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Locus Magazine, Issue #777, October 2025
The October 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Ken Liu and Daniel H. Wilson, and a spotlight on artist Cristina Bencina. Seattle Worldcon 2025 is covered with an extensive report and photos, the complete Hugo voting breakdown, and a WSFS business meeting report. News includes the Dragon Awards winners, Hopkinson's Sunburst win, Kowal's Eugie Award win, AI class-action lawsuit news, and more. Reports cover ConCurrent and Dragon Con, and obituaries remember Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Ru Emerson, and Guy Lillian. Reviews include new titles by Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams (eds.), Ken Liu, Patricia A. McKillip, Nancy Kress, Peter Straub, Lois McMaster Bujold, Tessa Gratton, Deva Fagan, Melissa Caruso, Joe Hill, Nadia Afifi, Sarah Gailey, Ben Okri, Ken Scholes, Daniel H. Wilson, Meihan Boey, Allan Kaster (ed.), Frances Hardinge, Nova Ren Suma, Maggie Stiefvater, Kelly Murashige, Rebecca Campbell, Yoko Tawada, Eva Meijer, Joey Batey, Jacob Kerr, Eden Royce, Keith Cooper, and others.Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer) —
Afifi, Nadia • A Rebel's History of Mars (Ian Mond)
Batey, Joey • It's Not a Cult (Niall Harrison)
Boey, Meihan • The Formidable Miss Cassidy (Alexandra Pierce)
Bujold, Lois McMaster • The Adventure of the Demonic Ox (Liz Bourke)
Campbell, Rebecca • The Other Shore (Niall Harrison)
Caruso, Melissa • The Last Soul Among Wolves (Liz Bourke)
Cooper, Keith • Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Fagan, Deva • House of Dusk (Liz Bourke)
Gailey, Sarah • Spread Me (Ian Mond)
Gratton, Tessa • The Mercy Makers (Liz Bourke)
Hardinge, Frances • The Forest of a Thousand Eyes (Colleen Mondor)
Hill, Joe • King Sorrow (Ian Mond)
Kaster, Allan, ed. • The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 5 (Alexandra Pierce)
Kerr, Jacob • The Wolf of Whindale (Niall Harrison)
Kress, Nancy • Not What I Intended (Gary K. Wolfe)
Liu, Ken • All That We See or Seem (Gary K. Wolfe)
McKillip, Patricia A. • The Essential Patricia A. McKillip (Gary K. Wolfe)
Meijer, Eva • Sea Now (Niall Harrison)
Murashige, Kelly • The Yomigaeri Tunnel (Colleen Mondor)
Okorafor, Nnedi, & John Joseph Adams, eds. • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Okri, Ben • Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted (Maya C. James)
Royce, Eden • Psychopomp & Circumstance (Alex Brown)
Scholes, Ken • Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds, and Other Handfuls of Hope (Maya C. James)
Stiefvater, Maggie • The Listeners (Colleen Mondor)
Straub, Peter • What Happens in Hello Jack (Gary K. Wolfe)
Straub, Peter • Wreckage (Gary K. Wolfe)
Suma, Nova Ren • Wake the Wild Creatures (Colleen Mondor)
Tawada, Yoko • Archipelago of the Sun (Niall Harrison)
Wilson, Daniel H. • Hole in the Sky (Alexandra Pierce)
About Locus is the news magazine and trade journal for chain SF and fantasy buyers, independent bookstore SF and fantasy buyers, and independent dist
Afifi, Nadia • A Rebel's History of Mars (Ian Mond)
Batey, Joey • It's Not a Cult (Niall Harrison)
Boey, Meihan • The Formidable Miss Cassidy (Alexandra Pierce)
Bujold, Lois McMaster • The Adventure of the Demonic Ox (Liz Bourke)
Campbell, Rebecca • The Other Shore (Niall Harrison)
Caruso, Melissa • The Last Soul Among Wolves (Liz Bourke)
Cooper, Keith • Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)
Fagan, Deva • House of Dusk (Liz Bourke)
Gailey, Sarah • Spread Me (Ian Mond)
Gratton, Tessa • The Mercy Makers (Liz Bourke)
Hardinge, Frances • The Forest of a Thousand Eyes (Colleen Mondor)
Hill, Joe • King Sorrow (Ian Mond)
Kaster, Allan, ed. • The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 5 (Alexandra Pierce)
Kerr, Jacob • The Wolf of Whindale (Niall Harrison)
Kress, Nancy • Not What I Intended (Gary K. Wolfe)
Liu, Ken • All That We See or Seem (Gary K. Wolfe)
McKillip, Patricia A. • The Essential Patricia A. McKillip (Gary K. Wolfe)
Meijer, Eva • Sea Now (Niall Harrison)
Murashige, Kelly • The Yomigaeri Tunnel (Colleen Mondor)
Okorafor, Nnedi, & John Joseph Adams, eds. • The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025 (Gary K. Wolfe)
Okri, Ben • Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted (Maya C. James)
Royce, Eden • Psychopomp & Circumstance (Alex Brown)
Scholes, Ken • Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds, and Other Handfuls of Hope (Maya C. James)
Stiefvater, Maggie • The Listeners (Colleen Mondor)
Straub, Peter • What Happens in Hello Jack (Gary K. Wolfe)
Straub, Peter • Wreckage (Gary K. Wolfe)
Suma, Nova Ren • Wake the Wild Creatures (Colleen Mondor)
Tawada, Yoko • Archipelago of the Sun (Niall Harrison)
Wilson, Daniel H. • Hole in the Sky (Alexandra Pierce)
About Locus is the news magazine and trade journal for chain SF and fantasy buyers, independent bookstore SF and fantasy buyers, and independent dist
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Published September 30, 2025
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