Locus Magazine

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Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination. https://locusmag.com linktr.ee/locusmagazine

video of isabel j kim reading wire mother, over blue background, text says: "including award winning author isabel j kim, now live on kickstarter, the locus best science fiction and fantasy of the year volume 1" photo of a book with cover: person in red cape looking at floating ruins.
text on blue background w floating rocks and person with red cape, text reads "help us reach our next stretch goal, pay the editor!" fundraising thermometer with filled in: "sleek anthology" "big ol book" "more beautiful book" next to the goal levels. Paragraph below with headshot of Jonathan Strahan: "Our award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan is currently working pro bono. We would love to pay him for his time making this amazing book!"
a paperback and e-reader version of the Locus anthology, plus a t-shirt with rocket, 3 mugs with rocket, squocket, on green background w/ floating rocks
a book floating over a purple digital landscape depicting silhouettes of people that is moving. Text on the screen reads "A teenager is raised by her father and an entirely digital mother, yet feels no emotion for this world's many digital citizens... read the rest in our anthology on kickstarter"
A large e-reader and smartphone, both displaying the book cover for The Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume 1. Text below says: "get an epub anthology for backing on kickstarter" followed by a url: locusmag.com/anthology
In the top-right corner of the image, a hardcover book. The cover of the book shows an illustration of a caped figure in front of a surreal landscape. The title reads: "The Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Of the Year: Volume 1" In the center of the image, images of three enamel pins. The pin on the left is of a green one-eyed alien waving. The middle pin shows a green alien in a flying saucer reading a book, and the third is of a purple squid-rocket hybrid. Text below the pins reads: "add a set of pins to your pledge on Kickstarter" followed by a url: locusmag.com/anthology
transparent green bubbles over a background with floating rocks, in each bubble is text, they read: "We Begin Where Infinity Ends", Somto Ihezue "The City of Tears", Molly Tanzer "The Shadow on the Nest", Alaya Dawn Johnson "The Millay Illusion", Sarah Pinsker "We, the Fleet", Alex T. Singer "Wolf Moon, Antler Moon", A.C. Wise "The Temporary Murder of Thomas Monroe", Tia Tashiro "Mindtrips", Tlotlo Tsamaase "Garden of the Bloodpotter", Erin Brown "Last Train from Deadwall", André Geleynse "The Twenty-One Second God", Peter Watts "Kaiju Agonistes", Scott Lynch a photo of the anthology on the bottom, featured a person in a red cape looking out over floating ruins, and text: "the novelettes"
book hovering in purple cloud, fundraiser thermometer with tiers "sleek anthology, and big ol book" funded, with 'more beautiful book' as the goal. Text says 'help us reach our next stretch goal og beautifying the book!' kickstarter. background is floating rocks in the sky.
a black screen with two animated birds fluttering by a pair of gloves moving over an overturned top hat, with text on the screen that reads "A talented young mind-reader, forced to perform her act as a boy, meets another young woman who hungers to rise to the top of the male-dominated world of magicians... read the rest in the new anthology on kickstarter"
Art by Catherine Cribbs 1970
a hardcover and e-reader version of the Locus anthology, on green background w/ floating rocks, that says "get the hardcover and epub for backing on kickstarter"
locus magazine cover -- large spaceship taking off
In the top-right corner of the image, a hardcover book. The cover of the book shows an illustration of a caped figure in front of a surreal landscape. The title reads: "The Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Of the Year: Volume 1" In the center of the image, images of three mugs. The mug on the left shows an image of a rocket and a planet in rainbow colors next to text that reads: "I read Locus". The mug in the center shows three purple hybrid squid-rockets beside the Locus logo. The mug on the right shows a red rocket logo over a black circle above the Locus logo. Text below the mugs reads: "add a mug to your pledge on Kickstarter" followed by a url: locusmag.com/anthology
In the top-right corner of the image, a hardcover book. The cover of the book shows an illustration of a caped figure in front of a surreal landscape. The title reads: "The Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Of the Year: Volume 1" In the center of the image, images of various items include enamel pins, fabric patches, and stickers. The pins, patches, and stickers all display a variety of Locus logos and characters, including aliens and squids. Text at the bottom of the image reads: "add Locus Swag to your pledge on Kickstarter" followed by a url: locusmag.com/anthology
locus magazine cover - burning fist on black background
In the top-right corner of the image, a hardcover book. The cover of the book shows an illustration of a caped figure in front of a surreal landscape. The title reads: "The Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Of the Year: Volume 1" In the center of the image, images of two patches. One is rectangular and shows a Rocket logo next to the word Locus. The other is circular and features an image of a one-eyed alien holding a lightbulb. Text below the patches reads: "add patches to your pledge on Kickstarter" followed by a url: locusmag.com/anthology
video of thomas ha reading superimposed over a blue/green background with floating rocks. Text says "including locus award winning author thomas ha" with photo of the anthology
text: the short stories, 12 bubbles floating over a sky background, they read: "Wire Mother", Isabel J. Kim , "Magical Girl Antifa War Machine", Esther Alter "The Peculiarities of Hunger", Woody Dismukes "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting", Bogi Takács "Because I Held His Name Like a Key", Aimee Ogden "In My Country", Thomas Ha "Tell Them a Story to Teach Them Kindness", B. Pladek "Arachnomorphosis", Beth Goder "Slipcraft", Jarune Uwujaren "Pandora’s Formula", Hannah Yang "Landline", Kelly Robson "Courtney Lovecraft's Book of the Dead", Sam J. Miller
video of a book cover with fireflies behind it , and text on the screen that says "Two teens secretly begin modifying street lamps to save firefly populations in future Africa... read the rest in our anthology. Kickstarter"
locus magazine cover - ufo abduction with red text
In the top-right corner of the image, a hardcover book. The cover of the book shows an illustration of a caped figure in front of a surreal landscape. The title reads: "The Locus Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Of the Year: Volume 1" In the center of the image, images of three Locus magazines in a stack ad one e-reader displaying a Locus Magazine cover. Text at the bottom of the image reads: "add a print or digital subscription to your pledge on Kickstarter" followed by a url: locusmag.com/anthology
locus magazine cover, green dragon of mist
an e-reader version of the Locus anthology, on green background w/ floating rocks
a paperback and e-reader version of the Locus anthology, plus a t-shirt with rocket, 3 mugs with rocket, squocket, on green background w/ floating rocks
Locus magazine cover- floating city on green background
locus magazine cover -- house on an eerie hill
a book floating over a purple digital landscape depicting silhouettes of people that is moving. Text on the screen reads "A teenager is raised by her father and an entirely digital mother, yet feels no emotion for this world's many digital citizens... read the rest in our anthology on kickstarter"
a black screen with two animated birds fluttering by a pair of gloves moving over an overturned top hat, with text on the screen that reads "A talented young mind-reader, forced to perform her act as a boy, meets another young woman who hungers to rise to the top of the male-dominated world of magicians... read the rest in the new anthology on kickstarter"