From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
In her essay - 'How Long 'Til Black Future Month? The Toxins of Speculative Fiction, and the Antidote that is Janelle Monáe' - from Adventure Rocketship! Let’s All Go To The Science Fiction Disco, NK Jemisin discusses racism in the genre (on its pages and elsewhere) and the artist as its unlikely saviour
In the first of a series of editor-on-author interviews, Giancarlo DiTrapano of Tyrant speaks to his friend and author Scott McClanahan about life in West Virginia, respecting your audience and having (or not having) beef with George Saunders
Darran Anderson speaks to the author of the initially-self-published (and now PEN award-winning) novel A Naked Singularity about the book's philosophical, literary and political origins and whether there's a hope for us after all
Following the release of its second issue, Katherine Angel speaks to the editors of tender - an online quarterly journal of poetry, art and prose by female-identified writers - about their aims, impetus and the complexity of the term 'woman writer'