Vajra Chandrasekera's Rakesfall recently received the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction. In this new interview, Senior Books Editor Christina Orlando asks him about genre boundaries, violence in fiction, and how Le Guin has inspired his writing.
Author Elizabeth Broadbent writes "[t]he past is our wound, and the past is our anchor." Here are five southern gothic stories that explore generational trauma and inescapable connections to the past.
Protagonists don't have to be likable, but you need to keep readers from rejecting them completely... James Davis Nicoll offers five strategies for building a story around deeply problematic main characters.
Paul Verhoeven's Total Recall shouldn't really work, but this weird, campy, violent adaptation of a very short Philip K. Dick story is SO MUCH FUN. Let's talk Schwarzenegger, special effects, and Mars!
Vince Gilligan's new show Pluribus follows the only unhappy woman in an otherwise utopian hive mind. If you haven't watched it yet, consider this a chance to start some really excellent television. When you come back with questions, Reactor's got you covered.
Predator: Badlands is a buddy comedy, a found family story, a story about a DEATH PLANET, and proof that a Predator movie can be whatever we want it to be (except bloodless).
In a future where people can travel back in time and do anything they want without consequences, one disgruntled young man decides to visit his parents two years earlier.
