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 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 moreThe Anya DeNiro Game
A look back at Anya DeNiro’s mind-bending weird fiction collection, Tyrannia and Other Renditions.
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 moreUtopias and Nightmares: Stories of Omelas
The Nightmare. Henry Fuseli, 1781. A very white woman, a very dark nightmare.
What could be more speculative at this moment than a vision of utopia? Utopia’s are hard to write. First, there’s convincing the reader that it’s possible at all. Contributor C.S. Peterson explores the haunting utopian visions of N. K. Jemisin, Ursula K. Le Guin, Aliette de Bodard, and S.L. Huang
Read moreA Tale of Two Pandemics in Erie, CO
Find meaning and beauty in the midst, and aftermath, of pandemic in Peter Heller’s The Dog Stars.
Read moreDead Dogs and Final Girls: An Interview with Stephen Graham Jones
The stories of award-winning author Stephen Graham Jones are brimming with heart, hurt, humor, and gallons and gallons of blood. Fiction Unbound contributor C.S. Peterson talks with Mr. Jones to talk about monsters, his newest novel, and why the dogs never survive.
Read moreCelebrating Black Speculative Fiction 2020
Mark Bradford, Realness, 2016. Mixed media on canvas; 108.25 x 168.5 in. Denver Art Museum Collection
For Black History Month, some favorite short stories and novels by new and classic black SF/F writers.
Read more“The Rise of Skywalker”: A Problematic Journey
The Star Wars saga never fails to ignite passionate debate. Fiction Unbound contributors Corey Dahl and C. S. Peterson talk about the troubled template of Campbell’s hero’s journey and what The Rise of Skywalker says about where we are on our quest.
Read moreCelebrating Native American Speculative Fiction: Some Favorites
In honor of Native American Heritage Month, we recommend a few of our favorite Native American speculative fiction writers and stories.
Read moreAdventures in Alternate Realities: The 2019 Philip K. Dick Fest and Dreaming Androids
Portrait of Philip K. Dick by New Orleans artist, Brent Houzenga. Exhibited on August 9, 2019 along with many of his other works for the 2nd International Philip K. Dick Festival at the Center for the Arts and Community Enrichment, Fort Morgan, CO.
Two ways to appreciate the prolific, Hugo-award winning Philip K. Dick: attend the 2nd International Philip K. Dick Festival and revisit one of his most popular novels.
Read moreComputational Philosophy: Ted Chiang’s Stories as Engines of Inquiry
Ted Chiang’s second collection of award-winning stories, reviewed.
Read moreNovels of No-Self
Author Jim Ringel discovers in Scott Smith’s The Ruins, Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation, and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian a different kind of eco-fiction.
Read moreNon-Western Fantasies Are Finally Getting the Attention They Deserve
Non-Western fantasies increase readers’ understanding of diverse histories and cultures in an increasingly xenophobic age.
Read moreThomas Ligotti and the Derangement of Creation
An underappreciated master of horror, appreciated.
Read moreCelebrating Black Speculative Fiction: Some Favorites
For Black History Month, some favorite short stories by new and classic black SF/F writers.
Read moreAverting Literary Extinction Events: An Appreciation of Undertow Publications
Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume Five Edited by Robert Shearman and Michael Kelly
Undertow Publications is a small press that has won the Shirley Jackson award for best edited anthology. Their lauded anthology, Year’s Best Weird Fiction went from endangered to extinct with Volume 5. Come celebrate this beautiful volume and learn about this press, which despite this set back, has amazing books on offer this year.
Read more"The Hazel Wood": Interrogating the European Fairy Tale
Melissa Albert’s debut novel cuts to the bone of European fairy tales to find the essence of nightmares: horrors that are both seductive and disturbing.
Read more“The Strange Bird”
Jeff VanderMeer’s spare, heartbreaking novella soars through the world of Borne.
Read moreBinti is back! Celebrating the new hardcover editions
We love Binti! We’re celebrating the re-release of Okorafor’s Hugo and Nebula award-winning trilogy in beautiful hardcover editions with an appreciation of the difficulties involved in coming of age, intergalactic exploration, and saving the world, all at the same time.
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