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Gretchen Felker-Martin Thanks so much Sophia! You can preorder it anywhere and buy it starting the 11th of June!
Gretchen Felker-Martin Thank you! Melanie Tem's WILDING, Torrey Peters' INFECT YOUR FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES, Porpentine's PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE, Patrick Suskind's PERFUME
Gretchen Felker-Martin You know, I'd certainly consider adding things that had to be cut into a future edition, and maybe expanding on the second act. We'd have to see!
Gretchen Felker-Martin I find it helps me to process the unrelenting awfulness of human civilization. Also, I'm a sicko.
Gretchen Felker-Martin A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
Lilith's Brood, Octavia Butler
The Books of Blood, Clive Barker
IT, Stephen King
We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Melanie Tem
Psycho Nymph Exile, Porpentine
Tell Me I'm Worthless, Alison Rumfitt
Juniper, Monica Furlong
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Perfume, Patrick Suskind
Ulysses, James Joyce
A Hero of Our Time, Mikhail Lermontov
The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates
The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Lapvona, Ottessa Mosshfegh
A Universal History of Iniquity, Jorge Luis Borges
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel
A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco
Blindness, Jose Saramago
The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson
From Hell, Alan Moore
Vision, Julia Gfrorer
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Thank you Jack! Robbie goes West to find his dad's tribe in Arizona, Indi and Beth stay at the fort. As for the future, I won't speculate, but I will say that the entire world succumbed to the plague.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin oh this is a complete coincidence. she's named Spiers for the architect who was a part of Hitler's inner circle
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Gretchen Felker-Martin Well I detest "quips" in general, but the one that really killed me every time I saw it was when Robert Jordan would describe a woman as "plumply pretty".
Gretchen Felker-Martin Recently, Alma Katsu's THE HUNGER had me scurrying around after dark like a nervous rat, but I think the all-time scariest has to be IT. I would leap into bed to avoid even the IDEA of something under it having access to my feet.
Gretchen Felker-Martin There was the usual grumbling when the cicadas began to emerge, complaints about sleepless nights spent listening to the high, insistent whine of their mating song and the machine gun rattle of their fat bodies striking glass or metal in flight. It was nothing, in the end, compared to what lay sleeping just a little deeper than the swarm.

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