Here we go again—Locus is back with a brand-new selection of notable releases across the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult genres! This week’s lineup is packed with exciting new books hitting shelves, and we’re excited to highlight them for you. Whether you’re on the lookout for your next great read or just can’t resist adding more to your growing TBR pile, you’re in the right place.

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We are so pleased to present another iteration of The Storytellers, a series of author readings by Locus Awards finalists. Previously we heard  Naomi Kritzer  reading “The Little Free Library”. Today we are excited to show our beloved Cory Doctorow reading from his 2025 book, The Bezzle, reviewed by both Paul Di Filippo and Gary K. Wolfe on our site!

CORY DOCTOROW  is a science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist. He is a contributor to many magazines, websites and newspapers. He is a special advisor to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He holds an honourary doctorate in laws from York University (Canada) and an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor; he is also a Cornell University AD White professor-at-large, a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science. In 2024, the Media Ecology Association awarded him the Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. In 2022, he earned the Sir Arthur Clarke Imagination in Service to Society Awardee for lifetime achievement. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

His novels have been translated into dozens of languages and are published by Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), Verso Books (UK), Beacon Press (US), SCRIBe (UK), Titan Books (UK) and HarperCollins (UK). He has won the Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards.

He is the author of dozens of books, most recently Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It; and the novels Picks and Shovels and The Bezzle (followups to Red Team Blues). Other notable books include the solarpunk novels Walkaway and The Lost Cause; the tech policy books The Internet Con and Chokepoint Capitalism; and the internationally bestselling YA Little Brother series; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. 

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