Interview with Troy L. Wiggins
This episode I am joined by Troy L Wiggins (@troylwiggins) to talk about some of his history with the genre. Troy blogs at afrofantasy.net and is a published author as well as reader. Two recent posts from Troy's blog include - In Defense of Sword and Soul and Heart of the City: Examining Half-Resurrection Blues and the Urban in Urban Fantasy.
Some early genre book titles (and authors): Chronicles of Narnia, David Eddings, The Hobbit, driven from the genre by Lord of the Rings and brought back by Redwall, also Eragon.
Other formative authors and titles: Zora Neale Hurston, Walter Mosley, Hampton Sides - Hellhound on his Trail
Minister Faust Interview with N. K. Jemisin
Some Sources - Apex, Shimmer, Skiffy & Fanty (Short and Sublime roundups by @cecilykane), Io9 roundups
SFF Authors / Stories/Anthologies/Books recommended in this podcast -
Lisa Bolekaja (@lisabolekaja) - Three Voices (in Uncanny)
Kai Ashante Wilson - Devil in America (at tordotcom)
Malon Edwards (@malonlouis) - Half Dark Promise (in Shimmer)
Phenderson Djeli Clark (@pdjeliclark) - With a Golden Risha (in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly)
Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History - ed. Rose Fox and Daniel José Older
Dark Matter Anthology (includes a Charles Saunders story) - ed. Sheree Renée Thomas (@blackpotmojo on Twitter)
Imaro - Charles Saunders
Meji Dulogy - Milton J. Davis
Victor LaValle - Lone Women (in Long Hidden) and The Big Machine
Steven Barnes & Trudi Canavan
Short Fiction reviewers - @ClowderOfTwo / QuickSipReviews.Blogspot.com, Ethan Robinson's Marooned Off Vesta, @sffmicroreviews
David Anthony Durham's Acacia - "Directly responsible for deciding to write Fantasy"
The amazing art which inspired me to actually get this project off the ground was created by @etrandem
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Music - Jazzy Ashes by The Underscore Orkestra
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