In Another Time Magazine

Cast Your Vote for the Best SFF of the Year! - Reactor Books! Movies! TV shows! Video games! Short fiction! And more!!

ooh you want to submit your favorite books of the year to Reactor's poll so bad 🌀🌀🌀 #booksky

And magazines too!

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas”

Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

“There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal.”

Sir Terry Pratchett

Favorite SFF Stories of 2025 Reactor Magazine wants to know: What were YOUR favorite scif-fi/fantasy/horror/romantasy genre books, movies, and television shows of 2025?? We’d like you to share your favorite genre fiction books, m...

ANNOUNCING...THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2025 POLL!!

Books! Movies! TV shows! Book covers! Video games! MORE!!! Reactor Magazine wants to know your favorites from the year!

Photo of a bookshelf and a stack of books: friction issue #24 oceans, Flame Tree Press Robots Past and Future, In Another Time #2, Stanchion, Extrasensory Overload, Black Lily Zine, and Harvest the Night.

#shelfie time! So proud of my growing collection of print publications. Pubs by @angrygablepress.bsky.social @stanchion.bsky.social @inanothertimemag.bsky.social and more all containing stories be me. 🤩

You can find links to these and all my publications on my website: AbigailKemske.com

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Dear America,

You are known around the world (for better or worse) as an unruly people.

Get out there and prove it.

Props to Benjamin for sharing the details of his contract. Unfortunately no props to MRM because there's a lot of extremely outre stuff in here that I'd refuse to sign. Let's run it down. (Context: If you're negotiating a contract with Strange Horizons, I'm the person you're negotiating with.)

An image of Earth from space with the title “This week on…” followed by the Planetside magazine logo. Featured article: “Avoiding ‘Arab Land’ Stereotypes when Depicting the Premodern Arab World” by J. D. Harlock Teaser: How to move beyond tired tropes and depict the Arab world with nuance and accuracy. Series name: Worldbuilding

This week on Planetside…

Curious how fantasy settings can reflect real Arab history and culture more accurately? @jdharlock.bsky.social offers fresh insight and practical tips in “Avoiding ‘Arab Land’ Stereotypes when Depicting the Premodern Arab World”: www.sfwa.org/2025/09/16/a...

Please check out @rsagarcia 's stories "Bishop's Opening" & "Tantie Merle and the Farmhand 4200" beamed directly into your ears!

Here: locusmag.com/2025/09... or on our YouTube channel.

https://rsagarcia.com/ for more of Garcia's work!

Cover of Long List Anthology Volume 9. the cover art is a glowing red bird curled into a ball, apparently some kind of celestial body as there are stars and planets around. In the lower frame an astronaut tethered to a spaceship gazes at it

Book Release Day!
Long List Anthology Volume 9 is now available in various ebook vendors for purchase!
www.diabolicalplots.com/support/books/

Thank you for the great list!

Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Fig: N.K. Jemisin’s “Red Dirt Witch” - Reactor 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...

For a dream to be prophecy, it must come three times.

This week, Reading the Weird dips into @nkjemisin.bsky.social short fiction collection "How Long 'Til Black Future Month?" for a story about hope, herbs, and horror grounded in the real world

reactormag.com/reading-the-...

What was your favorite early clas NOT in your eventual major. Mine was Ethnomusicology: an introduction to folk music.

Loved seeing In Another Time Magazine listed under the "Magazines Received" section of @locusmag.bsky.social this month! Read more about the fabulous list of new SF/F/H print, online, and electronic periodicals here: locusmag.com/2025/07/maga...

Just accidentally deleted my old post about this while trying to re-share (don't post tired folks) so here it is again in case anyone wants to take a look. I have a story in this lovely magazine about grief, faeries and friendship and it's in some fab company.

#shortstory #fantasy #sff

Are you troubled by strange notions in the night? Do you experience feelings of dread at your writing desk? Have you or your family actually seen a spook, specter or ghost? If the answer is yes, then don't wait another minute.
Send your short stories to Perseid Prophecies!
Submissions now open!

Babylon 5 Rewatch: “War Without End, Part Two” - Reactor While Sheridan is unstuck in time, the others continue with their timey-wimey plans on Babylon 4...

"War Without End, Part Two" explores a lot of time shenanigans...as well as answers to questions posed back in season one. @kradec.bsky.social is sur-Valen-ing (sorry, I had to) the situation and reporting back in detail for this week's Babylon 5 Rewatch!

reactormag.com/babylon-5-re...

The Submission Grinder launched about twelve and a half years ago!

In that time, 712,809 submissions have been recorded by 12,436 users.

Of those, there were 42,894 acceptances have been recorded by 5169 of those users.

So the overall acceptance rate of submissions records on the site is 6.0%.

Art by Grant Canfield 1972, The Locus logo drawn as letter-shaped characters all holding up peace-signs.

Locus Mag, a non-profit org, has been an integral part of the California Bay Area SFF scene since 1973. We rely on readers, writers, and fellow science fiction fans to keep us going. And we have a Patreon for monthly support - check it out!

patreon.com/locus

know the story behind every purchase. But thank you to everyone who continues to support our magazine, and special shout out on this day to our reader in Spain, hope you're enjoying Issue 2!

Issue 3 has been out for about a month now, and it's always fun looking at the sales data. For example, one day this past month someone in Spain bought a copy of Issue 2. Not the first issue, not the most recent issue. Issue 2. You get some intriguing data sometimes, and we'll most likely never

Hi!
If you feel you need to withdraw a story from the Diabolical Plots submission queue for any reason, please be aware:
1. this is fine dont worry about it, truly!
2. please read the confirmation email! If no staff had voted on it yet you can submit something else in its place, email will say!

Its time to put on goggles,
Its time to mask up right
Its time to send your stories
to Diabolical Plots tonight
(in a week (parentheticals don't count against the right scheme right? (I am pretty sure)))

Every shelf deserves a copy, and everyone should definitely take a look!!

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We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well.

We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.

A photo of a small dog (Toto) sitting on a stack of books in our office. He is facing the camera. His face is really shaggy.

Greetings puny mortals, it is I, TOTO! I want to let you know that my summer reading list was likely vastly superior to yours bc I read #LocusMag, and therefore have a team of humans to select books from the best of the best. Curses! I let the secret out. locusmag.com

Art by Alpajpuri 1969 , a funny looking alien sitting over the Locus Logo.

"Real bookworms read #Locus!" Treat yourself to a magazine that opens the door to the Science Fiction Fantasy Horror community. Get industry news and book stats, convention news and insider info, as well as author deep dives from a trusted source! locusmag.com

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