Welcome back for another video on Locus’s picks for the top new releases for week of November 11th, 2025! We’re going over the best of the best in the SF, Fantasy, Horror, and YA genres!Locus comes out with a new video every week, so if you don’t wanna miss out, and want to support what we do, consider subscribing to the channel to keep up-top-date on future releases! …Read More
Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds, and Other Handfuls of Hope, Ken Scholes (Fairwood 978-1-958880-32-6, $19.99, 260pp, tp) August 2025.
Better Dreams, Fallen Seeds, and Other Handfuls of Hope, Ken Scholes’s fourth collection of short stories, promises readers a peculiar array of tales and misadventures on its back cover: ”An unemployed clown takes a road trip to Roswell and finds an unexpected friend. An aging, alcoholic starship captain/reality HV star at the …Read More
Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire 978-1-25038-733-2, $34.99, 208pp, hc) September 2025.
Sarah Gailey’s fifth novel, Spread Me, is their take on John Campbell, Jr.’s classic novella ”Who Goes There?”, but more precisely (at least in terms of aesthetics), John Carpenter’s The Thing. Recognising this isn’t some canny bit of detective work on my part; the back cover copy all but winks at the influence. So do the characters, who keep …Read More
Not What I Intended, Nancy Kress (PM Press 979-8-88744-120-7, $16.00, 141pp, tp) September 2025. Cover by Mary Grace Long.
Nancy Kress’s Not What I Intended is number 31 in the PM Press Outspoken Authors series, and it has (as usual for the line) a subtitle that is almost a contents page: plus Patent Infringement plus Machine Learning and much more. The much more includes an additional story ( Laws of …Read More
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 …Read More
The Adventure of the Demonic Ox, Lois McMaster Bujold (Spectrum Literary Agency, $3.99, 140pp, eb) July 2025.
The Adventure of the Demonic Ox is the 14th and latest instalment in Lois McMaster Bujold’s long-running and generally excellent Penric and Desdemona series (14th in both publication and chronological order). It sees Pen faced with the eminently soluble problem of a possessed ox, and the rather less tractable problems of his children …Read More
The StokerCon Governing Committee has announced the details of StokerCon 2026, or StokerCon 10. The convention will be held June 4-7, 2026 at The Westin Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh PA. Tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite. In-person admission is $300 and virtual is $75.
The six Guests of Honor will be Linda D. Addison, Rachel Harrison, Billy Martin, John Shirley, James Tynion, and Ann VanderMeer.
The Governing Committee, including James Chambers, …Read More
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Asare, Isis: Afrofuturism Short Stories (Flame Tree Collections UK 978-1835622643, £20.00, 432pp, formats: hardcover, 11/11/2025)
Anthology of afrofuturist short stories, composed of classics and new submissions. Contains 25 illustrations. Introduction by Sandra M. Grayson, foreword by Nisi Shawl. Part of the publisher’s larger series of gothic, classic, and epic tales collections. …Read More
Samovar 7/28/25
Baffling 7/25
Flash Fiction Online 7/29/25
Diabolical Plots 7/25
July also saw the release of a new issue of Strange Horizons’ sibling publication, Samovar, which features short speculative fiction and poetry in translation. In their latest, Alina Lazar and Anna Evelyn White translate an older story, ”Cuca”, from renowned Swiss-Argentine writer Alfonsina Storni. In it, a narrator meets and becomes a bit obsessed with a …Read More
Writer and organizer Celeste Rita Baker, 67, died October 30, 2025.
Baker was a Virgin Islander born July 29, 1958. She moved between St. Thomas and the US several times. She published short stories in The Caribbean Writer, khōréō, Lightspeed, F&SF, Moko Magazine, Strange Horizons, and more. Her work is also included in anthologies such as Genesis: An Anthology of Black Science Fiction (2010), People of Colo(u)r Destroy Fantasy (2016), …Read More
Two books debut on three lists each this week. First is Jasmine Mas’ Bonds of Hercules (Canary Street Press), second in a romantasy series based on Greek mythology, ranking as high as #1 at Publishers Weekly. And second is Alix E. Harrow’s The Everlasting (Tor), a stand-alone fantasy about a lady-knight and a time-traveling historian, ranking as high as #12 at NY Times.
