On this episode, Benjamin Gorman gabs with M.K. Martin, author of SURVIVORS’ CLUB and ASHFALL, about linguistics, the Irish coast, women serving in combat, and parenting through global climate change. 

Today’s secret word is: Sapir–Whorf 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity

Find M.K. Martin here: 

My website https://mkmartinwriter.com/

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MKMartinwriter

Mastodon https://writing.exchange/@MKMartin

Twitter https://twitter.com/MKMartinWriter 

And get your copies of Survivors’ Club and Ashfall (and all the other great Not a Pipe Publishing books) at our new online store here:

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Mentioned on the show:

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by RF Kuang

https://www.amazon.com/Babel-Necessity-Violence-Translators-Revolution/dp/0063021420

Fonda Lee’s The Green Bone Saga: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08561RN43?binding=paperback&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tpbk&qid=1679813209&sr=8-1

N. K. Jemisin’s The Great Cities duology:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B083LW5WBB?binding=hardcover&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_thcv_tpbk

N. K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074CBFX6M?binding=hardcover&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_thcv_tkin

N. K. Jemisin’s The Inheritance Trilogy:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09D79JLYK?binding=hardcover&ref=dbs_m_mng_rwt_sft_thcv_tkin