![]() ![]() The story unfolds through two viewpoints one is the heir to the matriline throne and the other is her bestfriend from the beast worker class and naturally their friendship is forbidden but through them we get to understand their different societies even if they dont understand themselves. Habitable extrasolar planets are still out of reach. ![]() ![]() Although all the characters are black there’s still classism, you have the priviledged class living sheltered lives and there’s beast workers on whose bones and blood the city is built, literally and figuratively. This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome Nicky Drayden, author of ESCAPING EXODUS About ESCAPING EXODUS: Earth is a distant memory. The society in Escaping Exodus is Matriarchal and roles are flipped and men are not trusted to have important positions and the family unit is a poly-amorous union with very strange dynamics. Given that the book setting happens inside a large beast its not surprising it has been referred to as bio-punk horror by some reviewers, walking in arteries and learning the heartbeat of the beast every 3 minutes and 47 and a half seconds * BEAT* that could be the difference between life and death. Escaping Exodus published October 2019 is set in space, in a space craft and not just any space craft but one carved out inside a very large spacefaring beast… killing it slowly and then when it dies, a cycle which can take 7-10 years, there’s a mass exodus to a new beast… ![]()
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