Macbeth by William Shakespeare We went back in time to the works of Shakespeare and how Macbeth solidifies several traditions in speculative fiction. A story or witches, Macbeth follows the titular character as the theme of destiny vs freewill is battl...

Red Rising by Pierce Brown Welcome to Leave it to the Prose – The Next Chapter! An occasional series discussing multi-book series in Science Fiction and Fantasy. This week we re-release our original Red Rising discussion in preparation for our discussi...

The Giver by Lois Lowry In our final mini-series featuring Middle Grade Science Fiction and Fantasy, Reid and Isaac discuss The Giver by Lois Lowry. The Giver follows Jonas, a young man who comes of age to take his role as “the receiver,

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket We continue our four part series of middle-grade speculative fiction from our pasts with The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket, the first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

The Invasion by K.A. Applegate (Book 1 Animorphs) Continuing our series on middle-grade fiction, we discuss many readers’ first science fiction book: The Invasion, book one of the Animorphs series. The series follows a collection of young adults as the...

Deltora Quest: The Forests of Silence by Emily Rodda Emily Rodda, the children’s fiction pen name for Jennifer Rowe, is the creator of, among other middle-grade fantasy novels, the Deltora Quest series and universe.

Leave it to the Prose, Your Podcast for Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Leave it to the Prose is your podcast for science fiction and fantasy literature. We bring the perspective of a writer (Reid) and a reader (Isaac) to critically discuss scie...

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin We, a Russian dystopian novel, and sometimes described as the grandfather of dystopian novels. We is seen as an influential and important work of science fiction and for the genre of dystopia.

Warming Season by SR Algernon We return to the works of SR Algernon, Hugo Award Finalist for his short story Asymmetrical Warfare. In Warming Season we follow Officer Dee as he deals with bubbling conflict on the planet 16 Cygni Bb.

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine The 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel, A Memory Called Empire is Arkady Martine’s debut novel of interstellar intrigue. In this episode we dive into the characteristic that this book excel at: worldbuilding.