Gripping, Short, Speculative Fiction

Five Salman Rushdie Books That Explain His Life & Near Deaths

Earlier this month, Salman Rushdie was stabbed. The magical realism author has lived in constant threat of assassination since 1989, after Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa and $3M reward for the authors death. The dictum was in response to the publication of The Satanic Verses, a satirical...

The Top 19 Works of Speculative and Science Fiction From the 19th Century

At the beginning of the 19th century the world population breached, for the first time in recorded history, one billion people. The French Revolution upended the grasp of ruling classes and set a framework for liberal democracy to supplant fiefdoms with nation-states. The industrial revolution was reshaping all manners of...