S4 E5. DINNER GUESTS – Nibedita Sen & The Mayday Podcast

About this episode

The episode features a discussion with writer Nibedita Sen and hosts of The Mayday Podcast about speculative fiction and colonialism.

We are joined by our final dinner guests, writer Nibedita Sen and Ana and Luca of The Mayday Podcast, to talk speculative fiction, colonialism and some disastrous adventures that may not have ended in survival cannibalism, but probably should have. Did you know Casting Lots now has merch? Find us on Redbubble: https://www.redbubble.com/people/CastingLotsPod/shop TRANSCRIPT https://castinglotspod.home.blog/2022/11/29/s4-e5-dinner-guests-nibedita-sen-the-mayday-podcast/ CREDITS Written, hosted and produced by Alix Penn and Carmella Lowkis. With guest appearances from Nibedita Sen and The Mayday Podcast. Nibedita can be found on Twitter and Instagram as @her_nibsen, or check out her website at https://www.nibeditasen.com/. 'Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island' is published in Nightmare Magazine (May 2019, 80). Read it here: https://www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/ten-excerpts-from-an-annotated-bibliography-on-the-cannibal-women-of-ratnabar-island/. The game 'First Times' is available in Strange Horizons (2022): http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/first-times/. Watch Nibedita and Carmella along with some other familiar faces in the…

People in this episode

Hosts: Alix Penn, Carmella Lowkis

Guests: Nibedita Sen, Ana And Luca

Topics covered

• speculative fiction
• colonialism
• survival cannibalism

Keywords

• dinner guests
• adventures
• disastrous

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Redbubble merch

Books & works: Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island, First Times, Worldbuilders After Dark, Cannibalism in Real World and Genre Fiction

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