Locus August 2021

The August 2021 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Stephen Graham Jones and TJ Klune. Main Stories include the World Fantasy Awards ballot, an obituary and appreciations for William F. Nolan, DisCon III upheavals, and the Analog AnLab, Prometheus, and Aurealis awards winners. A full report with photos covers the 2021 Locus Awards Online event. Other news includes the Kitschies and SFRA awards winners, shortlists from the Clarke, Sturgeon, Shirley Jackson, and Eugie awards and others, the LeVar Burton Reads writing contest, Obama’s summer reading list, the results of this year’s Locus Survey, and more. Kameron Hurley‘s column is entitled “When Should You Compromise? How to Evaluate Editorial Feedback”. Stephen Hickman, Joe McKinney, Paul Alexander, and John Longendorfer are remembered with obituaries. Reviews cover new titles by Daryl Gregory, Lavie Tidhar, Zen Cho, Hannah Whitten, John Appel, Kerstin Hall, Cherie Priest, Cat Rambo, David Yoon, Max Barry, Jonathan Walker, Yan Ge, Brian Evenson, Chuck Wendig, Josh Malerman, Safia Elhillo, Rose Szabo, Kalynn Bayron, Angela Mi Young Hur, Charles de Lint, Akemi Dawn Bowman, Regina Hansen, Neal Asher, Brent Ryan Bellamy, and others.