In this podcast episode, Bettina Charlotte Burger, Lucas Mattila, Theodora Charalamboustogether with their beloved office dog Bean discuss Deborah Sheldon’s Thylacines, monster theory and the notall that unlikely de-extinction of the thylacine! You canfollow us on bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/spec-australia.bsky.social andInstagram - https://…

In this podcast episode, Leonie John, Bettina Charlotte Burger, Gillian Polack, and Lucas Mattila discuss Nevil Shute's 1957 On the Beach - listen in for Gillian's unique inside into mid-century Melbourne culture! You can follow Gillian Polack on Twitter - https://twitter.com/GillianPolack and on bluesky - https://bsky.app/profile/gillianpolack.bsk…

In this interview with Kaaron Warren, Bettina Burger & Lucas Mattila continue conversing with her about her authorial origins, the role of authors in our ever-more troubling futures, her short stories "Another Week in the Future, An Excerpt" and "Hive of Glass" as well as her 2016 novel The Grief Hole. You can follow Kaaron Warren on Twitter - http…

In this interview with Kaaron Warren, Bettina Burger & Lucas Mattila converse with her about her authorial origins, the role of authors in our ever-more troubling futures, her short stories "Another Week in the Future, An Excerpt" and "Hive of Glass" as well as her 2016 novel The Grief Hole. You can follow Kaaron Warren on Twitter - https://twitter…

Kathleen Jennings and Bettina Burger continue exploring the geographical differences of fantasy literatures based in various countries. You can follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SpeculativeAus1 and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/speculative...for the latest updates and more content!

In this interview, Kathleen Jennings and Bettina Burger are exploring the geographical differences of fantasy literatures based in various countries. You can follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/SpeculativeAus1 and Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/speculative...for the latest updates and more content!…

In this interview, Lucas Mattila interviews Amanda Bridgeman. They talk about movies, the market and Bridgeman's novel: The Subjugate, Book I of the Salvation Series. They also talk about screenwriting, writing within existing universes and what writing a pandemic book is like during a pandemic. You can follow Amanda Bridgeman at her website: https…

In this episode, Lucas, David and Cassandra discuss Alexis Wright's notoriously difficult The Swan Book!

In this episode, Bettina Burger interviews bestselling author Kylie Chan in the context of Australian Speculative Fiction! This is the second part of the interview, so we think you should check out the first part if you haven't already! Intro & Outro derived from "Memorized" by Josh Woodward. Free download: http://joshwoodward.com/ "Memorized" by J…

In this episode, Bettina Burger interviews bestselling author Kylie Chan in the context of Australian Speculative Fiction! This is the first part, and we highly recommend listening to the whole thing! Intro & Outro derived from "Memorized" by Josh Woodward. Free download: http://joshwoodward.com/ "Memorized" by Josh Woodward is licensed as a work u…

In this episode of the podcast, Bettina Burger, David Kern and Lucas Mattila, along with special guest Dr. Katrin Althans, come together and discuss Lois Murphy's Soon!

Lucas, David, Tina and special guest Kathrin Althans discuss Picnic at Hanging Rock. Local Elevator by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300012 Artist: http://incompetech.com/…

David, Tina, Jill & Lucas discuss Terra Nullius & Illuminae!

This time, David, Lucas and Tina are joined by Tiana and discuss The Interrogation of Ashala Wolf!

Tina, Lucas & David get together to discuss Ellen Van Neerven's short story from Heat and Light, "Water" and debate whether its Sci-fi or Magical Realism, among other things.

Tina, David and Lucas join up together via ZOOM for the first (chronological) time!

In this episode of the Podcast, Tina, David and Lucas are joined by Tiana and discuss White Tiger!

Featuring Bettina Burger and Lucas Mattila from the University of Dusseldorf and David Kern from the University of Cologne, the three scholars and lecturers discuss speculative fiction as a whole, as part of their cooperation with the Centre for Australian Studies.