by Lucy Hounsom | October 20, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSome of our favourite heroes are characters who might be deemed less than heroic by society. Smugglers, reckless hot-heads, gamblers and gangsters – everything that law and order should squash at the earliest...
by Lucy Hounsom | August 4, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhile World War 2 saw greater opportunities for women on the home front while so many working-age men were away at war, there are many more examples of hard times bringing curbs on women’s rights. We only have...
by Lucy Hounsom | July 21, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAs you’ve hopefully worked out by now, we are big proponents of the need for diverse representation in speculative fiction. And while we are certainly seeing more LGBTQ+ relationships portrayed in the genres we...
by Megan Leigh | July 7, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThese days, ‘punk’ is added to a whole host of different genres, sub-genres, and words never before used to indicate book genres before. But there was once only one kind of literary punk: cyberpunk....
by Megan Leigh | June 23, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPlease be aware that we discuss some fairly heavy topics in this episode, including addiction, violence against children, and racially motivated violence. Also, less serious in nature but full disclosure: I reference...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 9, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt’s easy to see why haunted houses are frightening – most of us live in a house and share a terror of what might happen if some unpleasant force took up residence there alongside us. Similarly, folk horror that is...
