The fantasy genre comes in many flavors -- but how do we tease those apart? How important are they when worldbuilding, and how much are they inventions of the demands of marketing? In this episode, we explore the structural conventions, aesthetic flourishes, and reader expectations the define the many glorious subgenres of speculative fiction.
Transcript for Episode 55 (thank you, wonderful scribes!)
Episode 10: Death Becomes Us
Episode 9: Picking the Ties that Bind (with guest star RJ Theodore)
Episode 8: A Trip Over the Tongue
Episode 7: Just Shake and Add Magic
Episode 6: An Interlude with Spreadsheets (with guest star Jenn Lyons!)
Episode 5: People in a Petri Dish
Episode 4: Civilization and You! (with guest star Fonda Lee!)
Episode 3: As Narrated by David Attenborough
Episode 2: Terra Firma and the Firmament
Episode 1: Playing God In Your Spare Time
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