Cadwell Turnbull's new novel — the first in a trilogy — imagines the hard, uncertain work of a fantastical justice.
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Happy New Year - Welcome 2021
Read moreThe Christmas Ghost Story We Need This Year
Victorians liked to tell ghost stories around the hearth at Christmas. Here’s an old-but-timely one you can share around yours, even if it involves Zoom and/or the Yule Log channel.
Read more2020 Speculative Holiday Gift Guide from Fiction Unbound
Photo credit: Patrick A. Mackie
We’re almost done with this, um, interesting year. That in itself is cause to celebrate. (photo credit:Patrick A. Mackie)
Read moreThe Empire of Gold - Djinn Kingdom of Daevabad Falls then Rises
In this final novel of The Daevabad Trilogy, Ali, Nahri, and Dara are morally challenged beyond endurance by the rise of death magic in their beloved kingdom. How they respond changes everything.
Read moreHappy Halloween!
We’ve had enough tricks already in 2020, so here’s a treat instead.
Read moreA Spectral Revhue: Review of Craig Laurance Gidney’s Novel
Craig Laurance Gidney’s Marsh-bell Queen is half muse, half greedy ghost, and all fascinating.
Read moreA Survey Course In Fear and Wonder
There is so much out there to read, and until you get your turn in a time loop, you don’t have time to read it all to find the highlights.
Read moreThe Interrogation of Reality: Aimee Bender’s "The Butterfly Lampshade"
Butterfly Lampshade is Aimee Bender’s first novel in a decade and the follow-up book to her incredible short story collection The Color Master (2013). A book about memory and isolation that we didn’t know we needed.
Read more"Daisy Jones & The Six": A Pretend Rock Band with Real Heart
Taylor Jenkins Reid’s novel Daisy Jones & The Six is an exhilarating take on 1970s rock ‘n’ roll told in a fun and unique way. Reid pulls back the curtain on “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll” to get to the heart of the experience of female artists in this entertaining “behind-the-scenes rock documentary” about a (fictional) rock ‘n’ roll legend.
Read moreDecolonizing Speculative Fiction: Stories that Pulled Us Off Center
Still thinking about Shiv Ramdas and Ted Chiang’s Hugo/Nebula-nominated stories, “And Now His Lordship Is Laughing,” and “Omphalos”
Read moreFlights of Fancy for Your Quarantine Blues: What to Watch This Labor Day Weekend
Fiction Unbounders choose films with happy endings to recommend for your 2020 Labor Day weekend and, let’s be real, to get you through the rest of this year.
Read more“Architects of Memory” by Karen Osborne: Don’t Let the Corporations Grind You Down
Karen Osborne’s debut is part sci-fi adventure, part love story, and 100% critical of unfettered corporate capitalism.
Read more"Every Bone a Prayer" by Ashley Blooms: A Review
Every Bone a Prayer, the impressive debut novel by Ashley Blooms, is an expressionistic To Kill a Mockingbird of personal trauma.
Read more"Harrow the Ninth": A Puzzle Box of Contradictions and Reflections
Harrow the Ninth, second book in the Locked Tomb trilogy, is out on August 4th 2020
Guest contributor Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko reviews Tamsyn Muir’s sequel to “Gideon the Ninth.” Sequels are famously difficult and there is a lot of advice on doing it right. “Harrow the Ninth” is a book which looks at this advice, steeples its fingers together, and says, “Watch this.”
Read moreThe Anya DeNiro Game
A look back at Anya DeNiro’s mind-bending weird fiction collection, Tyrannia and Other Renditions.
Read more"The Glass Hotel" by Emily St. John Mandel: A Review
The new novel from the author of Station Eleven is eerily relevant, and it’s not even about a pandemic this time.
Read moreThe Book of Dragons: Dragons of all Creeds, Temperaments and Worlds
the anthology compiled by Jonathan Strahan for Harper-Voyager, available beginning July 7, 2020.
A diverse collection of sci fi and fantasy stories and poems about Western and Eastern dragons and their relationships with families and humans, blood and gold.
Read moreResistance Is Not Futile: On Jeff VanderMeer’s “Dead Astronauts” and Fighting the Good Fight
In a world on the brink of collapse, a quest to save the future, one defeat at a time.
Read more"Engines Beneath Us" by Malcom Devlin: A Review
Cover Art for Engines Beneath Us by Malcom Devlin. Art by Richard Wagner. Description: Close-up of a boy’s face. His eyes are bright blue and pierce the dark shadow over half of his face. He is foregrounded by a chain-link fence that dissolves in the shadow on his face. Behind him is complicated machinery that looks like a scene of boilers and exhaust pipes with an industrial walkway.
Looking for your next read? Check out Malcom Devlin’s Engines Beneath Us available now from TTA Press.
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