicole • Archivist Wasp (Colleen Mondor) Lackey, Mercedes • From a High Tower (Carolyn Cushman) McIntyre, Vonda N. • Little Sisters (Rich Horton) Miéville, China • Three Moments of an Explosion (Gary K. Wolfe) Miéville, China • Three Moments of an Explosion (Gary K. Wolfe) Moore, Nancy Jane • The Weave (Faren Miller) O’Neal, Eilis • Charmed Deception (Carolyn Cushman) Pratt, Tim • The Deep Woods (Adrienne Martini) Scalzi, John • The End of All Things (Adrienne Martini) Scholes, Ken • Blue Yonders, Grateful Pies and Other Fanciful Feasts (Faren Miller) Willrich, Chris • The Chart of Tomorrows (Adrienne Martini) Wilson, Daniel H., & John Joseph Adams, eds. • Press Start to Play (Rich Horton) Locus is the news magazine & trade journal for SF and fantasy buyers and distributors as well as librarians, editors, authors, publishing personnel, & interested readers. Locus has covered the SF and fantasy fields for over 40 years, and has won the Hugo Award, science fiction's premier honor, 30 times. Locus Online, 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 more, can be found at http://www.locusmag.com. Advertising Information can be found at http://locusmag.com/Magazine/RateCard.html and http://www.locusmag.com/Home/LocusOnlineRates.html. Quarterly Forthcoming Book issues (including September) usually sell out, and are used by librarians, bookstores, publishers, and readers to keep abreast of forthcoming titles. Each contains publishing schedules from genre publishers for the next nine months. February summarizes the prior year, and includes a highly regarded annual Recommended Reading List. August issue has the Locus Awards, voted on by readers from the best of the prior year. October and November cover the World SF Convention. All issues list new books, with a list of recommended books and bestsellers, and interviews with leading authors. For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (