Narrative Futures as an interactive podcast from the Futures Thinking Research Network at the University of Oxford.
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.
I'm wondering what you think about the genre taxonomy debates and particularly the designation of speculative fiction.
You just want to start with an basic question voicing speculative fiction in at least the near future.
It feels to me that it's almost impossible to ignore. Breakdown.
I don't like the ghettoising of genre fiction.
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.
But the one I want to read, which I can read. I haven't found it yet.
Which then makes me want to write it. It's about the lives of people like me were never telling stories in my backyard
four times already in the context of all the stories that import the story.
If that story any time isn't something that just goes out towards the future,
you'll always have to do that and integrate the past and and revitalise it and bring the past forward with you.
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.
Narrative futures catch each episode and link to writing prompts devised by Louis Greenberg on the Futures Thinking blog.