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.

Host Oliver Brackenbury explores the world of sci-fi/ fantasy bookshops with Chris Szego, former manager of Bakka Phoenix Books, the oldest extant science fiction bookstore in North America.

Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:

Bakka-Phoenex Bookstore

The story of the LOTR Paperback Copyright Controversy

“This Body's Not Big Enough for the Both of Us” & “Meddling Kids” by Edgar Cantero

“The Lies of Locke Lamora” by Scott Lynch

“Fly By Night” by Francis Hardinge

Lois McMaster Bujold

“The Quantum Magician” by Derek Künsken

York University's Professor Allan Weiss joins host Oliver Brackenbury for a discussion on the history of utopian and dystopian speculative fiction.

Links to some of the things mentioned in this episode:

Allan Weiss (http://www.yorku.ca/aweiss/)

Thomas More's “Utopia”

Platos “The Republic”

H.G. Wells “The Time Machine”

“The Machine Stops” by E. M. Forster

“Hard Times” by Dickens

Problem Novels

“We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Moon of the Crusted Snow” by Waubgeshig Rice

Drew Hayden Taylor

Neal Stephenson's “The Hieroglyph Project”

MIT Twelve Tomorrows Series

Nalo Hopkinson

The Mutopian Manifesto

“A Modern Utopia” and “The Sleeper Awakes” by H.G. Wells

“Herland” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Protopia

“Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People” by Mark Shainblum & Andrea D. Lobel