John Clute, co-founder of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, has announced the release of a Substack site associated with the online database, which will host both short free-access posts and longer posts for subscribers. Posts on the site will include essays, news updates, reflections, and more, intended to “clock the sf world as it changes, and more particularly how SFE records and honours these changes.” Clute said, Most of what ... Read More| Locus Online
The Canadian Children’s Book Centre (CCBC) has announced the winners for the 2025 CCBC Book Awards, celebrating “outstanding literary achievement” with seven children’s book awards. Awards of genre interest include: Arlene Barlin Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy WINNER: The Headmasters, Mark Morton (Shadowpaw) Fledgling, S.K. Ali (Kokila) Lockjaw, Matteo L. Cerilli (Tundra) Waking the Dead and Other Fun Activities, Casey Lyall (Greenwillow) Where the Dark ... Read More| Locus Online
Visit our bookshop.org page to purchase this week’s new books and support your local bookstore. And us! Baum, Rebecca: The Brood (Amazon/Thomas & Mercer 978-1662530562, $16.99, 207pp, formats: paperback, ebook, audiobook, 10/28/2025) Horror novel. Cutthroat lawyer Mary, fleeing upstate to avoid controversy and the press, crashes her car amongst a horde of cicadas; she’s held captive in a remote cabin by a strange woman called Girl. Bea, Kimberly: ... Read More| Locus Online
Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shyamalan’s Remain: A Supernatural Love Story (Random House), basis for the film to be released a full year from now, debuts on three print lists, ranking #1 on two of them. Two other debuts are deluxe hardcover editions of previously published books: Pierce Brown’s Red Rising (Del Rey), on three lists; and Matthew Stover’s Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith: Episode III (Random House World), ... Read More| Locus Online
Updated 10/28/25: Colette H. Fozard and The Development Center for Chengdu Worldcon, Inc. have shared in a press release that DCFCW and Chengdu Worldcon have accepted a commitment of action by Dave…| Locus Online
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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
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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
We’re coming up on Halloween, but until we get there why not let Locus tell you about the top new releases of the week! We’re going over the best of the best in the SF, Fantasy, Horror,…| Locus Online
The Huntington has acquired the personal library and papers of Kim Stanley Robinson, including drafts of novels, annotated works, photographs, and more. All told, The Huntington describes the collection as “50 linear feet of papers, photographs, and manuscripts as well as thousands of digital files.” The Huntington stated that their goal is to make the material available to researchers by 2027. Robinson said the acquisition was a “deep pleasure… I’ve ... Read More| Locus Online
Shadowpaw Press has announced that it intends to continue publishing On Spec in annual anthologies, following the announcement of the magazine’s closing. The current plan is to Kickstart an On Spec 2026 anthology early in 2026, with the goal of opening to submissions after that and publishing the book in the fall. If the Kickstarter succeeds, the aim would be an annual anthology thereafter. The anthology will be open to ... Read More| Locus Online
Artist Drew Struzan, 78, died October 13, 2025. He had Alzheimer’s disease. Struzan was born March 18, 1947 in Oregon City OR. He attended the ArtCenter College of Design, graduated, and traveled t…| Locus Online
The Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Trust has announced Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera (Tordotcom) as the winner of the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, awarding a $25,000 cash prize “to the…| Locus Online
Four debuts this week, most prominently trade paperback Mate by Ali Hazelwood (Berkley), ranking #1 or #2 on the four print lists compiled here. (There’s a simultaneous hardcover edition.) Ot…| Locus Online
The winner of the 2024 Endeavour Award has been announced. The award recognizes “a distinguished science fiction or fantasy book written by a Pacific Northwest author or authors and published…| 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
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
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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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
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
