The Student Conductor is a touching, bittersweet story of a man learning how to pursue the things he loves—and what could stop him from doing so.

The Hunger Games trilogy highlights many important aspects of tyranny and rebellion, the most important of which is that pursuing your values requires freedom.

Empathy, religion, war, and social hierarchies in Dick's 1968 sci-fi classic.

What is the nature of love? Is love really selfless? Angel Walker-Werth answered these questions at NICON 2023.

Speaker for the Dead uses some bizarre sci-fi concepts to explore important moral issues—hitting the nail on the head on some, but muddying the waters on others.

This fun fantasy novella offers an opportunity to reflect on identity and self-esteem.

This spinoff to The Handmaid’s Tale, set in the same tyrannical theocracy (the Republic of Gilead), alternates between the perspectives of three very different women. Aunt Lydia, the only character who’s in...

How would you handle the fear of loss and create a purpose if you lived fifteen times longer than everyone around you?

I discuss how dystopian novels can demonstrate the importance of individual rights, using Lois Lowry’s "The Giver" as my primary example.

Can you imagine a threat serious enough to justify (in anyone’s mind) training children in combat?

George Orwell’s iconic 1984 certainly contains some important insights, but its view of authoritarianism has a few notable flaws.

How would you go about learning everything about somebody else’s soul—without speaking with the person?