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Unmapping fantasy with A. K. Larkwood
It’s high fantasy. You know the drill: personalities are defined by race. Elves are pointy-eared snobs who are unbearably pretty, orcs are barely sen…
4 years, 7 months ago
Slavic narratives with Gabriela Houston
If you have been listening to our podcast for some time now, you will be well aware of our fascination with fairytales and how they continue to shape…
4 years, 8 months ago
Women, history & power – with Kate Heartfield
For our first episode of 2022, we are going back to the 18th century, to look at the women who wielded power and the means they used to gain it. What…
4 years, 9 months ago
Beyond the Mafia – with Fonda Lee
Fantasy – and indeed most fiction – often involves bitter rivalries. Fights over a kingdom or territory, long-standing feuds where people no longer e…
4 years, 10 months ago
Cli-fi and catastrophe
We are destroying our planet. The scientists agree, there is no denying that catastrophic climate change is imminent. And yet our leaders continue to…
4 years, 11 months ago
Hopeful speculative fiction with Ryka Aoki
The incredible Ursula K. Le Guin won the National Book Foundation medal for distinguished contribution to American letters in 2014. In her much-share…
4 years, 11 months ago
Body horror with Ellen Datlow
Your body is a temple – a saying that has been with us for centuries. The message: look after your body because you and it are going to be together f…
5 years ago
“Perfect” women – with Cat Valente
The idea of perfection, the perfect being, is one of the oldest stories in the world. How that perfection might be tainted, or turn against the hand …
5 years ago
Female friendships – with Alix E Harrow
Female friendships tend to take a back seat in our narratives, so that when they are given the space to exist, they exist almost solely to discuss a …
5 years, 1 month ago
Power and agency in dystopian YA with Melissa Welliver
Coming of age stories have long been a staple within speculative fiction genres, but in the last decade, we have seen an explosion of popularity in w…
5 years, 1 month ago