September Roundup from Interstellar Flight Magazine
Hello, space adventurers!
We’ve had a jam-packed month full of fabulous articles and interviews, covering speculative fiction, fandom and pop culture in all its beautiful forms. We also hosted the launch of Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota with author Amelia Gorman. (See it on our YouTube channel if you missed it!)
Now, we’re gearing up for the spooky season. Be sure to subscribe and follow us in October for our upcoming series on Fantastic Fest.
PS. You can also meet our very own Managing Editor, Holly Lyn Walrath, at Armadillocon from October 15–17, with her book The Smallest of Bones!
Popular Articles from Interstellar Flight Magazine
Here’s a roundup of what Interstellar Flight Magazine published in September…
The Incredible Mr. Jamal Hodge
The art of crossing genres and creating art that reflects truth
Christina Sng speaks to the award-winning filmmaker and poet Jamal Hodge about his incredible film Mourning Meal and how it was born from a poem.
Pride Economies, Gender Roles, and a Multiplicity of Bodies
Interview with Benjamin Rosenbaum, author of The Unraveling
Benjamin Rosenbaum is well-known for his acclaimed short speculative fiction. His first full-length novel deals with gender, post-scarcity economics, surveillance, and parenting, hundreds of thousands of years in the future.
Jason Erik Lundberg: An American Writer in Asia
An interview with the award-winning author, editor and anthologist
Christina Sng talks to American editor and writer Jason Erik Lundberg about living and working in Singapore, and how his stories have changed since he moved to Southeast Asia.
Seeing Beyond Sight: My Journey to Afrofuturism
From the Co-Editor of The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry
The Black imagination has always been Afrofuturistic because it yearns for its roots in Africa, the place that birthed it, where communion with the supernatural originated in tribal culture, writes Len Lawson.
Fighting the Patriarchy, Myths, and Poetry
Interview with Lynne Sargent, author of A Refuge of Tales
In A Refuge of Tales, Lynne Sargent explores the idea of creating shelter against patriarchal society through their collection of speculative poems. T.D. Walker speaks with Sargent about their award-nominated book.
The Trailblazing Ms Flynn
Interview with Geneve Flynn, co-editor of the award-winning anthology Black Cranes: Tales of Unquiet Women
Christina Sng interviews speculative fiction editor and author Geneve Flynn, who led the way in bringing Asian women’s horror fiction to the forefront and won a Bram Stoker Award for it.
Was Hellboy’s Prince Nuada Actually Tolkien’s Fëanor?
Hellboy II and Irish Mythology
Did Hellboy’s writer or director have a more contemporary model for antagonist Nuada Silverlance than Irish mythology? Were they inspired by Tolkien’s character from The Silmarillion, Fëanor? The parallels are numerous and striking, writes Henry L. Herz.
Rhapsody in Blue Bodies
“Primitive” Desire in Ruby Dixon’s Ice Planet Barbarians
If you’ve spent time on BookTok, you’ve likely come across Ruby Dixon’s Ice Planet Barbarians series. What may have started off as a joke post has evolved into a loving embrace of the bizarre erotic, writes Laura Díaz de Arce.
Writers, submit your SFF short story collections to Interstellar Flight Press!
We are currently seeking book-length short story collections in the speculative genres. We’re also open to translations, and/or collections containing translated short stories. Learn more on our submissions page!
Interstellar Flight Magazine publishes essays on what’s new in the world of speculative genres. In the words of Ursula K. Le Guin, we need “writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.” We use affiliate links and Patreon to pay our writers. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.
