The December 2004 issue of Locus Magazine includes

• Interviews with writers Michael Chabon and Karen Joy Fowler
  
  
• Reports on October's World Fantasy Convention and banquet, the recent Swissnex symposium, the Aurora Awards, and the Viable Paradise workshop
  
  
• Forthcoming Books listings for the US and UK, through September 2005
  
  
• An article on the involvement of Sean Stewart, Maureen F. McHugh, and other SF writers with the alternate reality game I Bees
  
  
• People & Publishing items about Ray Bradbury, James Morrow, Avram Davidson, Orson Scott Card, Michael Chabon, Greg Bear, Philip K. Dick, and many others
  
  
• Obituaries of Tetsu Yano, with appreciations by Frederik Pohl and Takumi Shibano, and of Greg Shaw
  
  
• Book and magazine reviews, including Nick Gevers and Rich Horton covering short fiction in magazines and anthologies, Gary K. Wolfe on Philip Roth, Faren Miller on David Mitchell, Nick Gevers on Gene Wolfe, Damien Broderick on Geoff Ryman, short reviews by Carolyn Cushman, and a new audio reviews column by John Joseph Adams, among many others