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This is Issue #80 of Salon Futura. Here are the contents:


  • Art: The Alcázar of Segovia: This issue's cover is a drawing of the Alcázar of Segovia, by Gustave Doré

  • Platform Decay: Everyone's favourite SecUnit is back in a new adventure. It is a good job no soft and squishy humans are involved. Oh, wait... Children?!!

  • Oathbound: Tracy Deonn's Arthurian-themed YA fantasy trilogy has reached its conclusion.

  • Cynefin: What does Welsh nature poetry have to teach us about the world? Quite a bit, actually.

  • The Prince of Annwn: Cheryl embarks on reading the most famous adaptation of The Mabinogi: that by Evangeline Walton

  • Salvation’s Child: The first book from Paul Cornell's comics company is from Adrian Tchaikovsky's Final Architecture series

  • Celtic Magic: A Practitioner’s Guide: Do you want to cast spells like an actual druid? Sadly historical sources tell us little, but Brigid Ehrmantraut does her best with what we have.

  • The Monster and the Clown: The second book in Mats Strandberg's children's series pits little Frank Steen against a deadly foe: A CLOWN!

  • Human Voices, Alien Conversations: A book of interviews from across the SF&F community. Lots of famous subjects, and also Cheryl

  • Hay Festival 2026: If it May is must be Hay. Once again Cheryl has been taking in the famous book festival.

  • Åcon 2026: As is traditional at this time of year, Cheryl has been off to the Åland Islands to meet her Nordic friends. This year's Guest of Honour was Emily Tesh.

  • Editorial – May 2026: Cheryl has no idea what happened to May. It was a whole month, right?