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📚Science Fiction, Horror, and Fantasy Book News and Reviews since 1968 • 🏆30-time Hugo Award Winner •📍Based in the California Bay Area!

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Review of THE SLANTWISE HISTORIES by Alix E. Harow

“The Slantwise Histories brings together most of Harrow’s shorter work, along with five stories original to the collection, and as the title suggests (intentionally or not), it reflects Harrow’s Emily Dickinson-like approach to telling the truth, but telling it slant. Again, there are sidewise looks at fairy tales, history, witches, and ghosts, along with a couple of cool librarians and even a wry nod to O. Henry.”

See Gary K. Wolfe’s full review on locusmag.com, and follow for more reviews and SFF content! by @locusmagazine

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WEDNESDAY! Come 2 All Hallows Eve: An Evening with Ellen Datlow & Friends 10/21 @ 8:15pm, in SF!

Celebrate spooky season w/ #EllenDatlow @nytebird45 @tdelucci #BrianEvenson + #JeffreyFord w/ our very own EIC #LizaTrombi

Tix here: https://tinyurl.com/ycx3aept

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@litquake Poster for LITQUAKE San Francisco’s Literary Festival advertising “All Hallows Eve: An Evening with Ellen Datlow & Friends,” Wed Oct 21, 8:15–9:45 pm at Lost Church, 988 Columbus Ave., SF, with photos and names of Linda D. Addison, Ellen Datlow, Theresa DeLucci, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, and Liza Trombi; co-presented with LOCUS, SF in SF, and PW. by @locusmagazine

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Review of THE CHILDREN by Melissa Albert

“YA author Melissa Albert makes her adult debut with The Children, a haunted house story that follows the travails of two adults who, as children, were made famous by their mother’s literary pursuits. Opening with Guinevere “Guin” Sharpe promoting her memoir of growing up with her famous mother, The Children hints early on that not all was grand in the Sharpe household. As the pages turn, Albert rolls out more hints of Guin’s complicated childhood until it is clear that there was something hungry in the house she grew up in, and that her mother made a deal for fame that exacted a heavy price from the lives of those around her.”

See Colleen Mondor’s full review on locusmag.com, and follow for more reviews and SFF content! by @locusmagazine

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Remains #5, Uncanny 7-8/26, and Nightmare 7/26: Review by Paula Guran https://locusmag.com/review/remains-5-uncanny-7-8-26-and-nightmare-7-26-review-by-paula-guran/ by @locusmagazine

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Review of ENGINES OF REASON by Adrian Tchaikovsky

“In Engines of Reason, the sequel to Elder Race (2021), Adrian Tchaikovsky continues the exploration of the collision between magical and materialist views of the world and, more significantly, how the stories they generate interact with the world-as-it-is. In literary-categorical terms, this means that these books exploit the tensions and overlaps between the genre territories we call “fantasy” and “science fiction.””

See Russell Letson’s full review on locusmag.com, and follow for more reviews and SFF content! by @locusmagazine

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Presenting All Hallows Eve: An Evening with Ellen Datlow & Friends 10/21 @ 8:15pm!

Celebrate spooky season w/ #EllenDatlow #LindaDAddison #TheresaDeLucci #BrianEvenson + #JeffreyFord w/ our very own EIC #LizaTrombi

Tix discounted 'til 10/18!: https://tinyurl.com/ycx3aept
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@litquake Litquake San Francisco’s Literary Festival poster for “All Hallows Eve: An Evening with Ellen Datlow & Friends,” scheduled Wed Oct 21, 8:15–9:45 pm at Lost Church, 988 Columbus Ave., SF. Circular headshots name Linda D. Addison, Ellen Datlow, Theresa DeLucci, Brian Evenson, Jeffrey Ford, and Liza Trombi, with co-presented with Locus and SF in SF at the bottom. by @locusmagazine

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#OfftheReservation by @stephengrahamjones was featured in our #newbooks haul this week!

Full video: https://youtu.be/aaVC8lQBdw0
Buy all the books: https://bookshop.org/lists/new-releases-science-fiction-fantasy-horror-books-week-of-10-13-26
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@sagapressbooks #bookstagram by @locusmagazine

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The Slantwise Histories by Alix E. Harrow: Review by Gary K. Wolfe https://locusmag.com/review/the-slantwise-histories-by-alix-e-harrow-review-by-gary-k-wolfe/ by @locusmagazine

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Review of THE ROUSE by China Miéville

“After last year, having read Mark Z. Danielewski’s Tom’s Crossing (1,232 pages and just over 550,000 words) and Marguerite Young’s Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1,336 pages and a scratch under 700,000 words), I’m no longer intimidated by very long, very challenging novels. When China Miéville announced that The Rouse, his first solo adult novel in fifteen years, would be over 1,200 pages, I wasn’t overawed but rather intrigued. I wanted to see what someone as formally inventive and erudite as Miéville would do with such a large canvas. But as hardened as I’ve become to doorstoppers, I was still ill-prepared for the allusive, strange beast that is The Rouse.”

See Ian Mond’s full review on locusmag.com, and follow for more reviews and SFF content! by @locusmagazine

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Review of SLOW BURN by Amal Singh

“Portal fantasies, where characters travel through some kind of magical gateway to another world, are a staple of speculative fiction, and the subgenre includes a wide range of works from the recent Piranesi by Susanna Clarke, to children’s classics like C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books. In his new novel Slow Burn, Amal Singh references another classic portal fantasy, naming part one of his book “Through the Looking Glass.” It’s an apt callback to Lewis Carroll’s Alice, as Singh’s protagonist, hapless and struggling actor Rishi Tripathi, ends up falling through a mirror into an alternate version of his Mumbai, and, seemingly, into an alternate version of his own life.”

See @mariahaskins’ full review on locusmag.com, and follow for more reviews and SFF content! by @locusmagazine

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#GoblinMarket by @ajhackwith was featured in this weeks #NewBooks haul!

Full video: https://youtu.be/aaVC8lQBdw0
Buy all the books: https://bookshop.org/lists/new-releases-science-fiction-fantasy-horror-books-week-of-10-13-26
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@acebookspub #Books by @locusmagazine

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New Book Releases Video: October 13, 2026 https://locusmag.com/2026/10/new-book-releases-video-october-13-2026/ by @locusmagazine

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