The April 2006 issue of Locus Magazine's includes --

• An obituary of Octavia E. Butler, with appreciations by Harlan Ellison®, Samuel R. Delany, Joe Haldeman, Steven Barnes, Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu, Noel Sturgeon, and Leslie Howle
  
  
• Interviews with new writers Justina Robson and Elizabeth Bear
  
  
• News stories covering the annual Jack Williamson Lectureship, the 2005 Final Nebula Ballot, the James Tiptree Jr. Award winner, iBooks bankruptcy, and more
  
  
• People & Publishing items about Peter Straub, Jane Yolen, Tim Powers, M. John Harrison, Holly Black, Tanya Huff, John Varley, and many others
  
  
• Bibliographic listings of the month's New Books and Magazines published in the US and UK
  
  
• Other obituaries of David Feintuch, Ansen Dibbel [Nancy Ann Dibble], and Ronald Anthony Cross
  
  
• Lots of reviews, including
  • Gary K. Wolfe on Philip Jose Farmer, Jeffrey Ford, and Bruce Sterling;
  • Faren Miller on Hal Duncan and Richard Calder;
  • Russell Letson on John Barnes and John Varley;
  • Damien Broderick on Vernor Vinge;
  • Carolyn Cushman on Naomi Novick and J.D. Robb;
  • Graham Sleigh on Farah Mendlesohn's book on Diana Wynne Jones;
  ...among many others