Asa West spent years trying to find a strange fantasy film she'd glimpsed as a child. Finally tracking it down was a revelation, not just about the film itself, but about how weird, ambitious art falls in and out of fashion.
Announcing... The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of 2025 Poll!!!
Books! Movies! TV shows! Book covers! Short fiction! More!! Reactor Magazine wants to know your favorites from the year, and we can't wait to share the results.
Here in the Northeastern US, late autumn is upon us, so here are six books that perfectly capture the chill and quiet of the changing season, from ghostly and gothic tales to meditations on movies and mortality 🍁
Saturn is currently the best place to set your space opera, according to science! It's got those gorgeous rings, and it also has a TON OF MOONS. James Davis Nicoll offers wordlbuilding tips for Saturn-based stories!
We're talking about history and myth-making in Ada Palmer's Inventing the Renaissance–what rethinking the past can tell us about the present, as well as the fascinating speculative questions we find there.
Reject lamenting counterculture, embrace furious optimism: Matthew Byrd on how Pluribus's take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) suits a modern era with nothing to lose.
"For Good is not here for nuance. It is here for strangely lit spectacle, for beautifully detailed costumes, and odd flashback choices, and often peculiar stagings of beloved songs, and for eventually winding up in the one place that it works well: The space between Elphaba and Glinda."
Check out Molly Templeton's review of Wicked: For Good now!
Transformed by a broad-spread fungal infection that connects humans with nature, one woman feels closer to the world than ever, but further from the people she loves the most...
