The August 2006 issue of Locus Magazine features --

• Obituary of publisher Jim Baen, with tributes by Toni Weiskoff, Tom Doherty, Betsy Mitchell, Lois McMaster Bujold, David Weber, David Mattingly, Bob Eggleton, and John Lambshead
  
  
• Interviews with Ian McDonald and John C. Wright
  
  
• News stories covering the Locus, Campbell, and Sturgeon Awards winners, the Chesley Awards nominations, and a report from Wiscon 30
  
  
• People & Publishing items about J.K. Rowling, Gregory Benford, Jack Williamson, Greg Bear, Charles Stross, Ray Harryhausen, Philip Pullman, and many others
  
  
• Other Obituaries of Ronald Clyne, Mickey Spillane, Roderick MacLeish, and 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 year's best SF anthologies;
  • Faren Miller on Michael Moorcock and Jeff VanderMeer;
  • Ed Bryant on Scott Nicholson;
  • Carolyn Cushman on Lois McMaster Bujold and Terry Pratchett;
  • Tim Pratt and Amelia Beamer on Lost and Kim Newman;
  • Graham Sleight on classics by Philip K. Dick;
  ...among many others