On the Wings of la Noche, Vanessa L. Torres (Knopf Books for Young Readers 978-0-593-42617-3, $19.99, 340pp, hc) January 2025. Cover by Monique Muñoz. Seventeen-year-old Estrella (aka ‘‘Noche’’) de…| Locus Online
Metallic Realms , Lincoln Michel (Atria 978-1668058671, hardcover, 320pp, $28.99) May 2025. Is it possible to be both savage and loving towards the object of your attentions? Cruel to be kind? Pass…| Locus Online
This list covers new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals (including regularly updated websites) seen by Locus magazine, focusing on those that publish fiction or reviews and criticism.…| Locus Online
Black Brane, Michael Cisco (CLASH Books 978-1-96098-861-4, $17.95, 170pp, tp) July 2025. Given my passion for the absurd, I’m almost embarrassed to admit I’ve never read a novel or short story by …| Locus Online
Volatile Memory, Seth Haddon (Tordotcom 978-1-25036-468-5, $21.99, 176pp, hc). July 2025. Cover by Zoë van Dijk. Seth Haddon’s Volatile Memory is a fantastically embodied novella. Bodies – whether…| Locus Online
André Alexis, Other Worlds (FSG Originals 5/25) In this dazzling and philosophical collection of nine stories, six all-new, the strange and the everyday coalesce in worlds both real a…| Locus Online
Welcome back for another week of the best new book releases of the week! We’re excited to tell you about our picks for the top releases in the SF, Fantasy, Horror, and YA fields! We post regu…| Locus Online
Kitemaster, Jim C. Hines (Arc Manor/Caezik 978-1-647-10160-2, $24.99, 260pp, hc) May 2025. The first thing you need to know about Jim Hines’s wonderful new fantasy Kitemaster is that it involves hu…| Locus Online
The Brooklyn Book Festival announced in a livestreamed event that Marlon James is the winner of the 2025 Best in Brooklyn (BoBi) Award, given “to an author whose work best exemplifies or spea…| Locus Online
The 14 winning titles for the July 2025 PEN Translates awards have been announced. The awards are given to works translated from other languages into English, “on the basis of outstanding lit…| Locus Online
