Locus Magazine #778

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November 2025, Issue 778 of Locus magazine has interviews with Joe Hill and Eden Royce. News includes the Ignyte Awards winners, Loyer's Sturgeon Award win, the planned Baker & Taylor shutdown, Anthropic settlement news, and more. Cory Doctorow's column is entitled "Show Me the Incentive, I’ll Show You the Outcome". Galaxycon in Chengdu is covered with a report and photos. Guest columnist Kate Maruyama shares "The Conversation Continues, Even When They're Gone", a reflection on working with and remembering her mother Kit Reed. Obituaries commemorate Jon Lasser and Stephen Fabian. Reviews cover new titles by authors T. Kingfisher, Kemi Ashing-Giwa, Theodora Goss, Terry Bisson, Stephen Baxter, Ren Hutchings, Kit Englard, Wesley Chu, Elizabeth Bear, Sam J. Miller, Mary Robinette Kowal, Olga Ravn, Cheon Seon-Ran, Eric Heisserer, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Gautam Bhatia (ed.), Hiron Ennes, Sarah Hall, David Surface & Julia Rust, Jen Julian, Susan Dennard, Sarah Beth Durst, Julie Berry, Jacqueline Harpman, Lorraine Wilson, Madeline Dyer (ed.), Freddie Kölsch, Rachel Eve Moulton, Eric LaRocca, Alma Katsu, Sheree Renée Thomas & Lesley Conner (eds.), Finn Longman, Alastair Reynolds, Seamus Sullivan, John Scalzi, Daniel Ritter & David Ritter, and more.