Locus Recommended Reading2022

Given by Locus Magazine

42 Works 4,679 Books 257 Reviews 4.0
This recommended reading list, published in Locus Magazine's February issue, is a consensus by Locus editors and reviewers with inputs from outside reviewers, other professionals, other lists, show more etc. Essays by many of these contributors, highlighting their particular favorite books and stories, are published in the February issue.

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WorkCategoryYear
The Rise of the Cyberzines: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1991 to 2020: The History of the Science-Fiction Magazines Volume V (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies LUP) by Mike Ashley
Non-Fiction2022
Fantasy: How It Works by Brian Attebery
Non-Fiction2022
An Earnest Blackness by Eugen Bacon
Non-Fiction2022
Sticking to the End by John Clute
Non-Fiction2022
Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations On Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature In a Pandemic by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Non-Fiction2022
Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic (Routledge Research in Art and Race) by Elizabeth Carmel Hamilton
Non-Fiction2022
Ramsey Campbell: Master of Weird Fiction by S. T. Joshi
Non-Fiction2022
Brian W. Aldiss (Modern Masters of Science Fiction) by Paul Kincaid
Non-Fiction2022
Robert Holdstock’s Mythago Wood: A Critical Companion (Palgrave Science Fiction and Fantasy: A New Canon) by Paul Kincaid
Non-Fiction2022
Science Fiction: Voyage to the Edge of Imagination by Glyn Morgan
Non-Fiction2022
Story Matrices by Gillian Polack
Non-Fiction2022
The Visual History of Science Fiction Fandom: Volume Two: 1940 by Daniel Ritter
Non-Fiction2022
Robert Aickman an Attempted Biography by R. B. Russell
Non-Fiction2022
Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics (Sexual Cultures) by Scott
Non-Fiction2022
Clive Barker’s Dark Worlds by Phil and Sarah Stokes
Non-Fiction2022
The Stephen King Ultimate Companion: A Complete Exploration of His Work, Life, and Influences by Bev Vincent
Non-Fiction2022
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
Non-Fiction2022
Needle by Linda Nagata
Novel - Science Fiction2022
The Talosite by Rebecca Campbell
Novella2022
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
Novella2022
Of Charms, Ghosts and Grievances by Aliette de Bodard
Novella2022
Comeuppance Served Cold by Marion Deeds
Novella2022
And Then I Woke Up by Malcolm Devlin
Novella2022
Servant Mage by Kate Elliott
Novella2022
A Mirror Mended by Alix E. Harrow
Novella2022
Kundo Wakes Up by Saad Z. Hossain
Novella2022
Kid Wolf and Kraken Boy by Sam J. Miller
Novella2022
The Long Game by K. J. Parker
Novella2022
Pulling the Wings Off Angels by K. J. Parker
Novella2022
Even Though I Knew the End by C. L. Polk
Novella2022
Lucky Girl by M. Rickert
Novella2022
Tread of Angels by Rebecca Roanhorse
Novella2022
High Times in the Low Parliament by Kelly Robson
Novella2022
These Prisoning Hills by Christopher Rowe
Novella2022
Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum
Novella2022
Pomegranates by Priya Sharma
Novella2022
The Bone Lantern by Angela Slatter
Novella2022
January Fifteenth by Rachel Swirsky
Novella2022
Ogres by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Novella2022
The Legacy of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson
Novella2022
All the Horses of Iceland by Sarah Tolmie
Novella2022
Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo
Novella2022

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