Jenny Hamilton

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.

Jul 3, 2024 | reactormag.com | Jenny Hamilton

I love to read about complicity. I would crawl across broken glass or do my most hated chore (vacuuming) if at the end of it I got to read about humans grappling with our culpability in unjust systems. The first science fiction book I remember reading and understanding as science fiction was Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, closely followed by Speaker for the Dead and Ender’s Shadow, and that series set a lifelong template for my SF consumption. They are stories about complicity chiefly.

Jul 2, 2024 | reactormag.com | Jenny Hamilton

Apart from being one of the most inventive and interesting science fiction writers working, Aliette de Bodard also represents a stirring testament to the power and importance of SFF’s short fiction ecosystem. Her short stories and novellas have been published across a dizzying number of outlets, establishing universes of long standing whose development can be traced across decades.