Five questions with Jane Hennigan

Five questions with Jane Hennigan

It feels like forever ago that we made an episode on ageism. And, well, it kind of was… (*looks back at all of our episodes and freaks out that we’ve been doing this for six years*) Back in 2017, when we were still new to the podcasting game, we decided to...
Five questions with S. Qiouyi Lu

Five questions with S. Qiouyi Lu

If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it 1,000 times: novellas are where it is *AT* for groundbreaking science fiction and fantasy these days. And I’m not sorry to see it. They are a playground for fascinating ideas. Short enough for authors and publishers...
Five questions with Helena Coggan

Five questions with Helena Coggan

We asked Helena to come on the blog today to discuss YA fiction in all its guises – does it suffer from mostly being written by adults? Why are women so central to YA? Why does YA tend to gravitate toward dystopian narratives? All this and more… What do you...
Five questions with Jacqui Castle

Five questions with Jacqui Castle

Freelance writer and journalist Jacqui Castle decided to turn her writing talents to fiction, giving us the debut YA dystopian novel The Seclusion. The novel, released in September, has been garnering great reviews. We asked Jacqui about her inspirations and why she...
Five questions with Rachel Heng

Five questions with Rachel Heng

My favourite part of science fiction is the philosophical quandary at the root. After all, science fiction simply asks ‘What if?’ In Rachel Heng’s new novel from Hodder, Suicide Club, she asks ‘What if we actually achieved immortality?’...