The February 2005 issue of Locus Magazine's annual Year-in-Review issue, looking back at 2004, with:

• Recommended reading essays by Locus reviewers (and guests)
  
  
• Summaries of the year in book and magazine publishing
  
  
• A composite recommended reading list of books and stories
  
  
• Plus, the ballot for this year's Locus Poll and Survey
  
  

• An interview with writer Neil Gaiman
  
  
• Obituaries and appreciations of Frank Kelly Freas and Will Eisner
  
  
• News stories covering the preliminary Nebula ballot, the Philip K. Dick Award nominees, Jim Minz' move from Tor to Del Rey, Amazing Stories' hiatus, and Arthur C. Clarke's reaction to the tsunami disaster
  
  
• People & Publishing items about Michael Moorcock, Peter Straub, Lucius Shepard, Robert A. Heinlein, Terry Pratchett, Orson Scott Card, and many others
  
  
• Other obituaries of Humphrey Carpenter, W. Warren Wagar, Sven Christer Swahn, Charlotte MacLeod, D.G.K Goldberg, K.V. Bailey, and Anthony Sterling Rodgers
  
  
• Lots of reviews, including
  • Gary K. Wolfe on the latest Nebula Awards volume and books by Graham Joyce and Margo Lanagan;
  • Faren Miller on Margo Lanagan and Paul Witcover;
  • Russell Letson on Elizabeth Bear, John Barnes, and C.J. Cherryh;
  • Nick Gevers on Ian R. MacLeod and Robert Reed;
  • Carolyn Cushman on Anne Bishop and Stephen Woodworth;
  • Damien Broderick on Robert Charles Wilson;
  • among many others.