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Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings. Locus Issue #656 The September issue features interviews with Sarah Monette and Daniel José Older, results of this year’s Hugo Awards, a new column by Cory Doctorow, lists of forthcoming books through June 2016, and reviews of short fiction and books by Ian McDonald, Robin Hobb, Michael Swanwick, Robert R. McCammon, Zen Cho, and many others. Magazine Issues reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer) — Analog September 2015 (Rich Horton) Asimov’s July 2015 (Rich Horton) Asimov’s August 2015 (Gardner Dozois) Asimov’s August 2015 (Rich Horton) Beneath Ceaseless Skies June 2015 (Rich Horton) F&SF July/Aug 2015 (Gardner Dozois) Lightspeed August 2015 (Rich Horton) Uncanny July/August 2015 (Rich Horton) Books reviewed in this issue, listed by author (indicating reviewer) — Berman, Steve, ed. • Daughters of Frankenstein: Lesbian Mad Scientists (Karen Burnham) Bullington, Jesse, ed. • Letters to Lovecraft: Eighteen Whispers to the Darkness (Stefan Dziemianowicz) Cho, Zen • Sorcerer to the Crown (Gary K. Wolfe) Cho, Zen • Sorcerer to the Crown (Liz Bourke) Cooper, Brenda • Cracking the Sky (Faren Miller) de Bodard, Aliette • The House of Shattered Wings (Gary K. Wolfe) Due, Tananarive • Ghost Summer: Stories (Liz Bourke) Grey, Melissa • The Girl at Midnight (Colleen Mondor) Hobb, Robin • Fool’s Quest (Faren Miller) Jemisin, N. K. • The Fifth Season (Faren Miller) Keating, Kevin P. • The Captive Condition (Liz Bourke) Kress, Nancy • The Best of Nancy Kress (Gardner Dozois) Lain, Douglas • After the Saucers Landed (Karen Burnham) McCammon, Robert • The Border (Stefan Dziemianowicz) McDonald, Ian • Luna: New Moon (Gary K. Wolfe) Reed, Marguerite • Archangel (Ysabeau Wilce) Ritter, William • Beastly Bones (Colleen Mondor) Stross, Charles • The Annihilation Score (Russell Letson) Swanwick, Michael • Chasing the Phoenix (Gary K. Wolfe) Swanwick, Michael • Chasing the Phoenix (Russell Letson) Tremblay, Paul • A Head Full of Ghosts (Stefan Dziemianowicz) 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.