Maybe it's just me, but cultural movements seem to be divided into three phases. You have Phase 1, the Indiscernable Phase (official na...

One of the things linking my wife and I is our love of speculative fiction. It's the majority of what we both read. But there are many...

1996 was an unassuming year from our tumultuous perch in 2026. The majority in the West agreed on unwritten social rules and gender identit...

It happens. Interviews with the author indicate a person who is reasonably articulate or potentially more. No major red flags lurk in one- ...

I get people who don't pick up what Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter is putting down. It's a fantastical carou...

If capitalism weren't what it is, I would attribute the re-emergence and re-emergence of Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn to poetic manife...

On many occasions over the past five-six years I've had the feeling: Speculiction is winding down. This blog, which clearly does not ex...

There are undoubtedly some, if not many, who would say the Cold War was the golden age of spying. Mission Impossible to James Bond, it even...

Speculiction has alrady posted about the speculative fiction published in 2025, which can be found here. But we are a blog which casts its ...

And the years go by. 2025 has ended. Time to look back at the books published and consumed this year, here in the bustling offices of Spec...