Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Feminist Blog
The F-BOM book box has ended, and there will be no new BOM in November. This isn’t the news we wanted to give you. Like everyone, our plans for the year were monumentally disrupted by the pandemic. Unfortunately, after three years of promoting independent women authors, we have decided to to fold the F-BOM book… Read More
Some of you didn’t know you needed an anthology of queer paranormal romance comics, some of you having been waiting for this for a long time. Editors Melanie Gillman and Kori Michele Handwerker brought us The Other Side in 2016. It gathers twenty-four creators for nineteen stories of joy, romance, and resilience. Despite the abundance… Read More
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Halloween is coming! We kicked off the season with our current BOM, New Orleans supernatural thriller Death Came to Dinner. Now let’s keep the ball rolling with Carmen Maria Machado’s horrific and frankly gross short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties. Not offensive to women =… Read More
There’s nothing better than reading the next book in a series. Seeing those familiar faces of beloved characters…and living in fear that more bad things will happen to them. So it goes in The Thief and the Waste, the sequel to The Wolf and the Rain, and middle book in Tanya Lee’s dystopian trilogy. If… Read More
I started writing this post after leaving my job, taking a leave of absence from school, and moving to China for six months. I was burnt out and having health problems, and I needed a break. Little did I know, we would all be forced to break from our routines with the onset of the… Read More
It’s Not About the Burqa is a collection of essays on feminism and modern life as a Muslim women in the West, edited by Mariam Khan. I say “feminism” because most of the writers are activists in some way, and so most of their essays go into that work. But there is also a lot… Read More
Her Story Arc 