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Friday, October 7, 2016

Naomi Alderman, Lauren Beukes and Alastair Reynolds on women in scifi – books podcast

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On this week’s podcast, we discuss gender dynamics in science fiction with Naomi Alderman, Lauren Beukes and Alastair Reynolds. Naomi and Lauren explain why scifi was invented by women and how the genre lends itself to exploring gender issues, while Alastair shares why he used to make a point of including female protagonists in his books to redress the balance – but often finds himself at the mercy of characters taking hold of the narrative themselves.

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