The May 2004 issue of Locus Magazine includes

• The latest awards news -- Hugo and RetroHugo nominations, Nebula winners, Philip K. Dick and James Tiptree, Jr. winners, the Stoker ballot, and more
  
  
• Interviews with writers Terry Pratchett and Liz Williams
  
  
• News reports about the opening of Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, a celebration honoring Ray Bradbury, and David Pringle's exit from Interzone magazine
  
  
• People & Publishing items about Jack Vance, George R.R. Martin, Robert Reed, Francesca Lia Block, and many others
  
  
• A Report from this year's International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
  
  
• Obituaries of Robert Merle, Katherine Lawrence, Roger Dee, Peter Ustinov, and others
  
  
• Book and magazine reviews, including Nick Gevers and Rich Horton covering short fiction in magazines and anthologies, Gary K. Wolfe on Steph Swainston and Greg Bear, Faren Miller on Nick Mamatas and Thomas Wheeler, Russell Letson on Neal Stephenson, Tim Pratt on Peter Crowther and SF poetry; Carolyn Cushman on G.P. Taylor and others; and Karen Haber on art books