How far would you go for family and freedom? Sabaa Tahir pits hope against darkness in An Ember in the Ashes.
Read morePaolo Bacigalupi: Chilling Worlds of Warning
Paolo Bacigalupi, photo © JT Thomas Photography
Paolo Bacigalupi, the master of the dire sci-fi future, visits Fiction Unbound to talk about black-swan events, speculative fiction's power to contextualize the present, and what he has learned about his own creative process.
Read moreThe Future of the Princess: Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles
In The Lunar Chronicles, Marissa Meyer re-imagines four classic princesses and their associated princes. With the five-book series now complete, it's time to unpack these princesses and see what patterns, new and old, have emerged in their heroic journeys.
Read moreRevolt 1680/2180: Past as Prologue
"Revolt 1680/2180" is on view at the Denver Art Museum until May 1, 2016. Installation view of Revolt 1680/2180: Virgil Ortiz, © Virgil Ortiz.
In "Revolt 1680/2180," an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum, artist Virgil Ortiz explores a post-apocalyptic world informed by the Pueblo Rebellion of 1680, where the future echoes the past.
Read moreSidekicks: A Speculative Fiction Anthology for MileHiCon
Sidekicks is available on Amazon - perfect gift for the speculative fan on your list.
Sidekicks have always remained in the shadow of the hero...until now. MileHiCon's first speculative fiction anthology knocks it out of the park!
Read more"MaddAddam": Telling Stories to Survive
After the apocalypse, then what? Life ends, and life goes on in Margaret Atwood's MaddAddam, the finale to her post-apocalyptic trilogy.
Read moreABOVE US ONLY SKY: An Interview With Author Michele Young-Stone
Prudence Vilkas was born with wings in 1973 Nashville. The doctors said they were a birth defect and her wings were surgically removed leaving small scars on her shoulders. But the ghost of her wings remains and ties her to generations of winged women across the sea. Author Michele Young-Stone and CS Peterson sit down to talk about winged women, historic horror, transcendence and the craft of writing.
Read moreNeil Gaiman's TRIGGER WARNING: Ghost Stories Fit for Summer Campfires
Neil Gaiman’s most recent collection of short stories are calculated to chill to the bone. The collection is appropriately titled Trigger Warning. Triggers, Gaiman says in the introduction, refer to “those images or words or ideas that drop like trapdoors beneath us, throwing us out of our safe, sane, world into a place much more dark and less welcoming.” So, beware. The book is chock full of stories that would do well at a summer camp for adults, sitting around the campfire, engaged in a friendly competition to frighten each other to jelly before bedtime.
Read moreWhale Riding
Paikea is also the Maori word for the humpback whale. Photo: U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Public Domain.
Many people have read Witi Ihimaera's book, Whale Rider, or seen the movie adaptation of the same name. Paikea’s whale riding legend informs the story throughout as the original whale rider. But there is more to the tale than just Paikea riding a whale.
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