Tag: speculative

It’s been too long since I’ve collected essays on the speculative art. There were some great ones published this summer.

• Writing Through the News Cycle – Kameron Hurley at Locus
• Monsters, the Monstrous, and Reclaiming the Other by Leo Elijah Cristea at Fantasy Faction
• Sir Elsa of Tortall, Knight of the Realm by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry at Uncanny
• Beware the Lifeboat by Marissa Lingen at Uncanny
• Are You the One? Exploring the Chosen One Trope in SFF by Katy Rose Pool at Tor.com
• Winning Hugo as a Blind Person by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry at Tor.com
• Reclaiming SciFi’s history at Wired with Desirina Boskovich and others

Essays and conversations about Fantasy and Speculative literature.

Closing out Women in SF&F Month: Swati Teerdhala writes, The Unlikeable Heroine at Fantasy Book Cafe

Everyone’s World Is Ending All the Time: notes on becoming a climate resilience planner at the edge of the anthropocene by Arkady Martine at Uncanny

The System is Broken for People of Color: why Dan Mallory’s situation is a grumpy canary in a coal mine by Priya Sridhar at Strange Horizons

Roundtable on Faith in SFF – at Strange Horizons

Let’s talk about Afrofuturism by Troy L. Wiggins at Apex

Strange Horizons leads the way this round.

Women in SF&F Month: Nalini Singh’s Wonder and Freedom: Fantasy Book Cafe

Quiet Places and Dark Spaces by Elsa Sjunneson-Henry at Strange Horizons

The Myriad Drumbeats of Afrofuturism: Afro-Brazilian Speculative Fiction by Mame Bougouma Diene at Strange Horizons

Variations on a Name: the -Punks of our Times by Jaymee Goh at Strange Horizons

Mary Woodbury on Octavia Butler – Octavia Butler Rises Again at SFF World

This month there have been some significant essays written around the world of Fantasy and Speculative literature.

Nnedi Okorafor discusses defining African Science Fiction at SFWA

A guest post on difficult topics by Jesse Teller at Fantasy Book Critic

A thorough examination: Asexual Representation in Mainstream Speculative Fiction by  Lynn E. O’Connacht at The Book Smugglers

Brenda Cooper and Joey Eschrich Guest Post at Locus – From Guilt to Hope: Why We Write Climate Fiction

Guest Post by Samantha Shannon for Women in SFF Month at Fantasy Book Cafe