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Read moreHugo Award Winners 2017
Rounding out our coverage of the 2017 Hugo winners, with special congratulations to Lois McMaster Bujold for winning the first-ever "Best Series" Hugo Award.
Read more"The Art of Starving": Speculative Fiction and the Unreliable Narrator
In Miller's poignant debut novel the power to control and the power to discover truth are superhuman abilities in a world where everything is in doubt.
Read moreHugo Awards Coverage Part II: Short Story Nominees
The Unbound Writers appreciate Hugo Award nominee short stories.
Read more2017 Hugo Awards Coverage Part I: Nominees for Best Novella
This week we take a peek at the year’s best novellas. The Unbound Writers threw the titles of the Hugo Award nominations for Best Novella into a hat and passed it around. We found they're all worth a read.
Read moreIn “The Refrigerator Monologues,” Valente Lets the Fridged Girlfriends Scream
Catherynne M. Valente's salty collection of comic-book women in refrigerators, reviewed.
Read more2017 Summer Reading Recommendations in Speculative Fiction from Fiction Unbound
Fiction Unbound's 2017 summer reading recommendations. Look no further for great speculative fiction to dive into this summer.
Read more"Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman and Viking Relics
Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology pairs perfectly with a visit to “Vikings: Beyond the Legend” at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
Read more"American Gods": The Mythology of an Accepting America
Neil Gaiman photo credit: BBC
Fiction Unbound staff close the books for a night of adaptation television with Neil Gaiman's American Gods' premiere on Starz
Read moreThe Ghosts of Cambodia
Five apsaras, heavenly spirits of the clouds and the waters, from the walls of Angkor Wat. Photo by Lisa Mahoney. 2017
At the cultural crossroads of Cambodian folklore, belief and speculative literature, with emerging author Kay Chronister
Read moreAbsolutely Terrible Speculative Valentine's Day Recommendations
Need some book recommendations for Valentine's Day? Well, frak, don't ask us.
Read more"The Expanse": Syfy's Ambitious TV Series Fulfills Devoted Readers' High Hopes
"The Expanse" frightens and thrills with a plot as old as literature: an unstoppable monster threatens to kill everyone but is resisted by imperfect heroes.
Read more2016 Unbound: The Year in Review
Our favorite books and posts from Year Two.
Read more"Adventures in Zookeeping": Zookeepers Troubled by Supremacy
Fiction Unbound attended MileHiCon and Unbound Writers Lisa Mahoney and CS Peterson contributed to its fund-raising anthology, “Adventures in Zookeeping".
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Fanatics Destroy Democracy in Real Life and in "The Fate of the Tearling"
Fiction Unbound interviews Erika Johansen about the role of religion in a democracy, the rise of powerful women protagonists, and more.
Read moreYour Speculative Holiday Gift Guide for 2016
The sun doesn't last long this time of year! Iw.F. Choultsé 1920
Magic and miracles on a long dark night. We recommend some great books to keep you and yours company until the sun returns.
Read more"Cyber World": Cyberpunk Is Dead. Long Live Cyberpunk.
Think cyberpunk is passé? Think again. Nisi Shawl, Paolo Bacigalupi, Saladin Ahmed and others reboot the genre in this collection of tales of humanity's tomorrow.
Read moreCross-Cultural Fables: A Field Report from Bhutan
Lisa Mahoney looks for common themes in Bhutanese folktales and finds... the phallus town.
Read more"The Big Book of Science Fiction"
A century of science fiction stories from around the world, collected in an anthology so expansive our editors need two weeks to fully appreciate it. (Part 1 of 2.)
Read moreThe Last Days of Magic: Come for the Fairies, Stay for the Research
A decentralized recounting of the English and Catholic conquest of Ireland and its faeries, Celts, and native religions as told through the stories of dozens of characters.
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