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Reality Reimagined: The Tools of Fantasy
Every fantasy novel I write is grounded in our world. That’s no secret. Elatsoe, Sheine Lende, and A Snake Falls to Earth all occur in an alternate version of Texas (in the present, the past, and the future, respectively). Their worlds are similar to ours; however, they also harbor impossibilities...
Reality Reimagined: Unreal Estate
Every day, I dread picking up my phone in the morning and looking at my newsfeed. Doomscrolling, they call it. We don’t want to do it, and yet somehow, we feel compelled. Most of the time those headlines seem like something from some other reality, all strung together by pet...
Reality Reimagined: Fantasy vs. Reality
Fantasy is a broad genre (and broader still if you stretch the category to include science fiction). It can range from stories set firmly in real life with just the barest hint of the uncanny to those that take place in entirely imagined worlds or universes. Personally, I have always...
Reality Reimagined: A Hero in the Here and Now
Photo: Collin Griffiths. When I was a child, reality was a thing to escape from. I had an imaginary friend. I constructed elaborate soap opera plots featuring my Barbie dolls. I read books and wrote, and wrote, and wrote. In the worlds I created, bullies were humiliated and defeated. Handsome,...
Reality Reimagined: Reality and Fantasy
Newsrooms are strange places at night. Silent, mossy hollows of noise. Muted and soft and then, deeper in, a knockout punch of sound. A cacophony of all the bad, everywhere in the world. Beneath the spaceship-white lights, you are alone. Or nearly alone. Most of the local reporters have long...
Reality Reimagined: A Club of Science Nerds
How does reality shape the sci-fi I create? My writer’s heart is always drawn to writing the bizarre and fantastical. I’d written a lot of short stories and was always worried my ideas would be too strange for a reader to suspend disbelief. When I decided to write my first...
Reality Reimagined: Escapist Fantasies Are Political
“Let’s make a fantasy world,” I tell a classroom full of middle schoolers. I’ve been invited to teach a fantasy world-building class. “Name a person, place, or thing. Anything! Go.” “Frogs,” a kid blurts out. “Great!” I say. “You’ve just named what the people of this fantasy realm value most...
Reality Reimagined: A Conversation with Reality
For as long as I can remember, I’ve made up stories to help me explain the world. That’s not unique to me. People have been creating stories to explain reality for the entirety of human history. Even history itself is basically reality fanfiction that we mostly agree to pretend is...
Reality Reimagined: Magic and Marginalization
When I approach fantasy writing, I think of the fantastical as a tool for adding dimension to my commentaries on the real world. I was trained as a historian, and in the history profession we discuss the way that history is impossible to recount objectively — any historical narrative, regardless...
Reality Reimagined: Not a Word Isn't Coming from the Deep
The only reason there was a typewriter on my desk in the first place was because I had a cast on my arm. That makes it sound like the cast was for fun. It wasn’t. The real story lives between the lines, and as in my books, I will leave...
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