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Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards
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Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards

News Locus Awards Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards Congratulations to the finalists! By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 13, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share Locus announced the Top Ten Finalists by category for the 2025 Locus Awards. The results came from open voting by readers from February 1 to April 1. Winners will be announced May 30, 2026, at the Locus Awards Ceremony in downtown Berkeley, California, which is held in partnership with the Bay Area Book Festival. Read on for the full list of recipients. Congratulations to all the finalists! Science Fiction Novels The Folded Sky, Elizabeth Bear (Saga; Gollancz) Picks & Shovels, Cory Doctorow (Ad Astra; Tor) Notes from a Regicide, Isaac Fellman (Tor)   When We Were Real, Daryl Gregory (Saga)   All That We See or Seem, Ken Liu (Saga; Ad Astra)   Where the Axe Is Buried, Ray Nayler (MCD; Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Slow Gods, Claire North (Orbit US; Orbit UK)   Death of the Author, Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz)   The Shattering Peace, John Scalzi (Tor; Tor UK)   Shroud, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Tor UK; Orbit US)   Fantasy Novels The Devils, Joe Abercrombie (Tor; Gollancz)   The Tomb of Dragons, Katherine Addison (Tor; Solaris UK)   Lessons in Magic and Disaster, Charlie Jane Anders (Tor; Titan UK)   A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett (Del Rey; Hodderscape)   The Everlasting, Alix E. Harrow (Tor; Tor UK)   The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson (Orbit US; Hodderscape)   Hemlock & Silver, T. Kingfisher (Tor; Tor UK)   Katabasis, R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager; Harper Voyager UK)   The Incandescent, Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK)   Queen Demon, Martha Wells (Tor) Horror Novels The Possession of Alba Díaz, Isabel Cañas (Berkley; Solaris UK)   Spread Me, Sarah Gailey (Nightfire)   King Sorrow, Joe Hill (Morrow; Headline UK)   The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK)   The Library at Hellebore, Cassandra Khaw (Nightfire; Titan UK)   Never Flinch, Stephen King (Scribner, Hodder & Stoughton UK)   The Bewitching, Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Del Rey; Arcadia UK)   It Was Her House First, Cherie Priest (Poisoned Pen)   The Crimson Road, A.G. Slatter (Titan UK)   The Staircase in the Woods, Chuck Wendig (Del Rey; Del Rey UK)   Young Adult Novels The Singular Life of Aria Patel, Samira Ahmed (Little, Brown; Atom UK) [SF]   Make Me a Monster, Kalynn Bayron (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H]   Costumes for Time Travelers, A.R. Capetta (Candlewick; Walker UK) [F]   The Executioners Three, Susan Dennard (Tor Teen; Daphne UK) [H]   The Underwood Tapes, Amanda DeWitt (Peachtree Teen) [H]   Among Ghosts, Rachel Hartman (Random House) [F]   Sky on Fire, E.K. Johnston (Dutton) [F]   Starstrike, Yoon Ha Lee (Delacorte; Solaris UK) [SF]   I Am Not Jessica Chen, Ann Liang (Harper) [F]   They Bloom at Night, Trang Thanh Tran (Bloomsbury US; Bloomsbury UK) [H]   First Novels A Song of Legends Lost, M.H. Ayinde (Orbit UK; Saga) [F]   Red Rabbit Ghost, Jen Julian (Run For It) [H]   When Devils Sing, Xan Kaur (Holt; First Ink UK) [H]   Awake in the Floating City, Susanna Kwan (Pantheon; Simon & Schuster UK) [SF]   Luminous, Silvia Park (Simon & Schuster; Magpie) [SF]   Archive of Unknown Universes, Ruben Reyes Jr. (Mariner; Footnote UK) [SF]   North Sun, Or The Voyage of the Whaleship Esther, Ethan Rutherford (A Strange Object) [H]   Blob, Maggie Su (Harper; Sceptre UK) [F]   Song of Spores, Bogi Takács (Broken Eye) [SF]   Sour Cherry, Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire UK) [F]   Translated Novel On the Calculation of Volume III, Solvej Balle, tr. Sophia Hersi Smith & Jennifer Russell (New Directions; Faber & Faber) [SF]   The Unworthy, Agustina Bazterrica, tr. Sarah Moses (Scribner; Pushkin UK) [H]   The Midnight Shift, Cheon Seon-Ran, tr. Gene Png (Bloomsbury UK; Bloomsbury US) [H]   Red Sword, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Honford Star) [SF]   The Midnight Timetable, Bora Chung, tr. Anton Hur (Algonquin) [H]   Ice, Jacek Dukaj, tr. Ursula Phillips (Head of Zeus) [SF]   Blood for the Undying Throne, Sung-il Kim, tr. Anton Hur (Tor) [F]   Vanishing World, Sayaka Murata, tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove; Granta UK) [SF]   Dengue Boy, Michel Nieva, tr. Rahul Bery (Astra House; Serpent’s Tail) [SF]   The Wax Child, Olga Ravn, tr. Martin Aitken (New Directions; Viking UK) [F]   Novellas The Orb of Cairado, Katherine Addison (Subterranean)   The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom)   What Stalks the Deep, T. Kingfisher (Nightfire)   Cinder House, Freya Marske (Tordotcom)   Automatic Noodle, Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom)   Making History, K.J. Parker (Tordotcom)   Psychopomp & Circumstance, Eden Royce (Tordotcom)   Lives of Bitter Rain, Adrian Tchaikovsky (Head of Zeus)   A Mouthful of Dust, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)   Murder by Memory, Olivia Waite (Tordotcom)   Novelettes “The Witch and the Wyrm,” Elizabeth Bear (Reactor 2/26/25) “Barnacle,” Kate Elliott (Reactor 11/5/25) “Uncertain Sons,” Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons) “We Begin Where Infinity Ends,” Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25) “The Tin Man’s Ghost,” Ray Nayler (Asimov’s 5-6/25) “The Millay Illusion,” Sarah Pinsker (Uncanny 11-12/25) “When He Calls Your Name,” Catherynne M. Valente (Uncanny 7-8/25) “The Twenty-One Second God,” Peter Watts (Lightspeed 6/25) “Wolf Moon, Antler Moon,” A.C. Wise (Reactor 1/13/25) “Phantom View,” John Wiswell (Reactor 10/22/25) Short Stories “Secret Night,” Nathan Ballingrud (Night & Day) “In the Halls of the Makeshift King”, Tobias S. Buckell (Asimov’s 7-8/25) “In My Country,” Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25) “Wire Mother,” Isabel J. Kim (Clarkesworld 10/25) “The Shape of Stones,” Hildur Knútsdóttir (Reactor 3/12/25) “Courtney Lovecraft’s Book of the Dead,” Sam J. Miller (Nightmare 10/25) “Because I Held His Name Like a Key,” Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25) “Landline,” Kelly Robson (Reactor 3/5/25) “Missing Helen,” Tia Tashiro (Clarkesworld 7/25) “Woolly,” Carrie Vaughn (Asimov’s 5-6/25) Anthology The Black Fantastic, andré m. carrington, ed. (Library of America)   Night & Day, Ellen Datlow, ed. (Saga)   Storyteller: A Tanith Lee Tribute Anthology, Julie C. Day, Carina Bissett & Craig Laurance Gidney, eds. (Essential Dreams)   The End of the World As We Know It, Christopher Golden & Brian Keene, eds. (Gallery)   We Will Rise Again, Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz & Malka Older, eds. (Saga)   Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity, Lee Mandelo, ed. (Erewhon)   The Best Weird Fiction of the Year: Volume 1, Michael Kelly, ed. (Undertow)   Year’s Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction: Volume Three, Stephen Kotowych, ed. (Ansible) Amazon The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2025, Nnedi Okorafor & John Joseph Adams, eds. (Mariner)   As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, Terese Mason Pierre, ed. (Spiderline)   Collection Call and Response, Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)   Moon Songs, Carol Emshwiller (Third Man)   Letters from an Imaginary Country, Theodora Goss (Tachyon)   Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Thomas Ha (Undertow)   Bright Dead Star, Caitlín R. Kiernan (Subterranean)   The Essential Patricia A. McKillip, Patricia A. McKillip (Tachyon)   One Message Remains, Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)   The Revelation Space Collection Volumes 1 & 2, Alastair Reynolds (Gollancz)   Crows and Silences, Lucius Shepard (Subterranean)   A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood)   Magazine Asimov’s Beneath Ceaseless Skies Clarkesworld F&SF Fiyah khōréō Lightspeed Reactor Strange Horizons Uncanny Magazine Publisher  (Tor Publishing Group and Subterranean Press have recused themselves from this category. Tor UK is an imprint of Pan Macmillan, not TPG.) Angry Robot DAW Del Rey Gollancz Neon Hemlock Orbit Pan Macmillan/Tor UK Saga Solaris Tachyon Editor John Joseph Adams Scott H. Andrews Neil Clarke Ellen Datlow dave ring Jonathan Strahan Bogi Takács Wendy N. Wagner Fran Wilde & Julian Yap Sheila Williams Artist Brom Rovina Cai Galen Dara Bob Eggleton Kathleen Jennings Alan Lee John Picacio Shaun Tan Charles Vess Michael Whelan Illustrated and Art Books The Invisible Parade, Leigh Bardugo & John Picacio (Little, Brown)   Frank Frazetta: Fine Lines, Sara Frazetta & Arnie Fenner, eds., art by Frank Frazetta (Frazetta Girls) Amazon Starling House, Alix E. Harrow, art by Rovina Cai (Subterranean)   Designing Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, Paul Kidby (Harper; Doubleday UK)   Carmilla, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, art by Rosemary Valero-O’Connell (Beehive) Amazon The Space Cat, Nnedi Okorafor, art by Tana Ford (First Second)   Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Volumes 1-3, adapted by Rebecca K. Reynolds, art by Justin Gerard (Sky Turtle) Amazon Sunset at Zero Point, Simon Stålenhag (as Swedish Machines Free League Sweden; Saga US)   Faraway Dreaming, Ulla Thynell (Atthis Arts) Icons of the Fantastic: Illustrations of Imaginative Literature from the Korshak Collection, Amanda T. Zehnder & David M. Brinley, eds. (University of Delaware Press)   Non-Fiction The Outspoken and the Incendiary, Terry Bisson (PM)   Enshittification, Cory Doctorow (MCD)   Colourfields, Paul Kincaid (Briardene) Amazon Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: The Art of Eastern Storytelling, Henry Lien (Norton)   Positive Obsession: The Life and Times of Octavia E. Butler, Susana M. Morris (Amistad)   Black Apocalypse: Afrofuturism at the End of the World, Tavia Nyong’o (University of California Press)   Racebook: A Personal History of the Internet, Tochi Onyebuchi (Roxane Gay)   Why I Love Horror: Essays on Horror Literature, Becky Siegel Spratford, ed. (Saga)   Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, Richard Wolinsky, ed. (Tachyon)   Octavia E. Butler: H is for Horse, Chi-ming Yang (Oxford University Press)   [end-mark] The post Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Locus Awards appeared first on Reactor.

Linda Cardellini Joins the Cast of Bill Hader’s Horror Movie, They Know
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Linda Cardellini Joins the Cast of Bill Hader’s Horror Movie, They Know

News they know Linda Cardellini Joins the Cast of Bill Hader’s Horror Movie, They Know The horror film, which Hader wrote and will direct, is his first major project since Barry By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 13, 2026 Credit: Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Chuck Zlotnick/Marvel Studios They Know, Bill Hader’s next project, started filming in Los Angeles today, and with the start of production came news that Linda Cardellini will co-star in the horror film with him. According to Deadline, Cardellini will play the ex-wife of Hader’s divorced dad character. The premise of the movie involves Hader’s character growing increasingly “suspicious that his ex-wife is secretly dating a mysterious man who is having a strange influence on their children.” This isn’t Cardellini’s first time stepping into the horror genre. She’ll be playing Jason Vorhee’s mother, Pamela, in the upcoming Peacock series Crystal Lake. (And if you know anything about the role, then you know it will be a monstrous undertaking for her.) Cardellini’s other credits include playing Laura Barton (aka Clint’s much better half, pictured above) in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Judy Hale in Dead to Me, and Carol Love-Smernitch in the currently running comedy, DTF St. Louis. We don’t know much more about the plot of They Know other than what we shared above. However, Hader wrote the script based on a story created by him and his Barry collaborator, Duffy Boudreau. Notably, They Know will mark Hader’s feature film directorial debut. No news yet on when the film will make its way to a theater (or streamer?) near you. [end-mark] The post Linda Cardellini Joins the Cast of Bill Hader’s Horror Movie, <i>They Know</i> appeared first on Reactor.

Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2026
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Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2026

Books Jo Walton Reads Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2026 Le Guin, Kate Elliott, Michael Chabon and mainstream lit, plus brand-new books! By Jo Walton | Published on April 13, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share March was an excellent month that started in Florence, doing some tweaking and revision of my novel (Sunlit Uplands, coming next year from Tor) and seeing the spring begin. Then I came to Chicago, where I still am, which is alternately winter and spring as if it’s rolling dice. I read just seven books, and some of them were amazing. Malafrena — Ursula K. Le Guin (1979) This is a very strange book. It’s about a young man in an imaginary Eastern European country, Orsinia, who goes to the capital to try to make a better world, and… then things happen that are very like things in an Eastern European novel, like those by Miklós Bánffy, or even Milan Kundera, but very unlike things that happen in SF or most historical novels. They do not have the revolution. They do not make the new life. Itale is a wonderful character and somehow the book isn’t depressing even when it is. I love it. But I don’t quite understand it and what Le Guin was doing with it and how it works. It’s full of very specific time and place that feels absolutely real, as if I read a book set in the 1820s and I could go there now and take a slightly run-down and overcrowded train to those locations. I don’t generally have any difficulty telling what’s set in the real world and what’s in a secondary world, because this is a thing that fiction does by register, and Malafrena is in the register of the real world, so surely that lake is there, those mountains, and the city of Krasnoy away over the plains. A Model World and Other Stories — Michael Chabon (1991) Mainstream short stories, all of them very well written, all of them kind of depressing meditations on the futility of life and the impossibility of communication. It’s hard to say whether or not I enjoyed it, because I really enjoyed a lot of the sentences and paragraphs, the characters were extremely vivid and memorable, and there’s no question it was good, but the more I think about it the less I feel I enjoyed it. Chabon is a dynamite writer, but mainstream lit isn’t a genre I like very much. Inventing the Enemy — Umberto Eco (2011) A collection of essays about literature, politics, the world, things Eco likes, ideas—this was a lot of fun and made me feel fond of him. Most of them were originally talks given in various places, and would have very much worked in that form. The Tall Stranger — D.E. Stevenson (1957) I do like Stevenson. Her books are gentle and insightful and relaxing in a good way. This one is about two girls sharing a flat in London, getting you used to one of them and then switching abruptly to follow the other one. It has an actual villain, and an aunt in the country, and work/life balance, and flowers, and I found the heroine’s dilemma interesting. This is neither a genre romance (though you won’t be surprised to hear that both girls find love in the course of the book) nor a genre mystery, but it has some things in common with both of them. Inheritance plays a large part. I liked it, and I enjoyed reading it. Buried Heart — Kate Elliott (2017) Third and final in the Court of Fives series, don’t start here. YA fantasy, and I think I’d describe it as post-colonial YA fantasy. The magic is well-thought-through and integrated into the society, the war and politics and slavery are more realistic than you normally see in this kind of book, and the resolution of all the plots came together very well, as you’d expect from Elliott. If you want to try Elliott and you’re a little intimidated by the length and size of many of her books, I recommend this series. They’re short and good and they have much of what makes her a really interesting writer who is always worth reading. She’s great at worldbuilding, and this is an exciting, fun story of two cultures with the colonized one throwing off the yoke of the colonizers, told from the point of view of a girl who is of mixed heritage. In This House of Brede — Rumer Godden (1969) Re-read, and I’ve written about it before. I just felt like reading it. This is a book about nuns, a small genre, but one I always like. Godden is one of the great underrated female authors of the twentieth century, and this book is one of her best. It centers on a woman who goes from a successful career as a civil servant to becoming a contemplative Benedictine nun, but it’s really the story of the whole convent over years. It’s full of details of how they live, why they become nuns, what nuns do all day, and it’s also a character study of the people, who all feel absolutely real. I love this book and have loved it for decades. The kind of SF readers who enjoy entering into the strangeness of other cultures and alien worlds might find this worth their while. Less — Andrew Sean Greer (2017) This is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and I read it because I was thinking about the Chabon and what litfic is as a genre. I will have more thoughts about this at greater length later. Meanwhile this is the story of a novelist going around the world, and you’d think I’d like that, wouldn’t you? But it’s a very zero-sum world that he goes around, cautiously avoiding connection and communication. Well written. Great characters. Bits of it are funny sometimes. On the whole I hated it. Books I read and recommended in earlier months that are out now and available for you to enjoy: Francis Spufford’s Nonesuch and John Chu’s The Subtle Art of Folding Space. They’re both great, don’t miss them. And best of the lot, Cameron Reed’s What We Are Seeking, one of my very favourite books I read last year, the kind of book you never want to stop reading. Avoid spoilers, just plunge in and enjoy.[end-mark] The post Jo Walton’s Reading List: March 2026 appeared first on Reactor.

Tiny Dragons and Teenage Romance: The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst
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Tiny Dragons and Teenage Romance: The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst

Books book reviews Tiny Dragons and Teenage Romance: The Faraway Inn by Sarah Beth Durst Vanessa Armstrong reviews a cozy YA fantasy that’s “a warm patchwork quilt to assuage an anxious heart”—no matter your age. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 13, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share Sixteen-year-old Calisa is facing a tough summer. She had just broken up with her boyfriend, who she caught cheating on her, and she isn’t eager to see him out and about around Brooklyn. Her moms have a solution: spend the weeks before her senior year of high school at her great-aunt’s Vermont bed-and-breakfast—an establishment, Mom-Kate tells her, that could use her help and also, with its non-existent cell-phone service, be a better place to get over her heartbreak. Auntie Zee, however, isn’t happy to see Calisa. She and Mom-Kate haven’t really talked since Calisa was six years old, and while Calisa doesn’t know why, it’s clear the rift between the two hasn’t mended. Auntie Zee is so unhappy Calisa’s there, in fact, that the older woman says she’ll be sending her grand-niece back to her mom’s within the week. The B&B has also seen better days; it’s rundown and a bit shabby, and the few guests who are there seem a bit… odd. Calisa is determined to stay and to help, however, and so The Faraway Inn begins. Like Durst’s recent works—The Spellshop and The Enchanted Greenhouse come to mind—her latest young adult novel is high on the cozy factor and also centers on a protagonist who throws her heart into turning a crumbling establishment into a thriving, welcoming place. Calisa throws herself into cleaning and baking, and has a delightful meet-cute with the young groundskeeper, Jack. She also slowly realizes that Auntie Zee has magical powers; the inn is on a nexus of realms that Auntie Zee connects by creating magical portals in regular old doorways; and the guests are all magical in their own right. (Calisa is arguably slow on the uptake with the magic stuff, but in fairness she doesn’t know she’s in a fantasy novel, so the reader has an upper hand on her in that regard.) Buy the Book The Faraway Inn Sarah Beth Durst Buy Book The Faraway Inn Sarah Beth Durst Buy this book from: AmazonBarnes and NobleiBooksIndieBoundTarget There are stakes, too, beyond Calisa getting over her not-so-great ex-boyfriend. Auntie Zee’s magic is failing, and she’ll have to close the inn soon if she can’t find another witch to replace her or a way to reinvigorate her magic. Jack’s father, who used to work at the inn, has also been missing for three years. Calisa finds out he was lost through one of the portal doors that Auntie Zee has struggled to keep open, a side effect of her magic faltering as she gets older.  Jack’s immeasurable trauma from that—being parentless through his early teens (his mother is gone)—is muted (as is how he was able to stay at the inn for years without a legal guardian), for better or worse. That’s not to say his emotions around the loss aren’t given some space on the page, but his trials aren’t what The Faraway Inn is about. The focus instead is on Calisa as she comes to realize she deserves better than what her ex offered her and starts to come into her own. The novel is her beginning the journey of figuring out what she wants out of life, and her days at the inn help her along that path. That is no small message for teenagers who read this book (and for adults as well, if I’m being honest). That message also comes wrapped up in whimsical magical flourishes as the inn comes back into its magic (a self-filling teapot!) and Calisa delves into baking (flavored maple syrup! gooey chocolate cake!).  The cast of guests (and the inn’s magical residents) will also warm your heart. There’s the statue of a woman in the garden who moves only when you’re not looking, Durst’s take on Doctor Who’s weeping angel that wants to hug rather than kill you; the firebird who flits from room to room, lighting up the fireplaces and also serving as the inn’s version of an intercom system; the dryad who is in a disagreement with her mother and also friendly with the local beavers; and an elderly man who prefers the shadows, good chocolate, and his beloved gargoyle. There’s also a tiny dragon(!) who Calisa befriends. Every story is made better by a tiny dragon. Speaking of tiny dragons, the story also takes us beyond the inn’s walls, in brief outings through Auntie Zee’s magical portals that give us a taste of the realms to which the inn is connected. Even with these visits to realms quite unlike our own, the story remains centered on Auntie Zee’s B&B, with those excursions confirming the importance of the inn to the guests who check in. An adventure novel this is not, and while no great battles are fought or worlds saved, the pace is surprisingly brisk and engaging, even when plot points focus on cleaning the bathrooms and pulling out weeds. Overall, The Faraway Inn excels in all the things I look for in a cozy fantasy: the creation of a quirky found family; characters working hard and doing their best (and having their best be enough); people’s emotional wounds healing over as they work to repair the physical space where they strive to live and/or work; and great descriptions of delicious things I want to eat and drink. The book is another welcome addition to Durst’s roster, and great for those looking for a warm patchwork quilt to assuage an anxious heart, no matter what their age. While the book has a definitive conclusion, I’d love to have another magical getaway to Auntie Zee’s inn and spend more time with the people (and magical objects) there.[end-mark] The Faraway Inn is published by Delacorte Press. The post Tiny Dragons and Teenage Romance: <i>The Faraway Inn</i> by Sarah Beth Durst appeared first on Reactor.

Nothing’s Impossible in the Trailer for The Boroughs
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News The Boroughs Nothing’s Impossible in the Trailer for The Boroughs Can’t their golden years get some golden lighting? By Molly Templeton | Published on April 13, 2026 Image: Netflix © 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share Image: Netflix © 2026 At one end of Netflix’s group-of-pals-encountering-strange-phenomena programming, you have the kids of Stranger Things. On the other end, the adults of The Boroughs, a new series that follows a gaggle of folks in a retirement community as they encounter … something. A new trailer is vague and also dark. But whatever stalks the streets of The Boroughs, it seems to have some magical bits as well as some murdery ones. The brief synopsis says: In a seemingly perfect retirement community, a grieving newcomer’s monstrous encounter inspires him to join a misfit crew of unlikely heroes who uncover a dark secret that proves their “golden years” are more dangerous, and they are more formidable, than anyone expects. However vague this new trailer may be, The Boroughs has one major thing going for it (and no, it’s not that Stranger Things creators the Duffer brothers are among its executive producers). It has a terrific cast. Alfred Molina plays Sam, the skeptical newcomer; he meets up with Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Bill Pullman, Clarke Peters, and Denis O’Hare, who, at 64, is the baby of the group. He’s also the one who jokes, at the end of the trailer, that given their ages, any day could be their last. It’s kind of off, that joke. But at least he’s over 50. (Yes, this is a Cocoon reference.) The Boroughs is created by Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews, who also created The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (and co-wrote The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim). You can visit their eerie little community on May 21 on Netflix.[end-mark] The post Nothing’s Impossible in the Trailer for <i>The Boroughs</i> appeared first on Reactor.