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Making the ordinary monstrous with Catriona Ward
Why do we need monsters in our fiction? Why do we want to be frightened? When they pick up a book, do readers enter into a pact with a writer, as Cat…
5 years, 6 months ago
Communities with Caroline Hardaker and Gabriela Houston
When you look, communities are everywhere. They can be the people where you live, the people who share the same interest as you, the people you volun…
5 years, 6 months ago
Exploring Ragnarok – with H.M. Long & Genevieve Gornichec
Spirituality exists in every work of fiction in some form or other, but most often manifests as divinity. Gods and goddesses never seem to go out of …
5 years, 7 months ago
Parenthood with Julia Fine
Being a parent is not glamorous. It’s hard work and it often goes unappreciated – in life and in fiction. When we do see parents represented in our …
5 years, 7 months ago
Matriarchies – with Aliette de Bodard
The world as we know it has historically been ruled by men. But when it comes to fiction, writers can choose what power structures they create and ho…
5 years, 7 months ago
Loneliness in science fiction with Aliya Whiteley
Space. The final frontier. An empty, endless expanse of nothing? Or teeming with life?But do we really need to look beyond the confines of our world …
5 years, 8 months ago
Hollywood Monsters – with Mallory O’Meara
History is written by the winners. By men. Early editors of science fiction anthologies chose to exclude works by women, and in doing so, made many b…
5 years, 8 months ago
Magical inequality with Nicole Glover
In last year’s episode on magical realism, we talked about this genre’s ability to take a recognisable setting and tilt it a few degrees, creating so…
5 years, 9 months ago
Scrooge reimagined
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is one of the staples of Christmas. As well as the original book, it’s possible to watch adaptations involving a…
5 years, 10 months ago
Language & Power – with Genevieve Cogman
We constantly discuss themes, stereotypes and assumptions in popular culture, but we don’t often stop to look more closely at the way those issues ar…
5 years, 11 months ago