This episode I am joined by Troy L Wiggins (@troylwiggins) to talk about some of his history with the genre.  Troy blogs at afrofantasy.net and is a published author as well as reader.  Two recent posts from Troy's blog include - In Defense of Sword and Soul and Heart of the City: Examining Half-Resurrection Blues and the Urban in Urban Fantasy. 

Some early genre book titles (and authors): Chronicles of Narnia, David Eddings, The Hobbit, driven from the genre by Lord of the Rings and brought back by Redwall, also Eragon.

Other formative authors and titles: Zora Neale Hurston, Walter Mosley, Hampton Sides - Hellhound on his Trail

Minister Faust Interview with N. K. Jemisin

Some Sources - Apex, Shimmer, Skiffy & Fanty (Short and Sublime roundups by @cecilykane), Io9 roundups

SFF Authors / Stories/Anthologies/Books recommended in this podcast -

• Lisa Bolekaja (@lisabolekaja)  - Three Voices (in Uncanny)

• Daniel José Older (@djolder) - Ginga (at tordotcom)

• Kai Ashante Wilson - Devil in America (at tordotcom)

• Malon Edwards (@malonlouis) - Half Dark Promise  (in Shimmer)

• Phenderson Djeli Clark (@pdjeliclark) - With a Golden Risha (in Heroic Fantasy Quarterly)

• Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History - ed. Rose Fox and Daniel José Older

• Dark Matter Anthology (includes a Charles Saunders story) - ed. Sheree Renée Thomas (@blackpotmojo on Twitter)

•  Imaro - Charles Saunders

• Meji Dulogy - Milton J. Davis

• Victor LaValle - Lone Women (in Long Hidden) and The Big Machine

• Steven Barnes & Trudi Canavan

Short Fiction reviewers - @ClowderOfTwo / QuickSipReviews.Blogspot.com, Ethan Robinson's Marooned Off Vesta, @sffmicroreviews

David Anthony Durham's Acacia - "Directly responsible for deciding to write Fantasy"

The amazing art which inspired me to actually get this project off the ground was created by @etrandem

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Music - Jazzy Ashes by The Underscore Orkestra

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