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Interview with Kameron Hurley
Posted September 14, 2017
on:I’m over at Apex Magazine today interviewing Kameron Hurley. This is Apex Magazine‘s 100th issue!
https://www.apex-magazine.com/interview-with-author-kameron-hurley
While you’re over there, make sure you check out Hurley’s short story “Tumbledown”, and all the other wonderful content Apex Magazine has to offer. Included in that wonderful content is my monthly interviews with featured authors!
The planet Umayma was colonized milennia ago, but it’s still an awful place to live. No amount of terraforming could cure the biological agents that crawl the land and poison the water, or downsize the mutant flesh eating bugs that are now used as weapons. Nowhere and nothing is safe on Umayma, and it’s people are still fighting the religious wars of eons past.
Nyxnissa isn’t all that different from the rest of the women she knows. She spent her best years at the war front with the men, came home in pieces, and later joined up with the government assassins. Then she made a very expensive mistake. one year in prison later, she’s still running from the government and makes ends meet as a streetwise bounty hunter.
Make no mistake, Umayma is not a pretty place, and God’s War is not a pretty book. Nyx still lives the life of a soldier, she drinks, she gambles, she tumbles into bed with whoever strikes her fancy, she gets into street brawls with people who don’t strike her fancy. But like I said, she’s not much different from the rest of the women she knows. There is language, and inferred and overt violence. Welcome to life in the country of Nasheen.
I’ve been reading a lot of what I tend to call “boy-books” lately. You know, books with very few female characters, books that wouldn’t even dream of the Bechdel test? Hurley takes my idea of a “boy book” and 100% flips it on it’s head. God’s War is an intense action packed high speed ride, and in Nasheen, men are seen as the weaker sex, if they are seen at all. In Nasheen, if you’re a man you’re either at the war front or there is something so wrong with you that even the military doesn’t want you. For the first 50 pages I had to keep reminding myself that most of these characters are women. I’m just not used to that. It was pretty damn cool.
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Cool Sh*t Thursday
Posted February 24, 2011
on:Wordless Wednesday? Photoshop Phridays?
I dub today to be Cool Shit Thursday. Last night I finished Kameron Hurley’s (@kameronhurley) new novel God’s War, and I haven’t started the review yet. I feel bad that I haven’t posted here in a few days, so here is some cool shit for you. It’s all interesting, I promise.
Impatient? scroll to the bottom. There is something there you will WANT to see. TRUST ME.
We had an ice storm earlier this week. Nothing really out of the ordinary for our part of the country. Anyway, a HUGE tree came down in a local playground . . .
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