by Lucy Hounsom | October 14, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe idea of perfection, the perfect being, is one of the oldest stories in the world. How that perfection might be tainted, or turn against the hand that made it, is something that has always intrigued writers of...
by Lucy Hounsom | September 30, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFemale friendships tend to take a back seat in our narratives, so that when they are given the space to exist, they exist almost solely to discuss a man. Virginia Woolf once commented that “all the great women...
by Megan Leigh | September 16, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSComing of age stories have long been a staple within speculative fiction genres, but in the last decade, we have seen an explosion of popularity in what publishers and booksellers refer to as YA – young adult –...
by Megan Leigh | August 19, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe history of humanity is arguably the history of us trying to explain everything around us. Both science and religion have developed as divergent threads of this goal, inextricably linked but often at odds with one...
by Megan Leigh | August 5, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe talk about unequal societies a lot on this show, about privilege and power and who is in a position to use it. We wanted to take a critical look at a subgenre that maybe best reflects the democratic, bureaucratic...
by Megan Leigh | July 22, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSTechnological advances are incredible. Just think, the phone in your pocket is infinitely more powerful than the computers that sent the first spaceships to the moon! Technology has given us basic things we take for...
