Speculative Fiction by Tonya Snyder

Tonya Snyder writes speculative fiction about people trying to make sense of worlds that do not behave the way they were taught.

Her stories move between science fiction, science fantasy, and the mythic, with recurring threads of memory, belonging, strange living worlds, and the things people carry with them without knowing why.

What I Write

My fiction tends to live where the familiar starts behaving strangely:

• speculative fiction

• science fantasy

• mythic science fiction

• character-driven stories with unusual worlds

Featured Project: The Language of Alden Mire

The Language of Alden Mire follows a boy raised by an AI who discovers that the alien world beneath him is alive—and may remember more about him than he does.

On Mire, language can be felt as well as spoken. Memory moves through roots, land, and living systems. As Alden begins to hear what the planet has been carrying, the life he was taught to trust starts coming apart.

Around him are the people who become his family, the forces trying to control what Mire remembers, and a question Alden cannot leave alone:

What happens when the world knows something about you that you have forgotten?