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Locus 2025 Recommended Reading List

Feb 132026
 

It’s an incredible honor to see so many DMLA authors on the Locus 2025 Recommended Reading List! Congratulations all around!

SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS

  • The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz)

FANTASY NOVELS

  • The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)
  • Angel Maker, Elizabeth Bear (Sobbing Squonk)
  • A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)
  • Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor)

HORROR NOVELS

  • The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)

FIRST NOVELS

  • A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga)

COLLECTIONS

  • Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)
  • One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)

NOVELLAS

  • The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean)
  • The Oblivion Bride, Caitlin Starling (Neon Hemlock)

NOVELETTES

  • “The Witch and the Wyrm“, Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25)
  • “Uncertain Sons“, Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons)
  • “The City of Tears“, Molly Tanzer (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 4/3/25)

SHORT STORIES

  • “In My Country“, Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25)