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I spend a lot of time on social media. I know that I shouldn’t, but I can’t seem to help myself. Every now and then I get to witness something magical take place. I don’t always know that it’s going to end up being something special, but it’s delightful to see when I realize what […]

A Swiftly Tilting Planet (1978) Written by: Madeleine L’Engle Series: Time Quintet #3 Genre: Science Fantasy/Young Adult Pages: 304 (Paperback) Publisher: Macmillan Why I Chose This: My 2018 Resolution Project for Speculative Chic was to read and review both the novel and film versions of A Wrinkle in Time. But I’m a completionist, so it should come as no surprise that I’d have to continue […]

You know how it is: you sit down after a long day and some disappointing news about how much fixing your air conditioner is going to cost, and you just want to be transported from worrying about the cares of your life and instead would like to worry about the cares of someone else’s life […]

Editor’s Note: Welcome back to Out of the Box! As a reminder, this is a monthly column where our amazing, layered contributors take a few minutes to discuss the non-speculative things that they love! This month, join Merrin as she discusses how a Texas girl came to love ice hockey as much as she does. […]

“ As the ship drew into the harbour at evening the twin beacons Thon and Thal gleamed a welcome, and in all the million windows of Baharna’s terraces mellow lights peeped out quietly and gradually as the stars peep out overhead in the dusk, till that steep and climbing seaport became a glittering constellation hung between […]

They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week, we sit down with author Laurence MacNaughton, whose latest […]

Welcome to the Speculative Chic Book Club! Each month, we invite you to join us in reading a book that is voted on by YOU, our readers. Following a short review, please feel free to discuss the book in the comments! The Silent Companions (2018) Author: Laura Purcell Pages: 315 (kindle) Publisher: Penguin Why I […]

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (2018) Written by: Hank Green Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 288 (Hardcover) Publisher: William Morrow Why I Chose It:  I’ve been following Hank Green’s work for about a decade, and have been waiting for his debut novel for a few years. There was no way that I was going to pass this up. […]

Editor’s Note: Today we bring you not something a little different than our usual Sound Off for film review; today, we bring you an academic critical essay, and the title says it all. Yes, there will be spoilers. Enjoy! “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, […]

The weather outside is, quite frankly, frightful. You’ve seen all the memes about the general ick most of the country seems to be enduring. Since we seem to be skipping spring, let me propose a warm, idyllic escape, where the ocean is endless, warm, inviting; where the world is ordered, in balance, and where few […]

The weather outside is, quite frankly, frightful. You’ve seen all the memes about the general ick most of the country seems to be enduring. Since we seem to be skipping spring, let me propose a warm, idyllic escape, where the ocean is endless, warm, inviting; where the world is ordered, in balance, and where few […]

The weather outside is, quite frankly, frightful. You’ve seen all the memes about the general ick most of the country seems to be enduring. Since we seem to be skipping spring, let me propose a warm, idyllic escape, where the ocean is endless, warm, inviting; where the world is ordered, in balance, and where few […]

In This Month’s Changing the Map Gentle readers, why are there so many more dystopias than utopias in fantastic fiction? We’ve seen a staggering resurgence of dystopic movies, books, and television shows, all portraying terrifying and depressing futures. Zombies, ecological disasters, oppressive political regimes, alien overlords… and that’s the short list. So what’s up? Do our inner […]

July 11, 2017 This Month On Changing the Map As we’ve discussed in previous columns, the upside of using fantastic fiction as a forum for feminist thinking is that readers are so immersed in a strange world that they don’t realize they’re learning something important. The downside? That whatever an author might write about women […]