Dystopia
Celeste Ng: creating a realistic dystopia in Our Missing Hearts
American author Celeste Ng is best known for her novel Little Fires Everywhere, a family drama set in Celeste's own hometown; the upscale suburb of Shaker Heights, Ohio. bvShe now has a new book, Our… Audio
Kate's Klassics: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World
Poet and writer Kate Camp returns to discuss another classic work of literature. Now seems like the perfect time for a deep dive into a dystopian sci-fi world so she's chosen English author Aldous… Audio
The rise of Germany's new ultranationalist intelligentsia
The far right in East Germany has long been associated with the disaffected masses, but there is a growing intellectual class helping to change the narrative. Julian Göpffarth's work focuses on the… Audio
Cultural Ambassador - Science Fiction
We have a Cultural Ambassador debut tonight - Eleanor Tremeer joins us from London to talk all things sci-fi. Tonight we're looking at utopia versus dystopia. Audio
Orwell's 1984. 70 years on and still too close for comfort
It is hard to escape the influence of George Orwell's Nighteen-eighty Four. Phrases and concepts like, 'Big Brother', the 'Thought Police', 'Room 101', 'Doublespeak' and even 'Orwellian' have… Audio
New Zealand's most recent Man Booker contender chats about her Work
Kate De Goldi talks to Smaill about her success in fantasy fiction novel "The Chimes" Audio
Tihema Baker
Tihema Baker's debut novel Watched focuses on teens living in a dystopia who gain superpowers. Audio
Maria V. Snyder: weather and dystopia
American writer who worked as a meteorologist before writing a number of best-selling fantasy books and is visiting Auckland as a guest at the Romance Writers of New Zealand conference. Audio