The August 2026 Locus magazine, issue #787, has interviews with Chloe Gong and James Patrick Kelly, and a spotlight on authors Anand Gandhi & Zain Memon and the Maya Universe. News covers the Shirley Jackson Awards winners, the Profile Books acquisition of Solaris, new imprint Pink Beam Press, the Future Worlds prize winners, S&S’s relaunch of Pocket Books, the relaunch of Starlog Magazine with a podcast, and much more. Reports include Westercon78/BayCon 42, Readercon 35, MetropolCon/Eurocon, RichmondCon, and the 2026 Locus Survey results. Obituaries remember R.S. Belcher, Mark J. McGarry, Dafydd Ab Hugh, Russell Kirkpatrick, Robin Johnson, and Katharine T. Carroll. Reviews cover new works by Jaclyn Moriarty, Peter Watts, Cadwell Turnbull, J.P. Lacrampe, Keely Jobe, Deb Olin Unferth, August Clarke, Robert Jackson Bennett, Frances Hardinge, A.D. Sui, Miles Cameron, Yoon Ha Lee, Aimee Pokwatka, Meg Elison, Mónica Ojeda translated by Sarah Booker, Wendy Waring, Richard Swan, Keala Kendall, Cale Plett, Jillian Laine, Farah Naz Rishi, Kristin O’Donnell Tubb, Tessa Yang, Christopher Golden, Paul Tremblay, Gabrielle Sher, Eugen Bacon, Ursula K. Le Guin, David M. Brinley & Amanda T. Zehnder (eds.), Jeffrey Alan Love; John Jos. Miller & Kevin Andrew Murphy, Stephen King, and others.

Reviews by ALEXANDRA PIERCE / 18

Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends, A.D. Sui; Whalesong, Miles Cameron; Code and Codex, Yoon Ha Lee; Accumulation, Aimee Pokwatka.

Reviews by NIALL HARRISON / 20

Foundling Fathers, Meg Elison; Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun, Mónica Ojeda, tr. Sarah Booker; The Hunger of Those Who Built It, Wendy Waring; The Infinite State, Richard Swan.

Reviews by ALEX BROWN / 22

Japanese Gothic, Kylie Lee Baker; The Tapestry of Fate, Shannon Chakraborty.

Reviews by GABINO IGLESIAS / 24

Carry Me to My Grave, Christopher Golden; Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep, Paul Tremblay; Odessa, Gabrielle Sher.

Reviews by VANESSA FOGG / 25

Crimson in Quietus, Eugen Bacon.

Reviews by KAREN HABER / 27

Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats, Ursula K. Le Guin; Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, David M. Brinley & Amanda T. Zehnder, eds.; The Last Battle at the End of the World, Jeffrey Alan Love; SHORT TAKES: The Forest of a Thousand Eyes, Frances Hardinge; George R.R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Ante Up, John Jos. Miller & Kevin Andrew Murphy; Hansel and Gretel, Stephen King.

Bacon, Eugen • Crimson in Quietus (Vanessa Fogg)
Bennett, Robert Jackson • A Trade of Blood (Abigail Nussbaum)
Brinley, David M., & Amanda T. Zehner, eds. • Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection (Karen Haber)
Cameron, Miles • Whalesong (Alexandra Pierce)
Clarke, August • The Felicity Complex (Abigail Nussbaum)
Elison, Meg • Foundling Fathers (Niall Harrison)
Golden, Christopher • Carry Me to My Grave (Gabino Iglesias)
Hardinge, Frances • The Forest of a Thousand Eyes (Karen Haber)
Hardinge, Frances • Traitors’ Nest (Abigail Nussbaum)
Jobe, Keely • The Endling (Ian Mond)
Kendall, Keala • That Which Feeds Us (Alex Brown)
King, Stephen, illustrated by Maurice Sendak • Hansel and Gretel (Karen Haber)
Lacrampe, J. P. • Valet (Ian Mond)
Laine, Jillian • Henry Tudor Must Die (Colleen Mondor)
Le Guin, Ursula K. • Ursula K. Le Guin’s Book of Cats (Karen Haber)
Lee, Yoon Ha • Code and Codex (Alexandra Pierce)
Love, Jeffrey Alan • The Last Battle at the End of the World (Karen Haber)
Miller, John Jos., & Kevin Andrew Murphy • George R.R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Ante Up (Karen Haber)
Moriarty, Jaclyn • Time Travel for Beginners (Gary K. Wolfe)
Ojeda, M nica • Electric Shamans at the Festival of the Sun (Niall Harrison)
Plett, Cale • The Saw Mouth (Alex Brown)
Pokwatka, Aimee • Accumulation (Alexandra Pierce)
Rishi, Farah Naz • Lovestruck (Colleen Mondor)
Sher, Gabrielle • Odessa (Gabino Iglesias)
Sui, A. D. • Our Infinite and Inevitable Ends (Alexandra Pierce)
Swan, Richard • The Infinite State (Niall Harrison)
Tremblay, Paul • Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep (Gabino Iglesias)
Tubb, Kristin O’Donnell • The Spiritualists (Colleen Mondor)
Turnbull, Cadwell • All the Hidden Places (Gary K. Wolfe)
Unferth, Deb Olin • Earth 7 (Ian Mond)
Waring, Wendy • The Hunger of Those Who Built It (Niall Harrison)
Watts, Peter • Fold Catastrophes (Gary K. Wolfe)
Yang, Tessa • The Jellyfish Problem (Colleen Mondor)Science Fiction and Fantasy (Alvaro Zinos-Amaro)