By The Friends of Merril
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The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.
In his final episode as host of the podcast, Oliver chats with author Kim Stanley Robinson about Climate Fiction.
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Oliver talks with Norman Perrin about folklore in general, and Norman's unique, privately owned, publicly accessible archive of folklore knowledge he’s run from his Toronto apartment since 1990.
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Oliver talks with Scott Dorward about H.P. Lovecraft, how his legacy has been built on, and how writers might take things even further.
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Oliver talks with the man behind Beguiling Comics, Peter Birkemoe, about graphic novels.
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Oliver talks with author Gideon Marcus about alternate history speculative fiction.
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Oliver discusses Norse mythology, and its influence on speculative fiction, with Senior Department Head of both the Merril and Osborne Collections, Sephora Henderson.
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Oliver talks with author Gemma Files about haunted house stories.
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Oliver talks with Trever Quachri, head editor at Analog magazine, about scifi digest magazines.
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Oliver talks with Brain Murphy, author of Flame & Crimson: A history of Sword & Sorcery, about the mighty thewed fantasy sub-genre birthed by Robert E Howard when he created Conan the Barbarian.
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Host Oliver Brackenbury examines the evolution of Afrofuturism in speculative fiction with writer and educator Quentin VerCetty Lindsay.
Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:
BSAM
Quentin VerCetty
“Afrofuturism Rising: The Literary Prehistory of a Movement” by Isiah Lavender III
“Parable of the Sower” by Octavia Butler
“Black to the Future” essay by Mark Dery
Samuel R. Delaney
“The Famished Road” by Ben Okri
Sun Ra
June Jordan
Nnedi Okorafor
Nollywood
“Brown Girl Begins” Dir by Sharon Lewis, based on the book “Brown Girl in the Ring” by Nalo Hopkins.
“Kindred” by Octavia Butler
See You Yesterday
N.K. Jemisen
“Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by Marlon James
The Last Angel of History
Crumbs
“Dirty Computer” & “Archandroid” by Janelle Monae
Sophia Stewart
Black Kirby
Umbrella Academy
John Jenning's graphic novel adaptation of Parable of the Sower
“How Long 'til Black Future Month?” by N.K. Jemisen
“Cosmic Underground: Northside” by Quentin Vercetty
“The Comet” by W.E.B. Dubois, and his essay on double consciousness.
The podcast currently has 18 episodes available.