How To Write The Future

Mar 31 2025 146 ep. 13 mins 23
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The How to Write The Future Podcast offers fiction writing tips for science fiction and fantasy authors who want to create optimistic stories because when we vision what is possible, we help make it so. By science fiction and fantasy author and fiction writing coach, Beth Barany.

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146. How Ancient Female Warriors Shape Our Future

Mar 31 2025 14 mins  
“Women have had an impact in world history throughout the ages. We just haven't been told those stories. So one of my missions in life is to bring these stories to life, both through fiction and through nonfiction.” Dive into “How Ancient Female Warriors Shape Our Future”, an episode for How To Write The Future podcast, where host Beth Barany shares stories of female warrio

145. Women in Science: From Ancient Times to Modern Breakthroughs

Mar 24 2025 7 mins  
“Did you ever wonder who invented Kevlar, the coffee filter, the car heater, or liquid paper? Would you be surprised to find out that they're all invented by a woman?” In this podcast episode, titled “Women in Science: From Ancient Times to Modern Breakthroughs,” host Beth Barany shares 3 books, great learning resources to uncover the history of women in science. Beth spotl

144. African Heritage Meets Interstellar Travel: Why Nnedi Okorafor's Binti Trilogy is Essential Afrofuturism

Mar 17 2025 4 mins  
“I think it's really important that we read books and reread authors who aren't similar to us, who are very different from us culturally come from different backgrounds, different parts of the world.” In this How To Write the Future episode, host Beth Barany explains in detail why you need to read the “Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor,” plus why she believes readers need to

143. Elizabeth Moon: Crafting Strong Female Protagonists in Science Fiction

Mar 10 2025 6 mins  
“So I highly recommend Elizabeth Moon, if you like military ship captains who are these strong, interesting women. I also really adored her fantasy.” In this episode, titled “Elizabeth Moon: Crafting Strong Female Protagonists in Science Fiction” host Beth Barany shines a spotlight on one of her favorite science fiction and fantasy authors and shares her favorite works by M

142. How Science Fiction and Fantasy Can Change the World

Mar 03 2025 8 mins  
“ I would say I live in this space with my Janey McCallister Space Station Mystery series. I think a lot about the sweet spot between current technology and future speculation.” In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, host and award-winning science fiction author, Beth Barany, discusses how science fiction and fantasy can inspire social change and presents eight potent

141. Favorite Science Explainers on YouTube (part 2)

Feb 24 2025 5 mins  
Science Explainer: That is a term that has come out in the last bit of years to explain someone or to describe somebody who shares about science to the general public. In this How To Write the Future podcast episode, host and science fiction author Beth Barany shares more of her “Favorite Science Explainers on YouTube (Part 2)” and the types of science they share including orbi

140. Favorite Science Explainers on YouTube (Part 1)

Feb 17 2025 5 mins  
“As you may have noticed, these are all women science explainers and scientists, because I really want to highlight women doing science.” In the latest How To Write the Future podcast episode, host and science fiction author Beth Barany shares her “Favorite Science Explainers on YouTube (Part 1)” and the types of science they share including physical experiments and educati

139. Simple and Powerful Storytelling Structure with Leon Conrad

Feb 10 2025 26 mins  
“Because It's grounded on a very simple principle. Story, well told, well crafted, well structured, will have a pattern of ebb and flow. The ebb is where the tension builds up, and the flow is where it releases.” -- Leon Conrad In this episode of How to Write The Future podcast, host, Beth Barany talks to award winning author and tutor Leon Conrad where they discuss story struc

138. Building Authentic Stories: Real-World Elements in Fantasy and Sci-Fi with Lewis Jorstad

Feb 03 2025 26 mins  
“I really enjoy leaning on real world history to write my stories.” -- Lewis Jorstad In this episode of How To Write the Future, host Beth Barany chats with bestselling author and editor Lewis Jorstad about how to incorporate real-world elements into your speculative fiction stories. They discuss drawing from historical events and share practical advice about crafting compellin

137. The Art of Editing Speculative Fiction with Kristin Noland

Jan 27 2025 22 mins  
”What if we could travel to a different galaxy? And then that's what the book is about. What if there were superheroes in the world? What if women ruled the world? Those types of things— It's the what if question and the answers.” — Kristin Noland In this episode, How To Write the Future podcast host, Beth Barany, talks to developmental and line editor Kristin Noland about