Tag Archives: Speculative Fiction

Dystopia Isn’t Sci-Fi—for Me, It’s the American Reality

Posted on September 6, 2020 by Luther Blissett

By Cadwell Turnbull Source: Wired Imagine a city where a group of people have managed against all odds to carve out prosperity for themselves, at least for a little while. These people used to be owned by other people. Now, … Continue reading →

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Why We Need Dystopian Fiction Now More Than Ever

Posted on August 2, 2020 by Luther Blissett

By August Cole and P.W. Singer Source: Slate It hits you every so often. When you when you tug on a face mask to go pick up food for your family. When you witness the powerless suffer casual violence by … Continue reading →

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“One Long Discomfort”: The Legacy and Future of David Lindsay’s ‘A Voyage to Arcturus’

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Luther Blissett

By Ben Schwartz Source: We Are the Mutants David Lindsay’s masterpiece A Voyage to Arcturus was first published in London in 1920 by Methuen & Co. It came dressed in a simple red cloth cover; no dust jacket, just the … Continue reading →

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Whose Dystopia Is It Anyway?

Posted on April 1, 2018 by Luther Blissett

Reason writers debate which fictional dystopia best predicted our current moment. By Mike Riggs, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Todd Krainin, Nick Gillespie, Jesse Walker, Robby Soave, Eric Boehm, Christian Britschgi, Peter Suderman & Brian Doherty Source: Reason With social media platforms seemingly … Continue reading →

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Writing Nameless Things: An Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Luther Blissett

(Editor’s note: in light of the recent passing of Ursula K. Le Guin we should appreciate even more the wisdom and insight communicated through her novels as well as in this article from last November, one of Le Guin’s last … Continue reading →

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Philip K. Dick’s Moral Vision

Posted on March 2, 2016 by Luther Blissett

[Editor’s note: on this 34th anniversary of the death of Philip K. Dick, I’m sharing the 10th and final chapter of Patricia S. Warrick’s bibliographical retrospective “Mind in Motion” (1987). It’s a good reminder of what makes PKD’s work so … Continue reading →

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Paolo Bacigalupi’s “The Doubt Factory”

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Luther Blissett

By Cory Doctorow Source: BoingBoing.net Paolo Bacigalupi is one of science fiction’s most versatile writers. From his justly lauded dystopian debut novel The Windup Girl to his environmental YA thriller Ship Breaker to his ha-ha-only-serious zombies-apocalypse-as-allegory-for-race-in-America Zombie Baseball Beatdown, he’s … Continue reading →

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