Didactic Fiction ft. Vajra Chandrasekera, Samantha Mills, and Gregory A. Wilson

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