Excerpts – December 2019

Two book excerpts are included in this issue. Dora Raymaker’s Resonance is a prequel to her previous cyberpunk novel, Hoshi, that featured a neurodivergent narrator. Paul Smith narrates time spent with blind storyteller, comedian and motivational speaker, Kenny Tedford.

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