Margaret Killjoy - Reactor

Margaret Killjoy - Reactor

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Collection of 28 book covers highlighting SFF titles publishing in July and August 2025 with independent presses

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Indie Press Spotlight

Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025

By Tobias Carroll

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Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books for Hot Commie Summer

By Alex Brown

July 7, 2025

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Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books About Bad-Ass Women

By Alex Brown

March 11, 2025

Collection of 38 covers of upcoming SFF releases from indie publishers

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Indie Press Spotlight

Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for September and October 2024

By Tobias Carroll

September 20, 2024

Cover of The Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy

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Read an Excerpt From Margaret Killjoy’s The Sapling Cage

By Margaret Killjoy

September 11, 2024

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Aiki Mira

The Stories in Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity Showcase a Spectrum of Queer Experiences

By Reactor

June 4, 2024

Detail from the cover of Escaping Exodus

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Backlist Bonanza

Backlist Bonanaza: 5 Underrated Books About Leaving Home

By Alex Brown

March 19, 2024

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Horror

Five Chilling Horror Novellas to Read This Fall

By James Davis Nicoll

October 24, 2022

A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy

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Excerpts

Read an Excerpt From Margaret Killjoy’s A Country of Ghosts

By Margaret Killjoy

November 23, 2021

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book recommendations

Anti-Doorstoppers: 10 Great SFF Novellas and Novelettes

By Alex Brown

August 23, 2021

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book recommendations

Our Favorite LGBTQ+ Reads of the Past Year

By Stubby the Rocket

June 17, 2019

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Happy Pride Month! Download These 4 Free LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi/Fantasy Novellas Before June 8!

By Tor.com

June 4, 2019

“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.”

William Gibson, Neuromancer

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