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2025 Waterstones Book of the Year Shortlist
The shortlist for the Waterstones Book of the Year 2025 has been announced. Titles and authors of genre interest include: Universality, Natasha Brown (Faber & Faber) Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Hodder & Stoughton) Alice With a Why, Anna James, illustrated by Matthew Land (HarperCollins) Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (HarperCollins) So Long, See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell (Vintage) The Café at the Edge of …Read More
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Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted by Ben Okri: Review by Maya C. James
Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted, Ben Okri (Other Press 978-163542-528-4, $24.99, 208pp, hc) March 2025. Twenty years after her first husband abandoned her, Viv throws a masquerade festival for the brokenhearted: all those scorned, discarded, or otherwise broken by love can become someone else and forget their sorrows for a night. Viv’s reasoning is sound, even if off-putting to her closest confidants: ‘‘There are organizations for people …Read More
Artificial Wisdom by Thomas R. Weaver: Review by Paul Di Filippo
Artificial Wisdom, Thomas R. Weaver (Del Rey 978-0593984734, hardcover, 432pp, $24.99) August 2025. Surely you’ve heard of the concept pioneered by John Clute of a book’s “real year.” It’s very simple and apparent once you are aware of it. We examine any SF book’s narrative, and discover that it is ostensibly set at some future date: 2150, say. But then, upon close reading, we discover that all the assumptions and …Read More
Not What I Intended by Nancy Kress: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
Not What I Intended, Nancy Kress (PM Press 978-8-88744-120-7, $16.00, 126pp, tp) October 2025. As I’ve mentioned in these pages before, PM Press’s Outspoken Authors series has, for more than 15 years, provided invaluable pocket-size samplers of the work and ideas of dozens of SFF writers, often with pointed political perspectives. Although its founding editor Terry Bisson passed away last year, the good news is that the series is continuing …Read More
When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift: Review by Niall Harrison
When There Are Wolves Again, E.J. Swift (Arcadia 978-1-529-43644-0, £20.00, 304pp, hc) October 2025. I don’t want to put more weight on E.J. Swift’s wonderful sixth novel than a single book should be asked to bear, but my recurring thought as I read it was: This is what science fiction should be doing now. When There Are Wolves Again is a 50-year portrait of the lives of two women living …Read More
A Mouthful of Dust by Nghi Vo: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom 978-1-25038-640-3, $24.99, 112pp, hc) October 2025. Over the last five years or so, Nghi Vo has steadily built her Singing Hills series of novellas into a fascinating laboratory for storytelling, touching upon traditions from wuxia martial arts tales to quest narratives and (in last year’s The Brides of High Hill) even the Gothic thriller. The sixth volume, A Mouthful of Dust, also features …Read More
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YouTube New Books Video: 10/28/2025
Locus is going over the best of the best in the Sf, Fantasy, Horror, and YA genres this week so why not have a watch! We’d hate for you to miss out on your next favorite book, so why not subscribe to the channel? Subscribing will keep you up-to-date on future releases and show your support for what we do! We post weekly and we hope to see you back …Read More
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New Books YouTube Video: 10/21/25
We’re coming up on Halloween, but until we get there why not let Locus tell you about the top new releases of the week! We’re going over the best of the best in the SF, Fantasy, Horror, and YA genres! We post weekly, so if you wanna stay up-to-date on future releases and support what we do, consider subscribing to the channel!
Kim Stanley Robinson Archive Goes to The Huntington
The Huntington has acquired the personal library and papers of Kim Stanley Robinson, including drafts of novels, annotated works, photographs, and more. All told, The Huntington describes the collection as “50 linear feet of papers, photographs, and manuscripts as well as thousands of digital files.” The Huntington stated that their goal is to make the material available to researchers by 2027. Robinson said the acquisition was a “deep pleasure… I’ve known …Read More
Shadowpaw to Continue On Spec
Shadowpaw Press has announced that it intends to continue publishing On Spec in annual anthologies, following the announcement of the magazine’s closing. The current plan is to Kickstart an On Spec 2026 anthology early in 2026, with the goal of opening to submissions after that and publishing the book in the fall. If the Kickstarter succeeds, the aim would be an annual anthology thereafter. The anthology will be open to all Canadian …Read More
Drew Struzan (1947-2025)
Artist Drew Struzan, 78, died October 13, 2025. He had Alzheimer’s disease. Struzan was born March 18, 1947 in Oregon City OR. He attended the ArtCenter College of Design, graduated, and traveled to Los Angeles CA to illustrate album covers for musical artists including the Beach Boys and Bee Gees. He began work in movie advertisements in the 1970s and found acclaim for his 1978 Star Wars poster, after which …Read More
2025 New Adult Book Prize Winner
The Bookseller has announced Disappoint Me by Nicola Dinan (Doubleday) as the winner of the inaugural New Adult Book Prize. The prize is “the first award of its kind to recognise and affirm new adult fiction as an established space for books,” and the list “showcases some of the best writing in fantasy, romance and contemporary literary fiction.” Other shortlisted titles of genre interest include: Sorcery and Small Magics, Maiga …Read More
