News Star Wars: Maul — Shadow Lord Star Wars: Maul—Shadow Lord Trailer Knows Exactly How to Use “Duel of the Fates” and Sam Witwer I’d be a little reluctant about being Maul’s friend, too By Molly Templeton | Published on March 16, 2026 Screenshot: Lucasfilm Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Lucasfilm Who knew that the artist formerly known as Darth Maul—now going by just Maul, like any famous person might do—was this good at making new friends? In the latest trailer for Star Wars: Maul—Shadow Lord, one character mentions that Maul is connected with not one but several criminal organizations. But his real new connection is a Padawan who’s on the run with her master in the early years of the Empire. It’s an odd pairing, to say the least—and an appealing one. Said Padawan, Devon Izara, is voiced by Gideon Adlon (daughter of Pamela). The rest of the cast is pretty grand, and includes Wagner Moura as Brander Lawson, Richard Ayoade as Two-Boots, Dennis Haysbert as Jedi Master Eeko-Dio-Daki, Chris Diamantopoulos as Looti Vario, Charlie Bushnell as Rylee Lawson, Vanessa Marshall (yes, the voice of Hera Syndulla) as Rook Kast, David C. Collins as Spybot, A.J. LoCascio as Marrok, and Steve Blum as Icarus. The show is created by Dave Filoni. Let’s be real: the plot is not the draw of this show. The draw of this show is watching Sam Witwer voice Maul as a Shakespearean villain, lush and rich and complicated. It’s so delicious that Maul rarely spoke in the movies, yet Witwer plays him like this. But if you are here for plot, StarWars.com says Shadow Lord is “a pulpy adventure that finds Maul plotting to rebuild his criminal syndicate on a planet untouched by the Empire. There, he crosses paths with a disillusioned young Jedi Padawan who may just be the apprentice he is seeking to aid him in his relentless pursuit of revenge.” In case you haven’t kept up with Maul’s many post-Phantom Menace adventures, and are still wondering how he is up and about after being memorably sliced in half, StarWars.com also has a nifty little refresher on his complicated existence. At present he is walking about with Mandalorian-issued prosthetics thanks to Pre Vizsla. And he is, as ever, a formidable opponent. Maul will take on the Empire not-quite-single-handedly when Star Wars: Maul—Shadow Lord premieres April 6th on Disney+.[end-mark] The post <i>Star Wars: Maul—Shadow Lord</i> Trailer Knows Exactly How to Use “Duel of the Fates” and Sam Witwer appeared first on Reactor.

News A Quiet Place: Part III Shh! A Quiet Place 3 Cast Adds Katy O’Brian, Jason Clarke, and Jack O’Connell It will also see the return of Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Noah Jupe, and Millicent Simmonds By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on March 16, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share John Krasinski shared the news on social media today that the fourth A Quiet Place film, A Quiet Place: Part III, will see the return of Emily Blunt, Cillian Murphy, Noah Jupe, and Millicent Simmonds, and also include newcomers Katy O’Brian (The Mandalorian, The Running Man), Jason Clarke (Terminator Genisys, Pet Sematary), and Jack O’Connell (Sinners, 28 Years Later). Who the newcomers are playing is not known. If you forgot what kind of apocalypse the Quiet Place characters are in, the first two films focused on a family trying to survive an alien invasion where the aliens kill any human who makes a noise, requiring survivors to live in silence. There is also a prequel, A Quiet Place: Day One, that focused on—you guessed it—the first day of the alien invasion. The films did well enough commercially to spawn a fourth feature, which continues the story from the first film and Part II, though there are plenty of things to critique about the movies. O’Brian and O’Connell, however, are fantastic additions to the franchise; you’ve seen O’Connell play the Irish vampire in Sinners as well as Sir Jimmy Crystal in the 28 Years Later films, and O’Brian had a memorable role in The Mandalorian as Elia Kane as well as parts in Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and The Running Man. It will be interesting to see what parts they’ll be playing here. We don’t know the plot yet of A Quiet Place: Part III, though the script comes from writer-actor-director John Krasinski. Shooting is set to start in New York this spring, per Variety, and the movie is currently slated to premiere in theaters on July 30, 2027. [end-mark] The post Shh! <i>A Quiet Place 3</i> Cast Adds Katy O’Brian, Jason Clarke, and Jack O’Connell appeared first on Reactor.

Books Short Fiction Spotlight Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: February 2026 Ghosts, bridge trolls, and soothsayers populate the best short fiction of the past month… By Alex Brown | Published on March 16, 2026 Comment 0 Share New Share This month I once again bring two new magazines into the spotlight on top of the ones long established in my rotation. Many of these stories are bittersweet or end on a note of impending doom. I wonder why those were the pieces I gravitated to in February? It’s not like everything is terrible and we’re on the brink of a third world war or—*checks notes* Oh. Okay. Well, here are ten awesome short science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories for you anyway. “Corporeal Form” by Kit Harding (Penumbric—February 2026; issue 5) Two ghosts work at a haunted beach attraction. The protagonist takes a liking to a human tourist, Melody, who has come hoping to encounter the wailing Woman in White (aka the protagonist). The two form a brief but toxic relationship. I liked how Harding gives the reader just a snippet of this world. We get hints about other characters and tastes of the larger world, but for the most part it’s like looking through a pinhole; you know there’s more out there but you can’t see it. That narrow view adds to the unsettling feeling of the plot. “The Embroidered Garden” by Manahil Bandukwala (Tales & Feathers—February 2026; issue 4) Our narrator is a child waiting for Baba to return home after weeks of working at the port. They’re left behind with Amma, who is frustrated with the state of her garden. Our narrator is practicing their embroidery and somehow the flowers they stitch come to life in the garden. And so do other things, even foxes. Whatever they can stitch, they can make appear. The ending of this story made me sit up and shout “Oh no!” For most of the way through it feels like a sweet little magical realism tale and the end takes a sharp turn. “Jumper on the Troll Bridge” by Shannon Cross (Flashpoint SF—February 2026; issue 1) Flashpoint SF has been around for a while, but they recently switched from releasing individual stories on their website to collecting them together in a single issue. In this new format, it was my pleasure to read this story about a troll trying to collect bridge tolls. The only way it can get tolls nowadays are through people who jump off the bridge in an attempt to take their life. But this isn’t a dark story about suicide. Rather, it’s about second chances. I’m from the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Golden Gate Bridge used to be a common jump point until they put up barriers and installed phones that connect to crisis hotlines. Most people who survive a suicide attempt say they regretted trying almost immediately after they did it, and this story takes that on in a refreshing way. “Medusa’s Ship, or The Thing About Bodies” by Natalia Theodoridou (Beneath Ceaseless Skies—February 5, 2026; issue 450) This story is about a lot of things. It’s about gender and bodies and how we change ours so they fit better. It’s a play on the Ship of Theseus paradox where if you replace all the parts of the ship is it still the same ship. It references the Greek myth of Medusa but layers on feminism and patriarchy commentary. And since it’s Theodoridou, it also has a unique narrative style: the story is bookended by fragment sentences and em dashes. In the middle is the plot about a spaceship captain who arrives on a planet where the Ship can turn herself into a woman, but only as long as he keeps his eyes covered with a blindfold. A stunning story with a visually interesting layout and a compelling plot. “Rest Stop” by Pedro Iniguez (Nightmare—February 2026; issue 161) Yolanda and Bernard are on a road trip to El Paso. While in the middle of the Chihuahuan Desert, Yolanda begs him to pull over at the next rest stop so she can use the bathroom. A simple request, but it lands like a ticking time bomb. The bruises on Yolanda’s arms tell the reader that this relationship isn’t a safe or kind one. In the dilapidated restroom, Yolanda is offered a choice: go back to the evil she knows or leave but into a future she knows nothing about. What if things are better if she leaves? What if things are worse? Iniquez’s flash fiction is weightier than its brevity would have you believe. “The River Speaks My Name” by Ocoxōchitl la Coyota (Strange Horizons—February 16, 2026) Two young women grow up in a small village. They spend their days playing in the river but avoid the strange abyss at the center of it. Until they revisit as adults and Isabella is sucked into it. When she emerges, she’s out of her mind with terror. After she dies, the land floods and the drought is temporarily abated. Our narrator realizes there is a connection to people who disappear in the river abyss and the storm that follows. That connection is haunting her now. A dark fantasy climate fiction story about sacrifice and tradition. “This is Why Magical Realism and Family Tree School Projects Shouldn’t Mix” by Abigail Guerrero (Adventitious—February 2026; issue 1) Adventitious is a new bimonthly magazine that, according to their website, covers “speculative, surreal, and literary fiction. We admire its reach, its weirdness, and its refusal to color inside any lines.” Their first issue had a lot of stories that were as unusual as they were unexpected, but the one that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about is Guerrero’s. Clarita is assigned a family tree project in school and the story is her presenting various people in her genealogy. One of Clarita’s ancestors had a child by a demon in goat form, so now all the descendants have goat parts. Another ancestor is a grumpy pile of bones. Guerrero touches on the tension that a lot of marginalized kids and kids with non-traditional families experience with these projects, like me. (Imagine being a Black 10-year-old in a predominately white school and having to tell your white teacher that you can’t go any further back than the 1860s because of slavery.) By the end of her presentation, even her teacher regrets the assignment.  “Three Fortunes on Alcestis as Told by the Fraud Baeliss Shudal” by Louis Inglis Hall (Clarkesworld—February 2026; issue 223) Baeliss is the last descendent in an ancient line of diviners. Except she cannot see the future. The Duke Ernestid Arkady, ruler of the world, summons the soothsayer to tell his future and so she lies. That fortune takes her to a battlefield and then the aftermath of a war. Each time she has to tell a fortune, she lies. The subtext reasons for those lies are what make this story so powerful. The future isn’t immutable or inevitable. It is what we make of it. “Uncontrolled Emotion” by Allison Mulder (Radon Journal—February 2026; issue 12) “Everyone at the company started with a signed contract and a memory wipe.” Dermot is a safety censor for a company that scours surveillance footage to monitor communications. He marks things said and unsaid and files them. What happens when someone acquires too many infractions isn’t told to the reader, but it presumably isn’t good. The conversation he listens in on in the story triggers something from the life he had before his memory was wiped. It’s a gut-wrenching revelation, and his reaction to it is complex and depressing. Mulder hints at how the capitalistic and fascistic system forces people into awful situations but that we also always have some power to change things for the better. It may not be a lot, but there is always something we can do. “What Haunts the Newbuild?” by Meagan Kane (PseudoPod—February 6, 2026; 1015) If you haven’t noticed, another theme this month is stories with shocking endings. You think the author is going one direction and then they shift at the last minute into an entirely different one. In this piece, two houses, Good Bones and LUXURY VINYL FLOORING (aka Newbuild), start a competition to see who can get the most from their human occupants. The houses sip the lifeforce of humans in their care, kind of a twist on the haunted house story. But that ending! Wow. Makes you look at new construction McMansions a whole lot different.[end-mark] The post Must Read Short Speculative Fiction: February 2026 appeared first on Reactor.

Column Babylon 5 Rewatch Babylon 5 Rewatch: “The Paragon of Animals” A small world plagued by raiders begs the alliance for help. By Keith R.A. DeCandido | Published on March 16, 2026 Credit: Warner Bros. Television Comment 0 Share New Share Credit: Warner Bros. Television “The Paragon of Animals”Written by J. Michael StraczynskiDirected by Michael VejarSeason 5, Episode 3Production episode 504Original air date: February 4, 1998 It was the dawn of the third age… A meeting of the Interstellar Alliance representatives is not going well, as nobody beyond the big four—Earth, Minbar, Centauri Prime, Narn—wants to sign the Declaration of Principles. As the author of the declaration, G’Kar is taking that particularly personally. But the Drazi, Markab, Gaim, et al are mostly just interested in the sharing-technology part of the alliance and aren’t interested in having morality legislated to them. Garibaldi and Sheridan discuss the meeting after it’s over, with Garibaldi saying that the IA needs to show strength first—morality will take care of itself. Raiders attack the Enphil homeworld. The Enphil ask a Ranger for assistance from the IA. Sheridan, Delenn, G’Kar, Mollari, and Garibaldi meet to discuss how to get the other worlds to sign the declaration. G’Kar is madly rewriting it, thinking his revisions will make it more palatable. Mollari, meanwhile, is losing his will to live and volunteers to sacrifice his corpse to the Pak’ma’ra. (G’Kar seconds the motion.) Garibaldi talks about how they should use telepaths to gather covert intelligence. Sheridan’s objection that that’s against Psi Corps rules is met with derision by Garibaldi: they’re not Earth, they’re the IA, and they aren’t subject to Psi Corps’ rules. And the Minbari, the Centauri, and every other race that has telepaths uses them for various military functions. Garibaldi wants permission to ask Byron’s gaggle if they’d be interested, since they said they’d work for their place on the station. Sheridan reluctantly agrees. However, Byron says no before Garibaldi can even ask. Credit: Warner Bros. Television The Ranger who went to the Enphil homeworld stumbles through the jumpgate to B5 in a badly damaged White Star. He’s brought to medlab in a coma. Delenn says they need a telepath, so Alexander is hired to scan him. She gets the information about the Enphil and then the Ranger dies while she’s in telepathic communication with him. Alexander is rather devastated by this, and isn’t all that receptive to Garibaldi’s subsequent request for a favor. But eventually—after telling Garibaldi just how awful the experience of feeling someone die is—she agrees to try to convince Byron to accede to Garibaldi’s request. Delenn and Sheridan discuss the situation. The Enphil have asked for their help. This is exactly the kind of situation the IA was meant to be involved in. Sheridan regrets that they have to show the flag, as it were, before they even have their feet under them, but it needs doing. Since the raiders trashed one White Star, they need to send several, and Delenn suggests sending all the ones they can spare. The Enphil are on the edge of Drazi space, though the Drazi haven’t shown any interest in their world. Nonetheless, Sheridan lets the Drazi ambassador know what they’re doing, and the ambassador agrees to have a Drazi fleet rendezvous with the White Stars. After the meeting breaks up, the ambassador moves determinedly down a corridor, passing by Byron. In the middle of the night, G’Kar finally revises the declaration to his satisfaction—or, at least, to enough of his satisfaction that he’s willing to show it to others. He leaves a copy outside Sheridan’s quarters, and the president reads it aloud to Delenn. As he reads it, we see the White Star fleet heading to rescue the Enphil, the Enphil waiting for their asked-for assistance, and Franklin writing a condolence letter to the family of the Ranger. Alexander approaches Byron, who castigates her for constantly taking orders from other people. (Why Alexander doesn’t reply that she takes orders from people who specifically pay her to do the things they’re ordering her to do is left as an exercise for the viewer.) Byron is willing to loan out a couple of trained telepaths to Garibaldi if it’s what Alexander wants. So when she asks for it, he says yes. He also provides the very first bit of intel: the Drazi ambassador went from his meeting with Sheridan to contact his people and set up an ambush. Turns out that the Drazi have been supplying the raiders, and a Drazi fleet will ambush the White Stars and wipe out the Enphil homeworld. Credit: Warner Bros. Television When Alexander passes this on, Sheridan orders the White Stars to go ahead to the Enphil homeworld instead of rendezvousing with the Drazi fleet as originally planned. Sheridan thanks Alexander, saying she saved a lot of lives today. The White Star fleet shows up at Enphil to drive off the raiders and prepare for the invasion that’s coming. Sheridan shows this to a meeting of the ambassadors, and the Drazi ambassador is suddenly very nervous. Eventually it comes out that the Drazi are the ones coming, and can he please call them to warn them off so they don’t get massacred? Sheridan agrees, and he uses this as a way to show how important the Declaration of Princples is. Everyone signs it after that. Alexander returns to Byron and says she wants to know more about his people. Get the hell out of our galaxy! Sheridan really didn’t want to have to do a major show of force this soon in the IA’s history. He also, like Ivanova before him, hates it when Garibaldi is right. The household god of frustration. Garibaldi admits that he doesn’t like telepaths much, but he also thinks it’s ridiculous that they don’t use them. After Byron turns him down, he begs Alexander to plead on his behalf, promising that it’s the last favor he’ll ever ask—until the next time. If you value your lives, be somewhere else. Delenn is the one who recommends sending as much of the White Star fleet as can be spared to rescue the Enphil. If you’re gonna do a show of force, do a damn show of force… In the glorious days of the Centauri Republic… Mollari has hilariously little patience with the minutiae of being one of the leaders of the IA. Though it take a thousand years, we shall be free. G’Kar is constantly revising the Declearation of Principles, even still doing so after everyone has signed it. Credit: Warner Bros. Television We live for the one, we die for the one. For the second time in three episodes, a Ranger shows up just long enough to get killed. Obviously, these guys have the same life expectancy as a Starfleet security guard, and maybe Lennier should reconsider his new career choice… The Corps is mother, the Corps is father. Byron lectures Alexander on the subject of taking orders from other people when she should do things for herself. Alexander finds this argument compelling despite the fact that taking orders from people who pay her to do jobs is pretty much how she makes her living. Looking ahead. Sheridan makes the latest in a series of incredibly unsubtle references to the forthcoming Telepath War that we never actually got to see. Welcome aboard. Robin Atkin Downes officially makes Byron recurring with his return from “No Compromises”; he’ll be back next time in “A View from the Gallery.” The Drazi ambassador is played by Kim Strauss, who has portrayed a variety of heavy-makeup roles on the show—including the Drazi ambassador back in “The Fall of Night”; he’ll be back in this role in “A Tragedy of Telepaths.” Tony Abatemarco plays the Enphil leader and Bart Johnson plays the ill-fated Ranger. Trivial matters. The title comes from the title character’s “What a piece of work is man” speech in Act II of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, which Byron quotes in the episode to Alexander. Byron mentions that telepaths have to run songs through their head to help keep stray thoughts of others from invading their minds. This was likely inspired by Alfred Bester’s The Demolished Man, which was the inspiration for a lot of the use of telepathy in B5. The echoes of all of our conversations. “I was modifying Clause 12 in the Declaration of Principles. I was thinking that if I could make it more linguistically suitable to the Drazi, they might be open to signing it.” “Great Maker, I need a drink.” “Well, they don’t like to say ‘we commit’ to anything—they prefer ‘the universe, through us, agrees to’.” “Make that two drinks.” —G’Kar and Mollari discussing revisions to the Declaration of Principles Credit: Warner Bros. Television The name of the place is Babylon 5. “We are one.” There are three factors that keep this from being as good an episode as it might be. The first isn’t so much the episode’s problem as an issue with Garibaldi’s current status. After what Bester did to him, Garibaldi shouldn’t be entrusted with anyone’s lunch order, yet here he is being given a major piece of responsibility in the IA, which is absolutely bugnuts. I already covered this in my rewatch of “Endgame,” and my objection now is even stronger than it was then. The second is one I mentioned in the recap above: Alexander is used to taking orders from people because that’s how she makes her living. Yes, she is beholden to other people, but that’s part of the job description. If Byron was objecting to her doing these jobs, that would be one thing, but it’s written as him criticizing an aspect of her personality, which is not what’s going on there. The third is related, and that’s the spectacular limitations of Robin Atkin Downes, whose rants at both Garibaldi and Alexander are completely ineffectual thanks to Downes’ flat line readings. Whatever passion and insight there might be in Byron’s words are completely sucked away by the lack-of-charisma force field that Downes emits. Having said that, the main story is effective, showing what the IA is capable of, and what it stands for. G’Kar’s constant revising of the declaration is, I must admit from the perspective of someone who’s spent his life crafting words for a living, absolutely hilarious. (It reminds one of the old joke that, from a writer’s perspective, works aren’t finished, but simply released into the wild.) And Sheridan’s frustration with having to flex his muscles before the IA even has its shit together is well played by Bruce Boxleitner. I also very much like Garibaldi’s argument for why they should use telepaths, as the rules that Sheridan defaults to are Psi Corps’ rules, and why the heck would you follow those? Next week: “A View from the Gallery.”[end-mark] The post <i>Babylon 5</i> Rewatch: “The Paragon of Animals” appeared first on Reactor.

News Nebula Awards Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Nebula Awards Congrats to all! By Molly Templeton | Published on March 16, 2026 Photo: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association Comment 0 Share New Share Photo: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association The finalists for the 61st Annual Nebula Awards—which recognize work published in 2025—were announced last night. The Nebula Awards are voted on by members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA). This year’s categories include the first-ever Nebulas for Best Poem and Best Comic. As the SFWA website explains, “Like the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation and Game Writing Award, these new awards celebrate the writers at the heart of productions that also involve editors, artists, publishers, producers, and a wealth of other team members who make the magic happen.” The winners of this year’s awards will be announced on June 6th during the Nebula Conference, which takes place in Chicago. Congratulations to all the finalists! Best Novel When We Were Real by Daryl Gregory (Saga) The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones (Saga; Titan UK) Katabasis by R.F. Kuang (Harper Voyager US; Harper Voyager UK) Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor (Morrow; Gollancz) The Incandescent by Emily Tesh (Tor; Orbit UK) Sour Cherry by Natalia Theodoridou (Tin House; Wildfire) Wearing the Lion by John Wiswell (DAW; Arcadia) Best Novella Disgraced Return of the Kap’s Needle by Renan Bernardo (Dark Matter INK) The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia) The Death of Mountains by Jordan Kurella (Lethe) Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (Tordotcom) But Not Too Bold by Hache Pueyo (Tordotcom) “Descent” by Wole Talabi (Clarkesworld 5/25) Best Novelette “Our Echoes Drifting Through the Marsh” by Marie Croke (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 1/9/25) “Uncertain Sons” by Thomas Ha (Uncertain Sons and Other Stories, Undertow) “We Begin Where Infinity Ends” by Somto Ihezue (Clarkesworld 2/25) “The Name Ziya” by Wen-Yi Lee (Reactor) “Never Eaten Vegetables” by H.H. Pak (Clarkesworld 1/25) “The Life and Times of Alavira the Great as Written by Titos Pavlou and Reviewed by Two Lifelong Friends” by Eugenia Triantafyllou (Uncanny 3-4/25) Best Short Story “Through the Machine” by P.A. Cornell (Lightspeed 5/25) “Six People to Revise You” by J.R. Dawson (Uncanny 1-2/25) “In My Country” by Thomas Ha (Clarkesworld 4/25) “The Tawlish Island Songbook of the Dead” by E.M. Linden (PodCastle 2/18/25) “Because I Held His Name Like a Key” by Aimee Ogden (Strange Horizons 6/16/25) “Laser Eyes Ain’t Everything” by Effie Seiberg (Diabolical Plots 5/25) Andre Norton Nebula Award for Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction The Tower by David Anaxagoras (Recorded Books) Gemini Rising by Jonathan Brazee (Semper Fi) Wishing Well, Wishing Well by Jubilee Cho (Atthis Arts) Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) Into the Wild Magic by Michelle Knudsen (Candlewick) Goblin Girl by K.A. Mielke (self-published) Best Game Writing Spire, Surge, and Sea by Stewart C. Baker (Choice of Games) Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by Guillaume Broche, & Jennifer Svedberg-Yen (Kepler Interactive; developer: Sandfall Interactive, Sandfall S.A.S.) Hollow Knight: Silksong by Ari Gibson & William Pelen (Team Cherry)* Dispatch by Ashley Jeffalone, Suzee Matson, Chris Rebbert, Chad Rhiness, & Pierre Shorette (AdHoc Studios) Hades II by Greg Kasavin (Supergiant Games) Blue Prince by Tonda Ros (Raw Fury; developer: Dogubomb) The Ray Bradbury Nebula Award for Outstanding Dramatic Presentation KPop Demon Hunters by Danya Jimenez, Maggie Kang, & Hannah McMechan (Netflix)* Sinners by Ryan Coogler (Warner Bros. Pictures)* Severance: “Chikhai Bardo” by Dan Erickson & Mark Friedman (Apple TV+)* Pluribus: Season One by Vince Gilligan (Apple TV+)* Superman by James Gunn (Warner Bros Pictures)* Murderbot: Season One by Chris Weitz (Apple TV+)* Best Comic Second Shift by Kit Anderson (Avery Hill) Carmilla Volume 3: The Eternal by Amy Chu (Berger) Helen of Wyndhorn by Tom King (Dark Horse) Fishflies by Jeff Lemire (Image) Mary Shelley’s School for Monsters: The Killing Stone by Jessica Maison (Wicked Tree) Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries (HarperAlley) The Flip Side by Jason Walz (Rocky Pond) The Stoneshore Register by G. Willow Wilson (Berger) Best Poem “To Be the Change” by Nico Martinez Nocito (Strange Horizons 3/10/25) “Though You Always Are” by Linda D. Addison & Jamal Hodge (Everything Endless) “They Said Robots Are” by Casey Aimer (Penumbric 6/25) “The World To Come” by Jennifer Hudak (Strange Horizons 12/22/25) “The Mourning Robot” by Angela Liu (Uncanny 9-10/25) “Care for Lightning” by Mari Ness (Uncanny 1-2/25) *Provisional nomination; awaiting acceptance and response on LLM-use.[end-mark] The post Here Are the Finalists for the 2025 Nebula Awards appeared first on Reactor.