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The September 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Wole Talabi and John Wiswell. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2024. News covers the 2023 World Fantasy Awards Ballot, the sale of Simon & Schuster to KKR, Ned Beauman’s Clarke win, the closure of Fantasy Magazine, the Seiun Awards winners, the Dragon Awards ballot, and much more. This month’s commentary by Cory Doctorow is entitled Plausible Sentence Generators. Event coverage includes reports on Readercon and Pemmi-Con and photos from summer workshops. John R. Douglas, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, and Ira M. Thornhill are remembered with obituaries. Reviews include new titles by Lavie Tidhar, Elizabeth Hand, Alix E. Harrow, Garth Nix, Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Aliette de Bodard, Keith Rosson, Babak Lakghomi, Ehigbor Okosun, Alechia Dow, Sona Charaipotra & Samira Ahmed (eds.), Vajra Chandrasekera, Sin Blaché & Helen Macdonald, Courtney Gould, Garth Nix, William Ritter, Victor LaValle, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Craig Clevenger, Josh Rountree, Adrian Tchaikovsky, A.Y. Chao, C.L. Clark, Octavia Cade, Ryan Britt, and others.