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This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome John Wiswell, author of BAD DOORS and the upcoming, SOMEONE YOU CAN BUILD A NEST IN (DAW, 2024).
\nAbout BAD DOORS: Kosmo is a simple English teacher with no interest in evil magic doors. However one day they take an interest in him. A burgundy door with a shiny black knob appears in his hallway, where no door has ever been.
\nKosmo does what he thinks anybody would do: he grabs his dog, runs out of his house, and never goes back in. He thinks it\u2019s over, but the door isn\u2019t finished with him, as they pursue him everywhere he goes. They beckon old Kosmo. He struggles with why they\u2019re appearing, but refuses to ever look inside one. Everyone in his life chides him to be adventurous and not be so afraid. However, this is 2020 and it\u2019s the same time when everyone around him isn\u2019t taking this \u201cCOVID thing\u201d seriously. What\u2019s a man to do to dodge a cursed door and a pandemic?
\n\u201cBad Doors\u201d is the story of a man who refuses to be in a Horror story. What happens to you when you refuse to answer the call of a nightmare?
\nAbout John Wiswell: John Wiswell is a Nebula-winning and Locus-winning author who lives in the middle of the woods. John’s work has appeared in Uncanny Magazine, Tor.com, LeVar Burton Reads, Nature Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Weird Tales, the No Sleep podcast, Nightmare Magazine, Cast of Wonders, Podcastle, Escape Pod, Pseudopod, and other fine venues. He has been a finalist for the Hugo, World Fantasy, and British Fantasy Awards. His fiction has been translated into Italian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, Hebrew, and Romanian.
\nHe graduated Bennington College in 2005, and attended the Viable Paradise 17 workshop in 2013. He has multiple disabilities including a neuromuscular syndrome, and thinks healthy people’s capacity to complain is very funny. He finds a lot of things very funny and would like to keep it that way.
\nThis week\u2019s picks:
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\n* John #1: Hollow Knight (game)
\n* John #2: Suzume (Anime)
\n* Tracy: Nemesis (Board Game)
\n* Patrick #1: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds “Those Old Scientists”
\n* Patrick #2: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds “Subspace Rhapsody”
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\nLinks:
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\n* John Wiswell on Twitter
\n* Tracy Townsend on Twitter
\n* Patrick Hester on Twitter
\n* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
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\n\xa9 2023 Patrick Hester