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Narrative Futures

Episode 8 - Telling stories: Psychoanalysis and alien invasion

Tade Thompson explores alien invasion as a metaphor for colonialism and discusses the importance of psychoanalysis and self-awareness in the building of personal and group identities.
Narrative Futures

Episode 7 - National myth: Rewriting America and China

Ken Liu discusses the power of myth in the construction of national narratives and the revisionist work that epic fantasy can do to rewrite them, drawing on the weight of time as omnipresent to narrative intent.
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Episode 6 - Climate fiction: Content dictates form

EJ Swift describes her deep time speculative approach to climate fiction and the effect of content on form in speculative nested or fragmented narratives.
Narrative Futures

Episode 5 - Kitschies, indies, and ads: Juggling narrative forms

Jared Shurin explores his wide-ranging interests from anthologising speculative shorts to the Kitschies Awards to ethical advertising for revisioning global narratives.
Narrative Futures

Episode 4: Short stories are short: Edit for meaning

Mahvesh Murad discusses the work of curating and editing anthologies of speculative short fiction, ethically, refusing the word 'diversity' for doing too little, too late.
Narrative Futures

Episode 3 - People like me: Speculation in Pakistan

Sami Shah ranges over his radio, comedy and burgeoning literary career, and describes how he has to write himself into the speculative fiction space.
Narrative Futures

Episode 1 - Pandemic writing: How close is too close?

Lauren Beukes discusses the proximity of her recent novel Afterland to the current pandemic and how collective action and art are the only way through these difficult times.
Narrative Futures

Narrative Futures Coming Soon

The trailer for the Narrative Futures podcast, devised and produced by Chelsea Haith, featuring interviews with eight authors and editors, and writing prompts by Louis Greenberg.

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