Episode Details

A series of interviews with authors of historically-based fiction featuring queer women.

In this episode we talk about:

• The long incubation for the ideas that became Passing Strange
• Lesbian culture in mid-century San Francisco and the San Francisco World’s Fair on Treasure Island
• The hidden interconnectedness of Ellen’s novels
• The love of historic objects and texts
• Historical fiction as “time travel” for the reader
• Books mentioned
  • Passing Strange by Ellen Klages
  • “Caligo Lane” by Ellen Klages (originally published in Subterranean Online, Winter 2014, available in the collection Wicked Wonders Tachyon Publications, 2017)
  • “Hey Presto” by Ellen Klages (originally published in the anthology Fearsome Magics ed. by Jonathan Strahan, 2014, available in the collection Wicked Wonders Tachyon Publicaitons, 2017)
  • The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages
  • “Time Gypsy” by Ellen Klages (originally published in Bending the Landscape: Science Fiction, edited by Nicola Griffith and Stephen Pagel (Overlook Press, 1999), also available in the collection Portable Childhoods (Tachyon Publications, 2007))

A transcript of this podcast may be available here. (Transcripts added when available.)

Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp
• Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog
• RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/
• Twitter: @LesbianMotif
• Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server
• The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon

Links to Heather Online

• Website: http://alpennia.com
• Email: Heather Rose Jones
• Twitter: @heatherosejones
• Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page)

Links to Ellen Klages Online

• Website: Ellen Klages
• Twitter: @eklages
• Facebook: Ellen Klages