The August 2026 Locus magazine, issue #787, has interviews with Chloe Gong and James Patrick Kelly, and a spotlight on authors Anand Gandhi & Zain Memon and the Maya Universe. News covers the Shirley Jackson Awards winners, the Profile Books acquisition of Solaris, new imprint Pink Beam Press, the Future Worlds prize winners, S&S’s relaunch of Pocket Books, the relaunch of Starlog Magazine with a podcast, and much more. Reports include Westercon78/BayCon 42, Readercon 35, MetropolCon/Eurocon, RichmondCon, and the 2026 Locus Survey results. Obituaries remember R.S. Belcher, Mark J. McGarry, Dafydd Ab Hugh, Russell Kirkpatrick, Robin Johnson, and Katharine T. Carroll. Reviews cover new works by Jaclyn Moriarty, Peter Watts, Cadwell Turnbull, J.P. Lacrampe, Keely Jobe, Deb Olin Unferth, August Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett, Frances Hardinge, A.D. Sui, Miles Cameron, Yoon Ha Lee, Aimee Pokwatka, Meg Elison, Mónica Ojeda translated by Sarah Booker, Wendy Waring, Richard Swan, Keala Kendall, Cale Plett, Jillian Laine, Farah Naz Rishi, Kristin O’Donnell Tubb, Tessa Yang, Christopher Golden, Paul Tremblay, Gabrielle Sher, Eugen Bacon, Ursula K. Le Guin, David M. Brinley & Amanda T. Zehnder (eds.), Jeffrey Alan Love; John Jos. Miller & Kevin Andrew Murphy, Stephen King, and others.

Reviews by ALEXANDRA PIERCE / 18

Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends, A.D. Sui; Whalesong, Miles Cameron; Code and Codex, Yoon Ha Lee; Accumulation, Aimee Pokwatka.

Reviews by NIALL HARRISON / 20

Foundling Fathers, Meg Elison; Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun, Mónica Ojeda, tr. Sarah Booker; The Hunger of Those Who Built It, Wendy Waring; The Infinite State, Richard Swan.

Reviews by ALEX BROWN / 22

Japanese Gothic, Kylie Lee Baker; The Tapestry of Fate, Shannon Chakraborty.

Reviews by GABINO IGLESIAS / 24

Carry Me to My Grave, Christopher Golden; Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Paul Tremblay; Odessa, Gabrielle Sher.

Reviews by VANESSA FOGG / 25

Crimson in Quietus, Eugen Bacon.

Reviews by KAREN HABER / 27

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats, Ursula K. Le Guin; Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, David M. Brinley & Amanda T. Zehnder, eds.; The Last Battle at the End of the World, Jeffrey Alan Love; SHORT TAKES: The Forest of a Thousand Eyes, Frances Hardinge; George R.R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Ante Up, John Jos. Miller & Kevin Andrew Murphy; Hansel and Gretel, Stephen King.

Bacon, Eugen • Crimson in Quietus (Vanessa Fogg)
Bennett, Robert Jackson • A Trade of Blood (Abigail Nussbaum)
Brinley, David M., & Amanda T. Zehner, eds. • Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection (Karen Haber)
Cameron, Miles • Whalesong (Alexandra Pierce)
Clarke, August • The Felicity Complex (Abigail Nussbaum)
Elison, Meg • Foundling Fathers (Niall Harrison)
Golden, Christopher • Carry Me to My Grave (Gabino Iglesias)
Hardinge, Frances • The Forest of a Thousand Eyes (Karen Haber)
Hardinge, Frances • Traitors’ Nest (Abigail Nussbaum)
Jobe, Keely • The Endling (Ian Mond)
Kendall, Keala • That Which Feeds Us (Alex Brown)
King, Stephen, illustrated by Maurice Sendak • Hansel and Gretel (Karen Haber)
Lacrampe, J. P. • Valet (Ian Mond)
Laine, Jillian • Henry Tudor Must Die (Colleen Mondor)
Le Guin, Ursula K. • Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats (Karen Haber)
Lee, Yoon Ha • Code and Codex (Alexandra Pierce)
Love, Jeffrey Alan • The Last Battle at the End of the World (Karen Haber)
Miller, John Jos., & Kevin Andrew Murphy • George R.R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Ante Up (Karen Haber)
Moriarty, Jaclyn • Time Travel for Beginners (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ojeda, M nica • Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun (Niall Harrison)
Plett, Cale • The Saw Mouth (Alex Brown)
Pokwatka, Aimee • Accumulation (Alexandra Pierce)
Rishi, Farah Naz • Lovestruck (Colleen Mondor)
Sher, Gabrielle • Odessa (Gabino Iglesias)
Sui, A. D. • Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends (Alexandra Pierce)
Swan, Richard • The Infinite State (Niall Harrison)
Tremblay, Paul • Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep (Gabino Iglesias)
Tubb, Kristin O’Donnell • The Spiritualists (Colleen Mondor)
Turnbull, Cadwell • All the Hidden Places (Gary K. Wolfe)
Unferth, Deb Olin • Earth 7 (Ian Mond)
Waring, Wendy • The Hunger of Those Who Built It (Niall Harrison)
Watts, Peter • Fold Catastrophes (Gary K. Wolfe)
Yang, Tessa • The Jellyfish Problem (Colleen Mondor)Science Fiction and Fantasy (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)

The July 2026 Locus magazine, issue #786, has interviews with Naomi Kritzer and Temi Oh. The issue includes the 2026 Locus Poll results. Jane Yolen (1939-2026) is remembered with an obituary and appreciations. News covers the 2025 Nebula, Bram Stoker, and Seiun Award winners, as well as Subterranean Press’s planned closure, the Commonwealth Prize Regional winners and AI controversy, and much more. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Hell Is Other People”. Event coverage includes the Locus Awards, StokerCon, the SFWA Nebula Conference, the Bay Area Book Festival, and WisCon 48, as well as international reports on SF in Brazil and SF in Bulgaria. Other obituaries remember Lalana Dararutana AKA Piper J. Drake, Ted White, and James Ray Comer. Reviews cover new works by Ada Hoffmann, Lavie Tidhar, Naomi Kritzer, James Islington, Mahmud El Sayed, R.J. Barker, Paul Tremblay, Geoffrey D. Morrison, Hildur Knútsdóttir (translated by Mary Robinette Kowal), Kylie Lee Baker, Shannon Chakraborty, Grace Curtis, Luis López Carrasco (translated by Rosalind Harvey), Luis Othoniel Rosa (translated by Katie Marya), Keala Kendall, Eileen M. Ruvane, J.A. Morgenstein, Soman Chainani, Nat Cassidy, Eugen Bacon, Cheryl Ntumy & Stephen Embleton (eds.), Sarah Coolidge (ed.), Kirsten Kaschock, Alexis Hall, James Patrick Kelly, Jo Walton & Ada Palmer, and others.

Reviews by ALEXANDRA PIERCE / 19

Scion, James Islington; The Republic of Memory, Mahmud El Sayed; Mortedant’s Peril, R.J. Barker.

Reviews by ALEX BROWN / 21

Japanese Gothic, Kylie Lee Baker; The Tapestry of Fate, Shannon Chakraborty.

Reviews by GABINO IGLESIAS / 25

I Know a Place, Nat Cassidy; Sauúti Terrors, Eugen Bacon, Cheryl Ntumy & Stephen Embleton, eds.; I Was Alive Here Once: Ghost Stories, Sarah Coolidge, ed.

Reviews by DIVERS HANDS: VANESSA FOGG, ADRIENNE MARTINI, MICHAEL SWANWICK, ALVARO ZINOS-AMARO / 26

An Impossibility of Crows, Kirsten Kaschock; Hell’s Heart, Alexis Hall; The Book of Bots, James Patrick Kelly; Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy, Jo Walton and Ada Palmer.

Bacon, Eugen, & Cheryl Ntumy, eds. • Sauúti Terrors (Gabino Iglesias)
Baker, Kylie Lee • Japanese Gothic (Alex Brown)
Barker, R. J. • Mortedant’s Peril (Alexandra Pierce)
Carrasco, Luis López • The White Desert (Niall Harrison)
Cassidy, Nat • I Know a Place (Gabino Iglesias)
Chainani, Soman • Young World (Colleen Mondor)
Chakraborty, Shannon • The Tapestry of Fate (Alex Brown)
Coolidge, Sarah, ed. • I Was Alive Here Once: Ghost Stories (Gabino Iglesias)
Curtis, Grace • Heaven’s Graveyard (Niall Harrison)
El Sayed, Mahmud • The Republic of Memory (Alexandra Pierce)
Hall, Alexis • Hell’s Heart (Adrienne Martini)
Hoffman, Ada • Ignore All Previous Instructions (Gary K. Wolfe)
Islington, James • Scion (Alexandra Pierce)
Kaschock, Kirsten • An Impossibility of Crows (Vanessa Fogg)
Kendall, Keala • That Which Feeds Us (Colleen Mondor)
Knútsdóttir, Hildur, tr. Mary Robinette Kowal • Dead Weight (Ian Mond)
Kritzer, Naomi • Obstetrix (Gary K. Wolfe)
Morgenstein, J. A. • The League of Dangerous Young Ladies (Colleen Mondor)
Morrison, Geoffrey D. • The Coffin of Honey (Ian Mond)
Rosa, Luis Othoniel, tr. Katie Marya • Animal Spiral (Niall Harrison)
Ruvane, Eileen M. • Tell Me My Future (Colleen Mondor)
Swanwick, Michael • The Book of Bots (Michael Swanwick)
Tidhar, Lavie • The Three Coffin Problem (Gary K. Wolfe)
Tremblay, Paul • Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep (Ian Mond)
Walton, Jo, & Ada Palmer • Trace Elements: Conversations on the Project of Science Fiction and Fantasy (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)

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The June 2026 Locus magazine, issue #785, has interviews with Robert Jackson Bennett and Isabel J. Kim, and a spotlight on artist Dante Luiz. The Summer Reads section includes Locus reviewers’ recommendations, commentary from Saga editor Nivia Evans and Sheree Renée Thomas, and US and UK forthcoming books titles. News includes the 2026 Locus Awards winners, Daniel Kraus’s Pulitzer Prize win, LA Times Book Prize winners, new Transworld imprint 3AM Books, and more. Obituaries remember Tom Clegg, Michael P. Spradlin, and Donald Sidney-Fryer. Reviews include new titles by Amitav Ghosh, Joseph Eckert, Ian McDonald, Christopher Priest & Nina Allan, Rachel Khong, Thomas Elrod, Ra Page & David Sue (eds.), Garth Nix, J.M. Sidorova, Andrea Hairston, Isabel Ibañez, Leslye Penelope, Vonda N. McIntyre, Isabel J. Kim, Jedediah Berry, ‘Pemi Aguda, Munir Hachemi translated by Julia Sanches, M. John Harrison, Lee Young-do translated by Anton Hur, Violet Allen, Andrew Dana Hudson, Kate Milford, Meg Shaffer, Elana K. Arnold, Daisy Pearce, Uketsu translated by Jim Rion, Allen Stroud, Cynthia Gómez, James S.A. Corey, Ann Leckie, Alex Shvartsman, Jeff Noon, Sheree Renée Thomas, and more.

Reviews by MAYA C. JAMES / 19

The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays, Andrea Hairston; Graceless Heart, Isabel Ibañez; The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass, Leslye Penelope.

Reviews by GABINO IGLESIAS / 25

Dark is When the Devil Comes, Daisy Pearce; Strange Buildings, Uketsu; Anti-State, Allen Stroud.

Reviews by DIVERS HANDS: ALEX BROWN, YOON HA LEE, RUSSELL LETSON, ADRIENNE MARTINI, ADAM ROBERTS, WOLE TALABI, ALVARO ZINOS-AMARO / 26

Muñeca, Cynthia Gómez; The Faith of Beasts, James S. A. Corey; Radiant Star, Ann Leckie; The Best of All Possible Planets, Alex Shvartsman; Moon Over Brendle, Jeff Noon; Ring Shout on Saturn, Sheree Renée Thomas; The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J.G. Ballard, Christopher Priest & Nina Allan.

Aguda, ‘Pemi • One Leg on Earth (Niall Harrison)
Allen, Violet • Plastic, Prism, Void (Abigail Nussbaum)
Arnold, Elana K. • Holloway (Colleen Mondor)
Berry, Jedediah • Kill All Wizards (Niall Harrison)
Corey, James S. A. • The Faith of Beasts (Yoon Ha Lee)
Eckert, Joseph • The Traveler (Gary K. Wolfe)
Elrod, Thomas • The Franchise (Ian Mond)
Ghosh, Amitav • Ghost-Eye (Gary K. Wolfe)
Gómez, Cynthia • Mu eca (Alex Brown)
Hachemi, Munir • The Mulai (Niall Harrison)
Hairston, Andrea • The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays (Maya C. James)
Harrison, M. John • The End of Everything (Niall Harrison)
Hudson, Andrew Dana • Absence (Abigail Nussbaum)
Iba ez, Isabel • Graceless Heart (Maya C. James)
Khong, Rachel • My Dear You (Ian Mond)
Kim, Isabel J. • Sublimation (Niall Harrison)
Leckie, Ann • Radiant Star (Russell Letson)
McDonald, Ian • Boy, With Accidental Dinosaur (Gary K. Wolfe)
McIntyre, Vonda N. • The Curve of the World (Niall Harrison)
Milford, Kate • Rialto (Colleen Mondor)
Nix, Garth • Massif (Alexandra Pierce)
Noon, Jeff • Moon Over Brendle (Adam Roberts)
Page, Ra, & David Sue, eds. • Monster Capital: Tales of Capitalist Unease (Ian Mond)
Pearce, Daisy • Dark Is When the Devil Comes (Gabino Iglesias)
Penelope, Leslye • The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass (Maya C. James)
Priest, Christopher, & Nina Allan • The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J.G. Ballard (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Priest, Christopher, & Nina Allan • The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J.G. Ballard (Gary K. Wolfe)
Shaffer, Meg • The Book Witch (Colleen Mondor)
Shvartsman, Alex • The Best of All Possible Planets (Adrienne Martini)
Sidorova, J. M. • The Witch of Prague (Alexandra Pierce)
Stroud, Allen • Anti-State (Gabino Iglesias)
Thomas, Sheree Ren e • Ring Shout on Saturn (Wole Talabi)
Uketsu, translated by Jim Rion • Strange Buildings (Gabino Iglesias)
Young-do, Lee • The Heart of the Nhaga (Abigail Nussbaum)

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