A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce.
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
Speculative Insight journal
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First published for subscribers in February 2024, this essay from Amelia Brown examines why readers are still interested in fairy tales, and why they are still relevant.
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“I’ve spent most of my life taking birdsong each morning for granted; after reading DEPARTMENT OF THE VANISHING, I’ve started to really listen.” Ian Mond reviews Johanna Bell
Miranda Jensen ponders the continued prevalence of old tropes in this new essay for Speculative Insight, and wonders about what happens when we move beyond them.
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Miranda Jensen meditates on the role of science fiction to defamiliarise our society and help us see things in new and intriguing and challenging ways.
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In this new (free) essay, Miranda Jensen asks whether speculation in fiction is or can be the same as originality, and what that means for the stories we tell.
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First published for subscribers in February 2024, this essay from Amelia Brown examines why readers are still interested in fairy tales, and why they are still relevant.
Read it here: www.speculativeinsight.com/from-the-vault
I love introducing my literarily omnivorous mother to new authors.
"My goodness this Adrian Tchaikovsky has a weird imagination."
I think it's the fourth? novel of his she's reading. Could be the seventh. I can't keep up.
This essay from @speculativeinsight.bsky.social about the modern relevance of fairy tales feels like it would pair very well with our recent episode about The Folklore of Discworld.
Continuing my campaign to get everyone to start a blog again, I recced several things hosted on blogs! Intergalactic Mixtape is live. 🥳
Department of the Vanishing, Johanna Bell (Transit Lounge 978-1-92302-355-0, A$34.99, 311pp, tp) March 2026. In a similar vein to Your Behavior Will Be Monitored, Johanna Bell's Department of the Vanishing is framed as a dossier – an amalgamation of documents produced as part of a police investigation into the activities of archivist Ava Wilde. But where Feinstein's novel leans on emails and chat logs, Bell's publisher has gone all out …Read More
In this new (free!) essay, Miranda Jensen dreams about what speculative fiction could be and what it might mean to embrace all the possibilities it can afford.
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