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Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects. https://beacons.ai/reactormag

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Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 23m ago

From Backrooms to The Amazing Digital Circus, Hollywood is looking to the internet for the next big thing. @williambibbiani.bsky.social considers Lights Out, David F. Sandberg's 2016 horror movie built off his online short film, which discussed tragedy and mental illness before audiences were ready:

Before Backrooms and Obsession, Lights Out Was the YouTube Horror Game Changer - Reactor

David F. Sandberg turned his scary online short into a blockbuster a decade before the modern YouTube horror boom

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Jeff VanderMeer@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 2h ago

Great, note-perfect story by @ghoulpus.bsky.social, who also has fiction appearing in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy soon. Stunning detail in the prose! Up over at @reactorsff.bsky.social now, acquiring editor @annvandermeer.bsky.social. reactormag.com/not-like-oth...

Not Like Other Girls - Reactor

A creature wearing a woman’s body becomes a lonely man’s girlfriend, but the woman suit and his interest start to rot.

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Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 3h ago

And an extra congratulations to @renanbernardo.com for a short fiction nomination for his story "The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home," which you can read at Reactor!

The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home - Reactor

To celebrate her grandmother, all the captain of the Sopinha de Feijão wanted was to build a street market on a distant moon. But now the captain is dead and trying to figure out what kind of god migh...

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Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 3h ago

The finalists for the 2026 World Fantasy Award have been announced! Congratulations to everyone!!

Renan Bernardo@renanbernardo.com · 23h ago

I'm still taking it in, but my story "The Hungry Mouth at the Edge of Space and the Goddess Knitting at Home", published at @reactorsff.bsky.social is a World Fantasy Award finalist for Best Short Story! Congratulations to all my fellow finalists!!!! 🎉 locusmag.com/2026/08/2026...

2026 World Fantasy Awards Finalists

The World Fantasy Awards ballot for works published in 2025 has been announced. The awards will be presented during the 2026 World Fantasy Convention, scheduled for October 22-25, 2026 in Oakland C…

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Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · yesterday

From TV's "first interracial kiss" to Star Wars and Octavia Butler and through the current day, Briana N Cox traces the complex, evolving relationship between the Black and Asian diasporas as characters in and creators of speculative fiction:

Sinning, Boosting, & Bad Miracles: Black and Asian Solidarity in Speculative Fiction - Reactor

Exploring the past and present of Black and Asian representation in speculative stories, and what it means for the future...

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Maxine Kaplan@maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 2d ago

Thank you, so much, @leahschnelbach.bsky.social and @reactorsff.bsky.social, both for giving me a very good excuse to rewatch Felicity in the year of our lord 2026 and for helping me to refine one of my perennial pop culture rants into an actual working theory of the purpose of speculative fiction!

The whole arc of Felicity is predicated on the classic axis of the love triangle. As in all effectively executed love triangles, the choice of romantic partner has more to do with the chooser than the chosen; the rivals are always metaphors for something else for the protagonist. Felicity chooses Ben. That's the conclusion that show came to after four 22-episode seasons of network television. There was a period on the end of the sentence. She chose. With the time travel plotline, the show both blew itself up and demonstrated the power of its own premise. It blew up its point to prove its point: she does ultimately choose Ben again (after a stint in an asylum, Ben starting to believe her, and Noel dying in the alternate timeline). But the conflict, the ever-present question, would have always lingered without the speculative fiction twist. Now, from the perspective of 2026, I know that this was a JJ Abrams show, and that this dude just loves a twist. But still: this story literally could not have been told without magic and time travel.
Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · 2d ago

"[Felicity] was also, looking back, such a rich text—a masterclass, really—on the purpose of speculative fiction." @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social on the startling joy of Felicity's genre shift, and how we can't be surprised by TV anymore: