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Broomsticks & Rocket Ships: The Starseekers by Nicole Glover

Alex Brown reviews the latest installment in Nicole Glover’s Murder & Magic series.

By Alex Brown

Published on January 22, 2026

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<p class="syndicationauthor">Posted by Christina Orlando</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/book-review-the-starseekers-by-nicole-glover/">https://reactormag.com/book-review-the-starseekers-by-nicole-glover/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837134">https://reactormag.com/?p=837134</a></p><post-hero class="wp-block-post-hero js-post-hero post-hero post-hero-vertical"> <div class="container container-desktop"> <div class="flex flex-col mx-auto post-hero-container"> <div class="post-hero-content"> <div class="post-hero-tags font-aktiv text-xs tracking-[0.5px] font-medium uppercase"> <span class="mr-3"> <i class="inline-block w-2 h-2 rounded-full mr-[5px] bg-blue"></i> <a href="https://reactormag.com/articles/books/" class="inline-block link-no-animation" aria-label="Link to term or tag Books 0"> Books </a> </span> <span class="mr-3"> <i class="inline-block w-2 h-2 rounded-full mr-[5px] bg-blue"></i> <a 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This time she’s looking in on Cynthia Rhodes, the great-great-granddaughter of Hetty and Benjy Rhodes from the first two books. Set in during a magic-infused alternate history version of the 1960s Space Race, this book is as fun as it is full of twists and turns.</p> <p>It’s 1964 and Cynthia Rhodes is a human calculator at the Ainsworth Research Labs, a research facility for NASA. As an arcane engineer, her work is mostly focused on their nascent space program. She’s brilliant at her job, the kind of employee half her coworkers are jealous of and the other half are in awe of. On the side she cohosts a kids educational television program—think <em>Sesame Street</em> meets <em>Mr. Wizard’s World </em>but with magic—with the dashing Theo Danner. She and Theo met as young adults when they helped her grandparents get in and out of trouble as sleuths, but they parted ways years ago. Now he’s back in town as an archeology professor who is perpetually darting off to far-flung locations to find missing artifacts. </p> <p>When a museum curator is stricken by a mysterious curse in front of her, Cynthia and Theo jump at the chance to get back into the mystery-solving game. Their investigations turn up even more curses, not to mention dead bodies, a sinister conspiracy, a secret society, police brutality, scientific sabotage, lost pirate’s treasure, and amnesia bombs. Everyone has a secret they’re desperate to keep, and the more Theo and Cynthia pry, the more dangerous things get. </p> <p>The plot of <em>The Starseekers</em> covers a lot of ground, literally and metaphorically. The subterfuge takes them across the United States and all the way to the Caribbean, from Cynthia’s high-speed flights on her broomstick to sunken ships deep in the ocean. It also has so many interconnected subplots that it can be tricky to keep track of everything. Adding to the complications are the scenes that jump back in time. All of these threads were mostly relevant to the main plot and the development of Cynthia and Theo as characters, but at times it also felt like there were half a dozen ideas for other books Frankensteined into this one. A few of them probably could’ve been pruned without much detriment to the plot, but at least they were all entertaining. Because the plot was so sprawling, the cast list was extensive. There were so many people that I had a hard time remembering who they all were and what they were up to last time we heard from them. </p> <p>The main and side mysteries were enchanting (pun intended). However, too many clues were uncovered not through Cynthia or Theo being clever but by chance. They too often stumbled upon a crucial artifact, corpse, or answer, or just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Much of the movement in the plot happens because of some lucky chance that Cynthia and Theo take advantage of rather than them pushing the plot forward by their own choices. The magic also felt overpowered to me. Everyone has magic in this world, and it takes a zillion different forms. I’m not the kind of reader that needs to understand how a magic system works, nor do I even need a magic system at all. However, to me the magic here felt too much like superpowers. Theo shoots ice from his hands, Cynthia throws bespelled cards and shapes magic in the form of animals, another character shoots magic blasts from a gun; as someone who spent a lot of their life reading comic books about metahumans and mutants, well. </p> <p>I loved that this book features a majority Black cast. I also love that as omnipresent as magic is, Glover doesn’t let it become a panacea for racism and systemic oppression. There’s a side plot about police brutality that draws inspiration from the real world 1960s Civil Rights Movement. It’s so interesting to see how Glover imagines how magic would be used both by student protestors and the law enforcement officers sent to suppress them. This was reminiscent for me of <em>The Conductors</em>, which also dove into race relations as shaped by magic. </p> <p>Family was another loadbearing theme. Cynthia has a complicated relationship with her parents and grandparents, so much so that it stains her relationship with her younger sisters. Once she lets go of some of that baggage, she’s able to better value her community. Relatedly, this is the kind of mystery that isn’t solved by one lone wolf going off to be reckless. It is a real community effort, with each participant providing something only they could give. </p> <p><em>The Starseekers</em> is technically the fourth book in the series, but it functions as a standalone. I read the first book, <em>The Conductors</em>, not long after it was published in 2021, but have not had the pleasure of the second or third (<em>The Undertakers</em> and <em>The Improvisers</em>, respectively). Fortunately, Glover provides an extensive family tree at the beginning of the book as well as lots of family history throughout the story. Those new to this series will find this a strong entry point. It functions well as a standalone, and has enough tidbits about the past that many readers will be excited to dive into Glover’s back catalogue to fill in the blanks. I know I certainly plan to.</p> <p>The promotional material I received comped Nicole Glover’s <em>The Starseekers</em> as <em>Indiana Jones</em> meets <em>Hidden Figures</em>, and if that isn’t the most accurate description I don’t know what is. It’s part mystery, part romance, part high-flying (literally!) adventure, part science fiction, and part alternate history, and yet with all that tumbling around, somehow she makes it all work. And special shout out to artist David de las Heras for an absolutely stunning cover![end-mark]</p> <div style="height:5px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <p class="has-sm-font-size"><em><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-starseekers-nicole-glover?variant=43738482049058" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Starseekers</a></em> is published by Harper Voyager.</p> <section class="wp-block-shop-the-book shop-the-book"> <h2 class="shop-the-book-headline">Buy the Book</h2> <div class="shop-the-book-content"> <figure class="shop-the-book-image-desktop image-cover"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="450" src="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/The-Starseekers.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="Cover of The Starseekers by Nicole Glover." /> </figure> <div class="grow shrink basis-0"> <div class="flex items-center"> <figure class="shop-the-book-image-mobile image-cover">  <img loading="lazy" 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Human and Existential Horrors: Christopher Pike’s The Visitor

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Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 07:00 pm

Posted by Leah Schnelbach

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Human and Existential Horrors: Christopher Pike’s The Visitor

Look, when you and your boyfriend have to have the formaldehyde drainage conversation, it might be time to move on.

By Alissa Burger

Published on January 22, 2026

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<p class="syndicationauthor">Posted by Leah Schnelbach</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/teen-horror-time-machine-christopher-pike-the-visitor/">https://reactormag.com/teen-horror-time-machine-christopher-pike-the-visitor/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837338">https://reactormag.com/?p=837338</a></p><post-hero class="wp-block-post-hero js-post-hero post-hero post-hero-vertical"> <div class="container container-desktop"> <div class="flex flex-col mx-auto post-hero-container"> <div class="post-hero-content"> <div class="post-hero-tags font-aktiv text-xs tracking-[0.5px] font-medium uppercase"> <span class="mr-3"> <i class="inline-block w-2 h-2 rounded-full mr-[5px] bg-blue"></i> <a href="https://reactormag.com/articles/column/" class="inline-block link-no-animation" aria-label="Link to term or tag Column 0"> Column </a> </span> <span class="mr-3"> <i class="inline-block w-2 h-2 rounded-full mr-[5px] bg-blue"></i> <a 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Pike’s ‘90s teen horror books are accessible, while also being deeply philosophical and existential. <em>The Visitor </em>(1995) is an excellent example of this complexity, combining human horror and grief with past lives, reincarnation, and aliens to tell a story of heartbreak and hope. </p> <p>The opening pages of <em>The Visitor</em> plunge the reader headlong into Mary Weist’s grief following the death of her boyfriend, Jerry. Mary’s emerging consciousness parallels the reader learning about her loss, as Mary wakes up from a nap only to realize that “The horror always came with waking […] The pain came before the memory, small and sharp like shards of ice implanted in her chest. Then, with the recollection of Jerry Rickman, the ice would turn to bubbling acid and her heart would break” (1). It has been one month since Jerry’s death, which was the result of a gunshot wound under mysterious circumstances. Mary’s grief is further complicated by her peers’ speculation that she was there when Jerry died and is somehow responsible, though she’s remaining mum on where she was and what happened. Mary’s sleeping a lot, she’s taken up smoking, and she has to contend with the suspicions of her classmates and the aggressively insistent sexual overtures of Jerry’s best friend, Savey. </p> <p>Mary’s fighting an uphill battle, even before she goes to a party that turns into a seance, with hostess Pamela Poole and Jerry’s brother Ken determined to try to make contact with Jerry. There are a lot of highly charged emotions in the seance circle, and looking around the teens gathered there, Mary nearly despairs, thinking “A suicidal girlfriend, a depressed brother, a wannabe rock star, an oversexed cheerleader, and two brain-dead sisters—these were not going to penetrate the greatest mystery of all time. Especially not after a party of booze and loud music. If she had half a brain, she would call a cab or walk home” (24). But she can’t bear to walk away, torn between “a small part of her that was praying it might work [… and] a larger part of her that was terrified that it would” (24). The teens make contact with someone—or something—but it isn’t Jerry. The being tells them that it is “drawn” to them, though it won’t say by who or for what purpose, before telling them that “<em>There is no death</em>” (29, emphasis original), and when they ask the being if it is afraid, it tells them that it is, not for itself but “<em>For you</em>” (31, emphasis original). Pamela tries to turn the conversation to Jerry, but the being’s abiding response is that all is a “mystery” and a “nightmare” (31-37), one that it claims can be traced all the way back to ancient Egypt.</p> <p>The group doesn’t get any answers and Mary doesn’t know anything about Egypt, but she does know what happened to Jerry the night he died, because just as Pamela suspects, Mary <em>was </em>there. The ballots for the homecoming queen election were in the principal’s office and Mary talked Jerry into going with her to break into the office, count the ballots, and find out who had won: Mary or Pamela. The ballots all seemed to be piling up in Mary’s favor and the future was looking bright until an armed guard came through the door. Jerry was quick to acquiesce to the guard’s command to put their hands up, but Mary got belligerent, challenging and insulting the guard, who accidentally shot Jerry in the arm. Mary attacked the guard and another shot went wild, this one hitting Jerry in the head. Devastated and filled with rage, Mary reflects that the guard wasn’t “a murderer, of course, because it was an accident. Nor was she a murder then when she very carefully and very methodically began to bend his wrist so that the barrel of his pistol was now pointed at the side of his own head. He had his finger on the trigger. She never pulled it. In fact, she never touched it. But she kept struggling with him […] with the complete and certain knowledge that the gun was eventually going off again” (51). And that was exactly what happened, leaving Mary the only survivor and the only one who knows the truth. </p> <p>Mary finds herself walking through the woods where she and Jerry first met and spending her nights in the cemetery, at Jerry’s grave. These journeys become even more complicated when, in addition to being part of a grief-stricken pilgrimage, Mary begins to see a spaceship outside her window and an alien being among the trees, encounters that end up taking her back to Jerry’s grave time and time again. </p> <p>These encounters also take Mary back along her own existential timeline and all the way back to ancient Egypt, which it turns out she knows quite a bit about, though she has forgotten or repressed the life she lived there. She discovers that in a previous life she was an alien being named Clareesh, sent to explore and observe Earth with her partner, Klaxtor. Enchanted with the humans she saw, Clareesh took on a human-like form and was worshipped as a goddess. She fell in love with an artist named Jarteen and made a friend named Phairee, though in the end Phairee betrayed her, relationship dynamics that are later echoed by Mary, Jerry, and Pamela. Phairee had Jarteen murdered and Clareesh buried with his body, though as an eternal being, Clareesh could not die, condemned to an eternity buried alive with the decomposing corpse of her lover. Mary has (understandably) blocked this horror from her memory, dissociating from and repressing the woman she once was—but when she finds herself once again at the grave of the man she loved, those memories return, compounding her pain and terror. </p> <p>With her recovered memory of who she is, she has the chance to leave all of her earthly pain behind as an extraterrestrial being, which is just what Klaxtor urges her to do. He has been patiently waiting for Clareesh to resurface so they can return home, and when it becomes apparent that Mary is Clareesh, he shows up disguised as a new boy in school named Tom to get her attention and take her away. He tries to convince Mary of her true identity, telling her “you don’t belong in this world” and “You cannot stay. If you do, the nightmare will continue […] Haven’t you suffered enough?” (113). But when Mary learns what Tom / Klaxtor is capable of, she has other ideas, determined to use his power to resurrect Jerry. This is unquestionably a terrible idea, but Mary won’t take no for an answer, forcing Tom / Klaxtor to dig up Jerry’s grave, disinter his corpse, and bring him back to life. </p> <p>Following in the tradition of Gothic horrors like W.W. Jacobs’ “The Monkey’s Paw” or Stephen King’s <em>Pet Sematary</em>, what happens next is<em> grotesque</em>, though Mary’s commitment to bringing Jerry back is unwavering. When the casket is opened, it is clear that the month between his death and now has not been kind to Jerry’s corpse: there is a powerful smell of decay and his “eyes had sunk back into his head, like liquid marbles squished by the heel of a hard boot. And his blond hair was as stiff as straw. For that matter, his whole body looked stiff. His ashen face was a mask of pain” (120). Mary can barely stand to look at him, but she’s sure that once Jerry’s spirit is back in his body, they’ll be able to find a way to make it work, certain that <em>anything </em>is better than losing him. Tom / Klaxtor is reluctant but he brings Jerry back and “As both Jerry’s legs began to kick, and she heard him suck in a ragged breath, she didn’t know whether to cry with joy or terror” (123). She helps Jerry to his feet and leaves Tom / Klaxtor beside Jerry’s open grave to die, drained of the life force he drew upon to resurrect Jerry. Only as she is helping Jerry to her car do the details of Jerry’s state and his physical experience begin to set in: he still has the entrance wound in his forehead from the bullet that killed him, he is effectively blind as a result of his sunken eyes, and his pain is nearly unbearable. </p> <p>Jerry clearly longs for death, but when he asks Mary plaintively, “Why don’t you let me be dead?” she responds “Because I love you […] You cannot be dead. I won’t allow it” (128). She runs him a warm bath to heat his cold body and when she determines that it’s the formaldehyde that’s causing the trouble, she drains that from his body and kidnaps Pamela, draining her blood to transfuse into Jerry. Though he is still in tremendous pain, Jerry is the voice of reason, explaining to Mary that his soul was at rest and beyond pain, that she needs to release him. While Mary’s grief and desperation are relatable, she becomes nearly monstrous in her refusal to let Jerry go, and while she regrets that he has to suffer in order for them to be together again, it’s a price she is willing to pay—whether he wants to or not. In the end, only the possibility of reincarnation and eventual reunion convinces her. They were brought back together after more than 5,000 years apart, first as Clareesh and Jarteen, then as Mary and Jerry, so who’s to say that they won’t find one another again? As Jerry tells her, “There is life after death. This I know for sure now. If I leave you now, it doesn’t mean I will never be with you in the future” (144). But while Jerry can go back to the peace and oblivion of death, the only way Mary can potentially be reunited with him is to take her place in the grave beside him once more, as she did in ancient Egypt: alive, aware, and waiting for their opportunity to come around again. </p> <p>Mary’s sacrifice rewrites reality, and the epilogue of <em>The Visitor</em> features a repetition of the earlier seance scene, this time with Jerry in the land of the living, simultaneously hopeful and terrified that Mary might reach out to them from beyond the grave. Just as before, the two of them had snuck into the principal’s office to get a glimpse of the ballots and been caught, confronted by the armed guard, though this time, it was Mary who died instead of Jerry. But just as there is a new chance at life for Jerry, there is a new potential for horror as well, one which Jerry comes dangerously close to in his visits to Mary’s grave and his yearning lament that “I wish I was in that black tomb with you. I just wish we were together” (161). Broken hearted and grieving, Jerry isn’t sure what to do when he hears a moan from Mary’s grave. Dismissing it as a figment of his horrified imagination, Jerry leaves and when the moan comes again “He didn’t hear it. Not this time […] But it would be there, another night, when he returned. […] Sometimes the wrong wishes came true” (162). </p> <p>In <em>The Visitor</em>, there’s no cheating death, but death is also not the end. The way Pike negotiates these horrors is nuanced, combining the intensity of human emotion and grief with the cosmic and existential implications of alien life and reincarnation. Pike layers horror upon horror, with human violence, reanimation of the dead, and terrors that cross millennia, synthesizing the intensely human and the timelessly eternal. [end-mark]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://reactormag.com/teen-horror-time-machine-christopher-pike-the-visitor/">Human and Existential Horrors: Christopher Pike’s <em>The Visitor</em></a> appeared first on <a href="https://reactormag.com">Reactor</a>.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/teen-horror-time-machine-christopher-pike-the-visitor/">https://reactormag.com/teen-horror-time-machine-christopher-pike-the-visitor/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837338">https://reactormag.com/?p=837338</a></p>

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https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/INVI_S4_FL4_3000-768x509.jpg 768w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/INVI_S4_FL4_3000-1536x1018.jpg 1536w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/INVI_S4_FL4_3000.jpg 2000w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px" /> </figure> <div class="post-hero-caption post-hero-caption-horizontal [&_a]:link"><p>Credit: Prime Video</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </post-hero> <div class="wp-block-more-from-category"> <div> <p></p> </div> </div> <p>Mark isn’t doing so well in <em>Invincible </em>season four. He messed up at the end of <a href="https://reactormag.com/invincible-season-3-gets-meta-announces-release-date-trailer/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the third season</a> and a lot of people are dead because of it. In the trailer released today, we see him go on the path of vengeance (a path bespeckled with animated blood and flying teeth) until his dad tries to recruit him to fight an intergalactic war.</p> <p>Here’s the log line for the fourth season, which gives little more detail but makes the show sound enticing:</p> <figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>While the world recovers from catastrophe, a changed Mark fights to protect his home and the people he loves, setting him on a collision course with a threat that could alter the fate of humanity forever.</p></blockquote></figure> <p>It’s pretty grim, folks!</p> <p><em>Invincible</em> comes from Skybound Animation Studio and it based on the comics by Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker, who are co-creators of the series along with Ryan Ottley. The show features the voice talent of Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh, and J.K. Simmons. Additional cast also includes Gillian Jacobs, Seth Rogen, Walton Goggins, Lee Pace, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jason Mantzoukas, Zazie Beetz, Grey DeLisle, Zachary Quinto, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ross Marquand, Khary Payton, Andrew Rannells, Kevin Michael Richardson, Ben Schwartz, Clancy Brown, Jay Pharoah, Mark Hamill, Matthew Rhys, Danai Gurira, and Melise.</p> <p>Season four of <em>Invincible </em>premieres on Prime Video on March 18, 2026.</p> <p>Check out the trailer below. [end-mark]</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <site-embed id="18092"/> </div></figure> <p>The post <a href="https://reactormag.com/invincible-season-4-trailer/"><i>Invincible</i> Season 4 Trailer Sees a Messed Up Mark Mulling Over Intergalactic War</a> appeared first on <a href="https://reactormag.com">Reactor</a>.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/invincible-season-4-trailer/">https://reactormag.com/invincible-season-4-trailer/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837505">https://reactormag.com/?p=837505</a></p>

Sinners Has More Oscar Nominations Than Any Other Film Ever

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Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 06:33 pm

Posted by Molly Templeton

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Sinners Has More Oscar Nominations Than Any Other Film Ever

Congratulations to every single person who worked on the best film of the year.

Published on January 22, 2026

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<p class="syndicationauthor">Posted by Molly Templeton</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/sinners-has-more-oscar-nominations-than-any-other-film-ever/">https://reactormag.com/sinners-has-more-oscar-nominations-than-any-other-film-ever/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837435">https://reactormag.com/?p=837435</a></p><post-hero class="wp-block-post-hero js-post-hero post-hero post-hero-horizontal"> <div class="container container-desktop"> <div class="flex flex-col mx-auto post-hero-container"> <div class="post-hero-content"> <div class="post-hero-tags font-aktiv text-xs tracking-[0.5px] font-medium uppercase"> <span class="mr-3"> <i class="inline-block w-2 h-2 rounded-full mr-[5px] bg-blue"></i> <a href="https://reactormag.com/articles/news/" class="inline-block link-no-animation" aria-label="Link to term or tag News 0"> News </a> </span> <span class="mr-3"> <i class="inline-block w-2 h-2 rounded-full mr-[5px] 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The 2026 Oscar nominations were announced this morning, and when the dust settled, <em>Sinners</em> set an incredible new record with 16 nominations. That makes it the most-nominated film in Oscar history, with more nods than <em>Titanic</em>, more than <em>All About Eve</em>, more than <em>La La Land</em>. It’s nominated in almost every major category, with Ryan Coogler up for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay; Michael B. Jordan for Best Actor; Delroy Lindo for Best Supporting Actor (<em>ed note: HELL YEAH</em>); and Wunmi Mosaku for Best Supporting Actress. This is the first nomination for all three actors.</p> <p>The film’s nominations include a <a href="https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/oscars-diversity-report-2026-sinners-latinos-women-1236632578" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">lot of records</a>, and a lot of firsts. Costume designer Ruth E. Carter is the <a href="https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/ruth-e-carter-most-nominated-black-woman-oscars-history-1236632808" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">most-nominated Black woman</a> in Oscars history, with her fifth nomination. Autumn Durald Arkapaw is the first woman of color and Filipina nominated for cinematography (a category in which no women were nominated until Rachel Morrison, for 2017’s <em>Mudbound</em>). Production designer Hannah Beachler, who won the Oscar for production design for Coogler’s <em>Black Panther</em>, now has her second nomination, and is the only Black woman ever to be nominated in that category. Zinzi Coogler, who produced <em>Sinners</em> with her husband, is the first Filipina producer with a Best Picture nomination. </p> <p><em>Sinners</em> was already the <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sinners-most-nominated-movie-oscars-history-2026-1236480942" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">highest-grossing original film</a> since <em>Inception</em>—despite the industry skepticism that greeted it on its arrival. <em>The New York Times</em> put in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/business/media/sinners-box-office.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">headline</a> that its box office success had “a big asterisk.” <a href="https://variety.com/2025/film/box-office/sinners-box-office-opening-weekend-strong-michael-b-jordan-ryan-coogler-1236373417/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Variety</em> claimed</a> that “profitability remains a question mark” after the film’s opening weekend. As <a href="https://x.com/BenStiller/status/1914125349580927433" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ben Stiller asked on X</a>, speaking specifically of the <em>Variety</em> piece, “In what universe does a 60 million dollar opening for an original studio movie warrant” this kind of questioning?</p> <p><em>Vulture</em> had a great headline on the matter: “<a href="https://www.vulture.com/article/to-hollywood-the-scariest-part-of-sinners-is-ryan-coogler.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hollywood Execs Fear Ryan Coogler’s <em>Sinners</em> Deal ‘Could End the Studio System</a>.’” Why? As Chris Lee wrote, </p> <figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>Coogler would retain final cut (a creative dispensation reserved for the industry’s crème de la crème), command first-dollar gross (that is, a percentage of box-office revenue beginning from the movie’s theatrical opening rather than waiting for the studio to turn a profit), and, most contentiously, 25 years after its release, ownership of <em>Sinners</em> would revert to the director.</p></blockquote></figure> <p>I include all of this context because it makes this fantastic film’s Oscars dominance all the more delicious.</p> <p><a href="https://variety.com/2026/film/awards/oscars-diversity-report-2026-sinners-latinos-women-1236632578" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Variety</em> has a great rundown</a> of records set and broken with this year’s nomination, but here are a few that are specifically relevant to SFF/H:</p> <p><em>Wicked: For Good</em> did not pick up a single nomination. The sequel simply didn’t live up to the first film, and perhaps Oscar voters thought the creative team behind <em>Wicked</em> and <em>Wicked: For Good</em> had been thoroughly recognized with last year’s 10 nominations and two wins (for costume and production design). </p> <p>Emma Stone set a <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/emma-stone-oscar-nominations-records-1236480529" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">record of her own</a>: the youngest woman with seven Oscar nominations. (She also has two wins.) She’s the second person ever to get that many by that age (after Walt Disney himself). She’s nominated for Best Actress (and, as a producer, for Best Picture) for Yorgos Lanthimos’ <em>Bugonia</em>, which is also nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Score, and Best Adapted Screenplay. </p> <p><em>Variety</em> notes that Michael B. Jordan is the second person to be nominated for playing a vampire, which is a fun little fact. The first was Willem Dafoe, in 2000’s <em>Shadow of the Vampire</em>. </p> <p>Guillermo del Toro didn’t get a directing nomination for <em>Frankenstein</em>, but he did get one for Best Adapted Screenplay and, as producer, Best Picture. The film has nine nominations in total, including Best Supporting Actor (Jacob Elordi), Best Score (Alexandre Desplat), Best Production Design (Tamara Deverell), Best Cinematography (Dan Laustsen), and Best Costume Design (Kate Hawley). </p> <p><em>Weapons</em> didn’t have a major showing, but Amy Madigan is nominated for Best Supporting Actress.</p> <p>Surprising no one, <em>KPop Demon Hunters</em> is up for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song (for “Golden”).</p> <p>[<em>ed note: </em>The Ugly Stepsister <em>also got a nom for Best Make Up and Hair Styling! Heck yes horror genre!</em>]</p> <p>You can see the full list of nominees <a href="https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2026" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>. The Oscars air at 7 pm EDT on ABC and Hulu on March 15th.[end-mark]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://reactormag.com/sinners-has-more-oscar-nominations-than-any-other-film-ever/"><i>Sinners</i> Has More Oscar Nominations Than Any Other Film Ever</a> appeared first on <a href="https://reactormag.com">Reactor</a>.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/sinners-has-more-oscar-nominations-than-any-other-film-ever/">https://reactormag.com/sinners-has-more-oscar-nominations-than-any-other-film-ever/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837435">https://reactormag.com/?p=837435</a></p>

“Welcome to the team” — Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s “Vitus Reflux”

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“Welcome to the team” — Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s “Vitus Reflux”

The Academy cadets and the students of Starfleet’s War College face off in a “friendly” competition…

By Keith R.A. DeCandido

Published on January 22, 2026

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Kerrice Brooks as Sam, and Sandro Rosta as Caleb in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" srcset="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/starfleet-academy-103-01-740x493.jpg 740w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/starfleet-academy-103-01-1100x733.jpg 1100w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/starfleet-academy-103-01-768x512.jpg 768w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/starfleet-academy-103-01.jpg 1200w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px" /> </figure> <div class="post-hero-caption post-hero-caption-horizontal [&_a]:link"><p>Credit: Paramount+</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </post-hero> <div class="wp-block-more-from-category"> <div> </div> </div> <p>From 2000-2007, your humble reviewer was the editor in charge of a monthly series of novella-length <em>Star Trek </em>eBooks featuring <a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_Starfleet_Corps_of_Engineers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the Starfleet Corps of Engineers</a>. We did 74 novellas across those seven years by a variety of authors, some of whom are well-known <em>Trek</em> authors (David Mack, Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore, Christopher L. Bennett, the late great Dave Galanter, Dean Wesley Smith, Christie Golden), others for whom their S.C.E. stories were more or less their only <em>Trek</em> work (Paul Kupperberg, Loren L. Coleman & Randall N. Bills, Aaron Rosenberg, the late great Scott Ciencin, Richard C. White, John S. Drew). One of the stories we kept trying to do, but which took a while to get done, was one involving a prank war on the <em>U.S.S. da Vinci</em>, the ship on which the series took place. The struggle was that the folks in the licensing department were resistant to the notion of a prank war on a Starfleet ship because we’re talking about professionals in a military organization who wouldn’t do that. All the counterexamples we provided of professionals in contemporary military organizations (not to mention professional engineers) who prank each other <em>all the damn time</em> fell on deaf ears.</p> <p>However, we finally found a way to make it work: we had the prank war happen at Starfleet Academy, the end result being <a href="https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Creative_Couplings" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Creative Couplings</em></a> by Glenn Hauman & Aaron Rosenberg (a story that also featured the first-ever Klingon-Jewish wedding). Students pranking each other was something the folks in licensing were willing to approve.</p> <p>And, of course, it took until there was a <em>Starfleet Academy</em> TV show to have a prank war between two sets of people break out in an episode. I have to qualify it because there was one other <em>Trek</em> episode involving pranks, to wit, the animated episode “<a href="https://reactormag.com/star-trek-the-original-series-rewatch-the-practical-joker/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Practical Joker</a>,” but that was a computer malfunction, not people playing jokes on each other. Amusingly, in that episode, McCoy mentions how they used to prank each other in medical school…</p> <p>Now we have “Vitus Reflex,” which makes use of the fact that there’s both Starfleet Academy <em>and</em> the War College, who are natural rivals. While we haven’t gotten the full details on the War College, it’s presumably something that grew out of Earth being on its own post-Burn, built on the former campus of Starfleet Academy. They’re training soldiers, while Starfleet Academy is training Starfleet officers.</p> <p>The students at the War College don’t think much of the Academy cadets, and the prank war starts with them, when they transport several of the cadets from the shower to some other part of the campus.</p> <p>We also get a new futuristic game to join Parisses Squares and three-dimensional chess and kal-toh and Stratagema and dom-jot and dabo and tongo: Calica, which is a mix of Laser Tag and Capture the Flag. Lura and Reno hold tryouts for the Academy Calica team, and this gives us an opportunity to show what happens when the two overachievers want the same thing. The episode opens with Darem writing a letter home while showing that his morning routine involves getting up before either of his roommates and doing an intense workout routine—and then we see that Genesis has a similar workout routine every morning. The aristocratic Khionian and the admiral’s daughter both have a fervent need to be the best of the best of the best, so of course they each want to not just make the Calica team, but be the team captain.</p> <p>What I love about this plotline is how it plays out, because it goes exactly the way it should given the backgrounds of the respective overachievers. Darem is an aristocrat who assumes that greatness is his right. Genesis is expected to achieve things because of who her parent is, but she’s also expected to work hard for it.</p> <p>Of course, the pair of them tie in points needed to make captain. (Of all the people who try out, the eight highest scores make the team, while the highest score becomes captain.) So they have a shootout competition, and Darem only wins because he says something mean to distract Genesis, allowing him to beat her.</p> <p>The catch is that Darem isn’t actually any good at <em>being</em> the captain. When they play a Calica game against the War College’s team (more on that in a minute), he has <em>no</em> strategy whatsoever, and they lose several rounds in a row. The weaponry in Calica is a modified phaser that, when it hits a player, it transports that player to the penalty box, where they have to sit until the round is over. In one round, Darem is zapped out immediately, and so Genesis takes over and wins their first round, at last. After that point, Darem yields the captaincy to her, recognizing that she’ll actually be <em>good</em> at it.</p> <p>In a lovely touch, the “goalie” who has to protect the final target that you have to hit to win a round is the mascot: someone dressed as some kind of animal. In the cases of the two schools in question, the Academy mascot is a lapling (seen in <em>TNG</em>’s “<a href="https://reactormag.com/star-trek-the-next-generation-rewatch-the-most-toys/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Most Toys</a>”), while the War College has a mugato (the original series’ “<a href="https://reactormag.com/star-trek-the-original-series-a-private-little-war/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Private Little War</a>” and <em>LD</em>’s “<a href="https://reactormag.com/a-lots-changed-since-slightly-earlier-today-star-trek-lower-decks-mugato-gumato/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Mugato, Gumato</a>”).</p> <p>The second prank that the War College cadets pull on the Academy cadets is to broadcast footage of their less-than-stellar moments during Calica tryouts to the whole school. And that changes everything, because Ake realizes that the only way the cadets could have done that is if they have access to the footage—which cadets don’t have. She confronts the War College commander Kelrec (played with button-down hideboundness by Canadian character actor Raoul Bhaneja). That scene is a delight, as Kelrec is rigid, habitual, controlled—basically, everything that Holly Hunter’s Ake isn’t. She slinks all over his quarters, relaxed where he’s stiff, constantly moving where he’s still. And she calls him on the fact that he’s helping his students with their pranks.</p> <p>Credit to scripters Alex Taub and Kiley Rossetter for Ake’s rebuke of Kelrec in this scene. Kelrec high-handedly says that Ake’s cadets should be able to handle adversity, and Ake points out that these are all kids who came of age in the Burn and a lot of them have had plenty of adversity to deal with, thanks. The Academy should be a place where they can learn in safety for a change.</p> <p>Ake, though, isn’t going to just actively return the favor and overtly help her cadets get back at Kelrec’s cadets. But she will drop lots and lots of hints. At first, the Academy cadets challenge the War College cadets to the aforementioned game of Calica, though that ends prematurely when Lura and Reno catch them.</p> <p>(I should add that this episode establishes that Reno and Lura are a couple, which is fantastic. Their conversation about dinner plans is epic, with Lura having a craving for coq au vin with Klingon garnishes. (Speaking of that, there’s an equally epic bit where Ja’Den sings the praises of blood in food and drink, which as we know from bloodwine and rokeg blood pie, is a Klingon delicacy. (Caleb is, of course, grossed out by it. (Oh, geez, I’m doing the nested parentheticals again. Sorry about that.))))</p> <p>Early in the episode, we’re introduced to a plant that is very obviously inspired by <em>Little Shop of Horrors</em>, which responds to the emotions of beings around it. Students have been given plants to care for, and they have to be soft-spoken and not stressed when near it.</p> <p>So our cadets use their assorted skills—as well as Caleb disguised as a mugato with a replica of Kelrec’s eye, obtained through clever subterfuge—to grow a bunch of that plant in each of the dorms of the War College cadets. Of course, they’re all surprised and scared, which just makes the plants grow huge and nasty. And the only way they can stop the plants from rampaging is to be calm and collected and show empathy.</p> <p>The very qualities that are at the heart of Starfleet and of the Federation. Hey look, it’s a lesson as well as a victory in the prank war! Because, as Ake tartly points out to Caleb when he complains that everything is a learning experience here, it’s a <em>school</em>. And it’s also still <em>Star Trek</em>, so the solution should absolutely be about empathy and understanding, and also science-ing the shit out of something (even if it is a practical joke).</p> <p>One other plot bit carries over from <a href="https://reactormag.com/tv-review-star-trek-starfleet-academy-beta-test/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">last time</a>, and that’s Tarima’s decision to attend the War College instead of the Academy. Caleb confronts her on this subject while playing a flirty game of one-on-one basketball with her. Because he’s a thundering dumbass, and also colossally self-centered (to be fair, he comes by that honestly by virtue of being on his own and on the run since he was six), he assumes that Tarima did it to avoid him, either because she didn’t really like him or maybe because she likes him too much.</p> <p>But the reason has nothing to do with him, but rather with her. On Betazed, she could be herself because <em>everyone</em> is telepathic and used to feeling everything. Off Betazed, she needs control to avoid feeling <em>all the things</em>, so she needs the discipline that she will learn at the War College. Yes, that’s part of what she’d get at the Academy, but it’s only a part, where it’s the primary mission statement of the War College, and that’s what she needs. It’s very sensible, and I hope that they don’t contrive a way to get her to switch to the Academy, as having her there gives us an entrée into the War College.</p> <p>Finally, I want to say that it’s obvious that Stephen Colbert is having <em>so much fun</em> as the voice of the digital dean, especially when he gets to be the de fact announcer for the Calica tryouts and competition.[end-mark]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://reactormag.com/tv-review-star-trek-starfleet-academy-vitus-reflux/">“Welcome to the team” — <i>Star Trek: Starfleet Academy</i>’s “Vitus Reflux”</a> appeared first on <a href="https://reactormag.com">Reactor</a>.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/tv-review-star-trek-starfleet-academy-vitus-reflux/">https://reactormag.com/tv-review-star-trek-starfleet-academy-vitus-reflux/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837457">https://reactormag.com/?p=837457</a></p>

Goblin Roomies, Art Magic, and Dream Trains: Romantasy Report for January and February 2026

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Goblin Roomies, Art Magic, and Dream Trains: Romantasy Report for January and February 2026

Treat yourself to a bookish Valentine!

By Natalie Zutter

Published on January 22, 2026

collection of 19 book covers for romantasy titles publishing in early 2026

All aboard these 19 transporting romantasies!

It’s a slow start to the new year, but there are plenty of romantasies to get us through the rest of winter, as January and February’s bookish valentines sort themselves into a number of intriguing subcategories. There are magical tales of love in third places outside the home or work; many a drama in which poets and performers must hone their skills in order to kill their most loyal admirers and audiences; and time slips via transportation.

Yearning For: They Were Roommates

Into the Midnight Wood by Alexandra McCollum

(Dutton; January 13, 2026) This debut sounds like a queer Odd Couple set in a whimsical cottage on the edge of an enchanted forest: David Carew is exasperated with his eccentric roommate Meredith Schwarzwelder—like, has made a 100 Things I Hate About You list exasperated—and is looking for any excuse to break the lease. The eponymous Midnight Wood creeping dark magic around Meredith seems as good an excuse as any, but the upcoming nuptials (between Meredith’s brother and David’s boss’ daughter) forces the roomies into further proximity. We all know what a wedding can do to the best of intentions, especially when your romantic leads are described as a manic pixie dream boy and Colin Firth levels of uptight.

How to Lose a Goblin in Ten Days by Jesse Sylva

(Orbit Books; January 20, 2026) How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days is one of those 2000s rom-coms I would always change the channel to on cable, so I’m tickled by the opposites-attract of cottagecore and goblincore in this forced-proximity roommate romantasy. Halfling Pansy and goblin Ren each believe they’ve inherited the same cozy cottage, so they make (of course) a bargain: they’ll live together until one of them drives the other one mad and out the door. It’s like if Andie Anderson and Benjamin Barry put their cards on the table from the start! And instead of a diamond ad campaign, it’s an encroaching community threat that will force them to face their attraction and figure out how they can work better together to save their home.

Gimme Gimme Gimme: Third Places

Books & Bewitchment by Isla Jewell

(Arcadia Falls #1—Del Rey; February 3, 2026) Contemporary romance loves a quaint mountain town, but Arcadia Falls has a magical twist, as insurance agent Rhea Wolfe discovers when she inherits her grandmother’s cozy cottage, a run-down video store, and the family history of witchcraft. Leaving Alabama for Arcadia Falls isn’t the worst thing, as Rhea is inspired to transform the abandoned store into a welcoming bookshop—while catching the eye of handyman Hunter Blakely. Too bad their families are sworn enemies across the magical divide. But as Rhea embeds herself more in the community that her mother always warned her against, she’s more compelled to mend the enmity between their families and save Arcadia Falls’ magic. And what’s this about her having two “hopelessly immature” younger sisters who rely on her? I have a feeling more of the Wolfe sisters will be visiting Arcadia Falls in future installments…

Muscles & Monsters by Ashley Bennett

(Leviathian Fitness #1—Berkley; February 10, 2026) Speaking of places to revisit, Ashley Bennett’s previously self-published Leviathian Fitness series is getting a rerelease this year. The supernatural gym is the setting for meet-cutes among potential mates Atlas, a wolven and the owner, and Tegan, a wedding baker who would rather deadlift than be a damsel in distress. Look for future emotional workouts with similarly expanded editions of Tentacles & Triathlons and Mantras & Minotaurs.

Agnes Aubert’s Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett

(Del Rey; February 17, 2026) In 1920s Montréal, Agnes Aubert is much like the cats in her cat rescue charity: prickly, particular, aloof, and used to doing things her own way. But when the shelter needs a new home, Agnes must swallow her pride and ask for help—even if it comes from Havelock, the mysterious magician whose dark magics are rumored to have almost ended the world, and who runs an illegal magic shop out of his basement. Drawn to his mischievous personality despite herself, Agnes must choose a side when a glamorous magician comes sniffing around for Havelock. Protecting the shelter means defending the magic shop and being willing to look past the dangerous legend and get to know the man.

Yearning For: Dark Arts

Graceless Heart by Isabel Ibañez

(Saturday Books; January 13, 2026) I’ve seen other fantasy!Florence settings, but incorporating sculpture into the magic system is a real savvy move for YA author Isabel Ibañez’s adult debut. Sculptress Ravenna Maffei conjures beauty from stone, but because all magic is forbidden in this alternate-universe Renaissance Italy, her gift is regarded only as dark witchcraft. The Pope is obsessed with eliminating all magic, forcing Ravenna to turn to the immortal famiglia dei Luni—and its merciless heir, Saturnino—for protection.

The Poet Empress by Shen Tao

(Bramble; January 20, 2026) Rice farmer-turned-imperial concubine Wei Yin infiltrates the lethal Azalea House in order to save the remaining members of her family from starvation. But in order to survive, she must first learn the forbidden art of reading in order to compose the deadly heart-spirit poem. If the poetry magic is properly mastered, this ballad will kill Azalea’s cruel heir… but the only truly effective heart-spirit poem must be written with love. Screaming.

A Stage Set for Villains by Shannon J. Spann

(Mayhem Books; February 3, 2026) This dark debut amplifies performers’ stage presence into something much more vicious in the world of the Playhouse, where immortal Players can bend reality and prey upon their adoring audiences. Cursed by a Player with a slow death, Riven Hesper grows up knowing that the only way to survive an encounter with the Players is to distract them with compliments and never look them in the eyes… that is, until the unprecedented opportunity arises for one mortal to steal a Player’s immortality. Taking to the stage, Riven strikes a bargain with Jude, the Lead Player, in which he will break her curse but she must spare his life. As these co-conspirators become scene partners and perhaps something more, Riven must confront the possibility that she is being set up not as the ingénue, but as the villain.

The Lies That Summon the Night by Tessonja Odette

(Delacorate Press; February 3, 2026) Bookending this section of the report is another work where making art is the gravest trespass—in fact, it’s a sin. Secret storytelling is a forbidden art that conjures demons out of the shadows, but that hasn’t stopped Inana from crafting more illicit narratives for her eager audiences. Sure, she has a bounty on her head, the promise of a nasty death sacrificed to the immortal Sinless, but that only adds to the thrill. Said thrill is enhanced by crossing paths with Dominic, a half-Sinless monster hunter who wants to collect on her bounty… and more.

Gimme Gimme Gimme: Happily Ever Afterlives

The Younger Gods by Katie Shepard

(The Night-Singers Duology #1—Ace; January 13, 2026) It took me multiple checks to confirm that this is the beginning of a new duology from contemporary romance author Shepard, because of the sheer amount of backstory: Iona Night-Singer is a priestess on the other side of a war, having beaten back the god Death… but in the final battle, her beloved Taran sacrificed himself. Iona begs her patron goddess Wesha to let her play Orpheus and rescue her Eurydice from the Underworld—only to discover that Taran is actually in the Summerlands, a trickster god with no memory of her or their bond. What’s worse, the gods are regrouping for revenge on the mortals who dared oppose them.

The Wolf and the Crown of Blood by Elizabeth May

(The Broken Accords #1—Aria; January 27, 2026) The afterlives here belong to a princess fated to endless resurrection in order to maintain peace for Vartena. Bryony Devaliant is the latest sacrificial princess, her death and rebirth meant to appease the gods. But when the mortals tire of this eternal bargain, the god-king sends Evander, an immortal assassin known as the Wolf for how brutally he kills over and over. And this time, he’s finally found the prey he cannot kill—which spells doom, for gods and mortals, not even reincarnated ones, are not meant to fall in love.

Throne of Nightmares by Kerri Maniscalco

(Little, Brown and Company; February 10, 2026) A slightly different sort of Underworld is the setting for Maniscalco’s standalone fantasy romance—a realm of divine dreams and nasty nightmares. Prince Sloth must protect his enchanted library by discovering the Book of Nightmares before the Goddess of Night does. But he can’t do it alone; he must beg the help of Lore Brimstone, a librarian who is plunged into the Underworld via a portal stone called the Phoenix Tear. But sunny Lore recognizes this uncanny reality: she’s living out her favorite novels, one by one, but with the stories twisted into dark endings, unless she and Sloth can restore the canon.

The Legend of the Nine-Tailed Fox by Katrina Kwan

(Saga Press; February 24, 2026) Yue is unparalleled in her deadly ways, appearing on the streets of Longhao as a beautiful woman until she consumes her victims as the nine-tailed fox. But she is also alone, possibly the last of her kind, and susceptible to demon hunters like Sonam. Instead of being banished to Hell on her own, however, she drags him down with her. Now fox and hunter must ally against the terrors of the underworld in order to fight their way back to the land of the living.

Yearning For: Hot Queens and Cursed Courts

The Swan’s Daughter by Roshani Chokshi

(Wednesday Books; January 6, 2026) In a fun twist on familiar archetypes, Prince Arris is the damsel of sorts; thanks to a curse upon the royal family, he anticipates that anyone seeking the throne needs only to marry him before they can handily murder him and rule the Isle of Malys. To wit, a tournament of brides is held for Arris’ hand, with no hope to discern the promising young princesses’ motives. Until, that is, Arris meets Demelza, a veritas swan in hiding. In exchange for her protection, Arris demands that Demelza be his canary in the coal mine, so to speak—to suss out which brides are true. But how will the swan survive once these deadly suitresses figure out her power… and, perhaps, once they discern that she may be a rival for Arris’ heart and hand?

Enchanting the Fae Queen by Stephanie Burgis

(Queens of Villainy #2—Bramble; January 27, 2026) Queen Lorelei is accustomed to capturing hearts, breaking them, and leaving trails of rainbow sparkles in her wake. But behind that glittery glamour is a ruler shrewd enough to play seductress while really maintaining the safety of the fae realm. As part of her cover, she kidnaps the empire’s valiant general Gerard de Moireul—but any plans for no-strings-attached seduction are dashed by a deadly fae tournament. Now, Lorelei must convince her enemy’s most prized fighter to become her champion and save both their lives.

The Wolf and His King by Finn Longman

(Erewhon Books; January 27, 2026) A court is nothing without its people, even if they are themselves cursed. In this retelling of the 12th-century tale of Bisclavret the werewolf, the would-be knight hides from his glorious destiny due to managing his wolf-sickness. But when a new young king takes the throne, every nobleman must kiss the ring and swear fealty, which drags Bisclavret to court. The king, lonely even surrounded by his courtiers, finds a kindred spirit in the self-imposed pariah. But any closeness is lost when Bisclavret disappears unexpectedly and the king must venture out of his court to find him—his only companion on the journey a peculiar wolf…

The Trident and the Pearl by Sarah K.L. Wilson

(Orbit Books; February 24, 2026) A newly widowed queen begs the gods for aid after a natural disaster floods the Kingdom of the Five Isles, killing her husband and countless citizens. However, the gods’ help comes with a tricky rule: Queen Coralys must marry the first man to set foot on her pier… no matter that he’s a penniless, sunburnt, stinking fisherman. We love a marriage between strangers—especially when it turns out that the humble fisherman is actually the god of the sea, intent on repairing his own kingdom even as his new wife has declared revenge on his people.

Gimme Gimme Gimme: Magical Transportation

The Elsewhere Express by Samantha Sotto Yambao

(Del Rey; January 20, 2026) I would bet that many of us are feeling adrift, between January ennui and the general state of the world. The Ghibli-esque vibes of this whimsical fantasy romance are arriving right on time, no ticket required: Grieving her brother and her own abandoned songwriting dreams, med student Raya Sia finds herself one night stepping not onto the subway, but the Elsewhere Express. Fellow passenger and artist Q Chen Philips Jr. joins Raya in shedding their emotional baggage as they explore the train, each care more surreal and imaginative than the last. But in its quest to welcome aboard lost souls, the Elsewhere Express has picked up a passenger with a dark secret that will threaten the train’s very existence, unless Raya and Q can stop him.

Passage to Tokyo by Poppy Kuroki

(Ancestor Memories #2—Harper Perennial; January 27, 2026) The first book in Kuroki’s Ancestor Memories series was inspired by Outlander but with a young Scottish woman transported to the samurai era. In the sequel, set in 1995 Tokyo, Yui Sanada follows her twelve-year-old brother Hiro through a samurai statue to 1923. While searching for Hiro, Yui falls for a young woman named Chiyo—and realizes that in mere weeks the devastating Great Kanto Earthquake will kill tens of thousands of people. Torn between her need to reunite with her brother and the chance of new love, Yui must decide what to do with this dangerous knowledge, and what—or who—she will have to give up.

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Your To-Be-Read Pile Might Be Lying to You

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Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 04:00 pm

Posted by Molly Templeton

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Books Mark as Read

Your To-Be-Read Pile Might Be Lying to You

If your TBR stack seems overwhelming, you may want to look again…

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Published on January 22, 2026

Detail from an illustrated Albanian postage stamp (2010)

detail from an Albanian postal stamp, depicting a boy standing beside a stack of books

Detail from an illustrated Albanian postage stamp (2010)

So, I lied.

In 2023, I wrote a column about how I had come to terms with my overwhelming to-be-read pile. It was not the first time I had written about said pile; it is, obviously, not the last. I had decided, partly with the help of a quote from Oliver Burkeman, that I was fine with the pile. Which is not so much a pile but the majority of the contents of a bookcase that is six feet tall and five feet wide. But “pile” sounds better than “mountain” or “thing that could maybe topple over and kill someone.”

At any rate, it was fine. Everything was fine. The books sat there, looking at me forlornly every time I sat at the dining table, but it was fine. They were a bounty of riches that I would appreciate, swim through, pluck from whenever it felt like a book’s time had come. The desire to buy more books is never going to go away. The books would get read or not. Everything is hunky-dory.

Then three things happened.

One, on a whim, I sorted out the TBR bookcase into “books I want to read” and “books my partner wants to read.”

Suddenly, my pile was a little less daunting. Twice the size of his pile? At least. But that was to be expected.

Two, we moved. Moving, as I may have mentioned, sucks. I am so happy to have moved, to live in a new place with a beautiful view of the sky, central heating… and the to-be-read bookcase right in the middle of it all. It’s not gloating. Bookcases don’t gloat. It’s looking winningly at me, smiling faintly, beckoning alluringly. I can see all the books on it; they’re no longer half hidden behind a cat tree. They are not in a corner. They’re right there.

And I want to read them.

Here’s the thing. This is totally fine and valid and great. It’s great to have a mountain of unread books the size of someone else’s entire library, and it’s great to have just the book you’re reading and the book you’re going to read next. It’s all entirely wonderful. But I have been living in this “When will I get to all these books?” space for so very, very long. And I keep wondering what the other places to live look like. On New Year’s Eve, I said to an acquaintance, “I just want to know what it feels like to think, Hey, I want to read that book next, and go buy it and then just … read it.” You know, without feeling like I ought to be reading something else. Or many something elses.

(I would also like to make use of my very good local library without feeling like I’m neglecting the books I have at home.)

I remember not having books. I don’t mean to be glib about any of this. I remember the little tiny row of books I lined up on a windowsill in college. I remember working at a B&N in college and still spending my lunch breaks reading books that belonged to the store because I could not afford to buy them. A good number of books come into my life for professional reasons, and I try not to take that for granted. A good number of books I don’t want to read also appear in my life, and I put them all in Little Free Libraries, because I might as well share the bounty.

Here’s the third thing that happened: I counted. I counted the unread books. I pulled off the ones that are basically reference books or coffee table type books that a person is not likely to read cover to cover. I forgot to include my books about reading and writing, which live on a different shelf. I did not count the not-yet-read Ursula K. Le Guin books, which also live on a different shelf. But I counted the books in the pile that has been so dauntingly and brazenly staring at me for years, and then I laughed. I highly recommend counting your unreads. Why?

Books are big fibbers. Books are dogs that you can’t see that have huge growly barks and then turn out to be little tiny lapdogs who are just mad that you’re not petting them. Books are whatever the opposite of icebergs are. This mountain of books? This thing that’s been psyching me out? It’s 159 books, give or take. Sure, some of them are omnibusses, but I wasn’t going to pull those out and count every individual title separately. Rounding up with all the other unread books in the house, maybe we’re looking at 200. Maybe. And I can read those.

(A small caveat: I am not talking about ebooks, because those don’t exist unless I’m reading them. Out of sight, out of mind. I used to feel bad about this, and avoided buying them, but that’s silly. As Delilah S. Dawson pointed out on Bluesky just yesterday, “If you buy an e-book while it’s on sale, you never have to read it. If you have $2 to spare & want to help that particular author, you can just chuck the book into the oubliette of your TBR.” They still sold a book! No one ever has to know what you did with it.)

In the last three weeks, I went on a short story binge and read three collections. Then I needed a form break. I’m reading Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine’s Last Chance to See just because it was on the shelf and I wanted something that wasn’t a novel and I still miss Douglas Adams. (Some of his travel commentary feels quite dated, almost 40 years later, but much of the book remains hilarious and fresh when it’s not distressing, and did you know Adams was 6’5”??? I always pictured him as a sort of hobbity man. I love being wrong.) I’m reading a book a friend gave me more years ago than I want to admit. It was probably the book that had been on my TBR shelf the longest. But not anymore.

I love the beauty in limitations. I love that what I’m going to read next—things I need to review notwithstanding—is whatever is right here already. This is not a moral exercise or a chore. It’s a joy. It’s appreciating what I have in order to appreciate what I don’t know about yet. It is freeing myself from any shreds of lingering feeling I might have about the pressure to be “caught up” on what’s new and hot and fresh. You can never be “caught up.” I would need to read all these books and hundreds more in order to know all the things about writing and SFF and the world that I would like to know.

But I’m enjoying the limits. And I am not denying myself all new-book pleasures. I believe in buying books and I believe in supporting independent bookstores, and I am allowed to buy one book every time I go in my favorite local. I have a book or three preordered already, and that is fine. It’s not a process of denial. It’s a process of discovery. And at the end of it, waiting for me, is that feeling I wanted to feel again. Or something close to it. I don’t think I’ll ever have no unread books in the house. But they’ll all be up next. They won’t have a chance to become part of the furniture.[end-mark]

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Masters of the Universe Trailer gives us Prince Adam in Search of a Sword

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Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 03:43 pm

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Masters of the Universe Trailer gives us Prince Adam in Search of a Sword

He has the power! He says so and everything!

Published on January 22, 2026

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He says so and everything!</div> <div class="post-hero-wrapper"> <div class="post-hero-inner"> <p class="post-hero-author text-xs font-aktiv uppercase font-medium [&_a]:link-hover">By <a href="https://reactormag.com/author/molly-templeton/" title="Posts by Molly Templeton" class="author url fn" rel="author">Molly Templeton</a></p> <span class="post-hero-symbol relative top-[-2px] hidden tablet:block">|</span> <p class="text-xs uppercase post-hero-publish font-aktiv"> Published on January 22, 2026 </p> </div> </div> <div class="post-hero-caption post-hero-caption-vertical [&_a]:link"><p>Screenshot: Amazon MGM Studios</p> </div> <div class="quick-access post-hero-quick-access mt-[17px] tablet:hidden"> <div class="flex gap-[30px] tablet:gap-6"> <a href="https://reactormag.com/masters-of-the-universe-trailer/#comments" class="flex items-center text-sm font-aktiv tracking-[0.6px] font-semibold uppercase translate-x-[1px] translate-y-[1px]"> <svg class="w-[22px] h-[22px] mr-[7px] icon-hover" 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I can say with great confidence that the trailer for <em>Masters of the Universe</em>, the new He-Man movie from <em>Bumblebee</em> director Travis Knight, does not have a single speck of grit. It does have dark castle hallways and unremarkable battle sequences, but it is not gritty. If you feared they were going to gritty up a children’s cartoon—a fair concern in this day and age!—you can breathe a sigh of relief.</p> <p>Neither is it colorful and fun, though. Much of this first real look at the film looks like the generic version of <em>Thor: Ragnarok</em>, as ordered from a questionable website. It begins with a cliched statement about how everything you think is from bedtime stories is real, and then shows us a Prince Adam (Nicholas Galitzine, <em>The Idea of You</em>) who has been sent away from his war-torn home … to an office building in corporate America. (One wishes to know what he did until he wound up in corporate America. Does he have an adopted family like Superman? Is the movie going to tell me anything interesting?)</p> <p>So he’s gotta find his magic sword and go home. Home mostly seems to be ominous castles and guys punching each other, so I’m not sure what’s so great about it, but presumably Prince Adam is going to improve the situation. </p> <p><em>He-Man</em>, for the uninitiated, was originally an action figure (with associated comics) before becoming a cartoon that a gazillion children watched after school in the 1980s, when you had to watch whatever was on. He has a green tiger! It’s pretty great! The tiger is <em>not</em> very green here, but I would still like to see more of him.</p> <p>For what it’s worth, Galitzine seems absolutely game for the role, and seems to be having at least a little bit of fun and generally not taking himself too seriously. It’s possible the movie also has this tone and the teaser just forgot to say so. Trailers are big fibbers sometimes. 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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: Gina Yashere on Lura Thok’s Surprise Relationship

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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy: Gina Yashere on Lura Thok’s Surprise Relationship

What’s not to love about about the Jem’Hadar-Klingon cadet master?

Published on January 22, 2026

Photo Credit: Brooke Palmer/Paramount+

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We’re just enjoying the present time in the relationship and just throwing in little things that people catch onto [at first], because you don’t realize that they’re in a relationship…. You see  elements of it, you see their familiarity in earlier episodes, but in three, that’s when you go, ‘Oh!’”</p> <p>Yashere has embraced her role—makeup and all—even though when she auditioned, she didn’t even know she was trying out for a <em>Star Trek</em> show, much less that her character was Jem’Hadar and Klingon. “They had taken all <em>Star Trek</em> references out of the script they sent me,” she said. “So I just played it as a drill sergeant screaming at some kids. And it turns out that was not that far off from the Klingon and Jem’Hadar character.”</p> <p>Once she was cast, Yashere went back and “nuanced it a bit and added a few tweaks” after watching some episodes of <em>Deep Space Nine</em>. 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Five Horror Books Set in Inescapable Towns

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Thursday, January 22nd, 2026 03:00 pm

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Five Horror Books Set in Inescapable Towns

Like it or not, you’re not going anywhere…

By Lorna Wallace

Published on January 22, 2026

Kurouzucho village, depicted in Junji Ito’s Uzumaki

Inescapable settings in horror books are often on the smaller scale. For instance, a family are trapped in their bathroom in We Need to Do Something (2020), four friends are trapped on a hilltop in The Ruins (2006), and a group of Boy Scouts are trapped on a small island in The Troop (2014). But some authors have chosen to widen the scope a bit, trapping their characters within the confines of a seemingly normal town. Here are five books that come up with creative ways to make whole towns eerily inescapable, running the gamut from a witch’s curse to the threat of toxic air.

Uzumaki by Junji Ito (1998-1999)

I don’t read all that much manga, but when I heard the premise of Uzumaki I knew I had to give it a go, and I’m so glad I did. Kurôzu-cho is a normal little town in Japan… that is, until an obsession with spirals slowly starts infecting the residents.

Teenagers Kirie Goshima and Shuichi Saito are among the first to take note of the spiral plague, witnessing how plants, buildings, and even people are bending (literally!) to conform to the mesmerizing shape. When it becomes clear that the town is doomed, the few uninfected people remaining try to do what any sensible person would do: leave. But the supernatural spirals have ensured that that isn’t an option.

I would have eaten up a story about malevolent spirals in any format, but Junji Ito’s art really brings the weirdness to life in a horrifying—yet captivating—way. It’s been a few years since I read Uzumaki, but some of the images are still burned into my brain.

Dark Harvest by Norman Partridge (2006)

Dark Harvest is set in 1963 in a small unnamed Midwestern town that is surrounded by miles of cornfields. For most of the year, this town seems just like any other. But each Halloween, instead of the streets being full of trick-or-treaters, all teenage boys between the ages of sixteen and nineteen are forced to participate in an odd ritual known as the Run. Their goal is to kill Sawtooth Jack—a pumpkin-headed scarecrow monster that comes to life every October 31st.

The boy who manages to spill the creature’s candy innards is handsomely rewarded with cash and, best of all, a ticket out of town. That might not sound like much of a motivational prize, but for anyone with dreams of life beyond the cornfields, it’s the only way to leave. The reasons for this lockdown are a little hazy, but I won’t speculate here so as not to spoil anything.

Although Dark Harvest left with me with a few questions regarding the lore of Sawtooth and the town’s rules, I enjoyed the ride nonetheless. If you can suspend your disbelief just a little more than usual, you’ll be treated to a chilling and fantastical Halloween tale.

Wool by Hugh Howey (2012)

Long before the plot of Wool kicks off, an unknown apocalyptic event occurred which resulted in the Earth’s atmosphere becoming toxic to humans. Before the planet’s surface became totally uninhabitable, a few thousand people managed to seek shelter in a vast purpose-built underground silo. Generations have passed since then, with the current residents of the unusual subterranean town having virtually no knowledge of life beyond the 144 levels of the silo.

In the rare instance when someone expresses a desire to go outside, they aren’t actually forced to stay below. No, instead the door is opened for them and everyone watches—there are cameras to monitor conditions on the surface—as they succumb to the deadly air.

Aside from being a fascinating setting, Wool is driven by a sense of mystery, with a few characters endeavoring to uncover the secrets of the silo. As a result, there are twists aplenty peppered throughout this gripping post-apocalyptic story.

Pines by Blake Crouch (2012)

Pines might seem like a regular mystery thriller for the bulk of the story, but there’s a sci-fi element lurking there, waiting to be revealed. Our main character is Secret Service agent Ethan Burke, but he doesn’t know that on page one when he wakes up in the small town of Wayward Pines, Idaho, with basically no memory of his life.

Ethan soon recovers and remembers that he’s come to town in search of two missing colleagues, but he can’t shake the feeling that something is off with Wayward Pines, despite its seeming idyllic outward appearance. This feeling turns out to be justified when he tries to leave, only to find that the entire town is encircled by a tall electric fence. But Ethan isn’t easily daunted, and he quickly puts his detective skills to use.

Pines isn’t the kind of book you savor; it’s the kind of book you devour. I found myself flipping the pages at lightning speed to uncover the secrets at the heart of Wayward Pines.

HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt (2013)

Back in 1664, the residents of Black Spring—a little town in the Hudson Valley—murdered Katherine van Wyler for being a witch. But their act of violence backfired. For more than 300 years, Katherine’s desiccated corpse has wandered the town silently and sightlessly (her mouth and eyes were sewn shut to stop her from casting further spells). Anyone who tries to leave is cursed with a brutal onslaught of suicidal feelings driving them to return, and as a result the residents are essentially chained to Black Spring.

Modern technology has made dealing with the Black Rock Witch a lot easier. The townspeople can now track her movements on their phones, making it easier to not only avoid her, but also to hide her existence from visiting outsiders. But modern technology might also be the town’s downfall, thanks to a group of teens deciding to break the chains of their restricted lives by revealing the witch to the world over the internet.

HEX is a book of contrasts, with old and new being blended to creepy effect. The idea of a seventeenth-century witch existing alongside phones and apps might not sound like it would work, but in Thomas Olde Heuvelt’s hands it absolutely does.

There are, of course, other examples of inescapable towns in horror stories. Stephen King’s Under the Dome (2009) is surely a glaring absence on this list, but I’ve not gotten around to reading it yet. Please feel free to mention any other books I’ve missed in the comments below![end-mark]

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Revealing Your Beloved Remains by Quinn Connor

A creative collaboration spirals into a twisted obsession…

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Read an Excerpt From Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity

A young woman who can see the dead strikes a deal with the Saint of Silence, a dangerous purveyor of dark secrets, to save her brother’s life.

By Heba Al-Wasity

Published on January 21, 2026

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choice: Let him die or buy the expensive medicine that will save his life by bartering the only valuable thing she has—her secret.<br><br>The Saint of Silence, a ruthless merchant who trades in confessions and is shrouded in unearthly rumors of cruelty and power, accepts her bargain, for a deadly price. Leena must find the ghost of Percival Avon, the last lord of Weavingshaw—or lose her freedom to the Saint forever.<br><br>As Leena’s search takes her and the Saint to Weavingshaw, she finds the estate and the surrounding moors to be living things—hungry for blood and sacrifice. Fighting against Weavingshaw’s might, Leena must also fight her growing pull toward the enigmatic Saint himself, whose connection to Percival Avon remains a mystery.<br><br>As the house begins to entomb them, time is running out on their desperate hunt for answers.<br><br>For Leena has come to see that here in Weavingshaw, the dead are not hushed—and some secrets are better left buried with them.</p></blockquote></figure> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" /> <div style="height:20px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <h3 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center">1</h3> <h3 class="wp-block-heading has-text-align-center">The Saint of Silence</h3> <p>“Tell me how to seek the Saint.”</p> <p>The old woman stared at the girl for a long moment, eyes narrowed, shriveled lips pursed. Without lowering her gaze, she inhaled a slow drag from her pipe. “Got a confession, Leena?”</p> <p>Leena shrank back, although the emaciated form of the old woman posed no threat to her.</p> <p>“Margery…” Leena began, then paused, her conviction dimming. “I only mean to seek him out.”</p> <p>Faster than she thought the old woman could move, Margery dug her yellowed nails into the soft flesh of Leena’s forearm. “No one—and I mean <em>no one</em>—goes to see the Saint without a reason,” Margery snarled. “Are you looking for a bit of coin, girlie? Some pretty baubles?” Her grip bruised. “Do <em>not </em>seek him.”</p> <p>Leena didn’t respond as, not for the first time, something else had caught her attention. Her gaze flickered to a point past Margery’s shoulder, and she stared at it for a second too long. When Margery turned to look, there was nothing there but peeling papered walls.</p> <p>“What are you staring at, girlie?” Margery demanded. </p> <p>Leena startled before shaking her head.</p> <p>Leena’s eyes roved the interior of Margery’s home, directly abutting her own. Each house was an exact replica of the other—squat and terraced with sparse windows and a barely functioning fireplace, their only source of water an outside pump.</p> <p>The old woman had lived here for as long as Leena could remember, the only resident in these clustered spaces of cramped houses who was not an Algaraan refugee. Unlike Leena, whose own parents had fled the Algaraan civil war more than twenty years ago before settling uneasily into Morland, Margery was salt-of-the-earth and Morish through and through.</p> <p>Leena did not think the old woman had ventured once out of Golborne, Morland’s capital city, or even farther than the limit of her own house these days, her fluid-swollen legs barely carrying her past her front step.</p> <p>Despite Margery’s lack of mobility, Leena never dared question how she seemed to procure a steady stream of Tar.</p> <p>Whenever Leena knocked on the old woman’s door, it was always the same picture: Margery hunched over a hookah, her eyes red from the cloying Tar smoke, her blue-veined hands shaking for the next addictive puff.</p> <p>“Rami is unwell. He is going to…” Leena trailed off. “I <em>need </em>to see the Saint.”</p> <p>“Your brother?”</p> <p>It took all of Leena’s strength to force her voice to remain steady, even as terror slithered down her body at the mere utterance of the illness. “He has Sweeper’s Cough.”</p> <p>Margery withdrew, leaving half-moon welts on Leena’s skin. “I had it once and barely survived it.”</p> <section class="wp-block-shop-the-book shop-the-book"> <h2 class="shop-the-book-headline">Buy the Book</h2> <div class="shop-the-book-content"> <figure class="shop-the-book-image-desktop image-cover"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="450" src="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WEAVINGSHAW.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="Cover of Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity." /> </figure> <div class="grow shrink basis-0"> <div class="flex items-center"> <figure class="shop-the-book-image-mobile image-cover">  <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="450" src="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WEAVINGSHAW.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="Cover of Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity." role="presentation" /> </figure> <div class="grow shrink basis-0"> <h3 class="shop-the-book-title text-h3">Weavingshaw</h3> <p class="shop-the-book-author">Heba Al-Wasity</p> </div> </div> <button type="button" class="inline-block px-8 py-4 text-center btn tablet:py-3 text-h6 bg-red text-white shop-the-book-button" id="buy_book" data-trigger="modal" data-target="#modal-1769106844" aria-open="false" aria-label="Buy Book"> <span class="inline-flex items-center button-label btn-label"> Buy Book </span> </button> </div> </div> <div id="modal-1769106844" class="shop-the-book-modal"> <div class="shop-the-book-modal-inner"> <button class="js-modal-close absolute top-5 right-5 z-10" type="button" aria-label="icon-close"> <svg class="w-[19px] h-[19px]" width="18" height="19" viewbox="0 0 18 19" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" aria-label="close" role="img" aria-hidden="true"> <path d="M1 17L17 1" stroke="black" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" /> <path d="M1 17L17 1" stroke="black" stroke-opacity="0.2" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" /> <path d="M17 17.0809L1 1.08093" stroke="black" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" /> <path d="M17 17.0809L1 1.08093" stroke="black" stroke-opacity="0.2" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" /> </svg> </button> <div class="shop-the-book-modal-content"> <figure class="shop-the-book-modal-image-desktop image-cover"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="450" src="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WEAVINGSHAW.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="Weavingshaw" /> </figure> <div class="grow shrink basis-0"> <div class="flex items-center"> <figure class="shop-the-book-modal-image-mobile image-cover"> <img loading="lazy" decoding="async" width="300" height="450" src="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/WEAVINGSHAW.jpg" class="attachment-full size-full" alt="Weavingshaw" /> </figure> <div class="grow shrink basis-0"> <h3 class="shop-the-book-modal-title">Weavingshaw</h3> <p class="shop-the-book-modal-author">Heba Al-Wasity</p> </div> </div> <p class="shop-the-book-modal-label">Buy this book from:</p> <ul class="not-prose ebook-links ebook-links-shortcode"><li><a class="btn" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0F9V6GXHP?tag=tordotcomgeneral-20" data-book-title="Weavingshaw" data-book-store="Amazon"><span class="inline-flex items-center button-label text-h6 text-white font-aktiv">Amazon</span></a></li><li><a class="btn" target="_blank" href="https://www.anrdoezrs.net/links/7992675/type/dlg/sid/tordotcomgeneral/https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/9780593982570" data-book-title="Weavingshaw" data-book-store="Barnes and Noble"><span class="inline-flex items-center button-label text-h6 text-white font-aktiv">Barnes and Noble</span></a></li><li><a class="btn" target="_blank" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/isbn9780593982587" data-book-title="Weavingshaw" data-book-store="iBooks"><span class="inline-flex items-center button-label text-h6 text-white font-aktiv">iBooks</span></a></li><li><a class="btn" target="_blank" href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780593982570" data-book-title="Weavingshaw" data-book-store="IndieBound"><span class="inline-flex items-center button-label text-h6 text-white font-aktiv">IndieBound</span></a></li><li><a class="btn" target="_blank" href="https://www.target.com/s?searchTerm=9780593982570" data-book-title="Weavingshaw" data-book-store="Target"><span class="inline-flex items-center button-label text-h6 text-white font-aktiv">Target</span></a></li></ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <p>Leena knew this, or else she would never have dared enter Margery’s house and invite the sickness into her home. Sweeper’s Cough could only be had once and never again—as long as one survived it. Baba had once said Leena had caught it as a young girl in the refugee camps, and she had been so unwell that the camp overseer had told her mother to start sewing a white burial shroud. </p> <p>“So, you see, my worry is justified.” Leena pulled at a stray thread unraveling from the hemline of her skirt. “I must go see the Saint of Silence.”</p> <p>“No—even <em>that </em>is not enough.” Margery swallowed harshly. “What secrets can a green girl like you have? The Saint of Silence does not accept schoolroom scandals.”</p> <p>Once again, Leena’s eyes flickered to the nothingness behind Margery’s shoulder.</p> <p>“Have you not heard the stories that swirl around the Saint?” Margery demanded again, and Leena stiffened.</p> <p>Of course she had heard the rumors; everyone had. He was the first of his kind to pay for secrets; the more shameful the divulgence, the higher the price. But even the most trivial of confessions, seemingly useless to anyone, received some coin. So at first, the rest of the cityfolk—Leena included—thought it was an act of charity: another so-called philanthropist who had made his wealth in the factories, or abroad in the wars, and decided to <em>give back. </em>A do-gooder who had arrived suddenly in this soot-ridden city eight years ago and would disappear just as abruptly.</p> <p>Although his name was St. Silas, he was often referred to as the <em>Saint of Silence </em>instead—a play on his surname, after the country’s oldest Saint, whose crumbled statues still littered the outside of cathedrals and cemeteries. A Saint who had once granted blessings in exchange for sins back when Golborne was a mere settlement, not a thriving metropolis built of smoke and greed.</p> <p>No one prayed to any of the Saints anymore. </p> <p>People wanted bread, not sacraments.</p> <p>But if this new Saint of Silence, like his former namesake, was willing to offer coins for a few measly secrets—<em>the fool</em>—why stop him?</p> <p>It soon became apparent that it was not charity. </p> <p>And that he was no fool.</p> <p>Rumors began to spring up. Those who confessed to him came back <em>changed, </em>as if despair and terror had carved a home between their eyes. Others—those St. Silas claimed had lied in their confessions—had their tongues cut out. Ribs cracked. A bloodied X sliced through their mouth, the vermilion border of the lips gouged and carved: the scar of the Saint.</p> <p>Some never came back at all.</p> <p>Leena knew all this, but her heart was already so engulfed with death and loss she could not bear burying a brother. She knew this—and she chose to seek the Saint of Silence anyway.</p> <p>Margery saw the change in her face: the subtle lift of her chin, the determination that drew her dark brows in. The old woman lowered her voice. “Do you remember what he did to Mr. Jamil?”</p> <p>Leena’s thoughts recoiled at the memory of the man who had once lived a couple of doors down from them. He had also been a refugee, escaping Algaraa at the same time as Leena’s parents did.</p> <p>She remembered Baba’s distrust of Mr. Jamil; it was widely known in their small district that Mr. Jamil had been an informant for the Malik’s police back home. Gossip swirled that he’d been the one to turn in his own nephew for hiding illegal pamphlets belonging to the Liberation Party.</p> <p>The nephew had been taken, then found a few weeks later, tortured into madness.</p> <p>Leena had heard that the Malik had sent Mr. Jamil a slaughtered sheep for his acts of loyalty—a rarity as hunger swept through the country.</p> <p>When the war broke out in Algaraa and the Liberation Party rose, Mr. Jamil had fled to Morland in fear of being captured and punished by the rebels for his terrible acts of service to the Malik.</p> <p>Baba, ever the revolutionist, had warned Leena and Rami to stay away from Mr. Jamil, stating that those who turned on their countrymen on their own soil would not think twice of doing so in a foreign land.</p> <p>Baba was not wrong.</p> <p>Leena never forgot the way Mr. Jamil had looked after visiting the Saint of Silence nearly four years ago. They had found him in the morning, a crumpled mess on the stoop. The intersecting X on his mouth shone with blood, his broken body racked with shudders. <em>I didn’t lie, </em>he sobbed as Baba and a few other men carried him into his house. <em>I swear I didn’t lie to the Saint.</em></p> <p>He took to the bottle not long afterward. Hard drink. In one of his drunken stupors, he admitted to Baba that he’d thought no harm would come from telling the Saint of Silence small falsehoods about the neighbors to fill his gnawing hunger.</p> <p>By that point, the alcohol had made Mr. Jamil’s belly protrude and the whites of his eyes turn a deep yellow.</p> <p>He was dead by the spring.</p> <p>“I do,” Leena said steadily, but her head throbbed. “Have you ever sought the Saint of Silence?”</p> <p>Margery toyed with the pipe between her fingers. Finally, she nodded. “It wasn’t an act of release for me, though; it was reckoning. It felt like death…” She trailed off, a vague look in her rheumy eyes. “The nightmares that came afterward—<em>he never even touched me</em>—but the very act of confession… like being gutted… left to rot…”</p> <p>The old woman took a long, desperate drag on the pipe, her eyelids fluttering from the effect of the drug. “Some say his mother’s a demon.”</p> <p>“<em>Demon? </em>” Leena lifted her brows. Spirituality had faded in Morland with the first cropping of factories, leaving sparsely filled church pews in its staid and ghostly cathedrals, but some still clung firmly to their belief in Saints, demons, and curses.</p> <p>Algaraans feared evil under a different name. Leena had grown up with stories of jinns, and even now her bedroom was filled with old charms shaped like eyes to ward them away.</p> <p>There was not a lot of time in Leena’s life to debate the existence of jinns, demons, or even Saints, but all she knew was that none of them had helped her survive.</p> <p>A faint humorous glint crossed Leena’s eyes. “Is he a Saint or a demon? He cannot be both.”</p> <p>Margery’s lips thinned. “Do not make a mockery of things you do not understand.” With shaky hands, she pulled an idol necklace from her bodice, her lips muttering a whispered prayer to cast off wickedness. Leena peeked at the small wooden figurine of a woman holding an olive branch. She could not remember which Saint the imagery corresponded with, but the way Margery gripped the effigy made it clear that it brought her some measure of comfort.</p> <p>Leena never assumed Margery was religious; fewer people nowadays believed in the old relics. Still, she bowed her head, apologizing for causing the old woman offense.</p> <p>“Do. Not. Seek. Him,” Margery rasped again, interrupting her apologies.</p> <p>“I don’t have a choice—”</p> <p>“You always have a choice. Do not choose wrong.”</p> <p>This time it was Leena who grabbed the old woman’s arm, the papery skin fragile in her grip. “I <em>will </em>find him, with or without your help. So spare me and give me some guidance. I cannot waste any more time.”</p> <p>Margery regarded Leena for a long moment: the brown Algaraan features, the firm eyebrows, the gaunt cheeks, the dark eyes that could not conceal a single emotion.</p> <p>“Your face reveals too much,” Margery whispered, almost to herself. “A lie would look foreign on you. Do not attempt it.”</p> <p>“I won’t.”</p> <p>The old woman brought a trembling hand to her forehead. “He’s in the Northern Quarters…” Her thin chest rattled with emotion as she detailed the exact directions. She huffed another puff of smoke, a tinge of pink appearing on her wrinkled cheeks, before she continued in a hazy voice. “<em>What isn’t learned in the cradle</em>…”</p> <p>“…<em> will be learned too late. </em>Thank you.” Leena rose to leave, but the old woman’s voice stopped her.</p> <p>“Do not lie to him, Leena,” Margery warned again.</p> <p>Once more, Leena’s gaze focused on the corner of the room. </p> <p>Once more, Margery turned to look. <em>Nothing.</em></p> <p>“Mrs. Khalid next door tells me that you’re mad, girlie,” Margery said, peering closely at her. “You have already lost one promising employment due to your… <em>eccentricities. </em>How much further will you allow yourself to fall?”</p> <p>Leena had been a lady’s companion, back when her future still had promise. She had fled that life when her circumstances changed and she realized she could not swallow her new oddities. If the aristos had noticed her strange behavior, they might lock her in the asylum. Now, rather than an esteemed lady’s companion, she was the gossip of old crones, the shame of their street, a warning to all immigrant parents about the dangers of overeducating a girl.</p> <p>Leena’s eyes blazed. “Until there is no distance left to fall.”</p> <div style="height:5px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <p class="has-sm-font-size">Excerpted from <em>Weavingshaw</em> by Heba Al-Wasity. Copyright © 2026 by Heba Al-Wasity. All rights reserved. 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https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Murder-She-Wrote-Angela-Lansbury-768x513.png 768w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Murder-She-Wrote-Angela-Lansbury-1536x1026.png 1536w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Murder-She-Wrote-Angela-Lansbury.png 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px" /> </figure> <div class="post-hero-caption post-hero-caption-horizontal [&_a]:link"><p>Screenshot: CBS</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </post-hero> <div class="wp-block-more-from-category"> <div> <p></p> </div> </div> <p>Knock knock, Jessica Fletcher is calling. Today, we’ve got news that <em>Murder She Wrote</em>, the long-running television series from the ‘80s and ‘90s, is coming back as a feature film. We also got even better news that none other than Jamie Lee Curtis will be starring as Jessica Fletcher, the author originally played by Angela Lansbury who solves the <em>disturbing</em> number of murders that occur in her small town.</p> <p>According to <em><a href="https://deadline.com/2026/01/jason-moore-murder-she-wrote-movie-jamie-lee-curtis-1236691743/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Deadline</a></em>, Jason Moore, whose previous credits include <em>Pitch Perfect</em> and <em>Shotgun Wedding</em>, is on board to direct.</p> <p>The project appears to be moving steadily ahead—there’s already a script from Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, and Lord Miller (the production company of Phil Lord and Chris Miller) is producing through their deal with Universal Pictures.</p> <p>There’s no news yet on what the story will entail. Here are some plot points, however, that seem likely: Jessica (Curtis) will be living in the quaint fictional town of Cabot Cove, Maine; a murder will happen, and Jessica will ultimately solve it.</p> <p>The project is still in the pre-production phase—it’s not clear when it will go into production given Moore has other projects on his plate, including directing a revival of <em>Avenue Q</em> in the West End this April. We’ll continue sleuthing to find out. 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New Batman Movie in the Works With Birds of Prey Writer on Board

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 07:00 pm

Posted by Vanessa Armstrong

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News The Brave and the Bold

New Batman Movie in the Works With Birds of Prey Writer on Board

Gadzooks! The film will focus on the Caped Crusader and Damian Wayne as Robin

Published on January 21, 2026

Credit: DC Comics

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<p class="syndicationauthor">Posted by Vanessa Armstrong</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/batman-movie-brave-and-the-bold-with-birds-of-prey-writer/">https://reactormag.com/batman-movie-brave-and-the-bold-with-birds-of-prey-writer/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837296">https://reactormag.com/?p=837296</a></p><post-hero class="wp-block-post-hero js-post-hero post-hero post-hero-horizontal"> <div class="container container-desktop"> <div class="flex flex-col mx-auto post-hero-container"> <div class="post-hero-content"> <div class="post-hero-tags font-aktiv text-xs tracking-[0.5px] font-medium uppercase"> <span class="mr-3"> <i class="inline-block w-2 h-2 rounded-full mr-[5px] bg-blue"></i> <a href="https://reactormag.com/articles/news/" class="inline-block link-no-animation" aria-label="Link to term or tag News 0"> News </a> </span> <span class="mr-3"> <i class="inline-block w-2 h-2 rounded-full mr-[5px] bg-blue"></i> <a href="https://reactormag.com/tag/the-brave-and-the-bold/" class="inline-block link-no-animation" aria-label="Link to term or tag The Brave and the Bold 1"> The Brave and the Bold </a> </span> </div> <h2 class="post-hero-title text-h1">New Batman Movie in the Works With <i>Birds of Prey</i> Writer on Board</h2> <div class="prose post-hero-description prose--post-hero">Gadzooks! 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moving forward with their plans for a non-Matt Reeves Batman film. According to <em><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/batman-movie-the-brave-and-the-bold-writer-1236480344/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Hollywood Reporter</a></em> (first reported by the <em>InSneider</em> newsletter) Christina Hodson—whose previous credits include <em>Birds of Prey (<a href="https://reactormag.com/birds-of-prey-avengers-comic-book-violence-and-gender/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">ed note: EEEEE!!!!</a>), Bumblebee, </em>and <em>The Flash</em>—is working on a script for <em>The Brave and the Bold</em>. The movie will focus on the relationship between Batman and Robin, and the Robin in this instance will be Damian Wayne, the biological son Batman didn’t know he had, who meets up with his dad after being raised by a group of assassins. </p> <p><em>The Brave and the Bold</em> was one of the <a href="https://reactormag.com/new-dc-studios-heads-james-gunn-and-peter-safran-reveal-their-first-ten-projects/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">first ten projects that DC Studios announced</a> after James Gunn and Peter Safran took over. Andy Muschietti (<em>IT: Welcome to Derry</em>) has been attached to the project since it was first announced, though <em>THR </em>reports that he might not be the director for whenever the movie makes it to production because of scheduling issues.</p> <p>That timing thing is currently nebulous; it’s not clear when Hodson will have a script ready to go, but DC Studios doesn’t seem to be concerned if it’s a few years before a Caped Crusader who isn’t Robert Pattinson heads to the big screen. Pattinson is currently starring as the Bat in Matt Reeves’ <em>The Batman: Part II</em>. That movie takes place in a separate universe from other DC films under Gunn and Safran, and there is reportedly a concerted effort to make the DC Universe Batman give off different vibes than Pattinson’s emo Bruce Wayne.</p> <p>The question remains, of course, as to who will eventually play Batman and Robin in this latest iteration of the characters. Time will tell, and we’ll keep an eye out for the Bat Signal announcing further news. [end-mark]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://reactormag.com/batman-movie-brave-and-the-bold-with-birds-of-prey-writer/">New Batman Movie in the Works With <i>Birds of Prey</i> Writer on Board</a> appeared first on <a href="https://reactormag.com">Reactor</a>.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/batman-movie-brave-and-the-bold-with-birds-of-prey-writer/">https://reactormag.com/batman-movie-brave-and-the-bold-with-birds-of-prey-writer/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837296">https://reactormag.com/?p=837296</a></p>

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: December 2025

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 06:30 pm

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Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: December 2025

Ten excellent works of short fiction you may have missed in 2025

By Alex Brown

Published on January 21, 2026

Covers of three SFF short fiction magazines: Fantasy Magazine issue 99; khoreo vol 5 issue 4; Augur issue 8.3

It may be 2026, but I’m not done with last year yet. While doing all my short fiction reading from December, I didn’t intend to but ended up picking ten science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories that mostly include authors I’ve never featured in this spotlight before. There are a couple repeat guests, but it’s been a few years at least since I last had them on. I hope you’re as excited to meet (or re-meet) these authors as I was.

“Drink Poetry, Devour the Sun” by Jonathan Helland

Written in the form of electronic messages between two people, this piece ends up in a surprising place. Andy is on sabbatical and raising his preschool-age daughter. She keeps saying strange things while playing with her toys or at daycare, things that are impossible for her to know. The longer this goes on, the more disconcerting her statements become. Andy reaches out to Carol, who gives him a clue as to what the claims might mean. The truth is even worse. If you’re a mythology nerd like I am, you will probably be able to guess where this story is going, but trust me, it’s worth the ride. (Trollbreath Magazine—Winter 2025; issue 6)

“Mbali and the Lantern Men” by K.A. Mulenga

“The first time Mbali swallowed a star, she was five years old. It shimmered above her, small and flickering like an ember dropped from the sky. She thought it was candy. When she opened her mouth, it tumbled down her throat, leaving a trail of silver in its wake.” Mbali drinks the stars in the sky, but this isn’t a horror story. Ultimately, it’s about finding the best in yourself and not letting anyone dim or smother that. I love how this story is written, too. It feels like a folktale. (F(r)iction—Winter 2025; issue 25)

“One Hand Washes the Other” by Karl El-Koura

Pietr thinks he’s being held hostage by his two crewmates who have been turned into pod people by an alien hivemind. But what if he’s wrong? Or worse, what if he’s right? El-Koura stages a sci-fi drama that puts trust at the forefront. It’s a fun slice of space opera that feels like an excerpt from a novel. Sadly, this the last ever issue of On Spec. The Canadian magazine was founded in 1989 and has been publishing incredible speculative fiction ever since. It’s won numerous awards over the years, and on a personal note, it is one of those titles I always get really excited to see in my inbox. Fare thee well, On Spec. (On Spec—issue 134)

“ReproTech RealWomb User Manual” by Xauri’EL Zwaan

This is a very weird story, both in content and in structure, so I’m not going to tell you anything except go read it. And kinda disconcerting. It’s a little cyberpunk, a little satire, and a whole lot great. (Baffling—December 2025; issue 22)

“Tapetum Lucidum” by U.M. Agoawike

What a gorgeously written story. I also don’t want to tell you too much about this piece since it’s so short and the twist in the plot is a gut punch. It’s about children who play in the Darkwood by a cottage and the awful thing that happens to them out there. It’s written from the perspective of one of those children after it happens. It flows like a nightmare or a particularly dark fairy tale, one of those that the Grimm Brothers might have found too unsettling to include. (Augur—#8.3)

“The Matriarch” by Malena Salazar Maciá

“He told you he didn’t like your hair.” In our narrator’s culture, hair is how memories and traditions are passed down the generations. Not that her husband cares. He is from the capital where, from his perspective, they are civilized and don’t have all that wild, untamed hair. She gives into his demands, and it still isn’t enough for him. After reading this story, I thought about the comments white people used to make to me as a child about how my hair was “crazy,” as well as how during slavery Black people would weave patterns and seeds into their hair to guide them when they escaped. I thought about “Kill the Indian, save the man” campaigns meant to forcibly assimilate Indigenous people out of their “savage” ways, and how one of those weapons was cutting off their hair at the boarding schools. And yet, despite all that, our people are still here, still resisting, still holding onto our cultures. (Fantasy Magazine—Winter 2025; issue 99)

“The North” by Subodhana Wijeyeratne

Our narrator is from a land that was terrorized by Northern raiders generations ago. Their culture still tells the stories of those years as if they survived the worst humanity had to offer. Now our narrator is joining a sailing party headed North in search of a passage to the other side of the world, as well as sea creatures they plan to hunt and sell. They find the creatures and the Northerners, but things don’t go the way our narrator expects. Wijeyeratne weaves in commentary on capitalism, resource exploitation, and dehumanization. It’s a world that feels just close enough to ours to make the analogy hit hard. (khōréō—volume 5, issue 4)

“The Red River Summers” by Inda Lauryn

Madear escapes slavery and makes it as far north as the Territory of Wisconsin. There she gets a little revenge on some white people before she settles into their cabin and builds herself a life. Most people leave her alone, what with the threat of her witchcraft, but not the Indigenous people of the region. The story takes place around the time of Mahkatêwe-meshi-kêhkêhkwa, aka Black Hawk, the Sauk warrior who led a war against the United States in 1832. Lauryn blends real history and fantasy in compelling ways. The characters don’t get a happy ending—if you know anything about this historical era, then Black Hawk’s fate won’t surprise you—but the journey is powerful. (Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction—Summer 2025)

“The Short History of a Long-Forgotten, Ill-Fated Telenovela” by Dante Luiz

The cast and crew of the telenovela Senhora must be cursed. It ran only for a season in the early 1970s, but had an outsized impact on the television industry. It’s the only thing that explains why they all keep dying in painful ways. We follow a few of these victims through their involvement in the production of Senhora and after, peeking into their lives and the cruelties they meted out to others before their bill came due. It’s a creepy story with a lot of smart things to say about fame. (Nightmare—December 2025; issue 159)

“Who Are You Wearing?” by Russell Nichols

The gig economy gets dark. Well, darker. You are a divorced parent trying to do your best for your 9-year-old daughter. You work random jobs wearing an exo suit called a Hardiman, anything from a courier to a raccoon evictor to hauling heavy objects. The work sucks, but you put up with it because what other choice do you have? A sharp story that isn’t all that far-fetched, exo aside. (Uncanny—December 2025; issue 67)[end-mark]

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians Will Be Back for Its Third Season This Year

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 06:05 pm

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Percy Jackson and the Olympians Will Be Back for Its Third Season This Year

The gods must approve of this adaptation.

Published on January 21, 2026

Image: Disney+

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https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/percy-jackson-walker-scobell-and-leah-jeffries-1100x629.jpg 1100w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/percy-jackson-walker-scobell-and-leah-jeffries-768x439.jpg 768w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/percy-jackson-walker-scobell-and-leah-jeffries.jpg 1400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px" /> </figure> <div class="post-hero-caption post-hero-caption-horizontal [&_a]:link"><p>Image: Disney+</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </post-hero> <div class="wp-block-more-from-category"> <div> <p></p> </div> </div> <p>Sometimes, you wait ages for a show to return—and sometimes you barely have to wait at all. <em>Percy Jackson and the Olympians</em> just wound up its second season (with a cliffhanger) and then turned around and offered a great announcement: Season three will arrive later this year. A brief teaser for the upcoming season appeared in the end credits of season two’s finale. In it, Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) leads Percy (Walker Scobell) onto a school dance floor. (You can watch the clip on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DTxuR4AjSor/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Instagram</a> if you missed it.)</p> <p>The series was <a href="https://reactormag.com/percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-will-be-back-for-a-third-season-on-disney-plus/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">renewed for a third season</a> long before the second season aired; Disney+ is clearly confident in its appeal. And casting announcements have been trickling out as well: <a href="https://reactormag.com/kate-mckinnon-aphrodite-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-cast/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Kate McKinnon as Aphrodite</a>, <a href="https://reactormag.com/percy-jackson-and-the-olympians-artemis-zoe-nightshade-season-3-cast/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dafne Keen as Artemis</a>, and Saara Chaudry as Zoë Nightshade. Holt McCallany will play the Titan Atlas; David Costabile will be Dr. Thorn; Levi Chrisopulos and Olive Abercrombie will play Nico and Bianca di Angelo, the children of Hades; and Jesse L. Martin is set to play Annabeth’s dad, Frederick Chase.</p> <p>The third season will be based on <em>The Titan’s Curse</em>, the third book in Rick Riordan’s series—which, unlike the first two books, has not previously been adapted. Star Scobell <a href="https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/percy-jackson-finale-walker-scobell-thalia-return-season-3-1236635959" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">told <em>Variety</em></a>, “I almost feel like there’s less pressure, because I don’t think there’s anything to really compare it to. I thought Logan Lerman had a wonderful performance as Percy Jackson, but now I’m on my own.”</p> <p>Though the series may not <em>exactly</em> follow the novel, the synopsis for <em>The Titan’s Curse</em> goes like this:</p> <figure class="wp-block-pullquote has-text-align-left"><blockquote><p>When the goddess Artemis goes missing, she is believed to have been kidnapped. And now it’s up to Percy and his friends to find out what happened. Who is powerful enough to kidnap a goddess? They must find Artemis before the winter solstice, when her influence on the Olympian Council could swing an important vote on the war with the titans. Not only that, but first Percy will have to solve the mystery of a rare monster that Artemis was hunting when she disappeared—a monster rumored to be so powerful it could destroy Olympus forever.</p></blockquote></figure> <p><em>Percy Jackson and the Olympians</em> is created by Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg. You can watch the first two seasons on Disney+.[end-mark]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://reactormag.com/percy-jackson-season-three-2026-premiere/"><i>Percy Jackson and the Olympians</i> Will Be Back for Its Third Season This Year</a> appeared first on <a href="https://reactormag.com">Reactor</a>.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/percy-jackson-season-three-2026-premiere/">https://reactormag.com/percy-jackson-season-three-2026-premiere/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837279">https://reactormag.com/?p=837279</a></p>

Livestream Like it’s the End of the World: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 10)

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 06:00 pm

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Books Reading the Weird

Livestream Like it’s the End of the World: Lucy Snyder’s Sister, Maiden, Monster (Part 10)

Those the gods choose are Chosen forever…

By Ruthanna Emrys, Anne M. Pillsworth

Published on January 21, 2026

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<p class="syndicationauthor">Posted by Sarah</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/livestream-like-its-the-end-of-the-world-lucy-snyders-sister-maiden-monster-part-10/">https://reactormag.com/livestream-like-its-the-end-of-the-world-lucy-snyders-sister-maiden-monster-part-10/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837193">https://reactormag.com/?p=837193</a></p><post-hero class="wp-block-post-hero js-post-hero post-hero post-hero-vertical"> <div class="container container-desktop"> <div class="flex flex-col mx-auto post-hero-container"> <div class="post-hero-content"> <div class="post-hero-tags font-aktiv text-xs tracking-[0.5px] font-medium uppercase"> <span class="mr-3"> <i class="inline-block w-2 h-2 rounded-full mr-[5px] bg-blue"></i> <a href="https://reactormag.com/articles/books/" class="inline-block link-no-animation" aria-label="Link to term or tag Books 0"> Books </a> </span> <span class="mr-3"> <i class="inline-block w-2 h-2 rounded-full mr-[5px] bg-blue"></i> <a href="https://reactormag.com/tag/reading-the-weird/" class="inline-block link-no-animation" aria-label="Link to term or tag Reading the Weird 1"> Reading the Weird </a> </span> </div> <h2 class="post-hero-title text-h1">Livestream Like it’s the End of the World: Lucy Snyder’s <i>Sister, Maiden, Monster</i> (Part 10)</h2> <div class="prose post-hero-description prose--post-hero">Those the gods choose are Chosen forever…</div> <div class="post-hero-wrapper"> <div class="post-hero-inner"> <p class="post-hero-author text-xs font-aktiv uppercase font-medium [&_a]:link-hover">By <a href="https://reactormag.com/author/ruthanna-emrys/" title="Posts by Ruthanna Emrys" class="author url fn" rel="author">Ruthanna Emrys</a>, <a href="https://reactormag.com/author/anne-m-pillsworth/" title="Posts by Anne M. 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Pillsworth</a></p> <span class="post-hero-symbol relative top-[-2px] hidden tablet:block">|</span> <p class="text-xs uppercase post-hero-publish font-aktiv"> Published on January 21, 2026 </p> </div> </div> <div class="quick-access post-hero-quick-access mt-[17px] tablet:hidden"> <div class="flex gap-[30px] tablet:gap-6"> <a href="https://reactormag.com/livestream-like-its-the-end-of-the-world-lucy-snyders-sister-maiden-monster-part-10/#comments" class="flex items-center text-sm font-aktiv tracking-[0.6px] font-semibold uppercase translate-x-[1px] translate-y-[1px]"> <svg class="w-[22px] h-[22px] mr-[7px] icon-hover" viewbox="0 0 18 18" aria-label="comment" role="img" aria-hidden="true" aria-labelledby="icon-comment-quick-access-"> <title id="icon-comment-quick-access-">Comment</title> <g fill="none" fill-rule="evenodd"> <path fill="#FFF" fill-rule="nonzero" d="M6.3 18a.9.9 0 0 1-.9-.9v-2.7H1.8A1.8 1.8 0 0 1 0 12.6V1.8A1.8 1.8 0 0 1 1.8 0h14.4A1.8 1.8 0 0 1 18 1.8v10.8a1.8 1.8 0 0 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src="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sister-maiden-monster-header-740x407.png" class="w-full object-cover" alt="Cover of Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A Snyder" srcset="https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sister-maiden-monster-header-740x407.png 740w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sister-maiden-monster-header-1100x605.png 1100w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sister-maiden-monster-header-768x422.png 768w, https://reactormag.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sister-maiden-monster-header.png 1400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px" /> </figure> </div> </div> </div> </post-hero> <div class="wp-block-more-from-category"> <div> </div> </div> <p>Welcome back to <a href="http://reactormag.com/columns/reading-the-weird" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Reading the Weird</a>, 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 Chapters 26-28 of Lucy Snyder’s <em>Sister, Maiden, Monster</em>. The book was first published in 2023. Spoilers ahead! CW for forced pregnancy and unanesthetized surgery.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity" /> <p>Homeland Security agent Candy Kleypas answers Mar’s SOS text. She verifies that Savannah’s working with <em>flyers</em>, not humans. If Kleypas ever disbelieved in monsters, she doesn’t now.</p> <p>Awaiting rescue, Mar watches TV apocalypse coverage. Dr. Kaz starts a new live-stream, hiding in a closet. Her apartment building’s under attack, and 911’s incommunicado. People must accept that the monsters are real, shelter in place, and forget taking photos—monsters don’t like paparazzi. Something crashes, Kaz gasps. Livestream over.</p> <p>Mar can feel nothing for Kaz, her own family, the world. To feel would kill her soul.</p> <p>Homeland Security arrives. An agent hauls Mar outside, throws her down, and demands identification. Kleypas calls “Robocop” off. Suddenly winged monsters descend and wipe out three SUVs worth of officers. Savannah herself machetes Kleypas and devours her brain. Mar realizes with horror that Savannah’s orgasming as she kills. Recovered, Savannah prepares to butcher dead agents for meat. Their weapons will also be useful, along with the inside information Savannah’s absorbed from Kleypas.</p> <p>So Savannah set Mar up to lure Kleypas there. Mar calls Savannah a monster, declares she hates her. Savannah counters that Mar will learn to love her soon enough.</p> <p class="has-text-align-center">* * *</p> <p>Next morning Mar feels feverish. She’s positive for PVG, but her fever drops and then she tests negative. Then she discovers a painful lump in her left breast. Over weeks, it itches, aches, grows. She doesn’t tell Savannah, hoping to escape and find a real doctor.</p> <p>Archivists have constructed a wall of debris around the manor. Walking this perimeter, Mar notices how monsters like Erin become more vulturine, while monsters like Betty assume forms of other beasts. She begins to understand the Archivists’ shrieking-growling language, Erin’s especially. Erin and Betty are her particular guards. The two spend much time “canoodling.” While they’re “occupied” in the barn loft, Mar attempts escape. No go—Erin swoops down to recapture her. She’s “commanded and bound” to her guard duties. Mar notices how Erin’s feathers are differentiating into what look like fingernails, scales, insect wings. She tells Erin she hates what’s happened to her and recalls their budding friendship. She confides her cancer fears and asks if Erin could find Dr. Shapiro. Erin orders her back to the manor.</p> <p>Later, Savannah scolds Mar for concealing the breast lump. Having devoured the brains of a gynecologist, oncologist, and trauma specialist, she’s medically qualified. Mar asks about Shapiro. Savannah admits that Shapiro watched many humans becoming Archivists. Maybe she’s a Type Five like Savannah. But the outside world’s too dangerous.</p> <p>Savannah turns a wet bar into a well-equipped clinic. She ultrasounds Mar’s lump but won’t disclose what she sees. Mar’s breast continues to swell. Her fingernails thicken and sharpen. Just before Christmas, pain and itching send her into a warm bath. Instead of relief, the water triggers breast cramps, shuddering as if something’s struggling to burst free. Instinct drives Mar to assist by clawing open the lump. Her pain grows to strangely “transformative” agony,  floating her into “the blackness of space, where ancient, inhuman gods…behold [her]…and find [her] adequate.”</p> <p>Her breast births a red thing like a disembodied heart trailing blood vessels. It jets away through the bloodied water. Mar scrabbles out of the tub before she passes out.</p> <p>She wakes in her bed, breast bandaged. Savannah sits nearby, cuddling something red in a pink towel. “Hi, Mommy!” she greets Mar and waves one of the something’s appendages. Mar sees that the “heart” is actually a twelve-armed cephalopod with blue eyes. Like Mar’s mother’s. Like Leila’s. She begins wailing. After self-proclaimed “Auntie” Savannah dances out with “Cancer Baby,” Mar falls unconscious. She wakes to five new itching lumps in her belly and thighs.</p> <p>So now she’s just like her mother and Leila.</p> <p class="has-text-align-center">* * *</p> <p>Mar dreams she’s with her mother, looking out over the park where she and Leila played, now overgrown with crimson vines in which her dodecapod infant and other hybrids cavort: “genetic remixes” of cephalopods, arachnids, crustaceans with Mar’s skin and hair, her and Leila’s eyes. Her mother congratulates her for becoming the Mother of Multitudes, “repopulator of the world in the gods’ images.” The innumerable hybrids start chanting, “Mama…”</p> <p>Mar wakes screaming. She staggers to the kitchen, vowing not to become the gods’ incubator. She cuts her own throat with a boning knife. She’s suffocating on blood but doesn’t die, instead hanging “in an agonizing liminal state.” Savannah appears and listens to Mar’s heart, uncannily trapped between two beats. While Mar lies in pain greater than the dodecapod’s birth, Savannah sutures her wound, bandages it, then pours a bitter liquid into her mouth. It smells like Archivist blood. It jerks Mar back to life.</p> <p>Savannah explains that Mar can’t fight her new role. Those the gods choose are Chosen forever. Savannah’s role is to take care of Mar, to make her comfortable, but if Mar attempts suicide again, Savannah will use lobotomy to force her into docility. Then Mar’s kids will learn about justice, mercy and love based on Savannah’s (non-existent) knowledge of those human virtues. So Mar better “summon up some maternal instinct and actually parent [her] squiddos,” in case they <em>can</em> be something other than monsters.</p> <p>Savannah puts Mar to bed and slides in beside her. Best they be friends. They could be like sisters, inseparable, forever. As Savannah sings Leila’s old lullaby, Mar realizes that Savannah must have killed Leila and eaten her brain, her memories.</p> <p><strong>The Degenerate Dutch:</strong> The cops aren’t supposed to make things ten times worse, Mareva thinks. And, admittedly, most violent police encounters would not be <em>improved</em> by flying monsters.</p> <p>The last survivors of the harvest are “well-armed scrub[s]… neo-Nazi militias and drug gangs”. Savannah says they’re “fun to kill” but “a real pain in the ass.” Given that Savannah thinks <em>everyone</em> is fun to kill, this says… something.</p> <p><strong>Libronomicon:</strong> No library this week, but Savannah provides an unfortunate playlist featuring “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” “Cancer Baby” (which appears to be to the tune of “Santa Baby”), and “You Are My Sunshine.”</p> <p><strong>Weirdbuilding:</strong> Dr. Kaz makes a last stand, on video, that’s the much more effective descendant of “<a href="https://reactormag.com/shell-shock-and-eldritch-horror-dagon/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The window! The window!</a>” It also reminds me of Tom Smith’s inevitably-dated “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbgkQ9_3El4" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blog Like It’s the End of the World</a>.”</p> <div style="height:10px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Ruthanna’s Commentary</strong></h3> <p>Normally I read each week’s selection on Sunday, let it compost in my brain overnight, and write up my response on Monday. But the last couple of pieces of <em>Sister, Maiden, Monster</em> itch in my head like larval dodecapods; I have to tear them out as quickly as possible so that I can do anything other than think about Mareva’s predicament and Savannah’s latest horrifying earworm.</p> <p>One of my favorite podcasts, <a href="https://wizlez.libsyn.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Wizards Versus Lesbians</em></a>, describes a certain sort of aesthetic as “meatcore.” An unfortunate websearch determines that they did not originate this term, though it’s less often used for literature and more often used for video and image feeds that would doubtless delight Savannah and which I personally am not going to explore too closely. But <em>Sister, Maiden, Monster</em> fits well into the WizLez meatcore definition (as well as being very much in the WizLez subgenre, Isaac and Alexis take note). There is so much meat going on in these chapters: cannibalism (sapients eating sapients, no claims about shared species), threats of future cannibalism in the freezer (it <em>might</em> be pork), orgasmic murders, an impromptu surgical clinic on a wet bar, cancerous forced pregnancy, chestburster childbirth, and a divinely-foiled suicide attempt followed by unanesthetized surgery.</p> <p>Savannah claims to be “as pro-choice as they come.” I do not think that word means what she thinks it means.</p> <p>She does make a valid point about human myths. Zeus raped Leto, who had no choice in either that or Hera’s jealous curses, or in giving birth to Artemis and Apollo. Danae’s father imprisoned her to avoid the birth of a prophesied grandfather-killing son; however she felt about Zeus’s golden rain and the resulting birth of Perseus (alone in her underground casket), at least it got her out again. Only to have King Acrisius insist on marrying her unless her baby boy killed Medusa. And Mary, well. As Savannah says, she didn’t get a choice either. Look at all those Annunciation paintings with her flinching away from Gabriel—maybe it’s not just because angels are scary. Why should we expect any better of elder gods?</p> <p>The only choice for the Chosen, says Savannah, is in how she faces her parenthood. Will Mareva choose to mother as well as birth? Or will she leave the last vestige of human moral education to lil Gregory’s auntie?</p> <p>It’s no coincidence that at this moment of anti-choice horror, Savannah echoes Mareva’s abusive, all-too-human father. And then tries for an extremely ill-considered cuddle, offering to replace the sister that—Mareva now realizes—Savannah murdered.</p> <p>None of this is lil Gregory’s fault, probably. (Savannah, why are you naming the baby after the guy who infected you, and your first ecstatic murder? I mean, I know why, but it’s going to make Erin ask awkward questions.) The babies, like Erin’s scales, seem to be a remix of everything the horrors from beyond the stars have been destroying—do they also carry remixes of the archived memories? Or monstrous programming from PVG, destining them to eventually rise into the universe and harvest more worlds?</p> <p>There’s only one way to find out. And I would entirely understand—within the narrow set of options she has left—any choice Mareva makes.</p> <div style="height:10px" aria-hidden="true" class="wp-block-spacer"></div> <h3 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Anne’s Commentary</strong></h3> <p>When Mar realizes the role she’s been Chosen to fulfil in the post-PVG-apocalypse world, her first comment is “Oh my God. I’m a terraforming engine.”</p> <p>She’s talking to her mother in the dream that follows “squiddo” Gregory’s birth. Her mother objects to “this way of looking at things.” My quibble would be that what the old gods are doing is the opposite of <em>terraforming</em>, the process by which we (the Terrans) might make other planets hospitable for humans. <em>Deterraforming</em> would be more accurate. The invaders are remaking the Earth into a comfortable resort for themselves, complete with endless “parks” of crimson-flowering vines.</p> <p>I wonder if the crimson groundcover is a nod to H. G. Wells and <em>The War of the Worlds</em>, in which the red vegetation of Mars speedily overwhelms our predominantly green landscapes. Be that so or no, Mar’s job is not to remake the Earth but to repopulate it with the creatures for which it’s being so radically remodeled.</p> <p>It’s unlikely that Dream-Mom is actually Mar’s mom, especially after her eyes go “as black as outer space.” Somewhere out there must be an Archivist who’s absorbed Mom’s persona and memories, which would mean the gods could easily make a sort of dream-hologram of her. One who’s got some choice Biblical epithets ready for her blessed daughter. The first epithet comes from Genesis 17:15-16, in which God tells Abraham that his aged wife Sarah will miraculously bear a son, thus becoming “the mother of multitudes [or nations].” It’s also a miracle that Mar bears children, having had her reproductive organs removed after her uterus filled with “eyeball” teratomas.</p> <p>The second epithet is even more slyly appropriate. “Your children will be legion” could refer to Mark 5:9. Jesus is seeking to cast the demon from a possessed man. He asks the invader its name. It replies, “My name is Legion… for we are many.”</p> <p>In a curious real-life parallel, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/elon-musk-children-mothers-ashley-st-clair-grimes-dc7ba05c" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a> published purported text messages from Elon Musk to Ashley St. Clair in which he discussed his mission to father as many children as possible. One message suggests that “To reach legion-level [of children] before the apocalypse, we will need to use surrogates.” Apparently he’s not referring to legions of demons but to the Roman military unit containing thousands of soldiers. Yeah, for a human male, that would take lots of surrogates. The old gods have the advantage on Musk in that their surrogates (like Mar) can each be far more prolific.</p> <p>It may yet be revealed that Mar isn’t the only Mother of Multitudes in service to the gods. I hope she’s not the only one, given the nasty gestation and birthing processes she must endure.</p> <p>Dream-Mom’s third Biblical reference is again from Genesis. In 1:27, God creates man in his own image, male and female alike. In 1:28, he tells his new creatures: “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it.” As if Mar has a choice in the matter. The transformation that I figure was wrought by her very brief PVG infection was to become immortal. Not only does this give her an unlimited window of fertility, it also thwarts her suicidal impulses. Go ahead, Mar, try and kill yourself. You’ll only throw yourself into a liminal state between life and death from which Dr. Savannah will torturously drag you.</p> <p>And the only reason Savannah hesitates to lobotomize you into good behavior is because a “zombie” charge would be more work. But wait, Savannah does have another reason to hold off on the ice pick, and it’s even more terrifying than her first.</p> <p>Savannah wants herself and Mar to be companions in their luxurious isolation. BFFs. What could be more unnaturally natural, given they are sisters? Actual sisters, since Savannah has “archived” Leila, right down to the song Leila would sing to comfort Mar while she spoon-hugged her in bed.</p> <p>I’m not surprised that Mar doesn’t know what to do about this development. On the one hand, Savannah’s a psychopathic monster. On the other hand, among her other absorbed personas is Leila’s. To some extent, she can be Leila, the alienated sister refound. “Inseparable. Forever,” as Savannah whispers.</p> <p>Is this an “Aaaaaw” or an “Eeeeew” moment? Or, my bet, an “Aaaaaeeeew!” one. The looming finale of the story may tell.</p> <hr class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots" /> <p>Next week, fulfill your science requirement at Miskatonic with K.M. Tonso’s “Last Rites.” You can find it in <em><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-madness-of-cthulhu-anthology-volume-one-s-t-joshi/65f68b67a1759bb0?ean=9781781164525&next=t" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Madness of Cthulhu</a>.</em>[end-mark]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://reactormag.com/livestream-like-its-the-end-of-the-world-lucy-snyders-sister-maiden-monster-part-10/">Livestream Like it’s the End of the World: Lucy Snyder’s <i>Sister, Maiden, Monster</i> (Part 10)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://reactormag.com">Reactor</a>.</p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/livestream-like-its-the-end-of-the-world-lucy-snyders-sister-maiden-monster-part-10/">https://reactormag.com/livestream-like-its-the-end-of-the-world-lucy-snyders-sister-maiden-monster-part-10/</a></p><p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="https://reactormag.com/?p=837193">https://reactormag.com/?p=837193</a></p>

The Fifth Season of For All Mankind Premieres in March

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The Fifth Season of For All Mankind Premieres in March

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Published on January 21, 2026

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Happy Valley has grown into a thriving colony with thousands of residents and a base for new missions that will take us even further into the solar system. But with the nations of Earth now demanding law and order on the Red Planet, friction continues to build between the people who live on Mars and their former home. </p></blockquote></figure> <p>Along with Kinnaman, the cast includes Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña, and Wrenn Schmidt. Several new folks are joining up as series regulars: the aforementioned Sean Kaufman (<em>The Summer I Turned Pretty</em>), Mireille Enos (<em>The Killing</em>), Costa Ronin (<em>The Americans</em>), Ruby Cruz (<em>Bottoms</em>), and Ines Asserson (<em>Royalteen</em>). <em>For All Mankind</em> was created by Ronald D. 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Adventures in the Public Domain: On Updating Out-of-Copyright Works

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Wednesday, January 21st, 2026 05:00 pm

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Adventures in the Public Domain: On Updating Out-of-Copyright Works

Should we attempt to bring older works into the modern age?

By James Davis Nicoll

Published on January 21, 2026

Photo: Thom Milkovic [via Unsplash]

Photo: Thom Milkovic [via Unsplash]

Every year, new works come into the public domain (which works those are will depend on the laws of one’s nation). This is true even in the US, where such famous works as The Secret of the Old Clock (the first Nancy Drew mystery), Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon, and (if I have the dates right) Philip Wylie’s Gladiator, the last of which is SF, are newly free. Because by definition these books are all 70+ years old, they are period pieces. This raises the question of whether people taking advantage of their new public domain status should leave them that way.

Some publishers are afraid that if they republish older works, readers will become uncomfortable if they are reminded that the work they are reading is the product of a different era¹. I notice this in particular in SF; many older works are set in a future that is no longer a future. So some publishers decide to update out-of-copyright works to reset the works into another, different future. Because they can, and because there’s no way to stop them.

This seems ~~utterly stupid~~ mildly ill-advised to me, but publishers do it.

One catch with updating older works is that it can be tricky to run down every hint pointing to when a book was written. One could, as Frederik Pohl did in the 1981 edition of Cyril Kornbluth’s Not This August², eliminate details establishing the Commie conquest of America as having happened in 1965, leaving the reader to imagine the events occurred at some point in 1981’s near future. However, the opening passages establish protagonist Billy Justin as being both thirty-seven years old and a Korean War veteran. Assuming Commie-geddon happened in 1982, Justin was born in 1945. He would have been somewhere between five and eight when he served in Korea³, which seems… implausible.

Another catch involves what I like to diplomatically call ~~shameless desecration of a classic~~ not entirely successful creative choices, where in an attempt to bring an old story up to current fashions the writer does the prose equivalent of using a sharpie to draw boobs on the Mona Lisa. Of course, diplomacy prevents me from singling out Fuzzy Nation, Scalzi’s 2011 reboot of Piper’s Little Fuzzy. Instead, I will use as my example the 1967 to 1980 (unauthorized) expurgated edition of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, which by removing without the author’s knowledge certain passages to make the work more acceptable to readers, effectively underlined Bradbury’s point.

For my money, the best answer might be to not update older works at all. Either add ancillary material to help explain the context (the author/the editor/society in general was incredibly racist! And/or sexist! The author was a chain-smoker who was paid by the word, so every time the author took a puff, so did their protagonist! The author’s thousand-dollar-a-day cocaine habit was not the creative asset the author thought it was!⁴). If that’s not sufficient—and I can easily think of works where it won’t be, where removing the objectionable bits would leave not much text beyond the author’s name and some bits of punctuation—maybe it’s best to accept that the work is unsalvageable for commercial publishing. Let Project Gutenberg preserve it as an ebook.

Still, many authors like playing with other authors’ toys, thus the thriving world of fan fiction. Updating isn’t doomed to fail. What seems to work best, as far as I can tell, is tearing the older works down to their studs and rebuilding on those essentials.

The two examples that come to mind are both from the comics world, in part because one of them is the comic book that initially inspired this chain of thought. DC Comics, for example, didn’t update such Golden Age characters as Jay “the Flash” Garrick, Alan “Green Lantern” Scott, and Carter “Hawkman” Hall⁵. They took the core conceits and created new characters around them.

Likewise, that seems to be how Peach Momoko is tackling her Ultimate X-Men. Her characters definitely have resonances with established characters, but they aren’t simply the old versions of the characters wearing Japanese schoolgirl uniforms.

Still, being as I am (very nearly) eligible for Ontario’s Drug Benefit Program, perhaps my views are as much a period piece as the books that just hit the public domain. Are there examples of successful updating? Feel free to recommend them in comments.[end-mark]

I’ve never heard this in connection with fantasy, although surely there are many fantasy stories that are clearly the products of different era. All of those Unknown stories that feature enough smoking to recapitulate the Great London Smog, for example. Now, values dissonance can be an issue with mainstream fiction. Thus the later editions of Nancy Drew, and the first couple of titles for And Then There Were None, which I assume our hosts would prefer I not specify. Outdated language can also be an issue. A university classmate in an SF class took great exception to H.G. Wells’ quaint phrasing, such as The War of the Worlds’ “I grew very weary and irritable with the curate’s perpetual ejaculations (…)”. ︎
Kornbluth, having died in the late 1950s, could not do the editing himself. This seems like a good moment to mention that I consider creators and their duly appointed heirs editing older works to be a project distinct from third parties doing the same. ︎
Delaying the end of the Soviet conquest of the USA past 1987, Justin wouldn’t even have been born when the Korean War kicked off. The logistical challenges of outfitting a fetus for combat service seem intractable, and don’t get me started on the problems involved with recruits who have not been conceived. I am impressed by the implied logistical foresight. ︎
Please do not try to guess who I have in mind. ︎
Which would have involved changing the dates of their first adventures or, I don’t know, having an improbable explanation involving, oh, icebergs to explain how they skipped over a bunch of decades. ︎

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