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Tananarive Due and Stephen Graham Jones Are 2026 Locus Awards Guests of Honor
Locus is thrilled to announce two of the field’s talented and award-winning authors, Tananarive Due and Stephen Graham Jones, will be headlining the 2026 Locus Awards as Guests of Honor this May. Novelists Due (The Reformatory, a NYT Notable Book) and Jones (The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, NYT Bestseller) will grace the stage in Berkeley, California, on May 30, 2026, as we celebrate the science fiction, fantasy, and horror …Read More
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The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell: Review by Colleen Mondor
The White Octopus Hotel, Alexandra Bell (Del Rey 979-8-217-09179-9, $19.00, 349 pp, tp) October 2025.
The White Octopus Hotel (my fourth hotel book this year!), by Alexandra Bell, is a time-travel novel in the Bradbury tradition and a love story that is full of drama and mystery and, upon reflection, far more romantic than it seems while reading. It’s also a great big story of family and history and regret …Read More
No Man’s Land by Richard K. Morgan: Review by Alexandra Pierce
No Man’s Land, Richard K. Morgan (Del Rey, 978-0-34549-315-6, 496pp, $30.00 hc). Cover by Tomás Almeida. March 2026.
One fascinating variation on the myths-in-the-modern-world theme is the re-emergence of mythological or fairytale creatures or elements into the modern world – and here I am using modern loosely, because Richard K. Morgan’s No Man’s Land takes place in an alternate post-WWI Britain. That war is over – but, as one character …Read More
The Daughter Who Remains by Nnedi Okorafor: Review by Gary K. Wolfe
The Daughter Who Remains, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW 978-0756418991, $23.00, 192pp, hc) February 2026.
Nnedi Okorafor’s The Daughter Who Remains is the concluding novella in her She Who Knows trilogy, but it’s a little more complicated than that. The first novella, last year’s She Who Knows, was a prequel to Okorafor’s World Fantasy-winning Who Fears Death (2010), revealing the early history of Najeeba, the mother of Onyesonwu, that novel’s world-changing sorcerer, …Read More
The Salvage by Anbara Salam: Review by Colleen Mondor
The Salvage, Anbara Salam (Tin House 978-1-963-10847-7, $17.99, 368 pp, tp) October 2025.
Anbara Salam’s The Salvage is a deliciously spooky novel set on Cairnroch Island, just off the coast of Scotland, in 1962. Marta Khoury, a marine archaeologist from an Edinburgh museum, has been dispatched to dive on a Victorian shipwreck which was recently discovered in Arctic waters and then dragged back to the crew’s home at Cairnroch. The …Read More
Song of Spores by Bogi Takács: Review by Ian Mond
Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye Books 978-1-94037-275-4, $20.99, 216pp, tp) November 2025.
When I wrote my review of Bogi Takács’s excellent second collection, Power to Yield and Other Stories, I was surprised that, as editor, poet, academic, translator, and critic, e found the time to amass such a sizeable catalogue of stories. This time around, with a much greater appreciation of Takács’s work and what e has achieved …Read More
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YouTube New Books Video: January 27, 2026
Locus is excited to bring you another video on the top new releases of the week! We’ll be going over the best of the best in the Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, and Young Adult genres! There’s a new video every week, so if you want to support what we do and don’t want to miss out on future releases, consider subscribing to the channel! …Read More
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YouTube New Books Video: January 20, 2026
Locus is excited to present you with another video on the top new releases of the week! We’re going over the best of the best in the SF, Fantasy, Horror, and YA genres and you’re not going to want to miss a second of it! We post a new video every week and would hate for you to miss out on your next favorite book, so consider subscribing to the …Read More
New Imprint: Wildthorn Books
Tor Publishing Group has announced a new imprint, Wildthorn Books. The imprint will focus on commercial stories that are irresistible, genre-blending and genre-bending. Categories and genres published under the imprint will include commercial and upmarket women’s fiction, suspense, paranormal mystery, magical realism, speculative non-fiction, and historical fantasy.
Wildthorn Books launches globally with Tor UK. Devi Pillai will be the president and publisher; Monique Patterson, who joined in 2023 with …Read More
New Book Releases: January 20, 2026
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Bacon, Eugen; Ntumy, Cheryl; & Embleton, Stephen: Sauúti Terrors Short Stories (Beyond and Within) (Flame Tree Collections UK 978-1835626405, $26.99, 416pp, formats: hardcover, 01/20/2026)
Shared-world anthology of Afrocentric horror stories set in the Sauútiverse, a planet system with two stars. Part of the publisher’s Beyond and Within series. Authors include T.L. …Read More
Locus Bestsellers, January 2026
The Locus Bestsellers for October include top titles: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US), The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey), and Dungeons & Dragons: The Finest Edge of Twilight by R.A. Salvatore (Random House Worlds).
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month 1) Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US) 3 1 2) Alchemised, SenLinYu (Del Rey) …Read More
Weekly Bestsellers, 19 January 2026
Two debuts this week, both of fantasy novels. Melissa de la Cruz’s Rings of Fate (Entangled: Red Tower Books), first in a new series, is on three lists, ranking as high as #7 on the NY Times fiction hardcover list. And Elise Kova’s Dragon Cursed (Entangled: Mayhem Books) is also on three lists, two of them for YA/children’s books, ranking as high as #1 on the NY Times‘ YA …Read More
