Summary: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Sea-Zin-Rocklyn/dp/1250804035"></a>This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome <a href="https://www.terizin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zin E. Rocklyn</a>, author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Sea-Zin-Rocklyn/dp/1250804035" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flowers for the Sea</a>.<br> About <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Sea-Zin-Rocklyn/dp/1250804035" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Flowers for the Sea</a>: We are a people who do not forget.<br> Survivors from a flooded kingdom struggle alone on an ark. Resources are scant, and ravenous beasts circle. Their fangs are sharp.<br> Among the refugees is Iraxi: ostracized, despised, and a commoner who refused a prince, she’s pregnant with a child that might be more than human. Her fate may be darker and more powerful than she can imagine.<br> About <a href="https://www.terizin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zin E. Rocklyn</a>: Zin E. Rocklyn is a contributor to Bram Stoker-nominated and This is Horror Award-winning Nox Pareidolia, Kaiju Rising II: Reign of Monsters, Brigands: A Blackguards Anthology, and Forever Vacancy anthologies and Weird Luck Tales No. 7 zine. Their story “Summer Skin” in the Bram Stoker-nominated anthology Sycorax’s Daughters received an honorable mention for Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, Volume Ten. Zin contributed the nonfiction essay “My Genre Makes a Monster of Me” to Uncanny Magazine’s Hugo Award-winning Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction. Their short story “The Night Sun” and flash fiction “teatime” were published on Tor.com. Flowers for the Sea is their debut novella. Zin is a 2017 VONA and 2018 Viable Paradise graduate as well as a 2022 Clarion West candidate.<br> This week’s picks:<br> <br> * Zin: <a href="https://www.shudder.com/movies/watch/horror-noire-a-history-of-black-horror/e650978256281a67">Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror (Shudder)</a><br> * Tracy: <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/24304/unspeakable-words">Unspeakable Words (Game)</a><br> * Patrick: <a href="https://www.hulu.com/series/only-murders-in-the-building-ef31c7e1-cd0f-4e07-848d-1cbfedb50ddf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Only Murders In The Building (Hulu)</a><br> <br> Links:<br> <br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/intelligentwat" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zin E. Rocklyn on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/TracyATownsend" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tracy Townsend on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://twitter.com/atfmb" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Patrick Hester on Twitter</a><br> * <a href="https://www.patreon.com/functionalnerds?ty=h" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Functional Nerds Patreon Page</a><br> <br> © 2021 Patrick Hester<br>
