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...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 9, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe literature of our past is littered with casual gender biases. You describe someone as a “witch” and the natural assumption is that they are female. But according to Diane Purkiss, while mostly women were accused...
by Megan Leigh | April 11, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSReligion has been part of our society for centuries. Is it any wonder then that it can make up a large part of our fiction – from CS Lewis’s allegorical Chronicles of Narnia series to Anna Smith Spark’s Empires of...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 28, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe have a bit of an unusual episode for you today! While it is amazing that we have so many authors who want to come on the show – we feel truly honoured – we thought it was about time we returned to talking among...
by Lucy Hounsom | February 15, 2024 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWelcome to our first episode of 2024. Yes, the title’s a quote from our incredible guest. As a podcast dedicated primarily to speculative fiction, we rarely find ourselves taking a deep dive into history. But...
by Megan Leigh | December 7, 2023 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSModern fantasy owes much to J.R.R. Tolkien, including his problematic colonialist views and othering of cultures and races different from his medieval European-inspired setting. Many authors since then have used...
