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, arm yourself and discuss John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, which premiered in the United States on Friday, May 17, 2019. Sound Off! is meant to be a reaction, but not necessarily […]
May 29, 2019 – Speculative Chic
In 2018 I resolved to read George R.R. Martin‘s A Song of Ice and Fire and watch HBO’s Game of Thrones, both series. It only seemed right, then, that I finish off my “Year of Thrones” with Season 8, even though it is well after my year ended. Why I Chose it: I had tried watching the […]
sex and the city – Speculative Chic
May 25, 2019 This week marked a milestone: the end of HBO’s Game of Thrones! The finale ended Sunday in America and Wednesday for me in Japan. It was impossible to avoid the discussions online about how things went down, so I ended up knowing things before I got to sit down with the episode, […]
May 25, 2019 – Speculative Chic
This week marked a milestone: the end of HBO’s Game of Thrones! The finale ended Sunday in America and Wednesday for me in Japan. It was impossible to avoid the discussions online about how things went down, so I ended up knowing things before I got to sit down with the episode, but it didn’t […]
audiobook – Speculative Chic
This week marked a milestone: the end of HBO’s Game of Thrones! The finale ended Sunday in America and Wednesday for me in Japan. It was impossible to avoid the discussions online about how things went down, so I ended up knowing things before I got to sit down with the episode, but it didn’t […]
dennis e taylor – Speculative Chic
This week marked a milestone: the end of HBO’s Game of Thrones! The finale ended Sunday in America and Wednesday for me in Japan. It was impossible to avoid the discussions online about how things went down, so I ended up knowing things before I got to sit down with the episode, but it didn’t […]
Reading the Hugos: Novelette Category – Speculative Chic
Novelettes are tricky little beasts. They are story tidbits, and it takes a particularly skilled writer to create one that offers a full story within the limited constraints of standard word count for the form. I am challenging myself to read more short fiction this year, so when our editor approached me to ask if […]
My Favorite Things with Kate Story – Speculative Chic
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 Kate Story, whose next book, […]
The Beginning of the End: N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season – Speculative Chic
Here we are in the last month of 2018 and I am running out of time to finish my resolution project! I come to you, friends, with the first of The Broken Earth trilogy because these books are rough reads and I needed a pick me up in the middle. This book has already been […]
Book Club: January Selection and February Poll – Speculative Chic
It’s December still but welcome to 2019 as well? I guess???? I’m here again with your next chosen book, and I am so very pleased about this choice, friends! Mystic and Rider (2006) By: Sharon Shinn Discussion date: The premise: Gillengaria seethes with unrest. In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to […]
the pisces – Speculative Chic
The Pisces (2018) Written by: Melissa Broder Genre: Fiction Pages: 270 (Hardback) Publisher: Hogarth Why I Chose It: After reading Mira Grant’s mermaid novel Into the Drowning Deep and Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus’ romantic tale about a woman and an amphibious man, The Shape of Water, a love story featuring a merman sounded […]
melissa broder – Speculative Chic
The Pisces (2018) Written by: Melissa Broder Genre: Fiction Pages: 270 (Hardback) Publisher: Hogarth Why I Chose It: After reading Mira Grant’s mermaid novel Into the Drowning Deep and Guillermo del Toro and Daniel Kraus’ romantic tale about a woman and an amphibious man, The Shape of Water, a love story featuring a merman sounded […]
Toothy Sirens and the People They “Love”: Mira Grant’s Into The Drowning Deep – Speculative Chic
A few weeks ago I reviewed Mira Grant’s Rolling in the Deep. It’s a sharp little novella that gave us a peek into a world that not only thinks that mermaids might exist, but sets out to prove it. The results are disastrous (and it’s not a spoiler to tell you that; the back cover […]
mermaids – Speculative Chic
When you picture mermaids, I’m assuming that something like Disney’s famous redhead, Ariel, comes to mind. Am I right? That’s a fairly common image. Mermaids, in general, are seen as beautiful creatures, half human female, and half elegant fish. But what if they weren’t the gorgeous, singing, harmless beings that we’ve been led to believe […]