A History of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Sisters of the Revolution
The stories in Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology does exactly what you’d want them to—they tear apart cliches, they question gender and it’s implications, they look at...
View ArticleThe Coode Street Podcast Episode 237: On Nebulas and More
Welcome to The Coode Street Podcast, an informal weekly discussion about science fiction and fantasy featuring award-winning critics and editors Jonathan Strahan and Gary K. Wolfe. The Coode Street...
View ArticleMidnight in Karachi Episode 22: Jeff VanderMeer
Welcome back to Midnight in Karachi, a weekly podcast about writers, publishers, editors, illustrators, their books and the worlds they create, hosted by Mahvesh Murad. Writer and editor Jeff...
View ArticleWelcome to the Neighborhood: The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015, collected by series editor John Joseph Adams and guest editor Joe Hill, has a very important job: it must bring our rocketships, our magic, our...
View ArticleReturn to Sender: Covering Dead Letters
After 499 years of public ownership, the UK’s primary postal service, namely the Royal Mail, will celebrate the 500th anniversary of its founding in 2016 as an entirely private enterprise. I’m not sure...
View ArticleA Read of Ice and Fire: “The Princess and the Queen” Part 1
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Today’s entry is Part 1 of “The...
View ArticleFiber
“One car, five cheerleaders, and a totally disregarded speed limit: these are the things that dreams are made of.” But when Heather and her friends head to a rest stop, they drive straight into the...
View ArticleA Read of Ice and Fire: “The Princess and the Queen” Part 2
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Today’s entry is Part 2 of “The...
View ArticleA Read of Ice and Fire: “The Princess and the Queen” Part 3
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Today’s entry is Part 3 of “The...
View ArticleAnimal Author Bios from Ann VanderMeer’s The Bestiary Anthology
This winter brings the release of The Bestiary, edited by Hugo Award-winning editor Ann VanderMeer. Containing 28 stories, The Bestiary is an A to Z of all-new fantastical beasts—with an ampersand...
View ArticleA Read of Ice and Fire: “The Rogue Prince”
Welcome back to A Read of Ice and Fire! Please join me as I read and react, for the very first time, to George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire. Today’s entry is “The Rogue...
View ArticleThe Seventh Sense of the Strange: Year’s Best Weird, Volume 2
Yes, we still like the Weird stuff. Much like Michael Kelly in his foreword to the Year’s Best Weird Volume 2, I don’t want to rehash last year’s review with a definition of weird fiction. Weird...
View ArticleDownload Hundreds of Free Stories by the 2016 Campbell-Eligible Authors!
Do you need something to read? Do you need two hundred and thirty somethings to read? Up and Coming, a collection of stories by 2016’s Campbell-Eligible Authors, has you covered! The anthology, edited...
View ArticleRepulsion and Revelation: The Humanity of Monsters
Monsters are everywhere. We’ve populated cultures with them, sharp-toothed, taloned, primal and all-terrifying. Hunger given mouths. Fear given nature. We invent them now, still. Sew the scales and fur...
View ArticleThe Extinction Event is Jurassic London’s Last Act
This is the end, my friends. Jurassic London, the not for profit small press founded in 2011 by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin to showcase “the continued relevance, creativity and fun to be found in...
View ArticleSubmit to This Year’s Speculative Fiction 2016, Edited by Liz Bourke and...
Book Smugglers Publishing has opened submissions for Speculative Fiction 2016, and announced the editors for this year’s anthology–Liz Bourke and Mahvesh Murad! The Speculative Fiction: the Best Online...
View ArticleClockwork Canada: Exploring the Ticking Heart of the North
I first discovered steampunk as an aesthetic, a creative outlet for artists and cosplayers to go and redraw the lines of history: open the skies to adventure on steamships and blimps. Make the world...
View ArticleThe Mighty Phin
Cybernetics. Neuroscience. Nanotechnology. Genetic engineering. Hacktivism. Transhumanism. The world of tomorrow is already here, and the technological changes we all face have inspired a new wave of...
View ArticleFive Anthologies Worth Setting Aside a Novel For
Anthologies are the under-appreciated heroes of fiction. In an increasingly time-poor world, short stories are something you can start while at the bus stop, lose yourself in during the trip to work,...
View ArticleSprawling with Stories: The Big Book of Science Fiction edited by Ann and...
The editorial duo of Jeff and Ann VanderMeer have produced several stellar collections and anthologies in recent years. The pair show a distinct skill in creating themed retrospectives; their feminist...
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