Book Review
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Of Imagination and Fantasy: The Importance of Childhood and a Look at Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie”
For many readers, it seems that speculative fiction (once you figure out what it means) conjures up either thoughts of the future or the ancient…
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A Sampling of Systems: Magic in Fantasy 101
Magic: it’s a primordial element of the fantasy genre. Readers and writers of fantasy know that the genre is often stigmatized for its mages, sorcery…
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Fears internal, Tropes eternal: Themes in horror
An effective horror story should grip its reader’s attention, increase their sense of dread and then twist them in order to elicit the fear of…
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Authorial Oracles: 5 Dystopian Writers Who Speculated Accurately
Dystopian and science fiction authors have been acting as the world’s literary clairvoyants for some time now. Here are a handful of twentieth century authors…
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Transhumanism & Transmetropolitan: Familiar Hypocrites in a Dystopian Plain
If you’re reading this, you’ve already been augmented; your brain is no longer just your brain. With just an internet connection, your mind connects almost…
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Plea of a Plebian: An Ode to Margaret Atwood
(If you are still interested in applying for The Spectatorial staff, please click here) Indigo book store in the Manulife Centre: Margaret Atwood held a…
