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

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Disposable characters
Redshirts. No sooner are they introduced than they are killed. The tension rises, there are beads of sweat on Kirk’s brow… now the audience knows the peril is real. These stock, disposable characters exist in a story solely for the purpose of being dis...
S03, E18: Catriona Ward & ‘the liminal space between certainties’
Lucy and Charlotte talk to horror writer Catriona…
S03, E17: Revisiting The Dark Crystal
A Charlotte and Lucy special! After the success o…
S03, E16: Magic, Wealth and Power with Vic James
Social inequality and the unequal distribution of…
S03, E14: Grimdark with Anna Smith Spark
We spoke with author Anna Smith Spark, Queen of G…
S03, E13: Women’s jobs in science fiction
With equality of pay and the drive to get more wo…
S03, E11: Women’s ghost stories with Melissa Edmundson Makala
Ghost literature written by women in the 19th cen…
S03, E10: Idealised characters and Mary Sues
Mary Sues are idealised characters with no real f…