Reactor‘s Most Iconic SF of the Century

Works in Translation

• Tender Is the Flesh, Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses (Scribner)
• I’m Waiting For You and Other Stories, Kim Bo-Young, translated by Sophie Bowman and Sung Ryu (Harper Voyager)
• Cursed Bunny: Stories, Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
• Our Share of Night, Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell (Hogarth)
• Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell (Hogarth)
• Shubeik Lubeik, Deena Mohamed (Pantheon)
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel (Vintage)
• Earthlings, Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori (Grove)
• Fever Dream, Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell (Riverhead)
• Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation, Mo Xiang Tong Xiu, translated by Suika and Pengie (Seven Seas)

Anthologies

• Brave New Worlds, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Night Shade)
• Loosed Upon the World: The Saga Anthology of Climate Fiction, John Joseph Adams, ed. (Saga)
• Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, Adrienne Maree Brown & Walidah Imarisha, ed. (AK)
• Diverse Energies, Tobias S. Buckell & Joe Monti, eds. (Tu)
• Reworlding Ramallah: Short Science Fiction Stories from Palestine, Callum Copley, eds, (Onomatopee)
• Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., eds. (Vintage)
• Night of the Living Queers, Shelly Page & Alex Brown, ed. (Wednesday)
• New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color, Nisi Shawl, ed. (Solaris)
• Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, Sheree Renee Thomas, ed. (Aspect)
• Love After The End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, Joshua Whitehead, ed. (Arsenal Pulp)

Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels

• Parasocial, Alex De Campi & Erica Henderson (Image)
• XXXHolic, CLAMP (Kodansha)
• Hawkeye, Matt Fraction & David Aja (Marvel)
• DIE, Kieron Gillen & Stephanie Hans (Image Comics)
• House of X/Powers of X, Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, & R.B. Silva (Marvel)
• Uzumaki, Junji Ito (Viz)
• Monstress, Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda (Image
• Inuyasha, Rumiko Takahashi (Viz)
• 20th Century Boys, Naoki Urasawa (Viz)
• No Normal, Ms. Marvel Vol. 1, G. Willow Wilson & Adrian Alphona (Marvel)

Hidden Gems

• Arboreality, Rebecca Campbell (Stelliform)
• The Ghost Bride, Yangsze Choo (William Morrow)
• Court of Fives, Kate Elliott (Little, Brown)
• Come Closer, Sara Gran (Hell’s Hundred)
• Tender Morsels, Margo Lanagan (Rh Childrens)
• Midnight Doorways, Usman Malik (Hachette India)
• In Other Lands, Sarah Rees Brennan (Big Mouth)
• Confessions of the Fox, Jordy Rosenberg (One World)
• Tender, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer)
• Central Station, Lavie Tidhar (Tachyon)

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