Speculative Fiction

Works in science-fiction, fantasy, horror, magical realism, and their assorted subgenres.

January 24, 2011 3 min read

Wicked Gentlemen and Feral Machines author, Ginn Hale, has returned swinging with her latest tale of love, suffering and the hardships...

Trans Teens & Drag Queens

TS Ferguson

Features Reviews Speculative Fiction Young Adult

December 13, 2010 7 min read

A Look at Gender in YA Fiction I’ve always been interested in gender and how it intersects with sexuality. It’s...

‘Spore’ by Thom Nickels

Jackie S. Atkins

Fiction Reviews Speculative Fiction

November 15, 2010 3 min read

The fifth novel by Philadelphia columnist, Thom Nickels, Spore (StarBooks), seems to be in a category all to itself. Part...

6 of the Scariest Queer Horror Books Ever

Edit Team

Features Speculative Fiction

October 28, 2010 5 min read

UPDATED: In celebration of Halloween, we asked a few of our speculative fiction friends to share the scariest LGBT-relevant books...

‘Silver Kiss’ by Naomi Clark

G.E. Hawk

Reviews Speculative Fiction

September 13, 2010 2 min read

The premise of Silver Kiss is straightforward. When being different causes us to leave, can we ever go home again?...

‘Alleys and Doorways’ and ‘Best Gay Stories 2009’

Michael Bennett

Fiction Reviews Speculative Fiction

August 25, 2010 3 min read

What is literature and why do we read it? Some insist that writing worthy of the designation “literature” is a...

‘Alcestis’ by Katharine Beutner

Andrea Lawlor

Fiction Speculative Fiction

August 9, 2010 3 min read

Myths are made to be retold. Most come from the oral tradition and are reworked by each new teller, until...

‘Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories’ by Sandra McDonald

Christian A. Young

Reviews Speculative Fiction

July 22, 2010 2 min read

Consider these three words when reading Sandra McDonald’s Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories “wait for it.” Like her titular character,...

‘The Little Stranger’ by Sarah Waters

Susan Stinson

Fiction Reviews Speculative Fiction

June 15, 2010 2 min read

Even simply listing the names of Sarah Waters’s previous novels causes a little rise of excitement which is a visitation...

‘Martyrs & Monsters’ by Robert Dunbar

Paul G. Bens Jr.

Reviews Speculative Fiction

June 10, 2010 2 min read

If Alfred Hitchcock were alive today and desired to “re-imagine” his 1948 classic “Rope,” he’d want Robert Dunbar to write...

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Reviews

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Random

‘Beyond Binary: Genderqueer and Sexually Fluid Speculative Fiction’ edited by Brit Mandelo

Features

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

Interviews

Bonds & Boundaries: A Conversation with Dale Corvino

Dreaming up a Hopeful Future: A Conversation with Grist authors on queer climate fiction

“What if it was both and all of the above?”: An interview with CJ Hauser

Excerpts

An Excerpt from Sleep Tight Satellite: Stories by Carol Guess

Read This! Excerpt from the delicacy of embracing spirals by mimi tempestt

Read This! Excerpt from American Gospel by Miah Jeffra

‘Lord of the White Hell (Book One)’ by Ginn Hale

Trans Teens & Drag Queens

‘Spore’ by Thom Nickels

6 of the Scariest Queer Horror Books Ever

‘Silver Kiss’ by Naomi Clark

‘Alleys and Doorways’ and ‘Best Gay Stories 2009’

‘Alcestis’ by Katharine Beutner

‘Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories’ by Sandra McDonald

‘The Little Stranger’ by Sarah Waters

‘Martyrs & Monsters’ by Robert Dunbar

Unearthing Queer Archive in Early 1990’s West Palm Beach, Florida

The Mars House: Science Fiction and the Hazards of Imagination

Maps of Belonging: Italian Trans Geographies

The High Stakes of Young Adulthood: A Review of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

People Collide by Isle McElroy: A Review

Reviewing Bad Gays; or how we use the past to shape the future

A Review of Cassandra Khaw’s The Salt Grows Heavy

If property is theft, then what is a photograph? A Review of The Unintended by Monica Huerta