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Pierre Bordage (1955-2025)
French SF author Pierre Bordage, 70, died of a heart attack December 26, 2025.
Bordage was born January 29, 1955 in La Réorthe, Vendée, France. He wrote more than 50 novels and over 50 short stories in his career. His work won literary prizes including the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire and Prix Julia Verlanger. His short story L’archiviste (2006) was translated into English as The Archivist (2017). He is survived …Read More
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Of Men and Monsters: Josh Pearce Reviews Dust Bunny
Bryan Fuller’s debut film, Dust Bunny, is a highly stylish (or stylized) family horror * with lots of flashy visuals, humor, and a monster under the bed. After a monster eats both of her parents, a young girl named Aurora (Sophie Sloan) tries to hire her across-the-hall neighbor to kill it (this is Mads Mikkelsen, who refers to himself throughout the movie as Resident 5 but is credited as …Read More
The Salt Oracle by Lorraine Wilson: Review by Abigail Nussbaum
The Salt Oracle, Lorraine Wilson (Solaris 978-1-837865-741, £18.99, 400pp, hc) November 2025.
Bellwether College is a floating structure somewhere in the Baltic Sea. In the future that has followed the Crash, most technology is lost or dangerous, and the ghosts of electronic information wander in search of their lost sources, infecting and fatally transforming anyone luckless enough to come in contact with them. Environmental degradation has rendered weather patterns and …Read More
Halcyon Years by Alastair Reynolds: Review by Russell Letson
Halcyon Years, Alastair Reynolds, (Gollancz 978-1-3996-1176-3, £25.00, 326 pp, hc) October 2025.
Alastair Reynolds is known, quite properly, for work that tends toward widescreen space adventure and exploration, posthumanity, and cosmology operatics – the worlds of the Revelation Space, House of Suns, Revenger, or Blue Remembered Earth sequences. But he is also a genre adventurer, fond of embedding, say, pirate stories or police procedurals or family sagas in his …Read More
The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman: Review by Liz Bourke
The Wolf and His King, Finn Longman (Gollancz 978-1-39962-099-4, £20.00, 350pp, hc) November 2025. (Erewhon 978-1-64566-311-9, $32.00 368pp, hc) January 2026.
I read Finn Longman’s first trilogy, The Butterfly Assassin and its sequels, soon after encountering Longman discussing their research on the medieval late Ulster Cycle on Bluesky. I seldom regret reading books by interesting people, and that trilogy, YA but dealing with deeply adult themes of violence, trauma, revolution …Read More
Letters from an Imaginary Country by Theodora Goss: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon 978-1-61696-440-5, $18.95, 352pp, tp) November 2025.
I’m deeply interested in how we create reality through stories, writes Theodora Goss in one of the story notes for her collection Letters from an Imaginary Country. Perhaps all of these stories are just variations on that theme. Given how consistently the 16 stories engage with the varieties of story-making, she’s probably right. But …Read More
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December 16th New Releases Video is Live!
We’re already halfway through the month of December and Locus is back with another video to help you through the holidays! Although there aren’t a lot of releases this week, we can’t wait to tell you about them! Consider subscribing to the channel after the video! Subscribing shows your support for what we do and keeps you up-to-date on future releases! We post weekly and would hate for you to …Read More
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2025 Books We Loved: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity by Lee Mandelo
It’s Locus‘s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!
Wondering what to read? Locus reviewer Alex Brown says: Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity is an exceptional speculative anthology. Editor Lee Mandelo did a fantastic job selecting a wide range of stories. I enjoyed every story in this collection, and I think most readers will have a similar experience. This book isn’t just about joy and imagining futures where everything …Read More
2025 Books We Loved: Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings
It’s Locus‘s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!
In case you missed it, Locus reviewer Alexandra Pierce chooses Honeyeater by Kathleen Jennings: A lush, gothic story about home and family and place and secrets.
Read Alexandra’s full review online or in the September 2025 issue of Locus. …Read More
2025 Books We Loved: Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler
It’s Locus‘s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!
For your reading pleasure, Locus staff Tim Pratt picks Everybody Wants to Rule the World Except Me by Django Wexler: The concluding volume in the Dark Lord Dani duology – a snarky time loop epic portal fantasy – delivers on the promise of the hilarious opening volume, How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying. I haven’t had this much fun …Read More
2025 Books We Loved: I Am Not Jessica Chen by Ann Liang
It’s Locus‘s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!
Add it to your reading list! Locus reviewer Colleen Mondor says: Turning the Freaky Fridaybody-switching trope on its head, Ann Liang’s I Am Not Jessica Chen finds teen Jenna suddenly inhabiting the body of her brilliant and beautiful cousin, Jessica. What she learns not only makes her reconsider how she perceives herself, but also to appreciate Jessica on an entirely different level. …Read More
2025 Stories We Loved: “His Most Feared Constellation” by R.L. Summerling
It’s Locus‘s 2025 Holiday Countdown of Staff Picks!
Wondering what to read? Locus reviewer Paula Guran says: His Most Feared Constellation by R.L. Summerling (The Dark #119) is set in winter. An old man in decline is waiting for Jade, a smart and caring daughter who never appears. Bit by bit the past is revealed. An accomplished story more chilling than winter.
Read Paula’s full review online or in the …Read More
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