Podcast Episode 19: Somnambulist

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Today’s episode has E. G. Condé reading his own story from Reckoning 6, “Somnambulist”, a fever dream of radically revisionist postcolonial Indigenous futurism—what he calls “Taínofuturism”. As I understand it, this is E. G.’s first piece of professionally published fiction, but I defy you to detect that in the utter confidence with which he delivers this performance. I don’t want to risk breaking the spell, so I’ll let his words speak for themselves.

[Bio below.]

“Somnambulist” by E. G. Condé

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Author: E.G. Condé

E.G. Condé (he/him) is an Anthropologist of technology and a queer boricua imagineer of speculative fiction, fantasy, and horror. His short fiction appears in Anthropology & Humanism and If There’s Anyone Left. When he isn’t conjuring up faraway universes or nearly possible futures, you might find him traversing the world in search of sand dunes to hike on.

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