This week my guest is the author Mark A. Rayner, an award-winning author of satire and science fiction. He wrote multiple books: Alpha Max: An Existential Romp through an Absurd Multiverse The Fatness: A Novel of Epic Portions The Fridgularity Marvellous Hairy ~ a novel in five fractals ~ Pirate Therapy and Other Cures All of them are available on his website He’s also on the Fediverse at @markarayner@mas.to. Here are his topics for this week ⤵️ Post-apocalyptic fiction This is painful, but: Overrated. Please don’t call me a hypocrite though! I’ve written at least three novels that would count as post-apocalyptic (The Amadeus Net, The Fridgularity and The Fatness), and I still think the subgenre has relevance. But as a form of satire and way to get people to think about issues …meh. It’s just not working. In fact, I’m worried the tech bros and evil oligarchs in the world might be mining this subgenre for ideas about how to perpetrate their next great horror. (The Torment Nexus is just…
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