Introducing Senior Books Editor Christina Orlando's 30 most anticipated books for 2026!! We're curating the science fiction, fantasy, and horror reads you absolutely can't miss from the first half of the year. Featuring Reactor favorites like Kylie Lee Baker and Fonda Lee, plus debut authors like Max Francis and Cameron Sullivan. Come tell us what books you're picking up first!
Depending on where you live, this time of year can feel relentlessly cold and dark. Lish McBride offers some feel-good reading recs to help make you smile, or maybe snort, and remember that joy exists.
We're catching up on the end of last year with the inimitable Jo Walton, whose penultimate reading list for 2025 includes some classic heists and thievery, romance, magic, poetry and poets, and more!
Charlie Jane Anders talks with fellow authors Karen Russell, Mia Tsai, Seth Haddon, and Yiming Ma about the wave of recent books asking incisive questions about the way memories can be politicized, policed, stolen, and shared...
The Star Trek universe has been interested in Starfleet Academy since the 1980s. So how does the show follow the first Starfleet cadets of the 32nd century? Keith R. A. DeCandido reviews the premiere of the brand-new series, which stars Holly Hunter, Paul Giamatti, Robert Picardo, and Oded Fehr!
Indrapramit Das, author of The Devourers, reflects on Pluribus, the transformation–of people, countries, and art–without consent, and why we hate the hivemind just as much as Carol.
Spielberg's adaptation of Philip K. Dick's Minority Report remains deeply unsettling (in both expected and unexpected ways) in its predictions about near-future law enforcement, privacy, power, and corruption. Let's discuss!
