Fungal fiction: a field guide to the mushroom trend in speculative fiction

Mushrooms are a big thing right now in speculative fiction. I’ve enjoyed putting together this glossary of terms relating to fungi and the trend for fungal fiction. I wrote this in response to Jasmin Kirkbride’s keynote on mushroompunk at the Current Research in Speculative Fiction conference in July 2025. Funga The kingdom of fungi, like Continue reading Fungal fiction: a field guide to the…