The 2024 edition of Some of the Best From Reactor is out today! This bundle features just some of our favorites from the thirty-five original stories published on Reactor in the past year.
Of course, you can always read the selected stories—and all other Reactor stories—for free whenever you’d like! To make it even easier to catch up, we’ve gathered all our stories from 2024 in one convenient post.
Thank you to all the authors, editors, illustrators, art directors and copy editors who contributed their talent, passion, and skill to Reactor’s short fiction program this year. And a huge thank you to our readers! See you in 2025!
Some of the Best from Reactor: 2024 Edition
Table of Contents
“You Don’t Belong Where You Don’t Belong” by Kemi Ashing-Giwa
“The Plasticity of Being” by Renan Bernardo
“Ace Up Her Sleeve” by Genoveva Dimova
“Have You Eaten?” by Sarah Gailey
“Everybody Is in the Place” by Emma J. Gibbon
“I’m Not Disappointed Just Mad AKA The Heaviest Couch in the Known Universe” by Daryl Gregory
“A Well-Fed Companion” by Congyun “Mu Ming” Gu
“The River Judge” by S.L. Huang
“Parthenogenesis” by Stephen Graham Jones
“In the Moon’s House” by Mary Robinette Kowal
“Evan: A Remainder” by Jordan Kurella
“The V*mpire” by P H Lee
“Median” by Kelly Robson
“The Gulmohar of Mehranpur” by Amal Singh
“Also, the Cat” by Rachel Swirsky
“Songs of the Snow Whale” by K.A. Teryna
“Other Kelly” by Genevieve Valentine
“I’ll Miss Myself” by John Wiswell
“Before the Forest” by Kell Woods
*Amazon stopped supporting MOBI in August 2022, but both EPUB and PDF are now Kindle-compatible file types. Please visit Amazon for more information, details on how to send these files to your Kindle and additional Kindle support.
(Thank you, @punsive1, for the question about MOBI!)
I can convert it, but a Mobi version would be nice!
Thank You. Extra bonus points for having a Stephen Graham Jones tale among all the other great stories.
I will share this on my Bluesky account, do you have one yet? It’s the fastest growing and friendliest social media site there is.
No matter how you celebrate, I hope you will have Peace, Love and Kindness. Don’t let things out of your control drive a wedge between you and those you love, please. Our time here is so short, so smile and hug those you care about.
The Bluesky account is @reactorsff.bsky.social! <3 Thank you for your kind words, and wishing the same to you as well
The epub file is 80MB. Send to Kindle balks if a file is bigger than 50MB. Do you have any suggestions?
Thanks
The Send to Kindle web version has a file size limit of 200 MB. https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle
Same issue, and no way to compress the .pdf or convert the .epub version.
My best recommendation for now is to download the individual ebook bundles (the names of which are in no way standardized, BTW). That will get you through Aug, with “the final 2024 bundles coming in the new year!”
You’d think someone at the publisher would’ve have tested this method of delivering to Kindle *before* advertising it, eh?
Very excited! Somehow missed the 2023 edition
Also have previous editions on a no-long-extant Kindle, so if someone has a link to those, I would be very grateful. Would love to revisit some favorite stories.
Suggestion: Download Calibre (book software) and you won’t have those problems again. I’ve been using it for years!
So this file bounced when I tried Send to Kindle. I opened it up in Calibre and it uses a LOT of jpegs that are ballooning up the file size. When adding all the various author files together the covers (some are 2-3MB) are way too big. I started to pick through the file and downsize the jpegs but I have my own stuff to do today. Can someone at Reactor fix this or hire me to do it? :)
I’ve been trying to download this for months, but it keeps failing after a few seconds – can you check the file?