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No trope is an island – with Foz Meadows
As you’ve hopefully worked out by now, we are big proponents of the need for diverse representation in speculative fiction. And while we are certainl…
4 years, 3 months ago
Cyberpunk with Kimberly Unger
These days, ‘punk’ is added to a whole host of different genres, sub-genres, and words never before used to indicate book genres before. But there wa…
4 years, 3 months ago
Metaphor and social commentary with Saara El-Arifi
Please be aware that we discuss some fairly heavy topics in this episode, including addiction, violence against children, and racially motivated viol…
4 years, 4 months ago
The haunt – with Michelle Paver
It’s easy to see why haunted houses are frightening – most of us live in a house and share a terror of what might happen if some unpleasant force too…
4 years, 4 months ago
Families in horror with Priya Sharma
The best horror takes place when we are at our most vulnerable. In our house. Under our bed. The best monsters are those that we trust because they h…
4 years, 5 months ago
Women write YA?
Have you ever wandered into a bookstore and found yourself baffled by the shelving of some books? Have you ever read a review that labeled a book wri…
4 years, 5 months ago
Curses and consent – with Heather Walter
Fairy tales are both timeless and personal. We see their themes and motifs repeated in stories spanning centuries. But while the characters and scena…
4 years, 6 months ago
Rights, retellings and the Ramayana – with Vaishnavi Patel
When Madeline Miller published Circe, it heralded the start of a new wave of feminist retellings, in which writers revisited well-known classics in o…
4 years, 6 months ago
“Do not take me for granite” – with Amal El-Mohtar
Ursula K Le Guin is the very definition of a legend. So many of us found our way to speculative fiction through her works, while others only realised…
4 years, 7 months ago
Deconstructing Cinderella – with JJA Harwood
The tale of Cinderella – or the Cat Cinderella, or Aschenputtel – is a story that is found in many cultures throughout the world. The extraneous elem…
4 years, 7 months ago