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Narrative Futures as an interactive podcast from the Futures Thinking Research Network at the University of Oxford.

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We'll speak to some of the most important authors and editors working in the speculative genre today about building narratives for a better future.

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I'm wondering what you think about the genre taxonomy debates and particularly the designation of speculative fiction.

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You just want to start with an basic question voicing speculative fiction in at least the near future.

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It feels to me that it's almost impossible to ignore. Breakdown.

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I don't like the ghettoising of genre fiction.

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Out to the labour ghettoising or people of colour or women. I don't know how to write a linear story because that's not how time works for me.

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But the one I want to read, which I can read. I haven't found it yet.

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Which then makes me want to write it. It's about the lives of people like me were never telling stories in my backyard

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four times already in the context of all the stories that import the story.

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If that story any time isn't something that just goes out towards the future,

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you'll always have to do that and integrate the past and and revitalise it and bring the past forward with you.

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The only way the stories that we tell ourselves are the most important, and I honestly feel like art is the only thing we can do right now.

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Narrative futures catch each episode and link to writing prompts devised by Louis Greenberg on the Futures Thinking blog.