One price of free speech is eternal humility, recognizing that none of us is immune to becoming a tool of censorship if we fail to recognize its manipulative tactics. The post Tools for Thinkin...
When it comes to outlining vs. improvising, I’ve found that we all do the same steps in a different order. Many writing conversations (whether on panels, in blog posts, etc.) discuss a plotter ...
https://reactormag.com/the-plotter-vs-pantser-writing-divide-has-been-exaggerated/
When it comes to outlining vs. improvising, I’ve found that we all do the same steps in a different order. Many writing conversations (whether on panels, in blog posts, etc.) discuss a plotter ...
https://reactormag.com/the-plotter-vs-pantser-divide-has-been-exaggerated/
What if citizenship wasn’t something we’re born with, but something we choose when we grow up? In the Terra Ignota future, giant nations called “Hives” are equally distributed all around ...
https://reactormag.com/writing-the-science-fiction-future-of-global-politics/
A crisis is exhausting on every level, emotional especially, so following up on Jo Walton’s great post on Books in Which No Bad Things Happen, here are some good manga and anime where no bad th...
https://reactormag.com/manga-and-anime-in-which-nothing-bad-happens/
A crisis is exhausting on every level, emotional especially, so following up on Jo Walton’s great post on Books in Which No Bad Things Happen, here are some good manga and anime where no bad th...
https://reactormag.com/manga-and-anime-in-which-no-bad-things-happen/
Have you ever been walking along and felt the creepy, unsettling feeling that something was watching you? You may have met Betobeto-san, an invisible yōkai, or folklore creature, who follows alo...
https://reactormag.com/chronicling-japanese-folklore-the-ghosts-and-monsters-of-shigeru-mizuki/
What if citizenship wasn’t something we’re born with, but something we choose when we grow up? In the Terra Ignota future, giant nations called “Hives” are equally distributed all around ...
https://reactormag.com/writing-the-distant-future-of-global-politics/
The more I talk to other authors about craft the clearer it is that novelists use a huge range of different planning styles. People talk about “Planners” vs. “Pantsers,” i.e., people who ...
https://reactormag.com/other-story-ingredients-beyond-world-characters-and-plot/
What if citizenship wasn’t something we’re born with, but something we choose when we grow up? In the Terra Ignota future, giant nations called “Hives” are equally distributed all around ...
https://reactormag.com/writing-a-future-in-which-you-choose-your-own-nation/
Science fiction and fantasy fans don’t just like reading about other, better worlds—we like working to make this world better, too. That’s been proved to me over and over during the past fi...
https://reactormag.com/help-refugees-through-science-fiction/
Book 2 in the Terra Ignotta series. In a future in which no one living can remember an actual war… a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. The post Seven Surrenders appea...
https://reactormag.com/excerpts-seven-surrenders-ada-palmer/
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer—a s...
https://reactormag.com/excerpts-ada-palmer-too-like-the-lightning-chapter-4/
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer—a s...
https://reactormag.com/excerpts-ada-palmer-too-like-the-lightning-chapter-3/
Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer—a s...
https://reactormag.com/excerpts-ada-palmer-too-like-the-lightning-chapters-1-and-2/
One of the great pleasures of historical fiction is comparing how authors make different stories out of the same events. The Wars of The Roses (~1455 to 1487) furnish enough political twists, abr...
Have you ever been walking along and felt the creepy, unsettling feeling that something was watching you? You met Betobeto-san, an invisible yōkai, or folklore creature, who follows along behind...
https://reactormag.com/japans-folklore-chronicler-shigeru-mizuki-1922-2015/
Today I will take on the unsurprising thesis that Love’s Labour’s Lost is a better play than Pericles Prince of Tyre. The very fact that thesis does not surprise us is itself important, sin...
https://reactormag.com/when-less-plot-is-more-play-loves-labours-lost-vs-pericles-prince-of-tyre/
Most genre fans who know about the 2012 BBC television film series The Hollow Crown know it because of its big name cast: Jeremy Irons, Tom Hiddleston, John Hurt, Patrick Stewart, Ben Whishaw (Cl...
https://reactormag.com/historical-shakespeare-age-of-netflix/
What qualities make a comic or graphic novel linger in the genre’s memory? Which comics of 2000-2014 will we still be reading and discussing in 2064? This was the subject of a panel at the rece...
The recent fuss about the new female Thor, combined with the fact that Disney owns Marvel Entertainment, has sparked jokes about whether this makes Thor a Disney Princess. Disney says the Marvel ...
https://reactormag.com/does-thor-qualify-as-a-disney-princess/
There was a Borgia boom in 2011 when, aiming to capitalize on the commercial success of The Tudors, the television world realized there was one obvious way to up the ante. Not one but two complet...
https://reactormag.com/how-history-can-be-used-in-fiction-the-borgias-vs-borgia-faith-and-fear/
Loki here, wishing you a very fine last morning the world will ever see! The heavy sleepers among you may have missed things, but, as prophesied, when dawn broke on this lovely 22nd of February 2...
https://reactormag.com/happy-ragnarok-time-to-choose-a-side/
A big, fat short story anthology is the perfect solution when I’m torn between wanting short bites of fiction that I can squeeze in between tasks, and wanting my reading pleasure to never end. ...
https://reactormag.com/japans-manga-contributions-to-weird-horror-short-stories/