This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Zin E. Rocklyn, author of Flowers for the Sea.
About Flowers for the Sea: We are a people who do not forget.
Survivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark. Resources are scant, and ravenous beasts circle. Their fangs are sharp.
Among the refugees is Iraxi: ostracized, despised, and a commoner who refused a prince, she’s pregnant with a child that might be more than human. Her fate may be darker and more powerful than she can imagine.
About Zin E. Rocklyn: Zin E. Rocklyn is a contributor to Bram Stoker-nominated and This is Horror Award-winning Nox Pareidolia, Kaiju Rising II: Reign of Monsters, Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology, and Forever Vacancy anthologies and Weird Luck Tales No. 7 zine. Their story “Summer Skin” in the Bram Stoker-nominated anthology Sycorax’s Daughters received an honorable mention for Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten. Zin contributed the nonfiction essay “My Genre Makes a Monster of Me” to Uncanny Magazine’s Hugo Award-winning Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Their short story “The Night Sun” and flash fiction “teatime” were published on Tor.com. Flowers for the Sea is their debut novella. Zin is a 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate as well as a 2022 Clarion West candidate.
This week’s picks:
- Zin: Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (Shudder)
- Tracy: Unspeakable Words (Game)
- Patrick: Only Murders In The Building (Hulu)
Links:
- Zin E. Rocklyn on Twitter
- Tracy Townsend on Twitter
- Patrick Hester on Twitter
- The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
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