Jenny Hamilton

1 month ago | strangehorizons.com | Vivian Wagner |M.C. Childs |Jenny Hamilton |Em Setzer

Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell is an innovative science fiction novel that explores race, identity, and trauma in new and unexpected ways. It follows its characters after all the white people in the United States abruptly commit suicide, in what the novel refers to simply as “the event.” Those left behind after the event attempt to rebuild the world and their communities, and the novel describes these efforts on both personal and cultural levels.

Mar 5, 2025 | reactormag.com | Jenny Hamilton

When does a genre literary trope cross the threshold into marketing trend?

Jan 27, 2025 | reactormag.com | Jenny Hamilton

I am a recovering TV hater. When I was a kid, my parents allowed us very little TV, so I made a snooty virtue of necessity and proclaimed that TV rots your brain and I didn’t want any anyway. This was a lie easily disprovable by the ferocity of my commitment to the soap opera Guiding Light, but I clung to it until college, when the show Firefly (I know, I know) slammed into me like a Mack truck.

Oct 31, 2024 | reactormag.com | Jenny Hamilton

Nadia El-Fassi’s debut romance, Best Hex Ever, follows kitchen witch Dina and museum curator Scott through a whirlwind weekend in which they can’t deny their attraction to each other. There’s just one problem: Dina was inadvertently hexed in college by an angry ex-girlfriend. Any time she experiences romantic love, the object of her affections gets hurt.

Aug 13, 2024 | reactormag.com | Jenny Hamilton

When you are living in the proverbial interesting times, the easiest and worst thing to do is nothing. The number of my fears is uncountable, and the scope of my ability to prevent those fears from coming to pass if they haven’t yet, or continuing to happen if they have, is very small. I am just one rickety lady with a mental illness and a lot of books. I was not designed to withstand a nonstop firehose of situations.