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The Seers’ Table July 2018

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The Seers Table!

Linda Addison, Member of the Diverse Works Inclusion Community

July has Build a Scarecrow Day, so find something scary to read!

Michael Paul Gonzalez recommends

Mira Grant was born and raised in Northern California, where she has made a lifelong study of horror movies, horrible viruses, and the inevitable threat of the living dead. In her guise as mild-mannered urban fantasy author Seanan McGuire, Mira was the recipient of the 2010 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.

Recommended reading: Into the Drowning Deep. The ocean is home to many myths, but some are deadly … Seven years ago the Atargatis set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a mockumentary bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a tragedy. Now a new crew has been assembled. But this time they’re not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life’s work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young scientist Victoria Stewart this is a voyage to uncover the fate of the sister she lost. Whatever the truth may be, it will only be found below the waves. But the secrets of the deep come with a price.

You can find her works as both Mira and Seanan at her main bibliography page: http://seananmcguire.com/other.php.

Kate Jonez recommends

Samanta Schweblin was born in Buenos Aires in 1978. In 2001, she was granted her first award by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (National Fund of the Arts). In that same year, her first book, El núcleo del Disturbio (Planeta, 2002) garnered her the first place for the Concurso Nacional Haroldo Conti (National Contest Haroldo Conti). In 2008, she obtained the prize “Casa de las Americas” for her storybook, La Furia de las pestes, soon to be published. She was included in the anthologies Quand elles se glissent dans la peau d’un homme (Éditions Michalon, Francia; 2007), Una terraza propia (Norma, 2006), La joven guardia (Norma, 2005), Cuentos Argentinos (Siruela, España; 2004), among others. In 2010, she was chosen by the Granta magazine as one of the 22 best writers in Spanish under 35 years.

An English translation of her story “Killing a Dog” was published in the Summer 2009 issue of the London-based quarterly newspaper The Drawbridge. In 2017, her novel, Distancia de Rescate (Fever Dream), was nominated for the International Man Booker Prize. Her work has been translated into English, French, Serbian, Swedish, Dutch, and Danish, and published in magazines and other cultural forums.

Recommended reading: Fever Dream. A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. He’s not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story, and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel.

Janet Joyce Holden recommends

Lindsey Barraclough is the author of the acclaimed novel Long Lankin, a companion book to The Mark of Cain, which she says “can be read independently, although it continues the theme of long-ago horrors—particularly witchcraft and revenge—seeping unsettlingly into the future.” Lindsey Barraclough lives in London with her family.

Recommended Reading: Long Lankin. When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their elderly aunt in the isolated village of Byers Guerdon, they receive a less-than-warm welcome. Auntie Ida is eccentric and rigid, and the girls are desperate to go back to London. But what they don’t know is that their aunt’s life was devastated the last time two young sisters were at Guerdon Hall, and she is determined to protect her nieces from an evil that has lain hidden for years. Along with Roger and Peter, two village boys, Cora must uncover the horrifying truth that has held Bryers Guerdon in its dark grip for centuries—before it’s too late for little Mimi. Riveting and intensely atmospheric, this stunning debut will hold readers in its spell long after the last page is turned.

Follow the author at: https://twitter.com/lepbarraclough.

Linda Addison recommends

Mame Bougouma Diene is a Franco Senegalese-American humanitarian living in Brooklyn, the U.S./Francophone spokesperson for the African Speculative Fiction Society with an affection for tattoos, progressive metal, and policy analysis. You can find more of his work in Omenana magazine, Truancy, Galaxies SF (French), Fiyah magazine and Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as AfroSfv2, Myriad Lands, You Left Your Biscuit Behind, and This Book Ain’t Nuthin to Fuck With: A Wu-Tang Tribute Anthology.

Dark Moons Rising on a Starless Night (Clash Books, August 2018), is his first collection of four novellas (Fistulas, The Whores, The Dealer, & The Diamond, Popobawa, Black & Gold) delving into African politics through a horror and speculative lens. He is currently working on his first novel titled M?miy?.

Recommended Reading: Dark Moons Rising on a Starless Night. From novella Fistulas: The baby was dead, and dipped in a vat of resin from the Mother Tree to keep the body from decaying while the parents got well.

Musa had lost almost all the weight in the week since he’d delivered, and now, a fresh ceremonial scar across his stomach, he held his dead infant before the tree for all to see before burying it.

“I’ll talk to him before I leave tomorrow,” Dr. Salio told Aisha watching the burial from a distance.

She shook her head. “They will mourn now. You may try if you wish.”

“I’m tired of watching this. It’s pointless. The same thing happens every time. What are you hoping for, that the tree will save you somehow? Is that what you’re gonna do to our daughter?”

“Our daughter is to become a Tree Mother.”

“And never leave the village?”

“It’s more complicated than that. Let’s go back to the hut.”

Follow him on twitter @mame_bougouma

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