Fake news gets super real.
Read MorePunk for a New Day
Sarah Pinsker’s debut novel sings the joys of connection and the discontent of sticking it to the Man.
Read MoreAll The Things We Never See by Michael Kelly: A Review
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.
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 MoreDestroying Books ... Without a Grand Plan to Repress Knowledge
![Rulers have been trying to repress knowledge since at least 213 BC. “Killing the Scholars and Burning the Books,” Anonymous, 18th century Chinese painted album leaf; Bibliothèque nationale Paris [Public domain]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5495fc96e4b0d669a5b4ba80/1566565533256-TZO9BFX3DIYXYFMW2XK9/ke17ZwdGBToddI8pDm48kL7N-gy-BgPjOOy4dz7UOF1Zw-zPPgdn4jUwVcJE1ZvWQUxwkmyExglNqGp0IvTJZUJFbgE-7XRK3dMEBRBhUpzQMcvy79kSKJZEVrx28_bbT_YycONWc3zuRMaziKOoS9T92aOd2QuIsqRpUuujmDM/Screen+Shot+2019-08-23+at+7.03.58+AM.png)
Rulers have been trying to repress knowledge since at least 213 BC. “Killing the Scholars and Burning the Books,” Anonymous, 18th century Chinese painted album leaf; Bibliothèque nationale Paris [Public domain]
Big corporations are destroying your books without explanation, probably because hosting the platform isn’t as profitable as expected.
Read MoreA Clarion West Field Report
C.S. Peterson returns from the writer’s paradise of Clarion West and reflects on risk, roller coasters, and relationships.
Read MoreComputational Philosophy: Ted Chiang’s Stories as Engines of Inquiry
Ted Chiang’s second collection of award-winning stories, reviewed.
Read MoreOn Loving Monsters and The Human Condition
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.
Read MoreHot Stories for Hot Days
Cooking in Paris. (photo credit: Rob Potvin)
Yes, it’s hot. We say, embrace it! Our editors recommend four stories, out this summer, that sizzle with neurotech and mindships, gunslingers and tornadoes. As an added bonus you’ll have indisputable reason to participate in National Coffee Milkshake Day.
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 MoreBody Parts in Transit: Sarah Rose Etter's "The Book of X"
Sarah Rose Etter’s The Book of X radically disassembles womanhood into its surreal parts.
Read MoreHappy 4th of July!
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!
Read MoreOur Favorite Reads for Summer, 2019 Edition
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.
Read MoreGive Peace a Chance, But Not Yet
Cadwell Turnbull’s debut novel cannily explores cycles of violence through an alien occupation of the Virgin Islands.
Read MoreKelly Link and the Dilemma of Wishes
In her Pulitzer Prize nominated collection, Get in Trouble, Link delves into the delights and perils of being granted your heart’s desire.
Read MoreSummer Fun at Shakespeare Festivals: Our Favorite Speculative Fiction from the Bard
If you are looking for an amazing theater experience this summer, look no further than your local Shakespeare festival. Shakespeare’s plays are seriously fun speculative fiction the whole family can enjoy. Not sure what to see? The Fiction Unbounders have some recommendations to get you started.
Read MoreLeVar Burton Reads Speculative Fiction
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.
Read MoreThis House of Wounds by Georgina Bruce: A Review
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!
Read MoreNovella Finalists for the 2018 Nebula Award
Fiction Unbound explores the fresh voices and exciting ideas that are the novellas nominated by SWFA members for the Nebula Awards. No predictions.
Read MoreThe Mere Wife by Maria Dahvana Headley
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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