The July 2004 issue of Locus Magazine includes

• This year's Locus Poll results -- winners and complete poll rankings, with commentary and comparison, and tables of contents of the various best-of-the-year anthologies
  
  
• A report from last month's grand opening of the SF Museum and Hall of Fame in Seattle
  
  
• Interviews with writers Jeffrey Ford and Alexander C. Irvine
  
  
• People & Publishing items about Nancy Kress, Frank Kelly Freas, Arthur C. Clarke, Terry Brooks, Isabel Allende, Lois McMaster Bujold, and many others
  
  
• Reports from Black to the Future, Mythic Journeys, and the 2004 Book Expo America
  
  
• Obituaries of Brian McNaughton, Peter McNamara , and others
  
  
• A new quarterly review feature, John Joseph Adams on Audiobooks, this month reviewing productions of works by Jasper Fforde, Stephen King, William Gibson, and others
  
  
• Book and magazine reviews, including Nick Gevers and Rich Horton covering short fiction in magazines and anthologies, Gary K. Wolfe on several year's best anthologies, Faren Miller on Ian McDonald and Elizabeth Hand, Jonathan Strahan on Charles Stross, Tim Pratt on Robert Silverberg, Damien Broderick on Joe Haldeman, and others