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Exclusive Interview: “Crypt Of The Moon Spider” Author Nathan Ballingrud

 

When people write science fiction stories about people on the moon, they often take the “science” part seriously.

But when Nathan Ballingrud was writing his pulpy lunar gothic novella, Crypt Of The Moon Spider (paperback, Kindle), in which there’s people living on the moon, and they worship a spider that used to live there, he not only didn’t bother being scientifically accurate, he also didn’t write a science fiction story.

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Exclusive Interview: “The Strange” Author Nathan Ballingrud

 

Given that it takes place in a colony on Mars, and there’s robots, you’d be forgiven if you thought Nathan Ballingrud’s novel The Strange (paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook) was a science fiction story. But in the following email interview, Ballingrud explains why he thinks it’s more of a dark fantasy.