March 10, 2018
Weekly Roundup, March 4-9, 2018
Salutations! How was your week? We’ve had a delightful time, as usual. We had another first — our very first Sunday post! What was it? You’ll have to read on to find out!
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March 7, 2018
The Changeling: A Haunting Modern Fairy Tale
The Changeling (2017) Written by: Victor LaValle Genre: Dark Fantasy Pages: 431 (Hardcover) Publisher: Spiegel & Grau Why I Chose It: I have wanted to read a longer work by Victor LaValle ever since I reviewed his The Ballad of Black Tom for last year’s Hugo Awards. I enjoyed way the novella explored racism and Jazz Age in New York…
February 3, 2018
Weekly Roundup, January 29-February 2, 2018
Holy cannoli, Batman, how is it February? The mind boggles. What a month we’ve had! If you want a nice, long trip down memory lane, browse through the Roundup archives for a quick reference to all of our writers’ fabulous work from last month (and the months before that). Now that the weekend has arrived, kick back and relax. Maybe…
February 1, 2018
Feminist Fairy Tale: A Review of The Girl in the Tower
The Girl in the Tower (2018) Written by: Katherine Arden Genre: Fiction Pages: 346 (Hardcover) Series: Winternight Trilogy Book #2 Publisher: Del Rey Why I Chose It: I picked the first book in the Winternight trilogy, The Bear and the Nightingale, as my favorite speculative book of 2017, so of course I had to read the second book. I was…
January 13, 2018
Weekly Roundup, January 8-12, 2018
Hello lovelies! I have overcome the wasting plague (mostly) and returned (kind of). Thank you very much to Editor-in-Chic Shara for covering for me while I was down. I’m back and ready to roll. Sort of. When she asked if I was well enough to return, the conversation between us went a little like this: To be fair, Shara’s office…
January 12, 2018
Roundtable: Favorite 2017 Read
It’s no secret that there’s a bunch a readers here at Speculative Chic. Asking our writers what their favorite read of 2017 seemed like an easy task, but it wasn’t. When you read as many books as we do, how do you pick just one? And did it have to be a book published in 2017, or just a book…
January 11, 2018
Life After Death After Death: A Review of Reincarnation Blues
Reincarnation Blues (2017) Written by: Michael Poore Genre: Science Fantasy Pages: 371 (Hardcover) Publisher: Del Rey Why I Chose It: I literally judged this book by its cover. I was browsing in the science fiction/fantasy section of the Barnes & Noble and picked it up because I liked its colorful and unique cover. The premise: First we live. Then we…
January 1, 2018
Resolution Project 2018
Last year, a handful of our writers embarked on a Speculative Chic Resolution. As with all resolutions, we started out with the best of intentions, but as 2017 progressed and wound down, well, you can see how we fared here. But the lure of a New Year is that clean slate, a chance to start over, and a chance to…
December 29, 2017
Future Favorites: Our Most Anticipated Releases of 2018
We’ve shared our 2017 Disappointments with you, so now it feels only appropriate that we share what we’re most looking forward to next year. There’s a lot of amazing content being released, and for a lot of us, it was hard to narrow our picks to just one. Nevertheless, we managed, so without further adieu, come see what the writers…
December 28, 2017
Biggest Disappointments of 2017
You know what the trouble is when you look forward to something? Inevitably, it just might let you down, and then something you could’ve shrugged off otherwise becomes a bitter disappointment. So while we at Speculative Chic love celebrating our favorites (seriously, have you been reading our My Favorite Things column?), we also think it’s important to talk about those…