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The May 2018 issue of Locus has interviews with Nick Harkaway and Ada Palmer. Main Stories include the 2018 Hugo Awards ballot, 1943 Retro Hugos ballot, Carrie Vaughn’s Philip K. Dick Award win, BSFA winners, Groff and Miéville’s Guggenheim Fellowships, an update on the flooding damage at ENMU Special Collections Library, and more. Awards season news covers Aurealis, Kitschie, Ditmar, and Pulitzer winners, and finalists or shortlists for Sturgeon, Prometheus, and Neukom awards, among others.
Convention coverage with photos and reports includes the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Norwescon 41, the Chinese SF New Year Gala, the Writers and Illustrators of the Future Awards, the Outer Dark Symposium, and the 2018 Williamson Lectureship. The column by Cory Doctorow is entitled “The Engagement-Maximization Presidency”. Obituaries and appreciations remember Peter Nicholls, Philip Kerr, Ahmed Khalid Towfik, and David Bischoff. Reviews cover new titles by Simon Ings, Catherynne M. Valente, Ian McDonald, Nicole Kornher-Stace, Gareth L. Powell, David Weber, Timothy Zahn & Thomas Pope, David Drake, Nancy Kress, Neal Asher, Alma Katsu, Paul Tremblay, Simon Avery, Holly Black, Alisa Kwitney, Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs, and many others.