Hello, book people! I am the book content editor for Reactor Mag and I'm looking for 2026 sci-fi, fantasy, horror, romantasy, and speculative books coming out in the second half of the year! If you have an adult or YA SFF/H book out July-Dec (or publicist), share the link/info here!
american military leadership is acting in ways previously only seen in the first act of a kaiju film
Many happy returns, Joyce. 🎂🎁
You're welcome 😊
"Indonesia stood out this year, with local titles competing directly with Korean dramas at the top of the premium VOD rankings. This is a meaningful shift that reflects improving content quality, stronger distribution and rising audience confidence in local storytelling."
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
As a SEA person, I'm today years old when I heard about the origin of the word lascar. The Indonesian version, laskar, simply means soldiers.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lascar
In this week's episode @talkscaredpod.bsky.social & @agathaandrews.bsky.social talk about Wuthering Heights (the book). Comparisons to William Golding's Lord of the Flies, racial themes, and speculations on the upcoming movie. It was fun!
open.spotify.com/episode/1TPf...
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
An illustration of Melkor, a dark-haired man with tall and pointy crown, holding a black cat with golden eyes and a golden collar.
Volcanic stone reliefs of two cats sitting in loaf positions face to face, their tails curled on the sides of their bodies. The reliefs are from the gallery wall of Borobudur Temple in Central Java.
A bird's eye view of Borobudur Temple, a large Buddhist temple with multiple galleries and a large stupa at the top, surrounded by smaller stupas. The temple has a mandala shape when viewed from above.
A photograph of Mendut Temple, a small temple with platformed terrace and two beasts at the bottom of the staircase.
Cat reliefs "Tisya" and "Pusya" on Borobudur Temple and a relief of a cat with prayer beads on Mendut Temple (both in Central Java) share the theme of deception in their roles; similar to Tevildo, a fay-cat and the early version of Sauron. 🧵1/3
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday
🎨: Lída Holubová
That last part was directed at foreign journalists, btw.
The Z!onist president would rather spend tax money on this than on rebuilding flood-affected areas, education, and many, many more urgent matters.
And I'll say it again: 🇮🇩 is not a Muslim nation. Muslims are the majority here, that's all.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
i've been saying this like a broken record, but the reason i grew up loving reading and then started writing is because reading was inexpensive and my family was poor. it was a rare, affordable form of entertainment. the library in conjunction with mmpbs made it possible.
Doesn't matter how many stories you read on this, it's freshly harrowing each time.
BBC News headlines: Education School caterers 'confident' of meat Missing children data 'worrying'
Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.
Heaven help me if I ever meet someone in person who claims to be an AI author. I have a glass face. I cannot pretend. I will do my trademark cackle and then just snicker uncontrollably for a while. Do you let the plagiarism robot kiss your lover? Look at sunsets for you? Why are you even alive?
The reason is to give the second pen name extra wings to fly with.
Yesterday I submitted a manuscript under the second pen name. That was the actual reason I created an email account & a social media account. It's the story set in 1982, rewritten and given a new plot.
The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.
Today is the last day for this very popular #Monster #Romance and #ErotIva eBook bundle. It includes my #spicy #scifi book Alien Exploration. It is usually $4.99 but you can snag it and 39 others in the Monster bundle for only $40. Only 2 days left!
itch.io/b/3479/monst...
#BookSky 💙📚📦🚀🌶️
Lot's of discussions on AI today.
But maybe it could help generate ideas for stories? I have several notebooks filled with ideas. Ideas are not the problem. It's writing a great story that takes time.
But maybe it could be used to make an outline of the story from an idea?
Nope. Hell no.
Thank you. 🩷
Deep-sea robots hunting for "dark oxygen," large amounts of the gas from a region in the ocean that's too deep for sunlight to power photosynthesis. The team have developed a suite of instruments that they’ll use to probe the sea floor.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... (paywalled)
#deepseamining 🧪 🌊 🦑
Paid for something using QRIS* for the first time.
*Quick Response Code Indonesia Standard, a QR code payment system, aimed to integrate all non-cash payment methods in Indonesia.
This week:
Mon:
Walked a total of a kilometer at night to buy a new mouse because the old one finally broke.
Wed:
Slipped and fell in the rain, was reminded of it in the afternoon when my hip hurt.
Made a social media account for the second pen name.
Cool! My short story “The Skies Are Red” from the excellent anthology ON FIRE AND UNDER WATER was named one of “Robert Lopresti’s Best Short Mysteries of the Year (2025),” on SleuthSayers. Thank you, Rob!
www.sleuthsayers.org/2026/01/the-...
A South Korean court has ruled that the 2024 imposition of martial law by then-President Yoon Suk Yeol constituted an act of rebellion as it sentenced his prime minister to 23 years in prison for his involvement.
Tfw you're honing your body horror writing skills & someone said they enjoy your body horror stories.
Seconding this. Geocities was so popular that they couldn't keep up with demand at first.
LiveJournal had to close off applications for a year because folks overwhelmed them
Something Awful had to start charging for forum access to deal with the load.
And so on.
I've commissioned art a couple of times from the first artist. They work pretty fast and the art is always so pretty.
