Locus September 2025 (#776)

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The September 2025 issue of Locus magazine has interviews with Cadwell Turnbull and Yume Kitasei, and a spotlight on Comma Press. The issue lists US and UK forthcoming books through June 2026. News includes the 2025 Hugo Awards winners, the launch of new Simon & Schuster UK imprint Solstice Books, the Montréal in 2027 Worldcon bid win, and SFWA updates; plus Aurora, Mythopoeic, Seiun, and Sidewise Awards winners, Dragon Awards and Endeavour Award finalists, and much more. The issue includes reports and photos from Readercon 34 and the Gen Con Writers Symposium, and photos from the summer writing workshops. This month’s commentary by Cory Doctorow is entitled “Reverse Centaurs”. Greg Iles and Terry A. Murray are remembered with obituaries. Reviews include new titles by Alix E. Harrow, K.J. Parker, Nghi Vo, Richard Wolinsky (ed.), Tasha Suri, Fran Wilde, Lois McMaster Bujold, Nancy Kress, Nick Mamatas, Bora Chung, Makenna Goodman, Errick Nunnally, Rachel Hartman, Melissa Caruso, Tom Cox, Yume Kitasei, Premee Mohamed, E.J. Swift, Aliya Whiteley, Allan Kaster (ed.), Louisa Morgan, Kathleen Jennings, Rie Qudan, Lindsay Merbaum, C.L. Clark, C. Robert Cargill, Chinaza Bado, Fallon Demornay, Mia P. Manansala, Samira Ahmed, Stephen Graham Jones, Sarah Langan, Rebecca Campbell, and others.

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