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Locus Magazine, Issue #779, December 2025
The December 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Dave Hutchinson and Bethany Jacobs, and a spotlight on The Invisible Parade by Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through September 2026. News includes the World Fantasy Awards and British Fantasy Awards winners, N.K. Jemisin's induction as a SFWA Grand Master, Vajra Chandrasekera's Le Guin Prize win, and more. Reports cover the World Fantasy Convention in Brighton UK, Can*Con, ICon, Future Creation Workshop, and The Muse Writers Conference. Obituaries remember David Lunde and Celeste Rita Baker. Reviews cover new works by Michael Swanwick, T. Kingfisher, Nnedi Okorafor, C.D. Rose, Bogi Takács, Zuzana Říhová, Anbara Salam, Lisa Lueddecke, Alexandra Bell, Hafsah Faizal, Jacek Dukaj, Simón López Trujillo, Brandon Sanderson, Ellen Datlow (ed.), Adrian Tchaikovsky, Richard K. Morgan, and others.Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer) —
Bell, Alexandra • The White Octopus Hotel (Colleen Mondor)
Datlow, Ellen, ed. • The Best Horror of the Volume Seventeen (Paula Guran)
Dukaj, Jacek • Ice (Niall Harrison)
Faizal, Hafsah • A Steeping of Blood (Colleen Mondor)
Kingfisher, T. • Nine Goblins (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lueddecke, Lisa • The Moss (Colleen Mondor)
Morgan, Richard K. • No Man’s Land (Alexandra Pierce)
Okorafor, Nnedi • The Daughter Who Remains (Gary K. Wolfe)
Říhová, Zuzana • Playing Wolf (Ian Mond)
Rose, C.D. • We Live Here Now (Ian Mond)
Salam, Anbara • The Salvage (Colleen Mondor)
Sanderson, Brandon • Tailored Realities (Joanne Anderton)
Swanwick, Michael • The Universe Box (Gary K. Wolfe)
Takács, Bogi • Song of Spores (Ian Mond)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian • Lives of Bitter Rain (Russell Letson)
Trujillo, Simón López • Pedro the Vast (Niall Harrison)
About Locus is the news magazine and trade journal for chain SF and fantasy buyers, independent bookstore SF and fantasy buyers, and independent distributors as well as librarians, editors, authors, publishing personnel, and interested readers. The magazine has been covering the SF and fantasy fields for over 50 years, and has won the Hugo Award, science fiction's premier honor, 30 times. For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see www.lsff.net.
Bell, Alexandra • The White Octopus Hotel (Colleen Mondor)
Datlow, Ellen, ed. • The Best Horror of the Volume Seventeen (Paula Guran)
Dukaj, Jacek • Ice (Niall Harrison)
Faizal, Hafsah • A Steeping of Blood (Colleen Mondor)
Kingfisher, T. • Nine Goblins (Gary K. Wolfe)
Lueddecke, Lisa • The Moss (Colleen Mondor)
Morgan, Richard K. • No Man’s Land (Alexandra Pierce)
Okorafor, Nnedi • The Daughter Who Remains (Gary K. Wolfe)
Říhová, Zuzana • Playing Wolf (Ian Mond)
Rose, C.D. • We Live Here Now (Ian Mond)
Salam, Anbara • The Salvage (Colleen Mondor)
Sanderson, Brandon • Tailored Realities (Joanne Anderton)
Swanwick, Michael • The Universe Box (Gary K. Wolfe)
Takács, Bogi • Song of Spores (Ian Mond)
Tchaikovsky, Adrian • Lives of Bitter Rain (Russell Letson)
Trujillo, Simón López • Pedro the Vast (Niall Harrison)
About Locus is the news magazine and trade journal for chain SF and fantasy buyers, independent bookstore SF and fantasy buyers, and independent distributors as well as librarians, editors, authors, publishing personnel, and interested readers. The magazine has been covering the SF and fantasy fields for over 50 years, and has won the Hugo Award, science fiction's premier honor, 30 times. For information about the parent company, Locus Science Fiction Foundation (a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation), see www.lsff.net.
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Published December 2, 2025
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