by Lucy Hounsom | September 24, 2026 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHumans have always looked up at the stars and wondered if there is life beyond this world, and science fiction writers have spent years exploring this idea. In the earliest works, such as Kepler’s Somnium and...
by Lucy Hounsom | August 27, 2026 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe are seeing summer out with a bang. Yes it’s just us three – Megan, Lucy and Charlotte – talking about the changes we’ve observed in the publishing industry. It all began when Meg watched a...
by Lucy Hounsom | January 29, 2026 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe beauty of science fiction is that it can be pretty much anything. It can be people on spaceships exploring the stars. It can be settlers being stalked and killed by an alien monster. It can be about an alien...
by Lucy Hounsom | November 27, 2025 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSSomething a little bit different this month! Anyone who follows us on social media will be aware that we were completely thrilled and surprised to win the 2025 British Fantasy Award for Best Audio last month. In our...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 20, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen we say the word “novel,” most of us think of a book written in prose, split into chapters and possibly parts. But every now and again, we come across novels that defy our expectations. Pratchett’s early work not...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 23, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSA short story isn’t just a novel in miniature form. It isn’t even a shortened novella. It is a creature of its own devising. There’s only time for a snapshot of reality, and in the space of a few thousand words, you...
