The Unbound Writers review and revel in the newest Marvel super hero film: Black Panther
Read more"Strange the Dreamer": Tired of Killing
In Liani Taylor's lyrical and dark fantasy, killing your enemies doesn't solve anything and there are no easy answers.
Read moreUrsula K. Le Guin: A Retrospective
Ursula K. Le Guin. 21 October 1929 – 22 January 2018. Photo by Eileen Gunn.
Le Guin dreamed whole realities that forced us to reexamine assumptions we took for granted, and to see new ways forward.
Read moreCompletely Atrocious Speculative Valentine's Day Recommendations
Tremble before the Cyclopean obscenity of our Valentine's Day recommendations!
Read moreThere’s Always Time for Time Travel
From recent takes to enduring classics, we love time travel stories.
Read moreOdd Couples: "The Shape of Water," "Selkie Stories Are for Losers"
Pairing Guillermo del Toro's water monster romance with Sofia Samatar's celebrated 2013 selkie story.
Read moreThe Wild, Raging Girl
River Tam, not using her words in Firefly.
Wild, raging girls seem to be everywhere these days, from movies like Logan to books like The Girl with All the Gifts.
Read moreOur New Year's (Literary) Resolutions: We're Ready for 2018!
Here at Fiction Unbound, we're ready for 2018. Are you? Here are our literary New Year's resolutions and a look back at our personal moments and favorite books of 2017.
Read more"The Last Jedi" — Where We Stand
The Last Jedi turns expectations upside down and fans inside out.
Read more2017 Best of Fiction Unbound
The Unbound Writers look back on the wild ride that was 2017 and gear up for what comes next.
Read moreHappy Holidays 2017
Star Wars holiday art by Scott Park © 2011.
Some holiday traditions are better than others.
Read moreCold-Weather Classics
When the weather outside gets frightful, make the most of the atmosphere by treating yourself to one of these cold-weather classics of speculative fiction.
Read moreRevisiting "The Buried Giant": Still More Thoughts on Ishiguro's Latest
In honor of Ishiguro's Nobel lecture last night, we revisit our woolly musings on 2015's The Buried Giant.
Read moreWe Want to Experience These Great Reads on our Screens
Everybody loves SF/F adaptations these days. We'd like to see these.
Read moreThe Fiction Unbound Speculative Holiday Gift Guide for 2017
The Unbound Writers picked their favorites to recommend books that will see you and your friends and families through the holiday season and beyond.
Read moreThe Heroine’s Journey: Beyond the Bindings of the Western Tradition
S.A. Chakraborty's debut novel sweeps readers away on a flying carpet to the magical city of Daevabad, where Cairo orphan Nahri will learn the truth - both the incredible and the ugly - about her family's history.
Read more"Dark Matter" [Spoiler] Review: Blake Crouch’s Science Fiction Thriller Delves into the Multiverse
Blake Crouch's Dark Matter is a light science fiction adventure about the road not traveled. Let's dive in!
Read more"The Half-Drowned King": Sailing the Viking Seas
Need an epic fix while you wait for the Game of Thrones finale? Look no further than the beauty and bluntly rendered brutality of Linnea Hartsuyker's adrenaline-fueled historical novel set in ninth-century Norway.
Read moreHalloween Horror Reading Recommendations: Tricks and Treats
The Unbound Writers go trick-or-treating down Memory Lane for Halloween horror recommendations.
Read moreBundle Up for Joe Hill's "Strange Weather"
Read Strange Weather with a nice warm blanket you can hide under.
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