Archive
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The Quest for Diversity in Speculative Fiction
Since its conception in May, the #WeNeedDiverseBooks campaign has exploded online, renewing discussion about diversity in children’s and young adult literature with new force. What…
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Luminato Literary Picnic Feeds Our Appetite for the Unreal
Photo by Emily Macrae If you were to ask me what words I would like to feast on, I would reply with a menu of…
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Rise of the Bollywood Superhero: A Review of Krrish 3
The superhero’s résumé is one with which we’re all familiar: super speed, super strength, exceptional courage, sometimes the ability to fly, abs chiselled from granite,…
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Of Mice, Men, and Monsters: Beyond Science and into the Psyche
I finished Jeff VanderMeer’s Annihilation in two days, because over the single night that I was reading it, I was afraid of what my imagination…
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Art and Reality
Over a month has elapsed since Gabriel García Márquez’s passing on April 17th. The following day I decided to pick up his novel One Hundred…
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From Science Fiction to Sensory Fiction
With today’s media advances, some argue that the book is a dying medium. It’s in the shadow of the other media: film has not only…
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An Exhibit of Ice and Fire
Minor spoilers up to Season Three This May 14-18 the internationally touring Game of Thrones: The Exhibition returned to Toronto at the TIFF Bell…
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Shall we Speculate if Sherlock is Speculative?
Gothic Horror at its finest: vendettas carried on generation after generation heralded only with seeds sent to the victim in the mail, a luminous evil…
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Speculative Fiction: Splicing Genres and Genes in Oryx and Crake
Enter the term “speculative fiction” into Google and you’ll get a conglomeration of sources that define speculative fiction as a category that is composed of various genres, the…
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2014-2015 Staff Election List
Somehow, so quickly, it’s already arrived: elections will be held this Friday, and all of our prospective editor applicants will strut their stuff to become…
The Spectatorial 