New & Notable, October 2025 – Locus Online
Chinaza Bado, Birth of a Dynasty (Harper Voyager US 7/25) In this gripping West African-inspired epic fantasy novel, the first in a trilogy, the children of two noble families seek v…| Locus Online
Chinaza Bado, Birth of a Dynasty (Harper Voyager US 7/25) In this gripping West African-inspired epic fantasy novel, the first in a trilogy, the children of two noble families seek v…| Locus Online
Seattle Worldcon 2025, the 83rd World Science Fiction Convention, received 1,962 valid ballots, down from 3,436 at Glasgow 2024. 1,338 nominating votes were cast electronically (another two sent …| Locus Online
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
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
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
