The Blazing World is an amazing vision which ends as bewilderingly as it begins, making the reader’s head spin.
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Andrew Roff’s debut novel, Here Are My Demands, looks forward to an imagined future – but seems more concerned with now.
In his thoughtful new novel about people turning into trees, Rhett Davis puts postmodernism and myth through the figurative woodchipper.
Salvage is a heartbreaking, life-affirming Australian dystopia that centres human connection – as the rich search for ways to escape and the poor salvage what they can.
‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ book and TV series reflect currents of political turmoil, particularly rising authoritarianism in the United States and the erosion of women’s rights.
Borges imagined an endless library that contained every possible permutation of letters. The truth is out there, but it’s embedded among hordes of lies and gibberish.
A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey founded the imprint that put out fantasy hits such as ‘The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever’ and ‘The Sword of the Shannara.’
Science fiction can be thought of as a film negative of history – a back door into what used to worry people and what gave them hope.
Despite feeling some schadenfreude at watching politicians squirm over being derided as such, a scholar of speculative fiction wants to keep America weird.
100 years in the future, 40-year-old Esther is the first of 47 sleepers to be ‘woken’ from cryogenic suspended animation in an underground bunker. Where are her children?
Mykaela Saunders’ Indigenous speculative fiction collection Always Will Be, published in the year following the failed referendum, is a very timely endeavour.
Research suggests the act of creative writing can have therapeutic benefits.
Married couple Woppa Diallo and Mame Bougouma Diene won for their powerful short story A Soul of Small Places.
In the Global South, a group of writers are rejecting the norms of science fiction and commenting on the future in a way that embraces Indigenous culture.
An alternate timeline that ends with a Nobel prize for Exxon’s CEO.
In the shadow of the climate crisis, a wave of speculative stories ask what it means to live in a world where everything is not an extractable resource — and where humans are not in control.
Noongar author Claire Coleman’s new novel forces us to question what we value and how we live by combining dystopia and utopia, in a near-future very like our own.
What might our future look like? Together, these speculative fiction stories offer a First Nations response to this burning question.
In his latest novel, Steve Toltz cements his reputation as an exceptional comic writer.
Part historical novel, part speculative fiction, A History of Dreams examines the themes of inequality and authoritarianism from the perspective of a coven of witchy young women.
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