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Pixel Scroll 8/23/26 You’re Scrolling Into Another Dimension, The Signpost Up Ahead, The Pixel Scroll

(1) BREVITY. Ancillary Review of Books presents “Gernsback’s Grandchildren; or, A History Of The Hugo Awards In Seventy Sentences” by William Shaw. “A poem composed of one sentence...

Pixel Scroll 9/6/26 If All Pixels Goes To Heaven, Where Do Scrolls Go?

(1) SFF IN TRANSLATION. Rachel S. Cordasco announces that the second issue of Small Planet: The SF in Translation Magazine is now live. Cordasco hopes readers “enjoy the wonderfull...

Pixel Scroll 8/25/26 Go Ask Alice, When She’s Ten Pixels Tall

(1) STAYING FROSTY. To explain one of his plot points in The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon returns “To the Kelvinator Station” at Tragic Magic. ….I deci...

Classics of Science Fiction at LAcon V

By John Hertz:  We’ll discuss three SF Classics at LAcon V, one discussion each.  Come to as many as you like.  You’ll be welcome to join in. I’m still with “A classic is a work th...

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: July 2026

This month's recommendations are loosely based around themes of technology and resistance... The post Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: July 2026 appeared first on Reactor.

What's happening at New York's libraries this August

Brooklyn Public Library's Central Branch N.K. Jemisin leads a workshop in the Bronx and more. [ more › ]

Pixel Scroll 8/12/26 I Tell Stories; That Doesn’t Mean They’re True, Does It?

(1) BUTLER BOOK IS BACK. The Huntington in Pasadena, CA will host “Reading Octavia E. Butler’s ‘Lost’ Novel” on September 2 from 6-8 p.m. Attendees will be able to get Butler’s Sur...

“Wishes and Fears,” by Caleb Crain

It was the end of the world, and a number of us had gathered in a large, abandoned house.

рџ“љ Emerging voices in fiction

The Center for Fiction reveals the First Novel Prize longlist

People & Publishing Roundup, August 2026

MILESTONES KUZHALI MANICKAVEL is now represented by Michael Curry at Donald Maass Literary Agency. KATH RICHARDS is now represented by Bethany Weaver at Weaver Literary Agency. Fa...

Pixel Scroll 7/13/26 The Discworld Turned Upside Down

(1) WAYWARD WORMHOLE WRAPUP. [Item by Cat Rambo.] Thank you to The Wayward Wormhole Barbados attendees. Once in a while, elements come together in a way that creates an epochal shi...

Issue 787 Table of Contents, August 2026

The August 2026 Locus magazine, issue #787, has interviews with Chloe Gong and James Patrick Kelly, and a spotlight on authors Anand Gandhi & Zain Memon and the Maya Universe....

Pixel Scroll 8/24/26 That Is Not Filed Which Can Unscrolling Lie; And With Strange Pixels, Even Death May Die

(1) ALPHA AND OMEGA MEN. “The Man Who Saw Humanity From Two Billion Years Away” – Olaf Stapledon is profiled in The MIT Press Reader. … Stapledon’s imagination is profuse. He can b...

SF Stories I’m Reading: ARTHUR C. CLARKE “Out of the Sun.”

ARTHUR C. CLARKE “Out of the Sun.” First published in If, February 1958. Collected in The Other Side of the Sky (Harcourt, Brace & Co., hardcover, 1958). Reprinted in The Mammo...

People & Publishing Roundup, July 2026

MILESTONES ELEANNA CASTROIANNI is now represented by Arley Sorg of kt literary. ERIN LATIMER, CORAL ALEJANDRA MOORE, and J.C. SNOW are now represented by JABberwocky Literary Agen...

Top 10 Stories for August 2026

The presentation of the Hugo Awards at LAcon V was the month’s top story, as it ought to be. However, the second biggest story came from the opposite end of the feels spectrum, wit...

Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: June 2026

Ten great SFF stories featuring fox spirits, dystopian puppets, and TEETH The post Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: June 2026 appeared first on Reactor.

The Best International Fiction of the Month: September 2026

Here are three newly translated works of fiction from across the globe, along with one classic work of true crime (as Capote would say, a “nonfiction novel”). Keep an eye on the si...

Horror Beat: Tor NIGHTFIRE celebrated its 5th anniversary by handing out free horror books at the Brooklyn Central Libra...

Pixel Scroll 7/23/26 And The Scroll Comes Up Like Godstalk Outer Pixel ‘Crost The Bay

(1) THE ANSWER, MY FRIEND. Dean Wesley Smith wants readers to know “Why Am I So Negative About Traditional Book Publishing?” …Now, here in 2026, traditional publishing will buy all...

Pixel Scroll 8/8/26 For Tuppence More, Up Scrolls The Pixel!

(1) WORLD FANTASY AWARD BALLOT EXPLANATION. The reason for removing The Essential Patricia McKillip from the Collections category, according the award administrator Peter Dennis Pa...

Pixel Scroll 8/16/26 When The Pixel-Scrolley’s Done, When The Hugo’s Lost And Won

(1) L. W. CURREY BOOKSELLER ROBBED AGAIN. The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) reports genre specialty book dealer L. W. Currey has suffered another theft – t...

Pixel Scroll 8/19/26 It’s An Illiad Wind That Blows No Good

(1) READERLESS DIGESTION. Brian Keene’s blog for “8/18/26” ends with a provocative question: …You probably remember how the generative AI companies — to get around pesky authors co...

Fanzine Lounge? What Goes On There???

By Chris Garcia: For years, Worldcons (and a buncha other cons) have had Fanzine Lounges, areas where fanzinistas gather to chat, swap zines, read, and generally do the things that...