TOD A31 Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward: Midwifing the Other: Nurturing Diversity in Weird and Spec Lit

In this archival podcast Scott Nicolay interviews Nisi Shawl and Cynthia Ward, creators of the Writing the Other workshop/book. It originally aired on February 17, 2016. The broadcast also includes an exclusive new review of Nisi Shawl’s novel Everfair by author/editor Milton Davis (Dieselfunk, From Here to Timbuktu) and co-founder of the State of Black Science Fiction …

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The Cutting Room: The Passage

When terminally ill cancer patients get healthy after being bitten by bats in South America, the government conducts secret tests with human subjects to see if a virus can cure illness. Instead, it unleashes a swarm of bloodthirsty vampires out of the test subjects, which include death row inmates. Why we’re looking forward to this: …

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Tattered Tomes: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary Revisited

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Sometimes, dead is better, especially when you read Stephen King’s classic novel, Pet Sematary. The book King himself claims is his scariest is really one helluva story, certainly one of his best, and still relevant today. This marks the third time I’ve read this book, and damn if it just keeps getting better every time. …

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Book Review: Blood Moon Big Top by Toneye Eyenot

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“A good werewolf story always makes people feel sorry for those afflicted by the transformation, but also sickened and terrified of their actions.” Kendrick the drifter finds his true calling when he joins the circus and becomes Marbles the clown. A chance encounter changes him forever, literally. Slowly his body and mind deteriorates until it leaves …

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