This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Zin E. Rocklyn, author of Flowers for the Sea.
\nAbout Flowers for the Sea: We are a people who do not forget.
\nSurvivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark. Resources are scant, and ravenous beasts circle. Their fangs are sharp.
\nAmong the refugees is Iraxi: ostracized, despised, and a commoner who refused a prince, she\u2019s pregnant with a child that might be more than human. Her fate may be darker and more powerful than she can imagine.
\nAbout 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 \u201cMy Genre Makes a Monster of Me\u201d to Uncanny Magazine\u2019s 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.
\nThis week\u2019s picks:
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\n* Zin: Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (Shudder)
\n* Tracy: Unspeakable Words (Game)
\n* Patrick: Only Murders In The Building (Hulu)
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\nLinks:
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\n* Zin E. Rocklyn on Twitter
\n* Tracy Townsend on Twitter
\n* Patrick Hester on Twitter
\n* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
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