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The April 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Daryl Gregory and S.A. Barnes and a spotlight on Tachyon Publications. News includes the 2024 Nebula Awards ballot, the Stoker Awards final ballot, the sale of Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF to Must Read Magazines, and much more. Obituaries and appreciations remember Guy Thomas and Chris Moore. Reviews cover new works by Guy Gavriel Kay, Joe Abercrombie, Nnedi Okorafor, Sofía Rhei, Malka Older, Mur Lafferty, Neon Yang, Alastair Reynolds, Nick Harkaway, Joe Mungo Reed, Paul Kincaid, Ray Nayler, Sayaka Murata, Nina Allan, Channelle Desamours, Neal Shusterman, Kate Elliott, Premee Mohamed, Koji A. Dae, Kell Woods, Sue Lynn Tan, Mary Robinette Kowal, V.E. Schwab, and others.
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April 2025 • Issue 771 • Vol. 94 • No. 4
58th Year of Publication • 30-Time Hugo Winner
Cover and interview art and design by Francesca Myman.
INTERVIEWS
Daryl Gregory: When We Were Real / 10
S.A. Barnes: Too Much Real Life in Real Life / 28
MAIN STORIES / 5 & 6
2024 Nebula Awards Ballot • Stoker Awards Final Ballot • Analog, Asimov’s, and F&SF Sold • Audie Award Winners • LA Times Book Prize Finalists
THE DATA FILE / 7
PEN/Faulkner Shortlist • Mysterious Galaxy Flooded • Clarkesworld Reader Poll • Brooks Steps Back • SFWA News • Uncanny Changes • New Imprint: Requited • Bloomsbury Archer • Storytide Imprint Launches • NESFA Contest Winner • Otherwise Fellowships • British Book Awards Shortlists • Frank R. Paul Submissions Open • Publishing News • Bookstore News • Legal News • Announcements • Awards News • Financial News • International Rights • Audio Rights
PEOPLE & PUBLISHING / 8
Notes on milestones, awards, books sold, etc., with news this issue about Isabel Allende, Sharon Lee, Vonda N. Mcintyre, Chuck Wendig, John Wiswell, Simon R. Green, and many others.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Spotlight on Tachyon Publications, 33
LISTINGS
Magazines Received: February, 34 • Books Received: February, 35 • Bestsellers, 44 • New & Notable, 45
OBITUARIES / 57
Guy Thomas • Appreciation for Chris Moore by Bob Eggleton
EDITORIAL MATTERS / 58
Woe Is the Post Office • Locus Awards • The Print Digests Are Sold! • Tachyon’s 30th! • Staff
LOCUS LOOKS AT BOOKS
Short Fiction Reviews by CHARLES PAYSEUR / 12
Escape Pod 12/19/24; Cast of Wonders 12/22/24; Strange Horizons 1/20/25; Flash Fiction Online 1/25; Reckoning 1/25; Fiyah Winter ’25; Small Wonders 2/25; GigaNotoSaurus 2/25; Lightspeed 2/25; Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/6/25; Diabolical Plots 2/25.
Short Fiction Reviews by A.C. WISE / 15
Analog 1-2/25; khōréō 4.4; Clarkesworld 2/25.
Reviews by GARY K. WOLFE / 16
Written on the Dark, Guy Gavriel Kay; The Devils, Joe Abercrombie; One Way Witch, Nnedi Okorafor; The Deep Forest, Sofía Rhei.
Reviews by ALEXANDRA PIERCE / 18
The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses, Malka Older; Infinite Archive, Mur Lafferty; Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame, Neon Yang; The Dagger in Vichy, Alastair Reynolds.
Reviews by IAN MOND / 20
Sleeper Beach, Nick Harkaway; Terrestrial History, Joe Mungo Reed; Colourfields: Writing About Writing About Science Fiction, Paul Kincaid.
Reviews by NIALL HARRISON / 22
Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler; Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata; A Granite Silence, Nina Allan.
Reviews by COLLEEN MONDOR / 24
Needy Little Things, Channelle Desamours; All Better Now, Neal Shusterman.
Reviews by DIVERS HANDS: LIZ BOURKE, ALEX BROWN, PAULA GURAN, ARCHITA MITTRA, ADRIENNE MARTINI / 25
The Witch Roads, Kate Elliott; One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed; Casual, Koji A. Dae; Upon a Starlit Tide, Kell Woods; Immortal, Sue Lynn Tan; The Martian Contingency, Mary Robinette Kowal; Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, V.E. Schwab.
Magazine reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Escape Pod 12/19/24 (Charles Payseur)
Cast of Wonders 12/22/24 (Charles Payseur)
Strange Horizons 1/20/25 (Charles Payseur)
Flash Fiction Online 1/25 (Charles Payseur)
Reckoning 1/25 (Charles Payseur)
Fiyah Winter ’25 (Charles Payseur)
Small Wonders 2/25 (Charles Payseur)
GigaNotoSaurus 2/25 (Charles Payseur)
Lightspeed 2/25 (Charles Payseur)
Beneath Ceaseless Skies 2/6/25 (Charles Payseur)
Diabolical Plots 2/25 (Charles Payseur)
Analog 1-2/25 (A.C. Wise)
khōréō 4.4 (A.C. Wise)
Clarkesworld 2/25 (A.C. Wise)
Books reviews in this issue (indicating reviewer)—
Abercrombie, Joe • The Devils (Gary K. Wolfe)
Allan, Nina • A Granite Silence (Niall Harrison)
Dae, Koji A. • Casual (Alex Brown)
Desamours, Channelle • Needy Little Things (Colleen Mondor)
Elliott, Kate • The Witch Roads (Liz Bourke)
Harkaway, Nick • Sleeper Beach (Ian Mond)
Kay, Guy Gavriel • Written on the Dark (Gary K. Wolfe)
Kincaid, Paul • Colourfields (Ian Mond)
Kowal, Mary Robinette • The Martian Contingency (Adrienne Martini)
Lafferty, Mur • Infinite Archive (Gary K. Wolfe)
Mohamed, Premee • One Message Remains (Alex Brown)
Murata, Sayaka • Vanishing World (Niall Harrison)
Nayler, Ray • Where the Axe Is Buried (Niall Harrison)
Okorafor, Nnedi • One Way Witch (Gary K. Wolfe)
Older, Malka • The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses (Alexandra Pierce)
Reed, Joe Mungo • Terrestrial History (Ian Mond)
Reynolds, Alastair • The Dagger in Vichy (Alexandra Pierce)
Rhei, Sof a • The Deep Forest (Gary K. Wolfe)
Schwab, V. E. • Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (Adrienne Martini)
Shusterman, Neal • All Better Now (Colleen Mondor)
Tan, Sue Lynn • Immortal (Archita Mittra)
Woods, Kell • Upon a Starlit Tide (Paula Guran)
Yang, Neon • Brighter than Scale, Swifter than Flame (Alexandra Pierce)
