Locus is the magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror publishing fields, with book reviews, author interviews, news, and listings. Locus Issue #720 (January 2021) has interviews with Andrea Hairston and Alix E. Harrow and a spotlight on Apex Magazine. Ben Bova and Phyllis Eisenstein are remembered with obituaries and appreciations. News covers the three new Grand Masters (SFWA Grand Master Nalo Hopkinson, MWA Grand Master Charlaine Harris, and SFPA Grand Master Linda Addison), the Penguin Random House planned acquisition of Simon & Schuster, SFWA vs. Disney, the campaign to purchase and renovate Tolkien’s house, the Parallax and Kindred winners, the new Read the Room event series, changes at Fireside, and much more. People and publishing covers news this issue about J.R.R. Tolkien, Nicola Griffith, Anne Bishop, Tananarive Due, Ted Chiang, and others. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "Neofeudalism and the Digital Manor", and there is an International Report on SF in Germany from Udo Klotz & Christian Hoffmann. Additional obituaries remember Richard Corben and Dean Ing. Reviews cover new titles by Cory Doctorow, Liz Williams, Gautam Bhatia, Wole Talabi (ed.), Eden Royce, Gemma Files, George R.R. Martin & Melinda Snodgrass (eds.), Gregory Maguire, Linden A. Lewis, David Wong, Thomas McMullan, Catherine Hernandez, Guido Morselli, Charlie Holmberg, Kirsten Miller, C.L. Polk, Justin A. Reynolds, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Aliette de Bodard, Martha Wells, Rebecca Roanhorse, Marc Laidlaw, Neal Asher, R.F. Kuang, Paula Guran (ed.), Luke Arnold, K. Arsenault Rivera, Brooke Bolander, Gabino Iglesias, Sunny Moraine, S.A. Chakraborty, Susanna Clarke, Maria Dahvana Headley, Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor, K.J. Parker, Garth Nix, Brandon Sanderson & Mary Robinette Kowal, Philip Pullman, Natalie Zina Walschots, and others. Magazines reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)— Analog 11-12/20 (Rich Horton) Asimov's 11-12/20 (Rich Horton) Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/8/20 (Karen Burnham) Beneath Ceaseless Skies 10/22/20 (Karen Burnham) Bourbon Penn 11/20 (Rich Horton) Breathe Fiyah 10/19/20 (Karen Burnham) Clarkesworld 10/20 (Karen Burnham) Clarkesworld 11/20 (Karen Burnham) Conjunctions Spring '20 (Rich Horton) Interzone 11-12/20 (Rich Horton) Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet 11/20 (Rich Horton) Lightspeed 11/20 (Karen Burnham) Lightspeed 12/20 (Karen Burnham) Strange Horizons 10/5/20 (Karen Burnham) Strange Horizons 10/12/20 (Karen Burnham) Tor.com 10/21 (Karen Burnham) Tor.com 10/28 (Karen Burnham) Tor.com 11/11 (Karen Burnham) Tor.com 11/18/20 (Karen Burnham) Books reviewed in this issue (indicating reviewer)— Asher, Neal • Lockdown Tales (Russell Letson) Bhatia, Gautam • The Wall: Being the First Book of the Chronicles of Sumer (Gary K. Wolfe) de Bodard, Aliette • Fireheart Dragon (Liz Bourke) Doctorow, Cory • Attack Surface (Gary K. Wolfe) Doctorow, Cory • Attack Surface (Maya C. James) Files, Gemma • In That Endlessness, Our End (Paula Guran) Guran, Paula, ed. • The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume One (Arley Sorg) Hernandez, Catherine • Crosshairs (Ian Mond) Holmberg, Charlie N. • Spellbreaker (Colleen Mondor) Kuang, R.F. • The Burning God (Elsa Sjunneson) Laidlaw, Marc • Underneath the Oversea (Paul Di Filippo) Lewis, Linden A. • The First Sister (Katharine Coldiron) Maguire, Gregory • A Wild Winter Swan (Katharine Coldiron) Martin, George R.R., & Melissa Snodgrass, eds. • Deuces Down (Paula Guran) McMullen, Thomas • The Last Good Man (Ian Mond) Miller, Kirsten • Don't Tell a Soul (Colleen Mondor) Morselli, Guido • Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing (Ian Mond) Polk, C.L. • The Midnight Bargain (Colleen Mondor) Reynolds, Justin A. • Early Departures (Colleen Mondor) Roanhorse, Rebecca • Black Sun (Alex Brown) Royce, Eden • Root Magic (Paula Guran) Talabi, Wole • Africanfuturism: An Anthology (Gary K. Wolfe) Tsamaase, Tlotlo • The Silence of the Wilting Skin (Colleen Mondor) Wells, Martha • Fugitive Telemetry (Liz Bourke) Williams, Liz • Blackthorn Winter (Gary K. Wolfe) Wong, David • Zoey Punches the Future in the Dick (Ian Mond) 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. 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