The October 2005 issue of Locus Magazine features--

• Interviews with writers Jack McDevitt and Benjamin Rosenbaum
  
  
• Coverage of this year's World Science Fiction Convention, InterAction, and of this year's Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards, the Clarion West writers' workshop, and the Odyssey workshop
  
  
• News stories about the Amazon shorts, Katrina, Eurocon Awards, and many other topics
  
  
• People & Publishing items about Jonathan Lethem, Bruce Sterling, Terry Pratchett, Terry Brooks, Tim Powers, Robert A. Heinlein, and many others
  
  
• International Reports from Israel and Brazil
  
  
• Bibliographic listings of the month's New Books and Magazines published in the US and UK
  
  
• Obituaries of Vladimir Volkoff, Daniel Riche, and Giles Hart
  
  
• Lots of reviews, including
  • Gary K. Wolfe on Kim Stanley Robinson and Octavia E. Butler;
  • Faren Miller on Terry Pratchett and William Kotzwinkle;
  • Russell Letson on Elizabeth Bear;
  • Nick Gevers on Alexander C. Irvine and James Lovegrove;
  ...among many others