From The Boys' final season to an adaptation of The House of Spirits to a Handmaid's Tale prequel, you'd be forgiven for thinking April's genre TV offerings are a pretty grim lot. But at least we've got Star Wars: Maul—Shadow Lord to brighten things up! reactormag.com/new-genre-tv...

“Do I die before I rescue my son?” Maggie's resolve not to predict the future crumbles in chapter 10 of @ilonaandrews.bsky.social's This Kingdom Will Not Kill Me. Check out this conclusion of our preview of the new series - coming 3/31 from @torbooks.bsky.social! reactormag.com/excerpts-thi...

From a city obsessed with art and theater to magical paintings and haunted mosaics, here are 8 books that celebrate the power and strangeness of art and aesthetics from Hiron Ennes, Clive Barker, Magnus Flyte, Charles de Lint and more! reactormag.com/eight-strang...

This weekend: The Sinners syllabus, good dogs, and The Mummy Returns (returns to theaters)!

Hugo Nominations close Saturday, March 28, 2026, 09:00 AM PDT! Remember to send in your ballots (and share what you submitted)!

We are ECSTATIC to welcome @slhuang.com's return with a preview of the linguistics-based science fiction novella The Language of Liars!

Diablo Cody hints that a Jennifer's Body sequel would be more "unleashed" than the original:

Wen-yi Lee's When They Burned the Butterfly is a vivid, ferocious Singaporean urban fantasy bleeding with body horror, historical fiction, and women who refuse to be discarded. Read @mollytempleton.com's review:

Everything you need to know about my feelings toward the Murderbot Diaries can be summed up as: "My headcanon is that Gurathin and Ratthi finally admit they’re in love with each other and then take Three in and become its weird uncles." reactormag.com/martha-wells...

Something Very Bad is happening to the prestige horror miniseries. @lacymb.bsky.social on the Duffer Brothers' new Netflix show: #SomethingVeryBadIsGoingtoHappen

I'm choosing to believe that The End of Oak Street is a Dinotopia prequel:

THIS CAST...RYAN COOGLER...I BELIEVE!!!!

Sonya Walger joins the God of War cast as THE! Witch of the Woods: #GodofWar

This month in the Martha Wells Book Club, @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social tackles four short stories from across the Murderbot universe! #Murderbot

🐑🐑 Ewe too will be woo(l)ed by The Sheep Detectives trailer 🐑🐑

Heroism won't save you in outer space. In Project Hail Mary, trust will get you farther: #ProjectHailMary

In a folktale from Alak, a dreamy good-for-nothing young woman seeking excitement discovers a life of adventures may not be what she expected. Be careful what you wish for! "Tatterdemalion" by @michaelcisco.bsky.social is out now! Art by Raven Jiang Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social

For 30 years, Ghost in the Shell has been asking unsettling questions about technology and the nature of humanity. A new exhibit celebrates the art and soul of the original manga, movie, and series–while also posing some new questions: #Anime

"Forbidden Planet is—with the arguable exception of some early serials—the first major motion picture to truly channel the spirit, ideas, and imagery that had been prevalent in published science fiction for several decades already." @donkaye.bsky.social on how Forbidden Planet changed film history:

Surprise! Cover reveal for my "haunted house but really immigrant generational trauma and gentrification erases cultural memory" book! Coming out next February, assuming I can get through this revision.

We thought this was an early April Fools joke but it is real:

In light of the latest science on terraforming Mars, James Davis Nicoll looks at five novels and novellas that offer different science-fictional solutions for transforming the famously hostile Red Planet into a livable habitat:

We are thrilled to reveal the cover for @mikechenwriter.bsky.social's The Haunting of Santo Domingo Street, a gentrification horror in the heart of Silicon Valley available February 2, 2027 from Podium Publishing!

"When our lord of the manor fails to return from his hunt in time for lunch with his daughters, my first and only prayer is that he never returns at all." Gothic fantasy, sapphic yearning, class politics...if any of these spark your interest, Markelle Grabo's The Redwood Bargain might be for you:

"Does a novel need to actually have fantastical elements to be considered a fantasy novel?" @tobiascarroll.bsky.social considers Anna Kovatcheva's She Made Herself a Monster as a story more fantasy or horror than the sum of its parts. Read the review:

Civil War (2024) is a controversial film, and an important one: a rumination and warning on the nature of war, and a powerfully realistic depiction of dogged journalists attempting to convey events as honestly as they can.

The Otherwise Award "honors works of science fiction and fantasy that expand and explore our understanding of gender.” This year's winner is Silvia Park's science fiction novel Luminous!

everything can be improved by the addition of Ominous Matthew Lillard

We are back to PUNCHING as an art form. And CARAMEL POPCORN. And dunking BURNER PHONES into WHISKEY. @leahschnelbach.bsky.social reviews the return of Daredevil: Born Again! #Daredevil #Daredevilbornagain

In Duncan Jones' "Moon" (2009), Sam Rockwell stars as a lowly worker trying to finish a job and return home to Earth, but instead finds himself facing disturbing revelations, corporate skulduggery, and an existential quandary...

Today's Classic Cover of the Day is Cemetery World by Clifford D. Simark, first published in 1973! This cover art is by Vincent DiFate.

Available today -- my story, "Tatterdemalion" -- a folktale from a totalitarian fantasy world that of course has nothing to do or any connection at all with current events in any way, just good ol harmless escapism yes sir

"Rearranging a bookshelf might cost you a fingernail clipping. Killing a man might cost you your heart.” We suggest *not* engaging with handsome High Faeries disguised as statues, but you may be different from the protagonist of @mooreacorrrigan.bsky.social's Thistlemarsh!

"We NEED a version of Fellowship that adapts the text exactly" and the finger on the monkey's paw curls...

Stephen Colbert is forging the ultimate Tom Bombadil litmus test: #LOTR #LordoftheRings

"I wondered: what would time feel like if you had an infinite supply of it?" Author @caseyscieszka.bsky.social (The Fountain) recommends 5 books where the passage of time is less concrete than you might have been led to believe...

In a folktale from Alak, a dreamy good-for-nothing young woman seeking excitement discovers a life of adventures may not be what she expected. Be careful what you wish for! "Tatterdemalion" by @michaelcisco.bsky.social is out now! Art by Raven Jiang Edited by @annvandermeer.bsky.social

With just days to go the pace of Hugo nominations is picking up! If you're one of the more than 7700 people eligible to nominate this year, you can help make the process run smoothly by nominating sooner rather than later.

It's about time!! Comic series Monstress (Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda) to get an adult animated TV show:

Queen of Faces is the sprawling, fast-paced dark academia for those who miss the YA boom of the early 2000s; @cassiekayreads.bsky.social reviews Petra Lord's debut novel

The Reactor reader flips through a file cabinet labeled "Indie Press SFF March/April 2026 collected by: @tobiascarroll.bsky.social" Which file do you open? - GHOSTLY - FUTURISTIC - FOLKLORIC - SURREAL - ENTRAINED

High time @mollytempleton.com won a Hugo for her phenomenal work.

We would like to submit Molly Templeton's column Mark As Read for consideration within the "Best Related Work" category. @mollytempleton.com writes on the culture of reading – covering everything from what we read and why to the ways we organize our bookshelves.

Historian Josephine Quinn's How the World Made the West argues that our modern conception of "the West" would be unrecognizable to ancient Greeks and Romans, who lived in a world based on interconnectedness and exchange between cultures:

"Why send a schoolteacher to space?" @leahschnelbach.bsky.social on how Project Hail Mary answers the question: #ProjectHailMary

"Telling the truth can be dangerous business; honest and popular don't go hand in hand." @jdnicoll.bsky.social looks at five speculative stories about truth-tellers and the dangers they face, from Metropolis all the way to Ankh-Morpork!

Apple TV's For All Mankind will conclude after its sixth season 🚀

Wonderman joins Loki and Daredevil: Born Again as the only Marvel shows to receive a season two: #MCU #Wonderman

LET THE STEEL BALL RUN BEGIN! #jjba

A few months ago I pitched Reactor an article about SFF around the world focused on translations, and @cxorlando.bsky.social came up with the loveliest idea to expand it into a column. We start this month with Hiroko Oyamada's The Factory, a great little novel about the irreality of office jobs.