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Grab your sweeties and give ‘em a gift of literature! Image — Boston : L. Prang & Co. [Public domain]
Considering ridding yourself of your semi-sweet? Give them a speculative test. Do they love these nuggets as much as you should? If so, consider keeping them around. In whatever form.
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Flocks of red birds haunt a school where girls are shaped by the desires of others. Clare Beams examines the creeping horror of growing up female.
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Books are the perfect gift and we’ve got suggestions for everyone on your list.
Read moreNino Cipri’s short story collection, Homesick, explores the impact of the things that haunt us and how, most often, that thing is the true self we most wish to deny.
Read moreFake news gets super real.
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Photo of fireworks behind tree, turquoise sky. Photo by Julie Tupas on Unsplash
Happy 4th of July! The Unbound Writers are taking the week off but have left you a little something fun: staff kudos and zombies loving fireworks!
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Want to wander the stars instead of the beach this summer? Travel in time? Discover something remarkable? We’ve got you covered with our latest round of recommendations.
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LeVar Burton carries on the bright legacy of his show Reading Rainbow with his podcast, LeVar Burton Reads. We selected a few of our favorite speculative fiction stories from his collection of episodes to recommend.
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Headley’s retelling of Beowulf through the eyes of Grendel’s mother and Hrothgar’s wife takes on epic heroes, American veterans with PTSD, gentrification, the monstrosity of racism, and Edward Scissorhands.
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For Black History Month, some favorite short stories by new and classic black SF/F writers.
Read moreIt’s time for the Fiction Unbound 3rd annual roundup of speculative fiction recommendations to gift your beloved. Sure to please.*
*Not a legally binding guarantee.
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The new year - fresh and crisp as an ancient glacier. Lake Fryxel, in the Transantarctic Mountains. Photo credit: National Science Foundation.
It’s been a year. Our contributors look back on the Fiction Unbound highlights of 2018.
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Photo credit: Winter dawn by Carmel Mawle
The holidays are here again. The days are short and the nights are long. Best stock up on stories that will see you through the long dark.
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Samantha Hunt, Haunting of Hill House promotional poster, Theodore McCombs
Parenting is risky business, more so when ghosts take an uninvited co-parenting role.
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Jane Yolen’s novel-in-verse, Finding Baba Yaga, arrives just in time for the season of the witch.
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To mark summer’s midpoint, here are a few of the best speculative short stories Amanda has read since summer’s inauguration back in June.
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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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Our editors share their thoughts on Lit Fest 2018 in Denver.
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Who doesn't like snow cones in summertime?
Grab a frosty beverage and head to the hammock or the beach with one of these great speculative summer reads!
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An interview with Tiffany Quay Tyson.
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