Issues

The February 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Gareth L. Powell & Ibi Zoboi and a spotlight on Never Whistle at Night, edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Main stories include tributes to the late Barry N. Malzberg, nominees for the Philip K. Dick Awards, the announcement of 2025’s World Fantasy Award judges, the return of Fantasy magazine, and the bankruptcy of comics/magazine distributor ...Read More

The January 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Shannon Lee & Fonda Lee and Tobi Ogundiran and a spotlight on artist Ethan Price. Main stories include the last Kitschies Awards winners, Percival Everett’s National Book Awards win, the conclusion of the Internet Archive case, and more. People and publishing covers news about Isabel Allende, Ken Liu, Kosoko Jackson, Adam Cesare, Ai Jiang, Sarah Gailey, and many others. Obituaries ...Read More

The December 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Paolo Bacigalupi and Vajra Chandrasekera, a spotlight on artist Christine Mitzuk, and a spotlight on book subscription box service Illumicrate and their quarterly science fiction subscription, Starbright. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2025. News includes Samantha Harvey’s Booker win, SFWA’s special election results, the 2024 Ignyte Awards, the final Kitschies Awards shortlist, and more. ...Read More

The November 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with R.S.A. Garcia and Suzan Palumbo and a spotlight on artist Virginia Lee. News covers the 2024 World Fantasy Awards, Han Kang’s Nobel Prize win, Margaret Owen’s Endeavour win, the Cixin Liu Museum in Yangquan, the British Fantasy, SFPA, and Ditmar awards winners, and more. International reports look at SF in India and SF in Japan. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled ...Read More

The October 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Lev Grossman and Ananda Lima and a spotlight on The Deadlands and Psychopomp. Glasgow 2024 Worldcon is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report. News covers the Dragon Awards winners, R.S.A. Garcia’s Sturgeon Award win, F&SF‘s shift to quarterly publication, the Internet Archive appeal decision, and more. H. Bruce ...Read More

The September 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Catherynne M. Valente and Justin C. Key and a spotlight on artist Micaela Alcaino. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2025. News covers 2024 Hugo Awards winners, the World Fantasy Awards ballot, Dragon Awards finalists, SFWA resignations, SF&F Hall of Fame inductees Okorafor and Griffith, MacInnes’s Clarke win, additional Gaiman allegations, the Galaxy magazine revival, and ...Read More

The August 2024 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Sarah Langan and Moniquill Blackgoose and spotlights on artist Chris McGrath and the Authors Against Book Bans organization. News covers the Shirley Jackson and Prometheus awards winners, the Hugo Awards disqualification, a new Orbit horror imprint, and much more. Reports include the 2024 Locus Awards Weekend, the SFWA Nebula Conference, Readercon, BayCon, the Academic Conference on Canadian Science Fiction and ...Read More

The July 2024 issue of Locus has interviews with Cory Doctorow and Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ. News covers the 2024 Locus Awards winners and Locus Poll writeup, as well as the 2023 Nebula Awards, Bram Stoker Awards, and Seiun Awards, the transformation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s home into a writers residency site, the auction of the first Hugo trophy, the RWA bankruptcy, and much more. StokerCon 2024 is covered with a ...Read More

The June 2024 issue of Locus has interviews with M.R. Carey and Travis Baldree and a spotlight on artist Raya Golden. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2025. News includes the Aurealis Awards winners, Arthur C. Clarke Award shortlist, LA Times Book Prize winners, British Book Awards winners, and much more. The 40th Anniversary Writers & Illustrators of the Future and LuxCon 2024 are covered ...Read More

The May 2024 issue of Locus has interviews with Malka Older and Victor Manibo. News includes the 2024 Hugo Awards Ballot, Bethany Jacobs’s Philip K. Dick Award win, the Small Press Distribution shutdown, the Chesley Awards winners, and more. Photo reports cover the 2024 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Norwescon 46, and the Williamson Lectureship. Daria Piskozub reports on SF in Ukraine: On Fantasy Tropes and Romanticizing ...Read More

The April 2023 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Nalo Hopkinson and Ken MacLeod and a spotlight on artist Sara Felix. News includes the 2023 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, Chandrasekera’s Crawford win, Doherty’s Heinlein Award win, Patrick Nielsen Hayden’s shift to editor-at-large, the BSFA Awards finalists, and much more. Obituaries remember Brian Stableford, Jaime Lee Moyer, Dick Jenssen, and Sue Arroyo, with additional appreciations for ...Read More

The March 2024 issue of Locus has interviews with Shelley Parker-Chan and Moses Ose Utomi and spotlights on artists Manzi Jackson and Richard A. Kirk. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through December 2024. News and features include remembrances of Christopher Priest (1943-2024), a report on Hugo Awards tampering, the Stoker Award preliminary ballot, international reports on SF in Brazil and Indian science fiction magazines, and much ...Read More

The February 2024 issue of Locus is the annual Year in Review overview with essays, the Locus 2023 Recommended Reading List, and magazine and book summaries tracking the progress of the industry. The issue also features an interview with Martha Wells. News includes the complete 2023 Hugo voting, Tor.com rebranding as Reactor, the empanelment of the World Fantasy Awards judges, the Philip K. Dick Award nominees, Chesley Awards finalists, and ...Read More

The December 2023/January 2024 issue of Locus magazine is a special double issue and has interviews with Robert J. Sawyer, Andrea Stewart, and Ai Jiang, and a spotlight on artist Winona Nelson. Chengdu Worldcon and the World Fantasy Convention are both covered with extensive reports and photos. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2024. News includes the Ignyte and Sidewise Awards winners, Mueller’s Endeavour win, ...Read More

The November 2023 issue of Locus magazine is a special issue, “Dimensions of Wonder: Focus on Short Fiction,” featuring interviews with Carmen Maria Machado and a roundtable on short fiction with Ted Chiang, Kelly Link, and Usman T. Malik. The issue also includes spotlights on khōréō, Omenana, and The Sunday Morning Transport, and essays on short fiction by Neil Clarke, A.T. Greenblatt, José Pablo Iriarte, Ai Jiang, Tobi Ogundiran, and ...Read More

The December 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Julie E. Czerneda and Saad Z. Hossain, and spotlights on artist Geneva Bowers and author Khan Wong. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2023. Stories include the World Fantasy Awards and convention report, the judge’s ruling to block the PRH/S&S merger, HarperCollins strike news, Harry Josephine Giles’s Clarke Award win, Donato Giancola and Wayne Barlowe ...Read More

The November 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Charles Stross and Xiran Jay Zhao and spotlights on author N.E. Davenport and The Korshak Collection. Robert A. Madle (1920-2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers Hopkinson’s Sturgeon win, Kensington’s acquisition of Erewhon, the Ditmar Awards winners, the Ellison Art and Comics Auction, and much more. International reports include SF in Ukraine: Ten Ukrainian SF/F Writers You ...Read More

The October 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Sarah Gailey and Peng Shepherd and a spotlight on Craig Laurance Gidney. Peter Straub (1943 – 2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations from Stephen King, Gary K. Wolfe, Elizabeth Hand, and others. Chicon 8 is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report. Awards season news includes the ...Read More

The September 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Zoraida Córdova and Grady Hendrix. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2023. News covers the PRH and S&S Merger Trial, the attack on Salman Rushdie, the Imaginales Festival Controversy,  the Mythopoeic Awards winners, Scribe Awards winners and much more. This month’s commentary by Cory Doctorow is entitled Moneylike. Photo stories cover SF in SF and Charm ...Read More

The August 2022 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Suzanne Palmer and L. Penelope. News covers the World Fantasy Awards ballot, an obituary and appreciations for Eric Flint, the sale of DAW to Astra, Analog AnLab and Prometheus awards winners, Internet Archive’s lawsuit, the HarperCollins union strike, a BayCon 2022 report, the 2022 Locus Survey results, and much more. This year’s Locus Awards Weekend is covered with a full ...Read More

The July 2022 issue of Locus has interviews with Daniel Abraham and Nadia Afifi. Main Stories include the 2022 Locus Awards winners, Atwood’s fireproof book auction, Aurealis Awards winners, Jo Fletcher’s departure from Jo Fletcher Books, UTA’s acquisition of Curtis Brown UK, and more. The SFWA Nebula Conference and WisCon 45 are covered with reports and photos. Additional coverage includes Balen’s Carnegie Medal win, SF author Glukhovsky on a Russian ...Read More

The June 2022 issue of Locus has interviews with Nicola Griffith and V. Castro and a spotlight on The Science Fiction Outreach Project. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through March 2023. Patricia A. McKillip (1948-2022) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. Other news covers the 2022 Nebula Awards, the Bram Stoker Awards, Zen Cho’s Bradbury Prize win, the Sturgeon Award finalists, Lackey’s removal from the ...Read More