Dissecting Dragons
A podcast by J.A. Ironside & M.E. Vaughan - Fridays
100 Episodes
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Episode 449: The Crumbling Castle - Disney's Downward Spiral
Published: 6/27/2025 -
Episode 448: Unbelievably Popular - why do bad books become best sellers?
Published: 6/6/2025 -
Episode 447: Wit & Readability - 250 years of Jane Austen
Published: 5/23/2025 -
Episode 446: Getting Your House in Order - Writing as a Career or a Serious Side Gig
Published: 5/16/2025 -
Episode 445: No More Mr Nice Guy - the Geek Misogynist in Speculative Fiction Part 2
Published: 5/9/2025 -
Episode 444: No More Mr Nice Guy - the Geek Misogynist in Speculative Fiction part 1
Published: 5/2/2025 -
Episode 443: 2024, the Real Life Experience - A Year in Review
Published: 12/27/2024 -
Episode 442: The Witches of Midwinter - Following the Wild Dance and Furious Hosts of Christmas
Published: 12/20/2024 -
Episode 441: Remaking the 80s - Rewriting Classic Films for a Modern Audience
Published: 12/15/2024 -
Episode 440: The Devil's Music - the Occult, Rock'n'Roll and Storytelling
Published: 12/6/2024 -
Episode 439: It Grows in Darkness - Mushrooms in Horror and SFF
Published: 11/29/2024 -
Episode 438: Jeeves Blackadder and Puss - Canny Domestics and Sneaky smart servants
Published: 11/22/2024 -
Episode 437: Popular, you're gonna be popular - or are you? - Why Stage Production Musicals Often Fail on the Big Screen
Published: 11/15/2024 -
DD 436: The Tiffany Problem - When Reality is too real for Speculative Fiction
Published: 11/2/2024 -
Episode 435: Snatchers surfers and Hitchers - Bodysnatching in Speculative Fiction
Published: 10/25/2024 -
Episode 434 -The Allure of the Curse - Speculative Fictions Oldest Trope
Published: 10/18/2024 -
Episode 433: The Woods, the Mountains and Emptiness - an Examination of Survival Horror
Published: 10/11/2024 -
Episode 432: Haunt Sweet Home - How to Write a Haunted a House
Published: 10/4/2024 -
Episode 431: This is Fine - Writing Trauma in Scifi and Fantasy part two
Published: 9/27/2024 -
Episode 430: This is Fine - Writing Trauma in Sci-fi & Fantasy
Published: 9/20/2024
Authors J.A. Ironside and M.E. Vaughan talk about books, films and all aspects of speculative fiction, from the nuts and bolts of writing it, to its (occasionally) obscure origins.