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Sci-fi and Fantasy for Peasants — Transcript
OnThe transcript of our recent episode with Qualia Redux about poverty in science fiction and fantasy stories.
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The transcript of our recent episode with Qualia Redux about poverty in science fiction and fantasy stories.
For 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.
In 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.
Stephen Mazur, former Assistant Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, to talk about the women of sci-fi’s pulp era.
In 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.
There’s one thing contemporary SFF can’t seem to escape. Simon McNeil joins us to talk about writing beyond the end of history.
In 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.
Fiction has always used speculative elements to express political ideas; but sometimes, it falls flat in terms of storytelling and politics.
Writers are often under pressure to follow rules, to write to the market, to carefully fit themselves into a safe cultural and commercial niche.
Cartoonist 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.