by Megan Leigh | May 30, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
I love Star Trek and Star Wars, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. People would constantly tell me that I had to like one or the other. Nonsense. I could – and do – simply like what I like. So while some people may baulk at TJ Berry’s mixing of genres tropes...
by Megan Leigh | May 2, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
I like to keep an eye on the ‘best new’ lists that do the rounds at the beginning of every month, highlighting some of the titles hitting shelves. One book, in particular, caught my eyes recently, A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. A space opera...
by Megan Leigh | March 21, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
Science fiction is incredibly versatile as a genre. It can be used to explore all sorts of different concepts and comment on the world around us. Author K Chess, in her debut novel Famous Men Who Never Lived, uses science fiction to delve into ideas of identity with...
by Lucy Hounsom | March 14, 2019 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe representation of transgender people within genre is a subject we’ve wanted to explore for a while now on this podcast. All too often, trans and non binary people are absent from speculative fiction, or if...
by Megan Leigh | February 14, 2019 | Uncategorised
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWomen aren’t the only minority to suffer from poor as well as a lack of representation in genre fiction. Among other minorities struggling to have their voices heard are people of colour, people with...
by Megan Leigh | February 7, 2019 | 5 Q's, Blog
After the exquisite science fiction film Arrival, along with Ann Leckie’s breakout Ancillary Justice, I’ve been on a bit of a linguistics-inspired scifi journey. Like Leckie’s groundbreaking novel, Sue Burke’s debut is equally trailblazing....
