Happy weekend! What was your week like? Mine started out normally, then quickly collapsed under the weight of my Thursday and Friday, but we’re not going to talk about those days. Instead, I’m going to focus on the things the good things in life right now. For me, right this second, that means coffee, my […]

Welcome back to Sound Off!, a semi-regular column where members of Speculative Chic gather together to chat about the latest BIG THING in entertainment. This time, “I am Groot” and discuss Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which premiered in the United States on Friday, May 5, 2017. Sound Off! is meant to be a […]

Grab your umbrellas, because Netflix’s original series The Rain is the latest sci-fi show set in the apocalypse. The Danish series debuted in May and a second season has already been announced. It follows siblings, Simone and Rasmus, who are in search of their scientist father who may have the answers to why the apocalypse […]

Other hazards include, but are not limited to: oppressive political rule, misogyny, constant surveillance, and unrestrained violence. Dystopias have been a part of the map since the start of the 20th century – a grim set of countries and worlds lying under a gray fog, ready to remind us of our potential follies. If utopias […]

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 Odyssey Writing Workshop Graduate Erin […]

In early October of this year, the Internet was alive and buzzing over the latest, greatest Thing. I was, as per usual in this situation, ambivalent. What was the cause of so much excitement for seemingly everyone but me? The newest trailer for the forthcoming Star Wars installment, The Last Jedi. I was happy that […]

A Feast for Crows (2006) Written By: George R.R. Martin Narrated by: Roy Dotrice Genre: Epic Fantasy Length: 33 h 56 m (Audiobook) Series: A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 4 Publisher: Random House Audio via Audible The premise: It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers […]

The Half-Drowned King (2016) Written by: Linnea Hartsuyker Genre: fantasy Pages: 431 (Hardcover) Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Disclaimer: I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a fair review. Why I chose it: It happened this way: a friend of mine on twitter alerted me that Linnea Hartsuyker was offering […]

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 Alice Reeds, whose latest book, […]

Remember, remember the fifth of November. You’ve heard that one before, right? I’ll be honest, I didn’t know that much about Guy Fawkes before I watched V for Vendetta a few years ago. After I watched the movie, I went looking for books about the Gunpowder Plot, but there wasn’t much out there. So I […]

We have a little less than one month until October 23 and the premiere of The Walking Dead’s seventh season! I enjoyed the Alexandria arc, but the last few episodes of the sixth season felt like Rick, Michonne and the rest of the gang were being moved around like chess pieces. I wasn’t fond of […]

Here at Speculative Chic, we tend to put the emphasis on the positive (in fact, we do it every week with our column My Favorite Things), but every now and then something just lets us down. Sometimes our favorite TV shows take an unfortunate turn. Sometimes the movies we were looking forward to don’t live […]

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 Aden Polydoros, whose free prequel […]

If you want a reminder of my rules for this 2018 Resolution, here they are. So I got excited about podcasts after Limetown, and sailed into The Bridge with cautious optimism. I loved the premise and thought why not? I loaded up several CDs worth of episodes (do not get me started on my iTunes […]