45 - It's very hard to unsee

Discussing SFF history and "Canon" with Na'amen Gobert Tilahun

This episode, I'm joined by novelist and short story author Na'amen Gobert Tilahun (@naamenism) to discuss his history with the genre, the process of Canon formation, and ways of reacting to harmful representation of marginalized identities in both current and older stories.

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Cyberpunk

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Open Road Media, who has brought back many older titles including Jo Clayton's

An earlier episode discussing my beloved Princes of Amber series. (We did not discuss the ways the books assume that princesses cannot rule)

Joe Abercrombie's reaction to criticisms of misogyny in the First Law.  

A further discussion of Grimdark and author reactions to critiques.  

Mark Charan Newton on "avoiding Racefail" including Jesse Bullington on learning from critiques of his novel.

Amazon review of The Enterprise of Death that Bullington is responding to

Transcript here.

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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