Science Fiction
with Maria Dong
Author Maria Dong joins us to share about her sophomore novel, Psychopomp.
by Gabriella Buba
Anti-Colonial Science Fiction and Fantasy grapples with this history of exploitation and it’s lasting impacts on lands and people through the lens of other worlds, imagined futures, and alternate histories.
by Lilly Lu
Writers Lilly Lu and Claire Stanford chat about their experience writing both fiction and academic writing, especially highlighting the similarities and what they’ve learned doing both.
In the middle of an epic space thriller, as the characters are tumbling away from earth at rapid speeds, Kitasei brings us closer and closer to home.
with Lauren Yero
I think speculative fiction is most powerful not when it tries to predict what will happen in the future but when it uses a future setting to give readers new ways of seeing our present world, when it makes visible the previously unseen connections within our own lives.
by Jeremy Szal
Today I’ve invited Jeremy Szal to join us at Bookish Brews to talk about diverse, morally grey characters in space. But importantly, how BIPOC characters need to be allowed to be bad too.
How High We Go in the Dark is a refreshing science fiction story that dives deep into human emotion in exciting and creative ways. I found myself highly emotional over strangeness as we travel through the decades, centuries, and even millennia in a story about humanity.
The Reinvented Heart Anthology asks us to examine how our social structures could change as we change together alongside society and technology. Come read 10 things the editors love about this anthology!
The Last Gifts of the Universe is a delightfully balanced sci-fi that perfectly captures my favorite thing about speculative fiction: using speculative elements to emphasize humanity. All at once, it is a convincing look into the perils of not listening to those who come before us and a beautiful story of humanity.