by Lucy Hounsom | August 24, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn the preface to Les Fleurs du mal, Baudelaire indicated that boredom is the truest suffering, andthis idea later became central to the fin de siècle movement, an era of decadence in which artificemasqueraded as, or...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 18, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSpeculative fiction is no stranger to exploring issues of colonialism, particularly in science fiction, from first contact stories to wars over territories. While many such stories are extremely black and white, the...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 4, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHorror works best when it’s relatable. The best protagonists in a horror story are those that are just like us: they’re sensible, trying to scrape by, possibly raise families, and make the most of life. We empathise...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 9, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe typically feature female creators on this show who write cracking female or marginalised characters, but in this episode, we talk to author Grady Hendrix, an author adept at creating female protagonists both...
by Lucy Hounsom | February 9, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe all know that the original versions of fairy tales are so much darker than the sanitised ones that got handed down to us by the moralistic Victorians. Some authors choose to create a story in a fairytale setting...
by Lucy Hounsom | January 12, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMany of us grew up reading the myths and legends from Ancient Greece and Rome. We followed Herakles as he succeeded at one impossible task after another; we cringed when Orpheus turned round at the last moment so...
