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When "What If?" Becomes "What Now?": We Can't Stop Thinking About Apocalypses ... and that's Okay
Speculations
When "What If?" Becomes "What Now?": We Can't Stop Thinking About Apocalypses ... and that's Okay
Speculations

In the crucible of catastrophe, we learn deeper truths about love, loyalty, and compassion.

Speculations
You Can't Bury the Past
Speculations
You Can't Bury the Past
Speculations

Watchmen and Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant have more in common than you might think.

Speculations
Destroying Books ... Without a Grand Plan to Repress Knowledge
Speculations
Destroying Books ... Without a Grand Plan to Repress Knowledge
Speculations

Big corporations are destroying your books without explanation, probably because hosting the platform isn’t as profitable as expected.

Speculations
A Clarion West Field Report
Speculations, Curiosities
A Clarion West Field Report
Speculations, Curiosities

C.S. Peterson returns from the writer’s paradise of Clarion West and reflects on risk, roller coasters, and relationships.

Speculations, Curiosities
Give Peace a Chance, But Not Yet
Reviews, Speculations
Give Peace a Chance, But Not Yet
Reviews, Speculations

Cadwell Turnbull’s debut novel cannily explores cycles of violence through an alien occupation of the Virgin Islands.

Reviews, Speculations
Beginning the New Year with Beginnings
Speculations
Beginning the New Year with Beginnings
Speculations

As we crack the cover on 2019 and dig into the books on our resolution reading lists, Christie and Meghan take a look at what makes a great opening.

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

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

Curiosities, Speculations
Ghosts in the House & the Machine: A Love Story, Hill House, & Two-Tongued Jeremy
Speculations
Ghosts in the House & the Machine: A Love Story, Hill House, & Two-Tongued Jeremy
Speculations

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

Speculations
You Don't Just Lose Your Life: An Interview With Gabino Iglesias
Speculations
You Don't Just Lose Your Life: An Interview With Gabino Iglesias
Speculations

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.

Speculations
The Magic at Our Elbow: Anime and the Fantastical Woven into the Everyday
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The Magic at Our Elbow: Anime and the Fantastical Woven into the Everyday
Speculations

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

Speculations
We Can't Outrun Pain: Interview with Priya Sharma
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We Can't Outrun Pain: Interview with Priya Sharma
Speculations

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

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Speculations
Southern Gothic: Wrestling With Our Demons -- Part 2, Novels
Speculations

Head into the swamps with some fallen families and wild grotesques in Part 2 of our Southern Gothic extravaganza.

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Southern Gothic: The Present Haunted by the Past -- Part I, Short Stories
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Southern Gothic: The Present Haunted by the Past -- Part I, Short Stories
Speculations

An exploration of Southern Gothic speculative literature.

Speculations
The Wild, Raging Girl
Speculations
The Wild, Raging Girl
Speculations

Wild, raging girls seem to be everywhere these days, from movies like Logan to books like The Girl with All the Gifts. 

Speculations
Revisiting "The Buried Giant": Still More Thoughts on Ishiguro's Latest
Speculations
Revisiting "The Buried Giant": Still More Thoughts on Ishiguro's Latest
Speculations

In honor of Ishiguro's Nobel lecture last night, we revisit our woolly musings on 2015's The Buried Giant.

Speculations
We Want to Experience These Great Reads on our Screens
Speculations
We Want to Experience These Great Reads on our Screens
Speculations

Everybody loves SF/F adaptations these days. We'd like to see these.

Speculations
"Logan" and "Hillbilly Elegy": The Bewilderment of the Blue-Collar Hero
Speculations
"Logan" and "Hillbilly Elegy": The Bewilderment of the Blue-Collar Hero
Speculations

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.

Speculations
A Clarion Field Report
Speculations, Curiosities
A Clarion Field Report
Speculations, Curiosities

An Unbound writer comes back from the Clarion SF/F Writers Workshop and into a dystopian moment.

Speculations, Curiosities
How We Are Haunted
Speculations
How We Are Haunted
Speculations

Steven Millhauser's short story "Phantoms” invites readers to consider the phantoms that haunt them.  Jon considers his phantoms and how they expose his complicity in perpetuating prejudice against trans people.

Speculations
The Ghosts of Cambodia
Speculations
The Ghosts of Cambodia
Speculations

At the cultural crossroads of Cambodian folklore, belief and speculative literature, with emerging author Kay Chronister

Speculations
Women Writing Women:  Fighting Pre-Inauguration Blues with Beth Cato and V.E. Schwab
Speculations, Appreciations
Women Writing Women: Fighting Pre-Inauguration Blues with Beth Cato and V.E. Schwab
Speculations, Appreciations

After a politically tumultuous 2016, Jon seeks solace in the fantasy worlds of Beth Cato and V.E. Schwab.

Speculations, Appreciations
2017 Tuesday Craft Talks at College Hill Library, Westminster
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2017 Tuesday Craft Talks at College Hill Library, Westminster
Speculations
Speculations
Against the Current: Adventures in Streaming TV
Speculations
Against the Current: Adventures in Streaming TV
Speculations

Gem and Jon wade through the tired tropes that television can’t get enough of.

 

Speculations
Docility and Rage: Exploring Performance and Blackness in "The Ballad of Black Tom"
Appreciations, Speculations
Docility and Rage: Exploring Performance and Blackness in "The Ballad of Black Tom"
Appreciations, Speculations

Is the world ready to say goodbye to the docile black man trope?

Appreciations, Speculations
Cross-Cultural Fables:  A Field Report from Bhutan
Speculations
Cross-Cultural Fables: A Field Report from Bhutan
Speculations

Lisa Mahoney looks for common themes in Bhutanese folktales and finds... the phallus town.

Speculations
Denver Comic Con 2016: Enthusiastic Cosplayers and Nervous Writers
Speculations, News
Denver Comic Con 2016: Enthusiastic Cosplayers and Nervous Writers
Speculations, News

The ambitious cosplay of devoted fans, contrasted to the quiet insecurities of blockbuster writers. 

Speculations, News
Dystopia, Cacotopia, or Cock-a-topia? The Experts Discuss.
Speculations, Curiosities
Dystopia, Cacotopia, or Cock-a-topia? The Experts Discuss.
Speculations, Curiosities

Panelists at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop's LitFest '16 debate “The Resurrection of Dystopian Lit,” and The Unbound Writers speculate.

Speculations, Curiosities
Sublime Scale in Cixin Liu’s "The Three-Body Problem"
Reviews, Speculations
Sublime Scale in Cixin Liu’s "The Three-Body Problem"
Reviews, Speculations

An ambitious masterpiece of Chinese science fiction, reviewed.

Reviews, Speculations
Genrequeer
Speculations
Genrequeer
Speculations

Speculative fiction’s disruptive potential, and an Unbound dispatch from #AWP16

Speculations
Time Travel & Fractured Selves: Kindred and The River of No Return
Speculations
Time Travel & Fractured Selves: Kindred and The River of No Return
Speculations

Time travel novels Kindred and The River of No Return question how the evolving ethics of society shape our sense of self.

Speculations
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