Sci-fi and Fantasy for Peasants
OnFor some reason, a lot of SFF authors have a hard time imagining stories about poor people. Fantasy stories often focus on royalty. Sci-fi protagonists tend to be middle or upper class.
Diverse Sci-Fi/Fantasy of the 20th Century
OnIn part two of our discussion on diverse sci-fi and fantasy, we turn our attention to the later half of the 20th century, when the field opened up a little more to BIPOC and queer authors.
Women Writers of the Pulp Era
OnStephen Mazur, former Assistant Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, to talk about the women of sci-fi’s pulp era.
No Plot Just Vibes
OnIn this episode of Rite Gud, we are joined once again by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez, who is going to tell us why plot isn’t everything.
Writing Beyond the End of History
OnThere’s one thing contemporary SFF can’t seem to escape. Simon McNeil joins us to talk about writing beyond the end of history.
How To Start a Magazine for Fun and Absolutely No Profit
OnIn this episode, Blood Knife’s Kurt Schiller shares what it takes to launch a magazine, attract subscribers, and give writers a space to create thought-provoking work.
Nemesis Online (1998) and The Pre-Millennial Single (1998)
OnNemesis Online is a collection of sonically diverse, often low-fi, tracks that seem to have little to do with cyberspace, at least on the surface.
Space Racism, Oppressed Wizards, and Other Marginalized Fantasy Allegories
OnFiction has always used speculative elements to express political ideas; but sometimes, it falls flat in terms of storytelling and politics.
Writing Beyond Limits with Naben Ruthnum
OnWriters are often under pressure to follow rules, to write to the market, to carefully fit themselves into a safe cultural and commercial niche.
Internet Fiction
OnCartoonist RE Parrish joins us to talk about the uneasy marriage of writing and the internet—incorporating the internet into fiction, using the internet as a medium for fiction, and why it’s so hard to write a good social media epistolary novel.