Speculative Fiction as Political Imagination

Thomas Elrod, Lisa Slage Robinson, and DAvey Davis use speculative fiction to take a fresh look at the world around us. From Elrod’s Hollywood satire to the strange, offbeat landscapes of Robinson’s 1980s Northwest Ohio to a COVID-shaped recent past in Davis’s novel, their work explores power, culture, and the systems we live in through inventive, genre-bending storytelling that feels both imaginative and sharply relevant.