March 8 is International Women’s Day, and just because it’s an Earth holiday, that doesn’t meant we can’t celebrate it with tales set on other planets or in other, more fantastical realities. Here are 10 recommended reads to celebrate the day, and recognize fabulous stories, books, and essays by and about women in the speculative […]
In the same spirit, author Jeannette Ng (Under the Pendulum Sun), whose story “How the Tree of Wishes Gained its Carapace of Plastic” appears in the collection, joins us to highlight other authors and stories that have sought to examine “classics” of Western literature. The classics cast long shadows, having been canonized in our culture […]
At this time of year, it seems everyone is looking for a good scare, but I love horror year-round. Still, the “rules” of horror, as it were, are often a challenge for me. Too frequently in horror stories, women are cast as the victims—those in need of rescuing, those threatened by murderers, those who suffer […]
Alternate history can be a thrilling, but daunting, subgenre of science fiction, fantasy, and horror to dive into; there are seemingly endless possible “what-if,” timeline, and story combinations for readers to try. This month, Mind Meld asks writers: What is your favorite alt-history novel? What about the author’s treatment to the particular time period and story […]
