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A journal for exploring the ideas and themes that stand behind, inform, and develop out of, speculative fiction.

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A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras @franceshardinge.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social

New subscriber essay! Tansy Rayner Roberts brings her last Sam Vimes essay, looking at Thud! and Snuff... Subscribe to read it now: AUD30 (~GBP16 or ~USD21) gets you this one and 11 other essays over the year... www.speculativeinsight.com #terrypratchett

Speculative Insight has been publishing 2 essays/month about SFF since January 2024. That means there's 31 free essays available to read right now! Pratchett's Men, the politics of translation, ethnicity is SEAsian SFF, Tolkien and myth-making... and so much more... www.speculativeinsight.com

Speculative Insight

A journal for exploring the ideas and themes that stand behind, inform, and develop out of, speculative fiction.

speculativeinsight.com

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras #francehardinge #garthnix

The countdown is still happening, because... that's how countdowns work! Only 3 days left to back the Locus anthology and claim your copy! Our current goal is a variant hardcover design by #JohnPicacio !! Funding will officially end Aug 7, 6pm. http://kck.st/4wtYJ6X in bio

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras #francehardinge #garthnix

I have a chapter setting out a decolonial feminist approach to violence against animals in this newly published Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law, edited by Nikki Godden-Rasul and Sidonia Lucia Kula www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res...

Research Handbook on Gender, Violence and Law

This Research Handbook rigorously explores how law responds to gender and violence, how law (re)produces gender and violence, and how law is gendered and violent. It analyses various legal systems, in...

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I am SO excited about the new essay we're publishing this Friday (for free!). If you have Thoughts about The Bride!, and other versions of Frankenstein's bride, I think you're going to Be Intrigued...

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras #francehardinge #garthnix

Y'all! trade reviews are starting to come in and THE FIST OF MEMORY got a STARRED review in Publishers Weekly calling it an "expertly executed epic". As a writer its one thing to craft something you think is special and unique, another for others to agree. 🙏🏾⭐ www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7564-1...

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras #francehardinge #garthnix

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras #francehardinge #garthnix

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras #francehardinge #garthnix

Having just done the NYT mini crossword I am very confused. A plait and a braid are different things to me. Brits, what do you think a plait is? Do you have braids? Americans, same questions!

There’s something in the sky, a mountain range ascending into space! It’s dropping something!

Frances Hardinge 🔥🖤

Speculative Insight journal@speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 5d ago

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras @franceshardinge.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social

I am SO excited about the new essay we're publishing this Friday (for free!). If you have Thoughts about The Bride!, and other versions of Frankenstein's bride, I think you're going to Be Intrigued...

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras #francehardinge #garthnix

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Angela Acosta brings the bonus essay for the Jan-June 2026 collection: Spanish science fiction, especially women and their portrayal in "utopias." Ebook: AUD20 Paperback: AUD35 Subscribe: AUD30/yr - and get this ebook (plus the July-Dec one) included. www.speculativeinsight.com/buy-collections

Did you know that subscribing to Speculative Insight gets you access to all the past subscriber essays? For AUD30/yr (~USD21, GBP16, EUR19) you can read 30 (and counting!) more essays: Pratchett's men, cargo ships in space, Tamsyn Muir as cosy catastrophe... and much more! www.speculativeinsight.com

Speculative Insight

A journal for exploring the ideas and themes that stand behind, inform, and develop out of, speculative fiction.

speculativeinsight.com

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras @franceshardinge.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras #francehardinge #garthnix

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras @franceshardinge.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social

Commission @bydhiyanah.bsky.social - They are amazing!

Dhiyanah@bydhiyanah.bsky.social · 5d ago

#ArtRepostJuly 31. Favorite 'Another Beacon,' 2025, watercolor & hand-drawn digital. This one has a special place in my heart (& my spine/back pain, lmao, in an endearing well-what-can-ya-do way) 🦯🌱🌸 Prints here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/bydh... #art #bsnm #DisabledArtists #SFFart #SupportArtists

Only two of my favorite authors in conversation with each other, that’s all…

Speculative Insight journal@speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 5d ago

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras @franceshardinge.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras @franceshardinge.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras @franceshardinge.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social

OH MY GOD!!! Happy Friday, everyone!!!

Speculative Insight journal@speculativeinsight.bsky.social · 6d ago

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras @franceshardinge.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social

A fifth Friday of the month means bonus content from Speculative Insight , and so we present: Garth Nix and France Hardinge in conversation! www.speculativeinsight.com/extras @franceshardinge.bsky.social @garthnix.bsky.social