Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
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This is Frodo at 50 years old, 25 years ago. Feel old yet?
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Injecting some whimsical fantasy vibes into your Friday 💫
ALT A collage of 6 images on a lilac background. Dark blue text reads “Whimsical Fantasy”. The books are Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones; Hogfather by Terry Pratchett; Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher; The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern; Wildwood Dancing by Juliet Marillier; and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
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These are the vibes btw
ALT A robot wearing an orange robe holds a watermelon, standing before an idyllic cottage. Surrounding the image are a robot, a cat, misty mountains, galaxy, watermelon, dark waters, tangled fence, and rusty sheet of metal.
An aging robot, on a journey to visit a friend, reflects on their adventures together.
"Joiner and Rust" by @lavietidhar is free to read now!
Art by James Gilleard
Edited by @JonathanStrahan
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It is National Appreciate A Dragon Day. Appreciate her.
ALT Vermithrax Pejorative from Dragonslayer
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In a future where AI controls all, Hippocrates is the last of its kind. It's not where Pok wants to be, but his father's death and a mysterious illness begin to interfere.
We're sharing an excerpt from @JustinKey_MD's The Hospital At The End of The World!
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This is how the Reactor Social Media Manager posts (art by Doug Beekman)
ALT Wizard in a fabulous purple robe examines an old computer
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"In a fantasy landscape dominated by romance-forward stories, it felt like a treat to read a story where romance just isn’t the point—but relationships still are."
Jenny Hamilton reviews the warm, chaotic witchy fantasy An Unlikely Coven, by AM Kvita!
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It's valid to call this the best Fantastic Four movie ever made, and it *looks* perfect, but does that make it a good movie? Join @KRADeC in discussing the MCU's "Fantastic Four: First Steps"
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Step into this tube, close your eyes, and relax with the dulcet tones of Matthew Byrd tracing the history of cryosleep:
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Star Trek has been interested in Starfleet Academy since the 1980s. So how does the show follow the first Starfleet cadets of the 32nd century? @KRADeC reviews the first episode of the brand-new series, which stars Holly Hunter and Paul Giamatti!
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A man is hired to transcribe the words of a woman who speaks in "spews" during self-induced trances, but he soon discovers an intriguing story coalescing within her seemingly incoherent rambles.
Next week. "The Spew" by @jeffreyford8!
Art by Carter Gill
Edited by @EllenDatlow
ALT An enormous figure with the head of a red bird holds a cane over a small woman dressed in a red dress and boots, clutching a yellow twig.
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Make way for @TobiasCarroll's January and February indie press recs! Featuring New Testament horror, "gothic whimsy", and, because you've been good, a new Nicola Griffith collection:
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Ryan Hurst may have voiced Thor in God of War: Ragnarök, but in the upcoming live action series with Amazon, he'll be Kratos himself:
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“Is it possible to put a person under a microscope?”
We're excited to share an excerpt from apocalyptic sporror novel Pedro the Vast by Simón Lopez Trujillo, translated by Robin Myers!
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Hard to imagine anything worse than being trapped in a high school with The Fast Kind of Zombies:
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Reactor Senior Books Editor Christina picked up like 75 books for this list and these are the 30 THAT MADE IT please clap and buy them a croissant!!!
Welcome to THE BEST BOOKS OF 2025: REVIEWER'S CHOICE!! Reactor's book reviewers have come together to recommend their favorite 2025 reads. How many have you read?
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Theodora Goss's short story collection Letters From an Imaginary Country channels fairytales and anthropology for "the Borges sickos". Read @steppinlazer's full review:
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GET WEIRD. BECOME TREE.
Reading the Weird dissects Hiron Ennes' "Our Best Selves," first published in Weird Horror 🪴🪴🪴
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Indrapramit Das, author of The Devourers, reflects on Pluribus, the transformation–of people, countries, art–without consent, and why we hate the hivemind just as much as Carol:
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