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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) announced its Constellation Series, “a quarterly professional development weekend that focuses on the needs and interests of one or …| Locus Online
The Other Shore, Rebecca Campbell (Stelliform 978-1-99846-601-6, $21.99, 224pp, tp) October 2025. Cover by Kerry Pagdin. Reading Rebecca Campbell’s The Other Shore feels like the literary version of listening to a concept album. The ocean, the West Coast, loss, ghosts, and the land are only some of the things that permeate the collection. However, the author’s voice and lyrical prose are what make this a standout. As with every ...Read More| Locus Online
Moderation, Elaine Castillo (Atlantic 978-1-838-95498-7, £17.99, 320pp, hc) July 2025. (Viking 878-0-593-48966-6, $29.00, 320pp, hc) August 2025. From a novel that grapples with how we might expand our definition of humanity to include the artificial, animal, and microbial, I turn to one that explores the fractal complexity of humanity in the here-and-just-after-now. Elaine Castillo’s Moderation is a worlds-spanning romance, and one of its worlds, the bridging world, is the ...Read More| Locus Online
The Locus team is back again with another video on the top new releases of the week of August 26th! We’re going over the best of the best in the SF, Fantasy, Horror, and YA genres! Locus posts weekly so consider subscribing to the channel to keep up-to-date on future releases whilst also supporting our work! We hope to see you back here next week! ...Read More| Locus Online
Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom 9781250357465, $24.99, 176pp, hc) August 2025. I pretend no expertise at all on the current spate of cozy SF and fantasy novels, except to note that, along with food, furniture, and found families, a lot of them seem to focus on the problems of running small businesses – coffee shops, tea merchants, bookstores, bakeries, etc. In the case of Annalee Newitz’s Automatic Noodle, ...Read More| Locus Online
Polybius, Collin Armstrong (Gallery 978-0-668-04497-1, $28.99, 352pp, hc) April 2025. In October 1982, the most popular arcade game in Tasker Bay, California is Polybius. It arrives from an auction house into the local independent video store where teen Andi is largely in charge every afternoon. Soon it has a rapidly growing gang of fans, which would not be all that unusual for a new game in 1982, except everyone ...Read More| Locus Online
Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! Asher, Monique: The Red Knot (Rising Action 978-1998076017, £16.99, 400pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 08/26/2025) Horror/mystery novel. Three girls vanish from an isolated Alaskan island, and storms cut them off from the outside world. When her friend, the town therapist, is murdered, detective Audra finds more killings going back decades. Baron, David: ...Read More| Locus Online
Minds in Transit, Joan Slonczewski (Caezik 978-1-664-1073-2, $24.99, 260pp, tp) July 2025. It is a long time since we shared imagination with Joan Slonczewski. Their previous novel, The Highest Frontier, was published over a decade ago (2011), and appeared to inaugurate a quasisatiric near-future series about genius students coming of age amidst turbulent US politics; but no sequels have ever appeared, perhaps overtaken by reality. It is a ...Read More| 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. To submit titles for listing on these pages, please send to Locus Publications, 655 13th St. #100, Oakland CA 94612 or email locus@locusmag.com. Analog Trevor Quachri, ed. Vol. 195, Nos 7 & 8, July/August 2025, $9.99 print, bimonthly, 208pp, 14½ x 21½ ...Read More| Locus Online
Three titles debut on USA Today‘s list: Gareth Brown’s The Society of Unknowable Objects (Morrow) at #37, Chuck Tingle’s Lucky Day (Tor Nightfire) at #15, and Rebecca Thorne’s Alchemy and a Cup of Tea (Bramble) at #18. Callie Hart’s Brimstone (Forever), sequel to Quicksilver and due November 18th, places on all three Amazon lists today. Title Debut / #wks on any list NYT 08.31 LAT 08.24 USAT 08.17 PW 08.25 ...Read More| Locus Online
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) announced its Constellation Series, “a quarterly professional development weekend that focuses on the needs and interests of one or …| Locus Online
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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
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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
The April 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Daryl Gregory and S.A. Barnes and a spotlight on Tachyon Publications. News includes the 2024 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards fina…| Locus Online
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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
Anna In maailman hautakammioissa by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Tapani Kärkkäinen (Särötär) is the winner of the 2025 Tähtifantasia Award, presented by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for th…| Locus Online
The finalists for the annual Baen Fantasy Adventure Award were announced on July 9, 2025. “A Good Demon Hunter is Hard to Find”, Martina Anders “The Void Within”, Tyler Bourassa “The Teacher”, Sara…| 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
Winners of the Heinlein Society’s annual undergraduate scholarships for the 2025-2026 academic year were announced on July 7, 2025, Robert A. Heinlein’s 118th birthday. This year’…| 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 European Science Fiction Society (ESFS) announced the Hall of Fame Awards, Achievement Awards, and winners of the Chrysalis Awards for emerging talent. Hall of Fame Awards Best Author WINNER: A…| 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
Dream Foundry, a “non-profit dedicated to bolstering the careers of nascent professionals working with the speculative arts,” has announced the finalists for its 2025 contests. Writing …| 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
Congratulations to all of the Locus Awards top ten finalists! The Locus Awards winners will be announced June 21, 2025, during the in-person Locus Awards Ceremony, held in the historic Nile …| 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
The May 2025 issue of Locus has interviews with Guy Gavriel Kay and Rita Woods and a spotlight on agent Lee O’Brien. News includes the 2025 Hugo Awards Ballot, Nicola Griffith’s induction as …| 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
Legendary author and editor Michael Moorcock turned 75 on December 18, 2014. In celebration of his lifetime of tremendous (and ongoing) contributions to SF and fantasy literature, Locus’s Dec…| Locus Online
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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
Norwescon 47 was held April 17–20, 2025 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Seattle Airport in SeaTac WA; the theme was ‘‘Through the Cosmic Telescope.’’ Guests of honor were Catherynne M. Valente (w…| 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
Ray Bradbury’s classic 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451 (Del Rey), about a totalitarian society that outlaws and burns books, has ranked on this page 451 times now, since July of 2003. (That’s…| Locus Online
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The February 2024 issue of Locus is the annual Year in Review overview with essays, the Locus 2023 Recommended Reading List, and magazine and book summaries tracking the progress of the industry. T…| Locus Online
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The March 2025 issue of Locus has interviews with Amal El-Mohtar and Hache Pueyo, a spotlight on Diabolical Plots & the Submission Grinder, and a spotlight on Allan Kaster & Infinivox. The …| 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
The February 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Gareth L. Powell & Ibi Zoboi and a spotlight on Never Whistle at Night, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Main sto…| Locus Online
Welcome to the annual Locus Recommended Reading List… We saw some fabulous books come out last year and are so pleased to let you know about them! This list is compiled by the Locus editor…| 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
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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
This video has some technical problems, as the room we were in has super limited connectivity and so our feed was often buffering or otherwise compromised in streaming or saving to the cloud. This …| 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
Cory Doctorow, The Bezzle (Tor 2/24) Forensic accountant Martin Hench returns in this noir thriller, a prequel to Red Team Blues set during the dot-com bubble. Hench and a friend brin…| 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
» NY Times, 10 May: Talking to Leigh Bardugo, Fantasy Superstar (audio interview hosted by Gilbert Cruz) » Esquire, Jonathan Russell Clark, 7 May: Why We Love Time Travel Stories, discussing Kalian…| 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
R.F. LUCCHETTI, 94, the dean of Brazilian pulp writers, died March 5, 2024 of respiratory failure following a stroke in Ribeirão Preto, in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Rubens Francisco Lucchet…| Locus Online
The Locus Science Fiction Foundation has announced the top ten finalists in each category of the 2024 Locus Awards. These results are from the February 1 to April 15 voting, done by readers on an o…| 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
