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Absurdist Humor and Truck Drivers in Space: The Legacy of John Carpenter's Dark Star - Reactor
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Carpenter's irreverent first film impacted the sci-fi genre in some surprising ways...
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Five Works About Surviving Helpful or Indifferent Aliens - Reactor
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Even interactions with non-hostile aliens can be perilous for humans...
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When It’s Time To Leave The Nest: Cuckoo - Reactor
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While maybe not a perfect horror film, Cuckoo is gripping and surprising.
on Sep 5
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Jo Walton’s Reading List: August 2024 - Reactor
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From Le Guin to Agatha Christie, new time travel novels to terrible twee Victorian fairy tales, all of these books are interesting (if not strictly good)…
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Happy Star Trek Day! For One Week, You Can Watch Show Premieres For Free - Reactor
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Star Trek Day occurs on September 8, 2024, and to celebrate the occasion, the franchise is launching not only a “Take the Chair, Make an Impact” campaign—where it’s donating to Code.org, DoSomething.org, and Outright International—but also making the premiere episodes for several series...
on Sep 5
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Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Ideas: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (Part 13) - Reactor
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We now have all the dominoes set up to support an extremely bad decision...
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Five Books About Discovering Lost Civilizations - Reactor
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Classic adventure fiction is chock-full of lost or secret civilizations...
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Five Thinly Veiled Versions of Rome in SF - Reactor
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For some science fiction authors, all roads really do lead to Rome.
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Revealing The Secret Romantic’s Book of Magic - Reactor
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A collection of twelve spellbinding fantasy love stories forthcoming from Titan Books
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Amazon MGM Studios to Make Mass Effect TV Adaptation - Reactor
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From the writer of F9: The Fast Saga...
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Out of This World: Books to Read When You Need an Escape - Reactor
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Sometimes you need to step away from reality and lose yourself in fiction: these will help.
on Nov 8
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Never Say You Can't Survive: How To Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories - Reactor
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Charlie Jane Anders is writing a nonfiction book—and Tor.com is publishing it as she does so. Never Say You Can’t Survive is a how-to book about the storytelling craft, but it’s also full of memoir, personal anecdote, and insight about how to flourish in the present emergency. Below is the...
on Nov 7
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Agatha All Along Nailed Some Profound Truths About Witchcraft - Reactor
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Finally, a rich, thoughtful, respectful on-screen portrayal of witches and magic...
on Nov 7
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“I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.” — Revisiting Ghibli's Porco Rosso 30 Years Later - Reactor
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“I’d rather be a pig than a fascist.” Great movie line, or greatest movie line? It’s a brief moment in Hayao Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso, when seaplane pilot Marco Rossellini—a man cursed with a pig’s head—meets up with his old pilot buddy Rory. The two have a clandestine conversation in a movie...
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Quandary Aminu vs The Butterfly Man - Reactor
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When an illicit trade deal goes wrong and Quandary is blamed for it, she goes on the run to avoid the crosshairs of a bioengineered killer that only lives for 24 hours. If Q can evade it for that long, she just might survive.
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When people who portray or embody beloved characters show themselves to be heroic in everyday ways, it’s always inspiring. But sometimes the ways in which they’re heroic are particularly moving — like they were to the person who told this story about David Bowie at a Labyrinth screening 30 years...
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The Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century - Reactor
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We surveyed some of our favorite writers and asked them to share their choices for the most iconic books of the 21st century (so far).
on Nov 1
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The Viral Post From Beyond: Manish Melwani’s “Mammoth” - Reactor
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A cosmic entity breaks the internet—and eventually, the world.
on Oct 30
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Horror Has Always Been Political - Reactor
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A reminder that horror movies always reflect the anxieties of the culture in which they're created—it's nothing new.
on Oct 30
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A Modest Request for a Little More Genre Chaos - Reactor
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Gleefully mixing genres can create something magical and powerful, and sometimes it’s a hot mess. Either way, I want MORE.
on Oct 27
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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: August 2024 - Reactor
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These ten stories have a little bit of everything, from cats in space to immigrant dryads.
on Oct 26
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Good Omens Season 3 Will Only Be 90 Minutes Long - Reactor
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The third season of Good Omens will now be one 90-minute episode, according to Variety. The show was greenlit for a full third and final season in December 2023, and production was underway. Work was put on hold this September, however, when several women publicly accused showrunner Neil Gaiman...
on Oct 25
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5 SFF Books About Elections and Technology - Reactor
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From to a corrupt global democracy to an A.I. presidential candidate, these 5 books offer a speculative look at the future of politics.
on Oct 24
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Five Formidable Female Characters From Classic SF - Reactor
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Proof that it's always been possible to write capable women who think for themselves...
on Oct 23
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How Harlan Ellison's Outer Limits Episode Told a Vast Story in a Confined Space - Reactor
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It's been 60 years since this episode graced television screens for the very first time
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A florist becomes obsessed with the strange, haunting red flowers she buys from an equally strange old lady…
on Oct 18
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How to Make a Triffid - Reactor
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Tor.com is proud to present the very first published work by Kelly Lagor, the original short story "How to Make a Triffid," a chilling tale of science, science fiction, and how we break. (And even more stunned by her tattoo of Tor.com mascot Stubby the Rocket!)
on Oct 17
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Who’s A Good Boy? — A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny - Reactor
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Snuff the dog narrates this clever, gripping tale—the perfect story for spooky season.
on Oct 17
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Reconsidering Red Dawn After 40 Years - Reactor
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American pop culture can be inspiring. Hopefully, it inspires the right people. Popeye the Sailor Man served as the mascot of an Anarchist group during the Spanish Civil War. Pro-democracy demonstrators in Thailand in 2014 and Myanmar in 2021 employed the three-fingered salute from The Hunger...
on Oct 17
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The Limits of Horror: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (Part 12) - Reactor
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Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we continue Stephen King’s Pet Sematary with Chapters 36-37. The novel was first published in 1983....
on Oct 17
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Read an Excerpt From R.S.A. Garcia's The Nightward - Reactor
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Women warrior-magicians rule, and a child princess and her bodyguard must flee an attempted coup and evade the darkness sent to kill her.
on Oct 17
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Jo Walton’s Reading List: September 2024 - Reactor
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A truly excellent update based on Austen and Shakespeare, plus some great YA, space opera, and fantasy!
on Oct 17
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Gentle, Magnificent Gratitude: A Love Letter to Natsume’s Book of Friends - Reactor
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One of the coziest, most comforting anime of all time, a slow-burn coming-of-age story that champions decency above all.
on Oct 17
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The Thing: Have A Shot of Whisky With Your Existential Terror - Reactor
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John Carpenter month continues as we confront the icy, gory, claustrophobic horror of "The Thing"
on Oct 16
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Complete Planetary Destruction Is Not as Easy as It Seems - Reactor
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Humans are very bad at taking care of the planet, but the Earth has survived bigger threats than us...
on Oct 16
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The Award for Worst Person Ever: E. F. Benson’s “The Outcast” - Reactor
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Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we cover E. F. Benson’s “The Outcast,” first published in Hutchinson’s Magazine in April 1922. Spoilers...
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Tolkien's Map and The Messed Up Mountains of Middle-earth - Reactor
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We’ve got to talk about Tolkien’s map of Middle-earth. The man might have made up some beautiful languages and written stories that generations of writers have responded to in ways ranging from homage to bad photocopy, but I’m going to guess he was no connoisseur of geography. Even at an early...
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Beautiful, poetic, and experimental: Roger Zelazny's Doorways in the Sand - Reactor
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Roger Zelazny was a demented genius who could squeeze words until they sang. I first read Doorways in the Sand when I was thirteen years old. It blew my head off. I’ve read it a couple of times since then, but it isn’t in my frequent rotation, like Isle of the Dead and This Immortal. […]
on Oct 9
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Five SF Scenarios Involving the Presidential Line of Succession - Reactor
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Alternate histories and Cold War SF are filled with crises in which the presidential chain of command is *drastically* disrupted...
on Oct 8
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Five SFF Stories With a Refreshing Lack of Violence - Reactor
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Tired of weapons and explosions? How about some stories that move the plot along in other ways...
on Oct 4
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Read the Introduction to Sinophagia: A Celebration of Chinese Horror - Reactor
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An anthology of unsettling tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the very first time.
on Oct 4
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The Joy of the Vulture: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary (Part 11) - Reactor
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Welcome back to Reading the Weird, in which we get girl cooties all over weird fiction, cosmic horror, and Lovecraftiana—from its historical roots through its most recent branches. This week, we continue Stephen King’s Pet Sematary with Chapters 33-35. The novel was first published in 1983....
on Oct 2
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Five SFF Strategies for Plotting Around Pesky Parents - Reactor
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Are you the responsible, caring parent of a juvenile adventurer? You may want to upgrade your insurance...
on Oct 2
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Where Do Genres Come From? - Reactor
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Sure, there's marketing involved, but it's also about certain foundational texts creating demand, and readers trying to recapture specific feelings...
on Oct 2
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The Martha Wells Book Club: The Cloud Roads - Reactor
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Between the diligent craftwork and the inclusive worldbuilding, it's easy to fall in love with the stories and characters of Martha Wells.
on Sep 28
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When Did SFF Get Too Big? - Reactor
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Is it possible to pinpoint the moment when readers stopped being able to keep up with their favorite genres?
on Sep 26
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In a new Little Brother story, when schools make war on their own students, something has to give . . .
on Sep 26
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There Were Two Beds! — M.R. James’ “Oh Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” - Reactor
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We found it! The original bedsheet ghost!
on Sep 25