![]() ![]() Almost invariably, there isn’t more than one shooter in real life. When there are mass shooting events, the early news stories report more than one shooter. The Second Shooter is about a radical journalist who is writing a book about the phenomenon of a second shooter. Your new novel, The Second Shooter, is coming out with Solaris in November, would you be able to tell us a bit about it? Nick Mamatas was kind eoungh to speak to The Fantasy Hive via Zoom. He was the editor for Haika Soru, Viz Media’s essential imprint for Japanese translated speculative fiction, and has edited many anthologies. ![]() As well as writing novels and short stories, Mamatas is also a prolific editor. His latest novel, The Second Shooter (2021), comes out later this year with Solaris, and is a pointed exploration of conspiracy theories and weird politics in a SF/fantasy thriller mode. Mamatas’ blend of deft characterisation and sharply realised satire can be keenly felt across much of his work, including I Am Providence (2016), a murder mystery set in a Lovecraft fan convention, and The Last Weekend: A Novel of Zombies, Booze and Power Tools (2014), in which a failed science fiction writer must stave off the zombie apocalypse. His novel Move Under Ground (2005), which combines the Beat poetry of Jack Kerouac with the cosmic horror of H. ![]() Nick Mamatas is a unique author, who has been doing his own individual take on science fiction, fantasy and horror for 20 years. ![]()
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