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Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror

Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror

By: Megan Leigh Charlotte Bond and Lucy Hounsom
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 Podcast discussing women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Hosted by Megan Leigh, Charlotte Bond, and Lucy Hounsom. New episodes every other Thursday.All rights reserved Art Social Sciences
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  • Alternate histories – with Sarah Brooks

    Alternate histories – with Sarah Brooks
    Sep 25 2025

    For many writers, history can be both an inspiration and a source of plot. No one is going to call a fantasy writer out for “making it up”. With historical fiction, however, you have to be more careful – there are always a bunch of readers out there ready to spot anachronisms. But some writers […]

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    32 mins
  • Zombies are us – with Leigh Radford

    Zombies are us – with Leigh Radford
    Jul 31 2025

    Zombies first shambled onto our cinema screens in the 1932 film White Zombie staring Bela Lugosi. Early incarnations involved voodoo reanimation and lacked the whole brain-eating aspect. (There’s a really interesting article by Carnegie Mellon University that charts the early history of the zombie). But let us jump to what modern audiences consider a zombie. For that, […]

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    35 mins
  • Big deck energy – with Frances White

    Big deck energy – with Frances White
    Jun 28 2025

    Part of a murder mystery’s charm is the narrative movement from chaos to order. The natural balance of justice is overturned and it’s up to ordinary people – rather than the law – to fix it. The uncovering of clues, red herrings, the many suspicious characters – all of these are essential to a good […]

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    29 mins
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