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Dec 11, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Stefan Raets
Have the kids finally found a competent adult, or someone very good at pretending to be one? Let’s find out. The parents of all the vanished kids have all gathered and are approached by one of the Security Droids. It has been sent by “the Supervisor,” who has instructed the parents that their children have exited the Barrier and that there is nothing more that can be done. The parents are furious, but they are warned that they may not exit the Barrier.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Stefan Raets
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Stefan Raets
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Stefan Raets
We’re thrilled to share a bonus excerpt from august clarke’s Metal from Heaven, a caustic, dizzying eco-fantasy that addresses labor politics, corporate greed, and the relentless grind of capitalism, while also embodying a visceral lesbian revenge quest against the people and institutions who control and oppress the helpless—publishing with Erewhon Books on October 22nd. If you missed the first excerpt, you can find it here!He who controls ichorite controls the world.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Margaret Killjoy |Stefan Raets
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy, a powerful story of trans witchcraft publishing with the Feminist Press at CUNY on September 24th. Lorel has always dreamed of becoming a witch: learning magic, fighting monsters, and exploring the world beyond the small town where she and her mother run the stables. Even though a strange plague is killing the trees in the Kingdom of Cekon and witches are being blamed for it, Lorel wants nothing more than to join them.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Stefan Raets
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from august clarke’s Metal from Heaven, a caustic, dizzying eco-fantasy that addresses labor politics, corporate greed, and the relentless grind of capitalism, while also embodying a visceral lesbian revenge quest against the people and institutions who control and oppress the helpless—publishing with Erewhon Books on October 22nd. He who controls ichorite controls the world.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Stefan Raets |O.O. Sangoyomi
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from Masquerade, a new historical novel by O.O. Sangoyomi—publishing with Forge Books on July 2nd. Òdòdó’s hometown of Timbuktu has been conquered by the warrior king of Yorùbáland, and living conditions for the women in her blacksmith guild, who were already shunned as social pariahs, grow even worse. Then Òdòdó is abducted.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Stefan Raets
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Natasha Pulley |Stefan Raets
We’re thrilled to share an excerpt from The Mars House by Natasha Pulley, a queer science fiction novel about a marriage of convenience between a Mars politician and an Earth refugee—out from Bloomsbury on March 19. In the wake of an environmental catastrophe, January, once a principal in London’s Royal Ballet, has become a refugee in Tharsis, the terraformed colony on Mars.
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Jan 23, 2024 | 
reactormag.com | Stefan Raets |Emmet Asher-Perrin |Chris Lough |Jonathan Thornton |Keith DeCandido
The cover says it’s a picture book for “people of all sizes,” and I wish there were more of those, honestly. We are reading Where’s My Cow? through the vantage point of Young Sam and his father (less young Sam). The story begins with the similar framing we’re given in Thud! explaining that Sam Vimes is sure to be home at six o’clock every evening to read Sam his book.
