Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!

Reasons to Mask in 2026 by Gillian Levine: gillianlevine.com/reasons-to-m...

Sun watchers were fixed on this spectacular #prominence eruption yesterday. The rope of solar material had been billowing since Sunday, and the event ended with a huge mass of plasma escaping into space yesterday afternoon. Read today's #sun news: buff.ly/eV5YSbS 📸 NOAA.

Do you write micro-fiction? Think you can whip up 300 words on human-alien contact? If so, Apex has a contest for you: www.apexbookcompany.com/blogs/frontp...

Applications for my upcoming Short Story Cohort are due on Thursday, March 5. You'll join an intimate group, receive critique (including from me), build your short story writing skills, and write and polish pieces for submission. Learn more and apply here: maryrobinettekowal.com/short-story-...

On this #WorldWildlifeDay, it feels like a good time to revisit this vintage #ISpyPhysiology blog... At only 1-2 inches long, the zebrafish seems an unlikely model for human physiology. More on what this tiny creature can teach us about ourselves: https://ow.ly/hmSG50Yll0f#WorldWildlifeDay#ISpyPhysiology#WWD2026 #Physiology 🧪

After the 89 days of February, here's a little blast of summer: Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele). Derby, CT, USA. 🧪🌿🌎🐡 #garden #bugsky #biodiversity #pollinators #photography #macro #macrophotography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #insect #butterflies #Lepidoptera #macro

"Swarm robots on the moon" sounds like the title of a sci-fi drive-in movie, but an NJIT student recently turned that idea into a proposal that won a $10K grant from NASA's L'SPACE Program. The project will prototype swarm robots that could construct a lunar base 🤖 🧪 🔭 news.njit.edu/robot-swarms...

Only three days left to register for our Women in Astronomy course - we lift off at 1pm PT on March 5 and we want you on board! 🚀 Join us and learn about both women's historical impact on astronomy and how to create diverse, accessible spaces in your work, your fandom, and your everyday life. 🫶🏻 🔗⤵️

Does anyone have a book recommendation for eco-rebellion? I’m looking for something similar to @madihaab.com’s “Heat Devils” from our Issue 17. Fast-paced and action-packed with a focus on taking down corporations that have ruined the planet. Any ideas? 🌱🧡

TODAY!! do we ever have something SPECIAL for you, beloveds! originally slated for @fantasymagazine.bsky.social 100 💔 but here for YOU nonetheless: Writing from Liminal Spaces; A Conversation with @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social psychopomp.com/writing-from...

Sixty years on, a Star Trek writer is still creating strange new worlds. Diane Duane’s early days writing fan fiction have led to a remarkable career as a novelist, comic writer and screen writer.

Important! I know my brother will say "AH-HAH!"

do you ever see a fancast so perfect that you gasp out loud

Sunrise on Glastonbury Tor this morning. A beautiful start to the day.

The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is open to nominations. Is there a 2025 title that you loved that reflected the concepts and ideas that were central to Le Guin's work? Nominate it. www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...

We must note when science fiction becomes reality.

Anybody putting together a long pitch for a commercial project should check out Every Cartoon Pitch and Writer's Bible. Unbelievably useful to see how shows move from concept to screen, esp. how writers frame characters within their settings.

BSFW EVENTS [Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone] On-the-Spot Workshop Critique Group - Wed 3/4 7:30PM Rad Files Novel Group - Mon 3/9 7:30PM Last Keybard's Novel Critique - Mon 3/9 7:30PM Sam's Short Story Workshop - Tue 3/10 7PM www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

What a wonderful thing this will be for so, so many people, if it turns out to work. Once we get rid of RFKjr and his lackeys.

BSFW EVENTS [Online unless noted otherwise. Eastern Time Zone] Marcy's Short Story Meetup - Sun 3/1 3PM Daniel's Comic Book Workshop (IRL) - Tue 3/3 7PM On-the-Spot Workshop Critique Group - Wed 3/4 7:30PM Rad Files Novel Group - Mon 3/9 7:30PM www.meetup.com/brooklyn-spe...

Sigh. It's never "just" the concentration-camp tattoo. Also, that's a reminder we NEVER thought we'd have to write. Happy March, everyone. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

My AI is the best AI.

Love us a good captain!

Wow! A lost short film by George Méliès from 1897 (!!) is discovered by Library of Congress archivists! It was in a box of old films donated by the great-grandson of a traveling showman who staged film screenings to astounded 19th century audiences. You can watch it at the link.

We never thought we'd say this...Lovecraft was right.

Check out this unusually elaborate scam literary agency website. Count the fakery: fake "team". fake clients (all images stock or AI) & fake sales claims. This outfit is soliciting using an email template I recognize from a previous scam www.rebeccasinclairassociates.com

Any SFnal future that does not include vaporware and grifter capitalists is simply not credible.

Any SFnal future that does not include vaporware and grifter capitalists is simply not credible.

Last minute reading for the Nebula Awards? Try the novelette “The Millay Illusion” by Sarah Pinsker! It was 4th Place in the Uncanny Magazine 2026 Reader Poll & on the Locus Recommended Reading List! Read it here! buff.ly/QTn6v3h

"The wave function of the universe is like a cosmic secret that physics itself conspires to keep." New Scientist covers recent work by Eddy Keming Chen & Roderich Tumulka published in the BJPS: www.newscientist.com/article/2513... Link to the (free) paper in next comment. #philsci #philsky #hps

Resist the temptation to save your main character! Full video: youtu.be/GZNHUoYgXOM?... #writingcommunity #writingtips #writingabook #writingadvice #writingcraft

💛 It's no else's business 💛 #WritingCommunity #Inspire

That's it, if prompters don't want to label their work as AI made, then I will start labeling my work as human made. #writer #writing #author #selfpublished #romanceauthor #booksky

These scam emails are getting funnier and funnier, I swear.

Bourbon Penn 38 cover reveal. Early release available now to subscribers!

Congratulations to all the 2026 @sfpoetry.bsky.social Rhysling Award nominees! 🎉 Very exciting to see twelve (!!!) poems from last year's Strange Horizons issues on the list! Thank you to everyone who trusted us with their work and thank you to everyone who read and enjoyed them! ❤️

Any science-fiction future that does not include grifters is not a fully realized future. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/07/07/v...

Buying BCS ebooks or an ebook subscription at Weightless Books gets you BCS stories a week early--in this case, both parts of a novella two weeks early--on your e-reader and helps us pay our authors a pro rate and our First Readers an honorarium worthy of writing all replies personalized. Thank you!

AM I SUPPOSED TO BE SUPRISED? IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WITH HALF A FUNCTIONING BRAINCELL AND A PULSE THAT'S SUPRISED?? fortune.com/2026/02/24/d...

#PPOD: This beautiful image shows a swirling region of bright clouds in the wake of a cyclonic storm in Jupiter's atmosphere. On the left, you can see the turbulent, blue-tinted pole, while on the right, the polar clouds give way to the pinker belts and zones of Jupiter’s mid-latitudes. 🧪 🔭

🔭 More about that nebula: esawebb.org/news/weic2605/

I was waiting all day for the data release of those observations, I am clearly not disappointed!🔭 This is the Cranium Nebula, a planetary nebula, as seen by the JWST with NIRCam (l) and MIRI (r). Processing this data was so fun, this plan. nebula is incredible! HD: flic.kr/p/2rYiLSJ

"The picture released Wednesday by the European Southern Observatory zeros in on a region of cold cosmic gases more than 650 light-years across. A light-year is nearly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers)." 🔭🧪

Neutrinos hold space but no value. They are the cryptocurrency of particles.

Today's Word: Cacoethes An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable. From Greek kakoethes (ill-disposed), blending kakos (bad) and ethos (disposition). Roman satirist Juvenal gave us "cacoethes scribendi" - the incurable itch to write. 'nuff said.

This is a wonderful list of comfort read recommendations! I pulled together all the ones I could into a list here to add to TBRs if you want: gist.github.com/sh4nth/b1a31...

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