Unmapping fantasy with A. K. Larkwood

Unmapping fantasy with A. K. Larkwood

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt’s high fantasy. You know the drill: personalities are defined by race. Elves are pointy-eared snobs who are unbearably pretty, orcs are barely sentient lap dogs, dwarves love gold and mining… And this...
Slavic narratives with Gabriela Houston

Slavic narratives with Gabriela Houston

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIf you have been listening to our podcast for some time now, you will be well aware of our fascination with fairytales and how they continue to shape modern speculative fiction. But when we talk about fairytales, we...
Beyond the Mafia – with Fonda Lee

Beyond the Mafia – with Fonda Lee

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFantasy – and indeed most fiction – often involves bitter rivalries. Fights over a kingdom or territory, long-standing feuds where people no longer even remember why it began… Such opposing forces are also a key...
Cli-fi and catastrophe

Cli-fi and catastrophe

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe are destroying our planet. The scientists agree, there is no denying that catastrophic climate change is imminent. And yet our leaders continue to pay lip service to the issue without taking real, impactful...
“Perfect” women – with Cat Valente

“Perfect” women – with Cat Valente

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...