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 | September 2, 2021 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSRecently, a number of prominent television and film creators, as well as authors, have either been outed for bad behaviour or made hateful public statements. Anyone who is a regular listener will know that we often...
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...
by Megan Leigh | July 8, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSLove can raise us up. Love can tear us down. It can be our strength, our weakness, and everything in between. And inevitably, love makes fools of us all. While we all enjoy reading a good romance, a love story is...