Today we’re very excited to host a stop on the blog tour for the release of werewolf epic novel Red Moon. You might even say, we’re howling at the moon (too much?) to have author Benjamin Percy over to talk briefly about some of the inspiration for the book, and to host a giveaway. Please give a warm welcome to Benjamin, folks! Speculative fiction often holds up a cracked mirror to our world. We see in it a warped version of ourselves. In Godzilla, there is a spiny-backed monster laying waste to Tokyo, yes, and we love the spectacle of this, but the story is especially resonant because the monster channels post-atomic energies. This is the crack that runs jaggedly through Red Moon: the infected live among us. In prehistoric times, prions—equivalent to Mad Cow and chronic wasting disease—leapt out of the wolf population and mutated in its human host, effecting the brain, the ability to control rage and sexual impulses, a Jekyll/Hyde scenario. Throughout history, they have been feared and persecuted, shoved to the margins, and now a faction of terrorists are battling back against the xenophobia they face. I guess I’m writing my own Godzilla in this way, […]