Speculative fiction
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If Dinosaurs Walked the Earth… You’d Be Riding One
What do you think of when you imagine a utopia? How about a dystopia? If you had trouble with the first, but The Hunger Games…
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Tales from the Midwest Writers Workshop
When my stepfather told me about the Midwest Writers Workshop in Muncie, Indiana, I didn’t know what to expect. I’d only ever attended conferences geared…
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Many Sides of the Same Genes: Examining Diversity in BBC’s Orphan Black
This review contains spoilers up to late season two . Needless to say, when I began watching a show whose core premise was “clones, clones everywhere,”…
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We Need Diverse Books: LGBTQ+ Representation
When I was a teenager, I’d borrow books from the library and then hide them in my closet. I couldn’t search the library shelves for…
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The Invisible Ones: The Speculative Fictions of Mental Health Discourse
I was at a meeting at the start of the 2013-2014 school year and we were at the portion of the day where we were…
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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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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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An Amalgamation of Angels: A survey of the angelic from religious to fictional
From Renaissance paintings to modern-day Cupids, angels (and their inverse, demons) have always fascinated the imagination. It might be because they’re often human-looking, but more…
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The Desolation of Ear Cartilage: Body Modification as Fantasy
If you’re anything like me, you came out of The Desolation of Smaug with an even deeper love of elves than you ever thought possible.…
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