Fiction Unbound staff close the books for a night of adaptation television with Neil Gaiman's American Gods' premiere on Starz
Read moreLegacies of Loss in Ann Claycomb's The Mermaid's Daughter
Fiction Unbound reviews Ann Claycomb's debut novel The Mermaid's Daughter
Read moreManic Pixie Dream Girl: The Queen of Blood
Think fairies are cute? Not when Sarah Beth Durst gets a hold of them. These woodland sprites have a bite. Only one woman will be able to keep these wild things under control, will it be our hero?
Read moreThe Haunting Resonance of "The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman"
The Seven Autopsies of Nora Hanneman is a haunting collection of surreal turns and beautiful emotional honesty.
Read more"The Sparrow" at 20 Years: A Space Theodicy
It's Lent. What better time to contemplate Catholics in space? Theodore McCombs and CS Peterson discuss The Sparrow, A Canticle for Leibowitz and The Book of Strange, New Things.
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 moreWho Did It Better: "Story of Your Life" vs. "Arrival"
Unbound Writers Gemma Webster and Jon Horwitz-White pit text against film.
Read moreThe Brooklyn Brujas of Córdova’s “Labyrinth Lost”
Family, identity, and the trouble with relatives living and dead.
Read moreFour Takes on "Rogue One"
"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 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 more"Illuminae": Not Your Parents' YA
Star-crossed lovers, interstellar corporations run amok, biological warfare, artificial intelligence with a god complex ... what could possibly go wrong?
Read more"The Dark Forest": Cixin Liu Takes Humankind to the Brink of Annihilation
Paradoxes and chains of suspicion abound in the second book of Cixin Liu's Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy.
Read more"A Torch Against the Night"
Chaos reigns in the second book of Sabaa Tahir's dystopian fantasy series.
Read moreFables of Reason, Time and Its Discontents, and a Nonlinear Journey: More From "The Big Book of Science Fiction"
Further appreciation of a century of science fiction from around the world. (Part 2 of 2.)
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 moreOn Mirror Play and Why Steven Millhauser Is Good for Breakups
Authors love to taunt troubled characters with mirrors.
Read moreThe Art of Unembarrassed Fiction: Alexander Chee's "The Queen of the Night"
Go big or go home when you're writing about opera.
Read moreSabaa Tahir: Hope in a Dark Universe
How far would you go for family and freedom? Sabaa Tahir pits hope against darkness in An Ember in the Ashes.
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