"Wonderland": Inspired by Alice's Adventures

November 22, 2019 Gemma Webster

Cover Art for Wonderland edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane from Titan Books. Image features a white rabbit wearing a ruffled collar his jacket is patterned with dripping blood-red hearts. He is holding a Mad Hatter hat and a flamingo. At his fee… — Cover Art for *Wonderland* edited by Marie O’Regan and Paul Kane from Titan Books. Image features a white rabbit wearing a ruffled collar his jacket is patterned with dripping blood-red hearts. He is holding a Mad Hatter hat and a flamingo. At his feet are a little Jabberwocky and roses, a deck of cards cascades down the left side.

If you love Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland you won’t want to miss this anthology, a collection of seventeen original works that will make you reexamine your own relationship to Wonderland.

The Written Word as Superpower in "The Ten Thousand Doors of January"

November 8, 2019 CH Lips

In Hugo Award-winner Alix E. Harrow’s debut novel, ordinary doors open to ordinary spaces and capital D Doors open to other worlds.

Dream House as Rave Review

November 1, 2019 The Unbound Writers

Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-bending memoir is a formally dazzling and emotionally acute testimony of an abusive queer relationship.

"Made Things": Puppets and Puppetmasters, Seeking the Spark of Life

October 25, 2019 C.S. Peterson

The world of Fountains Parish is a delightfully dark steampunk fantasy, where making friends takes on every shade of meaning. Homunculi, golem, AI, human—the difference between the spark of life that comes by way of magic and the one that comes from nature might not be as big as you think.

"Homesick" by Nino Cipri: The Thing With Feathers

October 18, 2019 Amanda Baldeneaux

Nino 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.

"The Dragon Republic" - An Atypical Heroine's Journey in War-Torn China

October 10, 2019 Lisa Mahoney

The difficult details about real traumas China suffered in the early 20th century make this widely-praised trilogy uniquely interesting. The unusual fantasy elements and atypical heroine’s journey are bonuses.

Pryia Sharma's "Ormeshadow": A Review

October 4, 2019 Gemma Webster

Ormeshadow book cover. Image description: a golden “O” floats above the a photograph of seaside cliffs. Cover Design by Henry Sene Yee. Photo from Shutterstock.com. — *Ormeshadow* book cover. Image description: a golden “O” floats above the a photograph of seaside cliffs. Cover Design by Henry Sene Yee. Photo from Shutterstock.com.

You won’t want to miss the latest from Priya Sharma. Ormeshadow is a quick read that packs an emotional punch.

Book Review: Catherynne M. Valente's "Space Opera" is Manic Fun for Sci-Fi Lovers

September 27, 2019 Danyelle Overbo

Finalist for 2019 Hugo Award for Best Novel, Catherynne M. Valente’s Space Opera is well worth checking out. Fiction Unbound dives into this science fiction story about an intergalactic Eurovision contest that will determine the fate of humanity.

Punk for a New Day

September 13, 2019 Theodore McCombs

Sarah Pinsker’s debut novel sings the joys of connection and the discontent of sticking it to the Man.

"All The Things We Never See" by Michael Kelly: A Review

September 8, 2019 Gemma Webster

Cover art for All The Things We Never See. Art by David Álvarez Design by Vince Haig. Description: black and white drawing of three men huddled in one large jacket, only their eyes and noses are visible, they look like they are up to something. Book… — Cover art for *All The Things We Never See.* Art by David Álvarez Design by Vince Haig. Description: black and white drawing of three men huddled in one large jacket, only their eyes and noses are visible, they look like they are up to something. Book title printed on the jacket in yellow dots.

Don’t miss this latest release from Undertow Publications: All The Things We Never See by Michael Kelly. It will have you itching to create, which will be a good use of the time you used to spend sleeping.

Computational Philosophy: Ted Chiang’s Stories as Engines of Inquiry

August 9, 2019 Theodore McCombs

Ted Chiang’s second collection of award-winning stories, reviewed.

On Loving Monsters and The Human Condition

August 3, 2019 Gemma Webster

Description: A fox headed woman holds surgical scissors like a knife in front of the darkened open door way that reveals the story collection title. Book Cover of Sing Your Sadness Deep by Laura Mauro. Art by Stephen Mackey. Jacket Design by Vince H… — Description: A fox headed woman holds surgical scissors like a knife in front of the darkened open door way that reveals the story collection title. Book Cover of *Sing Your Sadness Deep* by Laura Mauro. Art by Stephen Mackey. Jacket Design by Vince Haig.

A Review of the excellent Sing Your Sadness Deep by British Fantasy Award winner and Shirley Jackson Award finalist Laura Mauro.

Body Parts in Transit: Sarah Rose Etter's "The Book of X"

July 12, 2019 Theodore McCombs

Sarah Rose Etter’s The Book of X radically disassembles womanhood into its surreal parts.

Give Peace a Chance, But Not Yet

June 14, 2019 Theodore McCombs

Cadwell Turnbull’s debut novel cannily explores cycles of violence through an alien occupation of the Virgin Islands.

Kelly Link and the Dilemma of Wishes

June 7, 2019 CH Lips

In her Pulitzer Prize nominated collection, Get in Trouble, Link delves into the delights and perils of being granted your heart’s desire.

LeVar Burton Reads Speculative Fiction

May 24, 2019 The Unbound Writers

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.

"This House of Wounds" by Georgina Bruce: A Review

May 18, 2019 Gemma Webster

The beautiful and utterly dangerous cover art for This House of Wounds by Georgina Bruce. Original artwork by Catrin Welz-Stein, jacket design by Vince Haig. A beautifully dressed pale white woman wearing a masquerade mask, her hair adorned with fan… — The beautiful and utterly dangerous cover art for This House of Wounds by Georgina Bruce. Original artwork by Catrin Welz-Stein, jacket design by Vince Haig. A beautifully dressed pale white woman wearing a masquerade mask, her hair adorned with fancy flowers, face serene and rib cage exposed and filled with flowers.

If you are interested in the themes of mirrors and mothers, bodies as machines, daughters and madness, flowers and blood, then Georgina Bruce’s debut story collection is for you!

Novella Finalists for the 2018 Nebula Award

May 10, 2019 The Unbound Writers

Fiction Unbound explores the fresh voices and exciting ideas that are the novellas nominated by SWFA members for the Nebula Awards. No predictions.

"The Mere Wife" by Maria Dahvana Headley

May 3, 2019 Amanda Baldeneaux

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.

Novelette Finalists for the 2018 Nebula Award

April 19, 2019 The Unbound Writers

Fiction Unbound’s celebration of Nebula Award nominees continues. This week, a collection of slightly longer SF/F confections: novelettes. Come for the alternate histories, stay for the reincarnation and romance.