March 7, 2019
Defy the Stars (2017) Written by: Claudia Gray Genre: Young Adult Science Fiction Pages: 503 (Hardcover) Series: Book 1 of the Constellation Series Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Why I Chose It: I kept looking at it while at work. The cover caught me first, the summary second, and finally I decided I just had to read it. The…
November 26, 2018
They might not be raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but that doesn’t mean that we love them any less. Welcome back to My Favorite Things, the weekly column where we grab someone in speculative circles to gab about the greatest in geek. This week we sit down with one of our newest Content Editors, Kristina Elyse Butke! What…
April 18, 2018
For my 2018 Resolution Project, I decided to take a page out of Lane’s book and do my own Silver Screen Resolution (hence the Take Two part of the title). There are a lot of movies out there I haven’t seen but feel like I should have, or movies that I’ve simply wanted to see and have yet to get…
March 22, 2018
All Systems Red (2017) Written by: Martha Wells Genre: Science Fiction Pages: 144 (ebook) Publisher: Tor.com Why I Chose It: All Systems Red had been nominated for the 2017 Philip K. Dick Award, and here at Speculative Chic, we’re reading the nominees! I chose All Systems Red based on the positive reviews and feedback I had been seeing online. The premise: In a…