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Personal Narratives and the Eye of the Beholder: Julie Buffalohead at the Denver Art Museum

December 7, 2018 C.S. Peterson
Julie Buffalohead (Ponca), Black Snake Memory, 2018. Oil paint on canvas; 60 x 84 in. Courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery.

Julie Buffalohead (Ponca), Black Snake Memory, 2018. Oil paint on canvas; 60 x 84 in. Courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery.

Artist Julie Buffalohead creates narrative images layered with personal meaning, while she invites the viewer in, leaving of room for the mysterious.

Image: Julie Buffalohead (Ponca), A Little Medicine and Magic, 2018. Oil on canvas; 52 x 72 in. Courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery. Image courtesy of Julie Buffalohead and Bockley Gallery

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In Curiosities, Speculations Tags Julie Buffalohead, Art, CS Peterson, Interview, interview
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"Mechanical Animals": An Anthology of Animal Automata, Old and New

November 30, 2018 The Unbound Writers
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Biomimicry abounds in this themed collection of new and classic science fiction “at the crux of creatures and tech,” from Hex Publishers.

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In Reviews Tags Science Fiction, Mark Springer, Lisa Mahoney, Carrie Vaughn, Hans Christian Anderson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hex Publishers, Jason Heller
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The Fiction Unbound Speculative Holiday Gift Guide for 2018

November 23, 2018 The Unbound Writers
Photo credit: Winter dawn by Carmel Mawle

Photo credit: Winter dawn by Carmel Mawle

The holidays are here again. The days are short and the nights are long. Best stock up on stories that will see you through the long dark.

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In Curiosities Tags recommendations, Amanda Baldeneaux, Lisa Mahoney, Mark Springer, Theodore McCombs, Danyelle C. Overbo, Gemma Webster, CS Peterson
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Ghosts in the House & the Machine: A Love Story, Hill House, & Two-Tongued Jeremy

November 16, 2018 Amanda Baldeneaux
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Samantha Hunt, Haunting of Hill House promotional poster, Theodore McCombs

Parenting is risky business, more so when ghosts take an uninvited co-parenting role.

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In Speculations Tags horror, The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson, Netflix, Samantha Hunt, The Dark Dark, A Love Story, Theodore McCombs, Lightspeed Magazine, Talk to Your Children About Two-Tongued Jeremy, Amanda Baldeneaux, ghosts
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A Human Being Is Only Breath and Shadow: "The Book of M"

November 7, 2018 Theodore McCombs

Peng Shepherd’s thrilling debut novel explodes post-apocalyptic fantasies of independence.

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In Reviews Tags Book of M, Peng Shepherd, post-apocalyptic, Literary Fantasy, Shadows, Alice in Wonderland, Ursula K. Le Guin
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You Don't Just Lose Your Life: An Interview With Gabino Iglesias

November 2, 2018 Gemma Webster

Writer Gabino Iglesias’ new book Coyote Songs hit book stores this week. Check out this interview for ideas about writing, the horror of murder and living interstitially.

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In Speculations Tags Gabino Iglesias, Coyote Songs, Zero Saints, Crime, Horror, Noir, Benjamin Whitmer, Interview, Gemma Webster
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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Scene in Colorado: Find your Tribe

October 26, 2018 The Unbound Writers
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The Unbound writers attended Denver’s 50th annual SF/F fan and writer convention: MileHiCon.

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In Curiosities Tags MileHiCon, Lisa Mahoney, CS Peterson
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"Finding Baba Yaga": The Perfect Book for the Season of the Witch

October 19, 2018 The Unbound Writers
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Jane Yolen’s novel-in-verse, Finding Baba Yaga, arrives just in time for the season of the witch.

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In Reviews Tags Amanda Baldeneaux, CS Peterson, female protagonist, The Hero's Journey, halloween, Jane Yolen
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"New Fears 2": Nightmares Are the Price We Pay for Dreaming

October 12, 2018 The Unbound Writers
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In the second New Fears anthology, horror knows no boundaries.

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In Reviews Tags Horror, Mark Springer, Gemma Webster, Theodore McCombs
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What Feels Like Fate: Daisy Johnson’s "Everything Under"

October 5, 2018 Theodore McCombs

A watery, Gothic update of Greek myth by an exciting new voice in dark fiction.

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In Reviews Tags Daisy Johnson, Everything Under, Water Monsters, Fate, Greek Myths, Oedipus, Theodore McCombs
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"Exit Strategy": Beware the Wrath of Murderbot

September 28, 2018 Mark Springer
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In volume 4 of The Murderbot Diaries, Murderbot’s climactic showdown with an evil corporation pushes the rogue SecUnit to its limits, and beyond.

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In Reviews Tags The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells, Science Fiction, Rogue AI, Mark Springer
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"Circe": A Thousand Ways to Deal with Lovers

September 21, 2018 C.S. Peterson
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Yes, you can turn them into pigs, but there are so many other situations women find themselves in and such a variety of possible responses. Gods and Heroes, trigger warning: not all of them act like gentlemen.

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In Reviews Tags Greek Myths, Feminism, The Penelopiad, Madeline Miller, The Hero's Journey, Circe, CS Peterson
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The Magic at Our Elbow: Anime and the Fantastical Woven into the Everyday

September 14, 2018 The Unbound Writers

In the world of Japanese anime you can slip from the ordinary to the magical at any moment.

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In Speculations Tags Anime, Satoshi Kon, Hayao Miyazaki, Tony Zhou, CS Peterson, Lisa Mahoney
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Great Graphic Novels — Teens Struggling to Fit In

September 7, 2018 The Unbound Writers
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Being different is hugely consequential for teens who populate graphic novels, as well as for teens who read them.

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In Reviews Tags Marjorie Liu, Neil Gaiman, Sana Takeda, Charles Burns, Lisa Mahoney, Sean Cassity, Graphic Novels
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We Can't Outrun Pain: Interview with Priya Sharma

August 31, 2018 Gemma Webster

Fiction Unbound’s Gemma Webster chats with UK writer Priya Sharma.

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In Speculations Tags Horror, Priya Sharma, Gemma Webster, Ellen Datlow, Fairy Tales, interview, Interview
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"The Hazel Wood": Interrogating the European Fairy Tale

August 24, 2018 C.S. Peterson
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Melissa Albert’s debut novel cuts to the bone of European fairy tales to find the essence of nightmares: horrors that are both seductive and disturbing.

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In Appreciations Tags Fairy Tales, female protagonist, The Hero's Journey, Young Adult Fantasy
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The Black God's Drums: Steampunk of the African Diaspora

August 23, 2018 Sean Cassity
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The Black God’s Drums beats a hammer of imagination against the anvil of history and forges a dense alternate history.

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In Reviews Tags Black God's Drums, P. Djèlí Clark, Steampunk, Alternate History, African-American speculative fiction
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Mid-Summer Speculative Short Story Round Up

August 10, 2018 Amanda Baldeneaux
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To mark summer’s midpoint, here are a few of the best speculative short stories Amanda has read since summer’s inauguration back in June.

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In Reviews Tags Short Stories, A.C. Wise, The Dark magazine, In the End it Always Turns Out the Same, We Show What We Have Learned, Clare Beams, Tin House, Abbey Mei Otis, Rich People, The Merry Spinster, Mallory Ortberg, The Daughter Cells, Quietly Gigantic, Strange Horizons, Amanda Baldeneaux, K.C. Mead-Brewer
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"Rogue Protocol": This Heartless Killing Machine Is All Heart

August 1, 2018 Mark Springer
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Murderbot is back. Its mission: help to bring down GrayCris, the evil corporation that has made thievery and killing a business model.

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In Reviews Tags The Murderbot Diaries, Martha Wells, Science Fiction, Rogue AI, Mark Springer
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“The Strange Bird”

July 27, 2018 Mark Springer
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Jeff VanderMeer’s spare, heartbreaking novella soars through the world of Borne.

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In Appreciations Tags Biotech, Jeff VanderMeer, Mark Springer, Science Fiction
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