The AI apocalypse with Emma Mieko Candon

The AI apocalypse with Emma Mieko Candon

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt’s a standard rule of writing that if you want your protagonist to look heroic and competent, you’ve got to get a powerful and menacing antagonist. In the past, writers have used AI as an overwhelming and hostile...
Review: Anna by Sammy HK Smith

Review: Anna by Sammy HK Smith

Anna is a story about domestic abuse and rape, and so it deserves the trigger warnings at the start of the book. Be warned, this is not a book for the faint-hearted.  From the very beginning, Anna, not her real name, but the one she assumes, is subjected to horrific...
Five questions with Cat Sparks

Five questions with Cat Sparks

At Breaking the Glass Slipper, we love to see women breaking the mold. As such, we wanted to introduce you to Australian science fiction writer Cat Sparks. Her debut novel, Lotus Blue, has been receiving great buzz for its originality and complexity. So what makes a...