Diabolical Plots 4/25 Zooscape 4/25 Worlds of Possibility, Version One 4/25 The April Diabolical Plots closes with Hannah Yang’s “The Octopus Dreams of Personhood”, in which Shun is dealing with be…| Locus Online
The legendary musician, producer, and weirdo Brian Eno has many notable accomplishments and high among them is the production of the ‘‘Oblique Strategies’’ deck, a deck of cards emblazoned with gno…| Locus Online
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
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
Clarkesworld 4/25 “Through These Moments, Darkly” by Samantha Murray in the April issue of Clarkesworld is a story with some nice descriptive language that looks at perception and the way we make …| Locus Online
The 2025 SFWA Nebula Conference was held June 5-8 at the Kansas City Marriott Country Club Plaza in Kansas City MO and also held online for remote attendees. The conference organizers declined to s…| Locus Online
Updated 7/14/25: According to a post from SFWA, Must Read Books has removed some of the troubling contractual language. SFWA was considering de-listing Analog from their Market report, but, on Jul…| Locus Online
Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic 978-1-546-17146-1, $27.99, 400pp, hc) March 2025. Suzanne Collins returned in March to her blockbuster Hunger Games trilogy with another prequel,…| Locus Online
Major Arcana, John Pistelli (Self-published 978-1735076935, 753pp, tp) March 2024. (Belt Publishing 978-1-95336-892-8, $24.95, 564pp, tp) April 2025. After some initial reluctance – did I really wa…| Locus Online
Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! New science fiction, fantasy, and horror books for the week of July 8, 2025. Aaronovit…| Locus Online
Esperance, Adam Oyebanji (DAW 978-07564-1991-2, $29.00, 432pp, hc) May 2025. In the first scene of Adam Oyebanji’s Esperance, detective Ethan Krol is called to the scene of a drowning. One problem…| Locus Online
Independent publisher Quirk Books has paused its publishing program and laid off “a significant portion of its staff.” In a statement to Publishers Weekly, David Borgenicht, Quirk Books…| Locus Online
The Legendary Scarlett & Browne, Jonathan Stroud (Knopf Books for Young Readers 978-0-593-70736-4, $17.99, 448pp, hc) March 2025. Jonathan Stroud, who gained many fans with his Lockwood & C…| Locus Online
Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! New science fiction, fantasy, and horror books for the week of July 1, 2025. Anderson,…| Locus Online
Strange Horizons 3/10/25, 3/17/25, 3/31/25 Flash Fiction Online 3/25 Fiyah Spring ’25 The March Strange Horizons features a great mix of fiction and poetry, including Nico Martinez Nocito’s poem “T…| Locus Online
Sọmadịna, Akwaeke Emezi (Knopf 978-0-59330-907-0, $19.99. 304pp, hc) April 2025. Cover by Paul Davey. In Akwaeke Emezi’s Sọmadịna, 15-year-old twins Sọmadịna and Jayaike are different from other ch…| Locus Online
When the Tides Held the Moon, Venessa Vida Kelley (Erewhon 978-1-64566-153-5, $29.00. 464pp, hc) April 2025. Cover by Venessa Vida Kelley. Benigno ‘‘Benny’’ Caldera arrives in New York City in 1911…| Locus Online
Exit Zero: Stories, Marie-Helene Bertino (FSG Originals 978-0-37461-647-2, $18.00, 208pp, tp) April 2025. Beautyland by Marie-Helene Bertino was one of the best books of 2024. As is the way with th…| Locus Online
Clarkesworld 3/25 The March issue of Clarkesworld kicks off with a sweet, gentle, and hopeful story, “From Enceladus, With Love” by Ryan Cole. Dezzi stows away on a ship headed for Enceladus, look…| Locus Online
Diabolical Plots 3/25 GigaNotoSaurus 3/25 Small Wonders 3/25 Moving into March, Diabolical Plots features R.J. Becks’s strange historical sci-fantasy, “The Witches Who Drowned”. In it, the narrator…| Locus Online
The Country Under Heaven, Frederic S. Durbin (Melville House 978-1685891695, trade paperback, 336pp, $19.99) May 2025. Surely the gold standard for supernatural tales involving a picaresque wandere…| Locus Online
They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US 978-1-547-61111-9, $19.99, 288pp, hc) March 2025. They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran is a near-future horror/murder mystery/dark fantasy th…| Locus Online
The Antidote, Karen Russell (Knopf 978-0-59380-225-0, $30.00, 432pp, hc) March 2025. After reading and listening to several “most anticipated books of 2025” articles and podcasts that linked Karen …| Locus Online
Reactor 1/22/25, 2/5/25, 2/19/25, 2/26/25, 3/5/25, 3/12/25 The Sunday Morning Transport 2/2/25, 2/16/25, 2/23/25, 3/9/25, 3/16/25 Weird Horror Spring ’25 Reactor (formerly Tor.com) offered up sever…| Locus Online
Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! New science fiction, fantasy, and horror books for the week of June 10, 2025. Amerie: …| Locus Online
Anima Rising, Christopher Moore (William Morrow 978-0-06-243415-9, $30.00, 400pp, hc) May 2025. It almost goes without saying that Victor Frankenstein and his creation have been enjoying a two-cen…| Locus Online
The Ignyte Awards Committee has announced the finalists for the 2025 Ignyte Awards, which “seek to celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction…| Locus Online
2024 was bit of an irregular year for me, reading-wise. As per my notebooks, I read around 90 books (alas, less than my last year’s score of 110 on Goodreads) – the main course obviously being spe…| Locus Online
Clarkesworld 10/24 “Space O/pera” by Abby Nicole Lee in the October issue of Clarkesworld centers on Clara, whose family dog, Daki, is sent into space. When footage of Daki’s shuttle exploding is r…| Locus Online
Depth Charge, edited by Hank Davis & Jamie Ibson (Baen 978-1982193829, trade paperback, 288pp, $18.00) December 2024 Not so very long ago, the fantastika publishing ecology held open a niche fo…| Locus Online
Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, released the following statement today: In the course of tallying the votes on the final ballot for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administrat…| Locus Online
Escape Velocity, Victor Manibo (Erewhon Books 978-1645660842, hardcover, 368pp, $28.00) May 2024 The Jacobean Revenge Tragedy is a mode not unprecedented in SF. The instance that comes most readily…| Locus Online
Lost Ark Dreaming, Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Tordotcom 978-1250890757, $19.99, 192pp, hc) May 2024. The idea of social stratification enforced through architecture – in other words, high-rises with th…| Locus Online
The Fireborne Blade, Charlotte Bond (Tordotcom 978-1-25029-031-1, $20.99, 176pp, hc) May 2024. It’s always interesting to review a novella, and this month I have three. Or three very short novels, …| Locus Online
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…| Locus Online
You’ve probably heard of “open source software.” If you pay attention to the politics of this stuff, you might have heard of “free software” and even know a little ab…| Locus Online
Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble. Pick up a rental car at SFO and drive in either direction on the 101 – north to San Francisco, south to Palo Alto – and …| Locus Online
Menewood, Nicola Griffith (MCD/Farrar, Straus, Giroux 978-0-37420-808-0, $35.00, 720pp, hc) October 2023. When her novel Hild was published back in 2013, Nicola Griffith wrote a short essay for Tor…| Locus Online
From 1811-1816, a secret society styling themselves “the Luddites” smashed textile machinery in the mills of England. Today, we use “Luddite” as a pejorative referring to backwards, anti-technology…| Locus Online
As I type these words, a mass exodus is underway from Twitter and Facebook. After decades of eye-popping growth, these social media sites are contracting at an alarming rate. In some ways, this sho…| Locus Online
