This week, Books & Rhymes, BookShyBooks, and PostColonialChild discuss their relationship with science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction (SFF), afrofuturism, and the blurred line between fiction and reality within the genre.
We explore:
If science fiction, fantasy & speculative fiction are niche genres and the ways in which social media has expanded their readership.
If fables and traditional folk tales should be classified as speculative fiction.
How books by writers from the global south are marketed, and the ways in which their works are excluded from the genre.
The ways in which we, as readers of colour, insert ourselves into the narrative - despite the absence of self-representation in most SFF.
BooksShyBooks delivers the 'Mic Drop' on an important topic.
Come through, and engage in literary shenanigans with us at our:
Live show at Shout Out Live Podcast Festival on the 14th of July.
Live episode recording with Tomi Adeyemi, the author of Children of Blood and Bone on the 8th of August.
'Literature In Your Ear’ at Africa Writes Festival on the 1st of July.
S2 EP6 | A Celebration Of #indiebookshopweek :Live Episode With Irenosen Okojie At Housmans
S2 EP 5 | Meet Kalaf Epalanga, the Angolan writer/musician who bought Lisbon for half price
S2 EP 4 | Literature festivals: Worth it or a total waste of time?
S2 EP 3 | My Self Help Queens at??
S2 EP 2 | Bonus episode: Beyond the label : Navigating Worlds As A Muslim Writer + Critical Muslim
S2 EP 1 | We Back!: The Tea About Nonfiction
Bonus Episode | ‘See You On The Other Side‘
Ep 12: ‘Children of Blood and Bone’: Live with Tomi Adeyemi
EP 11 | Ordinary People: live recording with Diana Evans at ShoutOut Live!
EP 10 | 'Young Hearts Run Free’ Reading Kid Lit and YA fiction
EP 9 | “I’m A CoverHoe”
EP 8 | How Otaku are you? Manga and Anime lovers this way!
EP 7 | Unlimited Seats At The Table
EP 5 | Lost In Translation: Finding and Reading Translated Books
EP 4 | Clash of the Titans: Independent vs Big Publishing Houses
EP 3 | The Empire Strikes Back: Britain & The Windrush Generation
EP 2 | BookGasms: Books that Make You Go Ouuuuuh
EP 1.5 | Sneak Peak
EP 1 | I Like Good Books and I Cannot Lie
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