Speculative Fiction
Here you can browse all the featured books on Bookish Brews by genre. Select a genre below to switch genres:
with Van Hoang
Author Van Hoang joins Bookish Brews to talk about 1950’s Los Angeles, where her novel The Monstrous Misses Mai takes place, and doing research for fiction writing. Most importantly, we talk about what an incredible resource libraries can be for all types of research. Plus, a big nod to dresses with pockets and the history of women’s fashion.
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.
with Sondi Warner
When I was first introduced to Sondi Warner, I quickly learned how deep their passion is for creating space that encourages self acceptance and reminds readers of how worthy they are. I’m so honored to introduce you all to the brilliant Sondi Warner, author of Lead Me Astray.
The Last Bloodcarver Is honest and sincere in the details that remind you that the author understands. It’s in the details, in the comments, in the insecurities, in the yearning. This story is told through a lens of diaspora, and in the same way that Nhika finds home in her magic and knowledge, to me, The Last Bloodcarver feels like a glimpse of home.
with Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall
In an alternate 1930’s Mississippi where magic exists, the state laws restrict who can use it and how it should be done. Unsatisfied with the way things are, six young women push back against these oppressive laws by participating in illegal broom races to earn money for better lives.
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 Lena Jeong
Mirae was meant to save her queendom, but the ceremony before her coronation ends in terror and death; a strange new power is unlocked within her, along with the return of a monster even the gods fear. Using unprecedented magic, Mirae must defeat this enemy and stop the future only she can see.
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.