Fiction Discussion Tangled Fantasies: Speculative Anti-Imperialism and the Myth of Internal Resistance in S.A. Corey’s The Mercy of Gods Is modern science fiction's indulging in escapism rationalizing our own complicities? By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books The Death of The F*ck: Neopuritanism and Commercial Fiction How readers with presumably progressive politics are increasingly aligning with the far right on the moralization of sex. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books Michel Houellebecq and the Birth of the Incel “The idea gradually dawned on me that all these people – men or women – were not in the least deranged; they were simply lacking in love.” By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Books Building Our Own Palace of Dreams: The 1981 Novel that Envisioned the Modern Surveillance State A novel that stands above 1984 and Brave New World in prescience. By Typebar_Admin / 30 Aug 2024
Fiction Discussion Representation and Refraction: Gender and The Triple Goddess in Neil Gaiman's The Sandman For trans women of a certain generation, The Sandman left a lingering uneasiness. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Books Lore Done Right: Micaiah Johnson's The Space Between Worlds Lore becomes more powerful when there's less of it. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Fantasy Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and ChatGPT: How Snobbery Can Save Us From the Literary Robot Apocalypse Readers, critics, and editors have to demand better. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Fiction Discussion Bringing Sherlock Holmes to the 21st Century (or The Adventure of Japan Having All the Fun) The best Sherlock Holmes stories of the last two decades have come from Japan. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Books Someone You Can Worldbuild a Nest In: John Wiswell, Fictional Worlds, and Limitations Worldbuilding discussions in genre fiction frequently miss the point. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Books Interpreting the Abyss: An Ode to Christopher Manson's MAZE The labyrinth inside an 80s puzzle book will never be solved, never die, and never let go of its victims. By Typebar_Admin / 29 May 2024
Fantasy Infernal Transmutation: Remembering K.J. Bishop's The Etched City In the surreal and slipstream, ambiguity is strength. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
Fiction Discussion Science Fiction and the Death of the Sun The driving force behind nihilistic visions of the future. By Typebar_Admin / 24 Mar 2024
