Of all the pleasures of speculative fiction, I may have missed world-building the most. Any compelling speculative world resembles ours enough to fascinate, but is also different enough to be visionary. Masters of the genre—like Margaret Atwood or Ursula K. Le Guin—situate their most enduring works in singular places. In The Handmaid’s Tale, the unforgettable … Continue reading How Imagining Other Worlds Can Help You Imagine Other Selves