The May 2025 issue of Locus has interviews with Guy Gavriel Kay and Rita Woods and a spotlight on agent Lee O’Brien. News includes the 2025 Hugo Awards Ballot, Nicola Griffith’s induction as a SFWA Grand Master, Samantha Mills’s Compton Crook Award win, the BSFA Awards shortlist, the HWA Lifetime Achievement recipients, and more.
Photo reports cover the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, the Writers & Illustrators of the Future Awards, and the Williamson Lectureship. Cory Doctorow’s column is entitled “Strange Bedfellows and Long Knives”. Obituaries remember L.J. Smith, Kerry Greenwood, and Todd Grimson. Reviews cover new works by Christopher Moore, Premee Mohamed, Pat Murphy, Melissa Scott, Molly O’Neill, Karen Russell, James Bradley, Marie-Helene Bertino, Venessa Vida Kelley, P. Djèlí Clark, Akwaeke Emezi, Liselle Sambury, Claire North, Lincoln Michel, Debbie Urbanski, Oliver K. Langmead & Aliya Whiteley, Bora Chung, Alex Foster, Sylvie Cathrall, Megan Giddings, Darkly Lem, Michel Nieva, Robert Jackson Bennett, Isaac Fellman, Trang Thanh Tran, Constance Fay, Lili Wilkinson, You Yeong-Gwang, Ibi Zoboi, Clive Barker, Jamie Pacton & Rebecca Podos, and others.