The April 2005 issue of Locus Magazine features--

• Interviews with writers Susanna Clarke and Laurel Winter, and with editor Beth Meacham
  
  
• Walter Jon Williams' speech from the Jack Williamson Lectureship
  
  
• Obituary and appreciations of Andre Norton
  
  
• News reports on this year's James Tiptree Jr. Award winners, the Stoker Awards preliminary ballot, and the 2005 Williamson Lectureship
  
  
• People & Publishing items about Anne McCaffrey, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, A.E. van Vogt, Ursula K. Le Guin, Kim Stanley Robinson, Octavia E. Butler, and many others
  
  
• Other obituaries of F.M. Busby, with appreciations by Robert Lichtman and Brian Herbert, Sonya Dorman, Raylyn Moore, and others
  
  
• Lots of reviews, including
  • Nick Gevers and Rich Horton on short fiction;
  • Gary K. Wolfe on Andreas Eschbach and the new Steph Swainston;
  • Faren Miller on several books by Tanith Lee;
  • Russell Letson on Robert Reed and John Scalzi;
  • Nick Gevers on Robert Charles Wilson and John C. Wright;
  • Damien Broderick on Charles Stross and George Alec Effinger;
  • Carolyn Cushman on Sharon Lee & Steve Miller and Garth Nix;