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Fiction

Read Reactor’s award-winning original short stories, novelettes, and poetry, peruse reprints of classic stories, check out excerpts from new novels, and more!

Excerpts

Cover of Ocean’s Godori by Elaine U. Cho

Read an Excerpt From Elaine U. Cho’s Ocean’s Godori

Becky Chambers meets Firefly in this Korean space opera about a disgraced space pilot struggling...

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The cover of Call Forth a Fox by Markelle Grabo

Read an Excerpt From Markelle Grabo’s Call Forth a Fox

A sapphic twist on the classic fairy tale “Snow White and Rose Red.”

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Cover of Sound the Gong by Joan He

Read an Excerpt From Joan He’s Sound the Gong

The sweeping conclusion to The Kingdom of Three duology.

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Book cover of The Angel of Indian Lake by Stephen Graham Jones

Stephen Graham Jones Says Goodbye to Jade Daniels in The Angel of Indian Lake

Read an excerpt from the final installment of Jones' Indian Lake trilogy.

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Reprints

Some Ways to Retell a Fairy Tale

There's more to “once upon a time” than meets the eye...

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The Woman Carrying a Corpse

We’re excited to reprint “The Woman Carrying a Corpse” by Chi Hui, translated from Chinese...

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The Stars We Raised

We’re delighted to share “The Stars We Raised” by Xiu Xinyu, translated from C...

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A Dream of Electric Mothers

We're excited to reprint "A Dream of Electric Mothers," the 2023 Nebula Award–nominated novelett...

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