The May 2006 issue of Locus Magazine's is a special Young Adult Fiction issue, including --

• Interviews with writers Scott Westerfeld, Kenneth Oppel, and Holly Black
  
  
• Essays about YA fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin, Jonathan Stroud, Farah Mendlesohn, and others
  
  
• News stories report on March's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, winners of the Philip K. Dick and British Science Fiction Association Awards, and the death of Polish writer Stanislaw Lem
  
  
• The obituary of Stanislaw Lem is accompanied by appreciations from Michael Kandel and Franz Rottensteiner; there are other obituaries for John Morressy, Angus Wells, David W. Stemple, and others
  
  
• People & Publishing items about Cory Doctorow, John Crowley, Ben Bova, Charles Stross, China Miéville, and many others
  
  
• Bibliographic listings of the month's New Books and Magazines published in the US and UK
  
  
• Lots of reviews, including
  • Gary K. Wolfe on Scott Westerfeld and Margo Lanagan;
  • Faren Miller on Amanda Hemingway and Philip Reeve;
  • Nick Gevers on Vernor Vinge and Adam Roberts;
  • Carolyn Cushman on William Nicholson and Garth Nix;
  • Lisa Goldstein on Jo Walton;
  ...among many others