Disney’s got a new film out, it’s called Reservoir Dogs. They wanted to start doing more things without worrying that mothers were going to say, “Oh, honey, look. So do you remember how back in the early ’90s Disney created Touchstone Pictures so that they could release R-rated movies? Basically there was a point where Disney wanted to diversify. You write fiction as both Seanan McGuire and as Mira Grant. Visit to listen to the entire interview and the rest of the show, in which the hosts discuss various geeky topics.

This interview first appeared on ’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a five-time Hugo Award nominee, including four Hugo nominations this year. Her short fiction has appeared in Apex, Fantasy Magazine, Lightspeed, and in many anthologies, such as Home Improvement: Undead Edition, Other Worlds Than These, and The Living Dead 2. Seanan McGuire (a/k/a Mira Grant) is the author of the October Daye series, the InCryptid series, and the Newsflesh trilogy (consisting of Feed, Deadline, and Blackout). Series: The Tales of Gorlen Vizenfirthe.Series: From the Lost Travelers’ Tour Guide.People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!.An absolute must-read, pick up 'Feed' today for a zombie-book you'll devour. However, as things are wont to do, the journey soon takes a turn for the disastrous when it's discovered that someone is weaponising the zombies in a manner that can only be described as biological warfare. Our narrator is Georgia Mason, a blogger who is hired with her teammates as the first blog-team to cover the American Presidential campaign. Grant builds this world beautifully with a rigorous system of blood tests, side-effects, stats and numbers that all work together seamlessly to make the 'zombies' of the novel and the world that evolves as a result. Two medical advances (the cure for cancer and the cure for the common cold) combined and mutated several decades ago to affect all mammallian life. Gone are the boring zombies with a hunger for brains and instead in their place is a brilliant scientific explanation. It's political intrigue, it's the future of America in social media, it's pure, well-designed science fiction. Whilst 'Feed' can technically be described as a post zombie-apocolypse, it's so much more.

Feed by Mira Grant