The January 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Annalee Newitz and Alex Jennings and spotlights on author adrienne maree brown and the Portolan Project. Greg Bear (1951-2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers the fallout from the antitrust ruling preventing the proposed Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster merger, Kindle’s magazine shutdown, a HarperCollins strike update, the 2022 #BlackSpecFic report, and much more. People and publishing covers news this issue about Robin McKinley, Ruoxi Chen, James Patterson & Michael Crichton, Brandon Sanderson, Diana M. Pho, and many others. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Social Quitting”, and there is an article on Italian Speculative Fiction in Translation by Rachel S. Cordasco. Other obituaries remember Anne Harris and Marcus Sedgwick. Reviews cover new titles by Annalee Newitz, Aliette de Bodard, Jane Yolen, Ray Bradbury, Rebecca Roanhorse, Nikki Erlick, Grady Hendrix, Adam Soto, Dario Floreano & Nicola Nosengo, Mizuki Tsujimura, Cara Hoffman, Mat Johnson, Rebecca Mix, Sue Lynn Tan, Catriona Ward, Camilla Bruce, Tim Lebbon, C.L. Polk, Sara Shepard, Kenneth Oppel, Philip Pullman, Kate Elliott, Dave Hutchinson, Jack McDevitt, Charles Vess, Michael Moorcock, Derek Künsken, and editors Donna Scott, Seán O’Connor, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, H.D. Hunter, & LP Kindred.
Source: Issue 744 Table of Contents, January 2023 – Locus Online
