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The March 2025 issue of Locus has interviews with Amal El-Mohtar and Hache Pueyo, a spotlight on Diabolical Plots & the Submission Grinder, and a spotlight on Allan Kaster & Infinivox. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books titles through December 2025. News covers the Stoker Awards Preliminary ballot, ALA awards, the launch of magazine Remains, the Department of Education's dismissal of the book ban suits, and much more. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "There Were Always Enshittifiers". Obituaries remember Tom Robbins, Anthony R. Lewis, Chris Moore, and Locus assistant editor Laurel Amberdine. Reviews cover works by Natalia Theodoridou, Tochi Onyebuchi, Nghi Vo, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gareth L. Powell, Samantha Sotto Yambao, Chuck Wendig, Ewhan Kim, Max Besora, Silvia Park, Katherine Addison, Molly O’Neill, Amanda DeWitt, Ann Liang, Sue Dawes, J.D. Beresford, Cheon Seon-ran, Clay McLeod Chapman, Dennis Mahoney, Nat Cassidy, Emily Tesh, John Scalzi, and others. Vote now in the Locus Poll and Survey at http://poll.voting.locusmag.com.
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March 2025 • Issue 770 • Vol. 94 • No. 3
58th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview art and design by Francesca Myman.
INTERVIEWS
Amal El-Mohtar: Obviously, There Are Fairies / 10
Hache Pueyo: Open the Door / 28
MAIN STORIES / 6
Edgar Awards Nominees • ALA Awards • Remains Launched • Stoker Awards Preliminary Ballot
THE DATA FILE / 7
Hugo Nominations Open • Gaiman Legal Complaint • Compton Crook Finalists • Dell Award Winner • DoE Dismisses Book Ban Suits • SFBC Closes • New Entangled YA Imprints • 12:01 Books Launch • Audie Awards Finalists • PEN/Faulkner Longlist • HWA News • Best Horror of the Year Call • Legal News • Publishing News • Contest News • Heinlein Society Scholarships • Workshop News • Book Ban News • Bookstore News • Book News • Awards News • Financial News
PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Stephen King, Maurice Sendak, Margaret Atwood, Leslye Penelope, Charles Stross, Candas Jane Dorsey, and many others.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Commentary: Cory Doctorow: There Were Always Enshittifiers, 27 • Spotlight on Diabolical Plots & The Submission Grinder, 45 • Spotlight on Allan Kaster & Infinivox, 46
FORTHCOMING BOOKS / 30
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: January, 47 • Books Received: January, 48 • Bestsellers, 58 • New & Notable, 59
OBITUARIES / 68
Tom Robbins • Anthony R. Lewis • Chris Moore • Appreciations for Laurel Amberdine by Effie Seiberg, Spencer Ellsworth, Sylvia Spruck Wrigley, Carolyn Cushman, Kirsten Gong-Wong, Francesca Myman
EDITORIAL MATTERS / 70
The Locus Awards • This Issue • Tom Robbins and More
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Short Fiction Reviews by CHARLES PAYSEUR / 12
Baffling 12/24; Flash Fiction Online 12/24; Zooscape 12/24; Worlds of Possibility 12/24; Strange Horizons 12/16/24, 12/23/24; Kaleidotrope Winter ’25; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25; Small Wonders 1/25; Lightspeed 1/25; Diabolical Plots 1/25; GigaNotoSaurus 1/25.
Short Fiction Reviews by PAULA GURAN / 14
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 12/24; Uncanny 1-2/25; The Deadlands Winter ’25; The Dark 1/25; Apex #148; Nightmare 1/25; Reactor 1/13/25; The Sunday Morning Transport’s 1/5/25, 1/12/25, 1/19/25.
Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. WISE / 15
Clarkesworld 1/25; Asimov’s 1-2/25; khōréō 4.3.
Reviews by GARY K. WOLFE / 16
Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou; Harmattan Season, Tochi Onyebuchi; Don’t Sleep With the Dead, Nghi Vo.
Reviews by ALEXANDRA PIERCE / 17
Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky; Future’s Edge, Gareth L. Powell; Water Moon, Samantha Sotto Yambao.
Reviews by IAN MOND / 18
The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig; The Black Orb, Ewhan Kim; The Fake Muse, Max Besora.
Reviews by ABIGAIL NUSSBAUM / 20
Luminous, Silvia Park; The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison; The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison.
Reviews by COLLEEN MONDOR / 21
Greenteeth, Molly O’Neill; The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt; I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang.
Reviews by NIALL HARRISON / 22
The Mune, Sue Dawes; The Hampdenshire Wonder, J.D. Beresford; A Thousand Blues, Cheon Seon-ran.
Reviews by GABINO IGLESIAS / 24
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes, Clay McLeod Chapman; Our Winter Monster, Dennis Mahoney; Rest Stop, Nat Cassidy.
Reviews by DIVERS HANDS: LIZ BOURKE, RUSSELL LETSON,
ADRIENNE MARTINI / 25
The Incandescent, Emily Tesh; Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky; When the Moon Hits Your Eye, John Scalzi.
Magazine reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Baffling 12/24 (Charles Payseur)
Flash Fiction Online 12/24 (Charles Payseur)
Zooscape 12/24 (Charles Payseur)
Worlds of Possibility 12/24 (Charles Payseur)
Strange Horizons 12/16/24, 12/23/24 (Charles Payseur)
Kaleidotrope Winter ’25 (Charles Payseur)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25 (Charles Payseur)
Small Wonders 1/25 (Charles Payseur)
Lightspeed 1/25 (Charles Payseur)
Diabolical Plots 1/25 (Charles Payseur)
GigaNotoSaurus 1/25 (Charles Payseur)
Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet 12/24 (Paula Guran)
Uncanny 1-2/25 (Paula Guran)
The Deadlands Winter ’25 (Paula Guran)
The Dark 1/25 (Paula Guran)
Apex #148 (Paula Guran)
Nightmare 1/25 (Paula Guran)
Reactor 1/13/25 (Paula Guran)
The Sunday Morning Transport 1/5/25, 1/12/25, 1/19/25 (Paula Guran)
Clarkesworld 1/25 (A.C. Wise)
Asimov’s 1-2/25 (A.C. Wise)
khōréō 4.3 (A.C. Wise)
