The Bat Segundo show has a great interview with Steve Erickson posted right now. Steve Erickson is one of my favorite authors and while what he’s writing is speculative fic, it is more than a little difficult to define just what he does. My recommendation? Start with his milennial novel, Arc d’X which meanders through past, present and alternate times and includes a Berlin populated by escaped zoo animals and divided by a wall built from the papers liberated from Stasi files and features a major plotline involving Sally Hemmings. Erickson’s work is weird, haunting, genre-bending and has a consistently stunning cadence.
