In this week’s episode of the Pub, we celebrate Pride Month by talking about some of our favorite LGBTQ books and characters. We also discuss the delay of Naomi Wolf’s book, Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love. The delay occurred after Wolf’s research was challenged during a BBC interview (around 21:00). And yes! We […]
On this episode of The Pub, we talk with Thiason Nguyen and Joe Stebbins two of the members of Deepligh LARP, a live action role play group based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The chapter’s goal is to provide an intimate game to their players by providing a world at which the player can create and grow […]
Peng Shepherd was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, where she rode horses and trained in classical ballet, and has lived in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and New York. Her first novel, The Book of M, won the 2019 Neukom Institute for Literary Arts Award for Debut Speculative Fiction, and was […]
Ken Liu is an author of speculative fiction, as well as a translator, lawyer, and programmer. A winner of the Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy awards, he has been published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s, Analog, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and Strange Horizons, among other places. Ken’s debut novel, The Grace of Kings (2015), is the first volume in a silkpunk epic […]