Welcome to our new season! To celebrate, we’re kicking it up a notch by holding an all-star roundtable of some truly incredible writers. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson join us to discuss didactic genre fiction. Is it a skill problem? Is it a media literacy problem? Can you hammer home a message without alienating (sorry/not sorry) your audience?

We're nominated for an Aurora Award for Best Fan-Related Work!

Check out the ballot (and consider casting a vote for us) at the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association.

Show Notes:

• Vajra's website
• Samantha's website
• Gregory's website
• Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein)
• Dante’s Inferno
• Katabasis, R.F. Kuang
• Rabbit Test, Samantha Mills
• A Sound of Thunder, Ray Bradbury
• Dune, Frank Herbert
• The Witcher, Andrzej Sapkowski
• Le Roman de Silence
• From the Notebooks of Doctor Brain, Minister Faust
• The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
• Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells
• Star Trek TOS: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
• One star review of Pride and Prejudice
• World Bank literacy stats
• Grendel, John Gardner