August 9, 2019
Three celebrity deaths rooted me in my own mortality. I will never forget where I was when these passings were announced. I mourned my childhood and young adulthood and thanked The Universe that these artists ever existed and left behind bodies of works that we could continue to enjoy. However, this most recent journey into immortality hit me hard. I felt this…
February 9, 2018
2018 dealt a crushing blow when it was announced that Ursula K. Le Guin passed away on January 22. At 88 years young, Le Guin was anything but forgettable, a Grandmaster of Science Fiction, a Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, and Pulitzer award winner, among many others. Here at Speculative Chic, we’ve talked about how Le Guin Changed the Map,…
December 28, 2016
It is a matter of family legend that my brothers and I owe our lives to George Lucas. To wit, my parents’ first actual date was to see Star Wars: A New Hope (then referred to simply as Star Wars) when it was first released in theaters in 1977. I always thought that my parents saw it together on opening…