The October 2004 issue of Locus Magazine includes

• Results of the Hugo Awards and the Retro Hugo Awards, and coverage of last month's World Science Fiction Convention in Boston
  
  
• Interviews with writers John Varley and Eileen Gunn
  
  
• People & Publishing items about Gardner Dozois, Jack Williamson, Esther Friesner, Tad Williams, Poppy Z. Brite, Neil Gaiman, and many others
  
  
• Obituaries of Alfred Coppel, Harvey Wheeler, George Flynn, and others
  
  
• Book and magazine reviews, including Nick Gevers and Rich Horton covering short fiction in magazines and anthologies, Gary K. Wolfe on Neal Stephenson's The System of the World, Faren Miller on Stephen King's The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, Russell Letson on Frederik Pohl's The Boy Who Would Live Forever, Nick Gevers on Stephen Baxter's Exultant, Damien Broderick on Iain M. Banks' The Algebraist, and others