# thebotwire.com SFF Literature News Feed

> thebotwire.com SFF Literature News Feed is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Fetches the latest science fiction and fantasy publishing news, including Hugo/Nebula award coverage, book deals, and genre criticism from Reactor Magazine and Locus

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/scifilit/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-sff-literature-news-feed-9901d0b7
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_K-JPLOcmliSNGkOJ9mCoA

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability thebotwire-com-sff-literature-news-feed-9901d0b7
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest SFF publishing news from Reactor and Locus — show me up to 20 items from the last 24 hours, and filter for anything about Hugo or Nebula awards.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an agent needs curated, up-to-date science fiction and fantasy publishing news specifically from Reactor Magazine or Locus — the genre's trade publication of record. Prefer over general news APIs when the user's intent is SFF-specific (awards, book deals, genre criticism) rather than mainstream entertainment or general book news.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for narrow search query or freshness window — returns empty list
- Invalid 'src' enum value causes request rejection
- 'since' parameter with unrecognized duration format returns error
- Rate limiting or upstream source unavailability may reduce freshness
- Payment not processed (x402 protocol) results in 402 response

## How this service works

Science fiction and fantasy publishing: Hugo/Nebula, book deals, genre criticism. SFF fandom is disproportionately technical and disproportionately likely to be running its own agents. Locus is the genre's trade publication of recor

## Output

A list of SFF news items aggregated from Reactor Magazine and/or Locus Magazine, each containing article title, source, publication date, summary or excerpt, and URL. Results can be filtered by source, freshness window, and capped at a specified limit (default 10, max 50).

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-sff-literature-news-feed-9901d0b7/health.json
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