The Answer is More With Tochi Onyebuchi

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

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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