Host Jake Casella Brookins talks to Dan Hartland, critic and reviewer, about China Miéville's novel THE SCAR, the genre of the New Weird, and many related works and ideas.

Credits:

• Guest: Dan Hartland
• Title: The Scar by China Miéville
• Music by Giselle Gabrielle Garcia
• Artwork by Rob Patterson
• Opening poem by Bhartṛhari, translated by John Brough

Links & works referenced:

• Strange Horizons reviews
• Dan’s Snap! Criticism series
• Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford
• Dan’s review of Cahokia Jazz at Strange Horizons
• Him by Geoff Ryman
• The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain by Sofia Samatar
• Casella’s review of PHC at the Chicago Review of Books
• The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
• Perdido Street Station and Iron Council by China Miéville
• Embassytown and The City and the City by China Miéville
• Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
• “Epic Pooh” by Michael Moorcock (pdf)
• “The Open Boat” by Stephen Crane (pdf)
• The Year of Our War by Steph Swainston
• Justina Robson
• The Wall by Gautam Bhatia
• The Etched City by K.J. Bishop
• “Infernal Transmutation: Remembering K.J. Bishop’s The Etched City” by J.R. Bolt @ Typebar
• Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series
• Terry Brooks’ Shannara series
• Ursula Le Guin’s fantasy
• Kelly Link
• Carmen Maria Machado
• Graham Harman’s idea of overmining
• Cormac McCarthy
• This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone
• Casella’s bit about baseline genre familiarity in his ARB essay on TIHYLTTW.
• The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
• Christopher Priest

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