by Lucy Hounsom | October 31, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
We’re delighted to be joined this week by Vicki Jarrett, author of the eerie and imaginative Always North, out now from Unsung Stories, which has just won its second consecutive British Fantasy Award for Best Independent Press! Read on for a fascinating...
by Megan Leigh | August 8, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
I’m not saying I started this podcast as a way to defend my increasingly expensive reading habit, but… I definitely did just that! And it is books like Agnes Gomillion’s The Record Keeper that continue to make me excited about genre fiction. If...
by Lucy Hounsom | July 4, 2019 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSI don’t want the future to be female. I want it to be for everyone.Lisa Yaszek In a fascinating episode that covers everything from telepathic matriarchies to lesbian vampire fiction, academic Lisa Yaszek chats...
by Megan Leigh | June 27, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
Space opera. Gods. AI. Female scientists. Lovecraftian-overtones. Ada Hoffman’s debut novel The Outside seemingly has it all! We asked her about writing autistic characters and why the development of AI’s is causing so much fear in society today. Why did...
by Megan Leigh | June 20, 2019 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIn our last episode, we had author Aliette de Bodard on to discuss the absence of mothers in speculative fiction. One explanation put forward was the focus of chosen one narratives – these stories rely on the...
by Megan Leigh | June 6, 2019 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe were inspired to speak to Aliette about representations of motherhood in speculative fiction after reading her excellent essay ‘On Motherhood and Erasure’. There’s no denying that mothers are...
