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Bunny; Black Sheep; Rakesfall; The Night Guest; The Midnight Shift; Severance

Reactor loves Blackpink - oh, and I guess, books with black and pink covers too. Here's some recommendations for your Friday! 🖤💓

a scene from the animated hobbit movie. Gandalf suddenly appears from behind a tree after seeing some smoke rings blowing his way. He's standing there, smoke rings in his face, while wearing a baggy grey robe, holding a wooden staff, with a cloudy background against a lush landscape. The image is captioned "Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. A little baked. Questing in my lane. Conjuring. Flourishing."

Good morning✌️🍀

Read an Excerpt From The Executioners Three by Susan Dennard - Reactor A mystery filled with rivalry, romance, best friends, and a gruesome curse that dates back centuries…

We're delighted to share an excerpt from a brand NEW book from Susan Dennard, author of The Witchlands and The Luminaries! Step into a mystery where bodies are piling up...and something about them doesn't seem quite natural

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The Conjuring: Last Rites Trailer Teases Film Will “End It All” - Reactor The Conjuring: Last Rites could be the Warrens' final case.

Faucets leaking blood, crosses slowly turning upside down, people on the ceiling, and a creepy child's toy providing the soundtrack: Oh yeah, the trailer for The Conjuring: Last Rites has it all

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The Mystery Keeps Unfolding in Robert Jackson Bennett's A Drop of Corruption - Reactor Both a compelling murder mystery and an engaging fantasy story, the new Ana & Din novel is a resounding success of a sequel.

Is Robert Jackson Bennett's A Drop of Corruption JUST AS GOOD as The Tainted Cup?? Of course it is. Of course it is. Read @mcflycahill90.bsky.social's review of book two in this dark, Lovecraftian world:

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YouTube video by PAIX PER MIL Yves 'White cat' Official MV

Something sci-fi something fantasy. The Reactor Social Media Manager wants you listen to White Cat by Yves

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“To go further and bolder than anyone ever before” —  Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: “A Space Adventure Hour” - Reactor This week’s episode is a brilliant example of what a prequel can do well.

The latest Strange New Worlds episode perfects the art of the prequel and the early Trek parody. Join @kradec.bsky.social in a discussion of season three, episode four: "A Space Adventure Hour"!

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The Librarians: The Next Chapter Adds a Book’s Worth of Guest Stars to Its Cast - Reactor The next chapter begins in 2026.

Step into the world of The Librarians: The Next Chapter, put your feet up, and take this cup of tea. We're tallying a long list of guest stars added to season two:

#TheLibrarians #TheLibrariansTheNextChapter

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Holy fuck.

Tumblr pointed me to this Murderbot fic.

It's about multiple SecUnits trying to keep their humans safe.

YOU READ IT BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.

IT'S A GAME OF MINESWEEPER THAT'S A MURDERBOT FIC.

archiveofourown.org/works/66992527

Premium Quality Entertainment: The Joys of Murderbot and Sanctuary Moon - Reactor You can only find Murderbot by looking for what it loves.

Whether it's playing into campy melodrama or facilitating a tense moment within the show, we love Murderbot's portrayal of The Rise & Fall of Sanctuary Moon [@leahschnelbach.bsky.social]

#Murderbot

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Choosing to believe posting this is what got us finally verified

a decorative elaborate wall display of five swords

a denuded wall where only hooks are

so someone broke into my apartment at night and stole all of my swords and im kind of. in shock

Reactor Magazine profile, now with a verification blue check

Reactor Magazine has been deemed REAL and VERIFIED for bringing you all the best news, essays, reviews, and short fiction within sci-fi, fantasy, and beyond ❤️

Thank you!!

Five Books About Sending the Kids to Camp - Reactor ...or at least, sending them away. Sometimes for good.

Some parents send their kids to summer camp; others go for more extreme options: @jdnicoll.bsky.social on five novels in which kids are sent on adventures that involve fewer s'mores and more survival skills

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Buffy Revival Reveals New Slayer’s Name and Love Interest - Reactor But will she go to Buffy for advice? Is that a good idea?

With the upcoming Buffy revival ahead, we've learned a few things about our new slayer's name and terrible taste in boys:

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Read an Excerpt From House of the Beast by Michelle Wong - Reactor An epic dark fantasy of revenge, forbidden magic, and a twisted romance with a mysterious god...

We're thrilled to share an excerpt from @lokhelle.bsky.social's House of the Beast! A new illustrated gothic fantasy featuring dangerous bargains and handsome eldritch beings...with a whiff of Fullmetal Alchemist 🕯️

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Three now.

Susanna Kwan’s Awake in the Floating City Opens Our Disaster-Exhausted Eyes - Reactor A remarkably hopeful and gentle novel that avoids dystopian flourishes in favor of poignant character studies.

"We need to mourn our memories of the planet: Many of us will never again experience the natural world as we once did, and the Earth will never again sustain us as generously as she has in the past."

Maura Krause reviews Susanna Kwan's Awake in the Floating City 🌉

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Watson Season 2 Will Bring Robert Carlyle’s Sherlock Holmes Back From the Dead - Reactor Moriarty presumably killed Sherlock before Watson's first season started.

Robert Carlyle's Sherlock will return from the dead in Watson season 2! Which calls to mind a certain other...Sherlockian TV show incident...

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Here Are All the Genre Movies Premiering This August! - Reactor Blockbuster season wraps up with terrifying horror flicks, post-apocalyptic romps, and a gory superhero comedy...

If you were worried we didn't have enough horror movies this summer, don't worry there's like 8 of them coming out in August. Here's all the genre movies coming out next month!

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Who Sees Dead People, and Who Knows They’re Dead: Chesya Burke’s “Please, Momma” - Reactor Sometimes it's hard to let go...

Psychic twins, complicated family dynamics, and a spirit who just can't cross to the other side: This week, Reading the Weird takes on Chesya Burke's "Please, Momma," originally published in @nightmare-magazine.com

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The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ Nod to Jack Kirby Is an Empty Gesture Until Creators Get Paid - Reactor It's too little, too late when it comes to recognizing comics creators...

There's a nice nod to Jack Kirby in the new Fantastic Four movie--but it's an empty gesture, as long as Marvel and other studios continue to deny so many creators the recognition and royalties they deserve

#Marvel #FantasticFour

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Spaceballs: In Space, No One Can Hear You Smashing the Fourth Wall - Reactor "Now you see that evil will always triumph, because good is dumb."

Mel Brooks gives the Sci Fi Film Club the perfect way to wrap up our month of sci-fi parodies with Spaceballs (1987), featuring Lone Starr, Barf, Dark Helmet, and Pizza the Hutt. May the Schwartz be with you!

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Five Stories About Bones and Bone Magic - Reactor Fantasy's favorite morbid material for talismans, relics, healing powders, etc.

Bones fill all sorts of roles in fantasy tales, from protective talismans to medicines to spiritual relics; here are five short stories about bones and the uses people find for them (for good or ill...)

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Revealing The Sea Spinner by Julie Johnson - Reactor The sequel to The Wind Weaver arrives April 2026 from Ace Books!

We're delighted to reveal the cover for Julie Johnson's The Sea Spinner, sequel to The Wind Weaver and perfect book for a late-summer romantasy fix 🌊

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Shorted - Reactor Damon’s UBI royalties just crashed. His social capital went up in smoke. His girlfriend left him. Now he finds out he’s going to die. What to do? Solve his own murder, for starters…and maybe, just may...

When Damon's social capital falls, his UBI credit tanks, and his girlfriend dumps him, he heads off to solve his own murder and turn the tables on his killer.

"Shorted" by Alex Irvine is out now!
Art by Erin Jia
Edited by @jonathanstrahan.bsky.social

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I remember the already highly finished sketch for this cover coming through the fax machine (a long time ago, 1995). I was waiting for another entirely unrelated fax, I saw this cover slowly emerge and couldn’t believe how great it was, even though I did know the Dillons were amazing artists.