Opening the Mailbag with Tochi Onyebuchi

First Draft Episode #243: Opening the Mailbag with Tochi Onyebuchi

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Tochi Onyebuchi is the author of Beasts Made of Night, its sequel Crown of Thunder, War Girls and its forthcoming sequel, Rebel Sisters (out in October), and his adult fiction debut Riot Baby, published by Tor.com in January 2020.

Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode

• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

• The Life Cycle of Software Objects by Ted Chiang

• Great Work of Time by John Crowley

• Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series

• The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle

• Succession (TV show)

• The New Yorker

• The Nation

• Tochi’s appearance on The Daily Show, and the T-shirt he wore on the show (designed by John Karel and sold by Dusty Cat merchandise)

• Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi

• A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James

• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

• A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

• Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (movie)

• Burning (Korean film)

• Watchmen (TV show)

• A Black Lady Sketch Show (TV show)

• Queen and Slim (movie)

• Goliath is one of Tochi’s next two books with Tor Dot Com and it sounds amazing!

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