Episode 134: Cody Goodfellow on his new novel Vertical

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Author Cody Goodfellow two episodes in a row! Cody Goodfellow is
the author of more than a dozen books but he is here to talk his
new thriller from Titan books Vertical. It is one of my top reads
of the year. WE have some general talk and the start and then get
into the new book. I assumed once the secret of Cody Goodfellow
got out he was on track to become the biggest writer of our
generation, a household name, bestselling novels, home on
paperback racks that kind of thing. To me, he was that good. Over
time I learned that happens to your Ray Bradburys and Isaac
Asimovs. When the people doing really crazy original stuff like
Barry Malzberg and Norman Spinrad you get respect from the
hardcore but it took death for Octavia Butler and Philip K. Dick
to be recognized as the towering giants they were. They didn’t
play it safe; they wrote revolutionary genre fiction and
sometimes it helps to be a mad scientist.


That is what Cody Goodfellow is at heart, a mad scientist, who
unlike most literary freakazoids from those earlier generations
Cody grew up with more than a massive library, but also punk
rock, alternative culture, and an open attitude toward
mind-altering genre and chemicals. The kind of alchemy that
creates in Cody Goodfellow a human who writes novels that are so
good, so weird the world is just not ready for them.


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