A Guide to Unreality
Elana GomelThis is your guidebook to the enchanting worlds of speculative fiction and to our world as reflected in the mirror of the imagination.
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Chickens in Space
I once published a list of five best SF novels of alien encounter to be found here. This short essay is a sort of addendum to it. I wanted to post a list of five worst novels about aliens but then I realized that 1. It would be mean-spirite...
In Defense of Empires
Are empires always bad? What is the connection between empires and postcolonialism? And what does SF tell us about the long history of empire building?
When I wrote my essay about Aztecs in SF (to be found here), somebody messaged me expre...
Aztecs in Space
Aztec priest performing a sacrificial offering of a living human heart to the war god Huitzilopochtli, illustration from a reproduction of the Codex Magliabecchi.
In 1487, about 30 years before Cortes invaded Mexico and destroyed the Aztec...
Of Men and Monsters
Here is my promised list of ten best biopunk novels. I am going to do something different this time: briefly explain why I chose each particular novel and to relate it to my definition of biopunk, found here. I invite all my subscribers to...
Evolution in the Present Tense
Hieronymus Bosch, detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights
There are too many “punks” in SF: cyberpunk, solarpunk, hopepunk, etc. They are the spinoffs of the original portmanteau term “cyberpunk” created by the SF writer Bruce Bethke in...
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I was born in a country that no longer exists. I am an academic and a writer. I write dark fantasy, dark sci-fi, and horror. My plots come from my dreams. And my dreams come from the bizarre, terrifying, and wonderful world we live in.
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