This Friday the 13th the Fiction Unbounders discuss their favorite Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and how these tales became the source material for favorite childhood nightmares.
Read more"Tool of War": Blood Is Not Destiny
Paolo Bacigalupi, Tool of War. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2017.
Paolo Bacigalupi's Tool of War examines questions of biological determinism, free will and the unforeseen consequences of genetic engineering.
Read moreBest High Fantasy Literature: An Ode to Patricia A. McKillip
If you have a craving for lush, high-fantasy there is no one better than Patricia A. McKillip
Read moreCarmen Maria Machado's New Gothic: "Her Body and Other Parties"
Carmen Maria Machado's astonishing short story collection queers reality itself.
Read moreInvite The Twilight Pariah Into Your Imagination
The Twilight Pariah, part ghost story, part murder mystery, swings from the craftily conventional to the truly inventive.
Read moreFiction Unbound Reviews: Best Online Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazines
Whether reading online or listening to podcasts during your commute, some of the best writing in speculative fiction is debuting in online venues.
Read more"Logan" and "Hillbilly Elegy": The Bewilderment of the Blue-Collar Hero
What do Logan, the noir-Western superhero film featuring the classic brooding antihero of the X-Men, and Hillbilly Elegy, the memoir by J.D. Vance, have in common? Put on some Jonny Cash, pour yourself a bourbon and let's talk.
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 moreA Clarion Field Report
An Unbound writer comes back from the Clarion SF/F Writers Workshop and into a dystopian moment.
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 more“Borne”: A Biotech-Apocalypse Love Story
Jeff VanderMeer's new novel is a rare science fiction treasure.
Read moreEllen Datlow Is Virgil in Your Journey to the Underworld
No one is reading more dark fiction than Ellen Datlow. Her knowledge of the horror genre is deeper than mine or yours.
Read moreThe Fairy Tales of Helen Oyeyemi: A Closer Look at "Is Your Blood as Red as This"
Helen Oyeyemi proving once again that she is a magical fairy tale spinner with her short story collection, What is Not Yours is Not Yours.
Read more"The Reluctant Queen": Durst's Woodland World Comes of Age
In the second book of Sarah Beth Durst's The Queens of Renthia fantasy series, an ordinary woman finds that to save her family she may first have to save the world.
Read moreIn "Mapping the Interior," Native Fathers and Sons, Haunted by the Past
Native American ghost story? Psychological thriller? Portrait of a young mind struggling to cope with unspeakable grief and existential rage? Stephen Graham Jones's haunting novella is all of the above, and more.
Read more"Death's End": Cixin Liu's Masterpiece Trilogy, Concluded
Death's End brings Chinese science fiction luminary Cixin Liu's mind-blowing trilogy to its inevitable and spectacular end.
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.
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