All the episodes recorded and published in 2018 so far!
Episode 99: Long Live the Resistance – The Problem of Magical Revolution in Speculative Fiction
Episode 100: So You Want to be a Writer? – Celebrating 100 Episodes of Dissecting Dragons
Episode 101: Back on the Broom – More Enchanting Children’s Fiction
Episode 102: Squibs and Mundanes – Representation of Disability in Speculative Fiction
Episode 103: Best Served Cold – the Revenge Arc in Speculative Fiction
Episode 104: Bones, Boyd and Cottle – The Physician Archetype in Speculative Fiction
Episode 105: The Book Hangover – Fictional Worlds that won’t let you go
Episode 106: Kali-ma, Inanna & Anath – The Creator-Destroyer in Myth and Speculative Fiction
Episode 107: The Balance of Power – Sexism and Sexual Harrassment in the Publishing Industry
Episode 108: It Must be the Weather – How Nature Reflects Art in Speculative Fiction
Episode 109: Into the East – Fantasy Settings Tolkien Never Used
Episode 110: Saying What You Really Mean – The Importance of Theme in Speculative Fiction
Episode 111: Larger than Life – The Fictional World of Giants
Episode 112: Spies, Traitors & Turncoats – Informants in Speculative Fiction
Episode 113: Decoy Ducks and Red Herrings – Sayings, Urban Legends and Aphorisms
Episode 114: Queer Eye for the Straight Story – Reading Speculative Fiction through a Queer Filter
Episode 115: Clothes Make the Man – Cross-dressing in Speculative Fiction
Episode 116: Cliches are Cliche for a Reason – Why Tropes aren’t bad…but Some Tropes need to Die.
Episode 117: Dinosaurs and Mega Cryptids – Man-made Monsters in Speculative Fiction
Episode 118: You Fancy Me Mad – Renfield, Lear and Ophelia: Madness in Speculative Fiction
Episode 119: Love Conquers All – Power Couples who destroyed the story
Episode 120: Bards, Troubadours and Skalds – the Musician Archetype in Speculative Fiction
Episode 121: If We Were Villains – What Shakespeare has to say to a Modern Audience