Be My Victim: Nicholas Kaufmann – A Chat About Awards
In politics, primary season is often referred to as "silly season" because of the ludicrous things people say and do to catch the voters' attention. Awards season is no different.
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Be My Victim: John Skipp – Zombies, A Festival of Decay or a Festival in Decay? Pt. 2
Once you've done the libertarian survivalist wet dream enough times - once you've heard the same story, over and over, until that incredibly fresh thing you loved became a tiresome cliché you were starting to hate - there are all the OTHER ways we could steer this ship. Refreshing the vision. Pioneering once again. - John Skipp
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Be My Victim: John Skipp – Zombies, A Festival of Decay or a Festival in Decay?
At its heart is a critique of modern civilization, in which "Mankind" is reduced to shambling drones, brainlessly consuming and destroying all they touch. It's a powerful critique that can be played at least two ways: 1) "The monster is us", or 2) "Everyone on Earth is an asshole but me."
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Be My Victim: Sarah Langan – Writing for a Profession
Writing is thankless, except when you get published, and somebody reads what you wrote, and tells you that it meant something to them. Then it's awesome. In fact, writing is always awesome - even when you don't get published. So few people find fulfillment in their work. Writers are lucky that way.
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Be My Victim: Paul Tremblay on The State of the Short Story
The publishing industry is in a state of flux (to be kind), but in a sense, it's an opportunity for indie publishers who don't have the crushing overhead of the bigs, to swoop in, publish vibrant fiction, and pick up readers.
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Be My Victim: A Discussion with Laird Barron on Literary Horror and Anti-Intellectualism
Unfortunately, gratuitous violence and pornography have become the public face of horror. That's good for a few artists, bad for everybody else... That's the real problem for the Glen Hirshbergs, Sarah Langans, and Ramsey Campbells of the field...
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Be My Victim: Nick Mamatas
Be My Victim: Author, editor, and internet brawlerNick Mamatas, and I have a civil chat about ghosts, spirits, and dudes that go "Did you hear that?" in the night.
Though stories about ghosts and spirits have existed since earliest man - (That is a supposition, of course. I wasn't there, and earliest man wasn't big on backing up his files) - we're going to focus the conversation on contemporary treatments of hauntings - mostly. Recently, my guest, Nick Mamatas, teamed up with Ellen Datlow to edit the anthology, Haunted Legends, for Tor Books, so he's been exposed to some traditional and some not-so-traditional tales of spectral disturbance.
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Be My Victim: Maurice Broaddus on Challenging the Status Quo
[SF Signal welcomes author Lee Thomas and the launch of his new SF Signal column, Be My Victim!] This column is meant to address issues pertaining to horror fiction and the [...]
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