This Is Us

We’re All Speculative Fiction Writers Now

The power is in asking what if, what if, and what if again

Melanie Conroy-Goldman
Human Parts
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8 min readNov 17, 2020

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If 2020 has had a genre, it’s been speculative fiction. We have all become future-casters. We’ve gazed at the maps, done back-of-the-envelope calculations, and read the arcs of infection charts. Suddenly, we speak math as our native tongue. To experience…

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Melanie Conroy-Goldman
Human Parts

Melanie Conroy-Goldman is the author of The Likely World, a novel from Red Hen Press and a Professor of Creative Writing at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.