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Episode 532-With Tobias Buckell


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This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Tobias Buckell, author of Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories.

About Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories: Traffic is piling up, and strange things are headed your way in this new story collection by World Fantasy Award-winning author Tobias S. Buckell. In these twenty-seven stories you’ll find inhabitants of a small town who won’t vaccinate against a zombie plague, a lone sentry keeping motorists from stumbling into something ancient and evil, a man who puts stranded ghosts to rest, an ex-soldier traveling the seas who trades his new life of hardship for a return to swords and blood, and many more tales of speculative fiction.

Buckell’s fertile imagination is on display in Shoggoths in Traffic and Other Stories as he comments on edgy issues of injustice and offers a thorny path to discover the human heart and all the strange things humans do. All the while, he keeps you looking over your shoulder, waiting for rush hour to end.

About Tobias Buckell: Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times Bestselling and World Fantasy Award-winning author born in the Caribbean. He grew up in Grenada and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands, which influence much of his work.

His novels and over seventy stories have been translated into nineteen different languages. His work has been nominated for the Hugo Award, Nebula Award, World Fantasy Award, and the Astounding Award for Best New Science Fiction Author.

He currently lives in Bluffton, Ohio with his wife and twin daughters. He’s an instructor at the University of Maine’s Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing.

This week’s picks:

  • Tobias: Our Flag Means Death (HBOMax)
  • Tracy: Batman: Everybody Lies (Game)
  • Patrick: The Batman (Movie)/a>
  • Links:

    • Tobias Buckell on Twitter
    • Tracy Townsend on Twitter
    • Patrick Hester on Twitter
    • The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
    • © 2022 Patrick Hester

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