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The Kasturi/Files: Episode 8: Alien vs. Aliens


Welcome back to The Kasturi/Files at Speculative Chic, Day 8 of our October horror show of movies, books, and cocktails! We’re covering a couple of older movies today, so if you haven’t seen these yet, well, we guess there are spoilers? But, come on. There has to be a “best before” date. Like if the movie came out twenty years…

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Cover Chic: Breaking with Stereotypes


When someone mentions fantasy book covers, inevitably a stereotypical image pops up. One of knights standing near dragons, perhaps a chain-mail bra-clad woman with him. Or at least, that’s what used to be the norm. As today’s standards of what’s “cool” and socially acceptable continue to shift, so do the covers of speculative fiction books. Fantasy, science fiction, and horror…

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