Monthly essays about the ideas and themes in speculative fiction. Free to read.

Driven by movie franchises and role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, interest in worldbuilding has grown rapidly in recent years. Lycoming College joined the party this spring with a popular ...

True North Aid provides practical humanitarian support to northern and remote Indigenous communities in Canada through community-led projects

Climate interventions increase beliefs, policy support, and willingness to share information but not higher effort action.

The Rumpus publishes original fiction, poetry, literary humor writing, comics, essays, book reviews, and interviews with authors and artists of all kinds. Founded in 2009 and independent from the star...

MTG Arena workers announce unionization as United Wizards of the Coast-CWA, calling on WOTC to voluntarily recognize their union and begin collective bargaining.

The US announced three days ago that the ceasefire was extended by three weeks after talks.

The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism

The sci-fi subgenre that blends technology with climate hope.

Submission guidelines for fiction and poetry submissions to OTHERSIDE, including opening dates and how to submit.

The imagination is not context-less. The words and conceptual markers a writer puts on the page arise from thoughts and perceptions and interpretations rooted in our experiences and knowledge and assu...

A recent literary genre imagines what happens when our climate changes—and so do we.