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Go forward at your own risk. Sudapod, episode 731, Friday the 13th, 2020. This week's story, The Genetic Alchemist's Daughter by Rebecca Kuyak Kang.

Hello everybody, welcome to Sudapod, the weekly horror podcast.

I'm Alistair, your host, and this week's story was

originally published in Black Cranes, edited by Lee Murray and Genevie Flynn, and we

actually have the fantastic M.M. Schill coming on towards the end of the episode to review this fantastic book for you.

This is something we're going to be doing a lot of across the next few weeks because we work extensively with anthologies and collections.

And this is a golden age for those right now.

A lot of them are going overlooked or unremarked and there's some great work out there

and we want to put you in front of it and we also want to give some of our staff a chance to talk about some of what they're doing. So the story, like I say, comes to us from Black Cranes, edited by Lee Murray and Genevieve Flynn, and the author Rebecca Kuyak Kang is a Chinese

Filipino writer. She grew up in Manila where there are many many

creaky old houses with ghosts inside them. She writes about

Eldridge creatures, monsters with human faces, and the old story about and revolution.

She now lives in Melbourne with her partner.

Elaine has been published in Strange Horizons, Lackingtons's The Dark, Rocketcaper, and now Pseudopod.

You can find her on Twitter through the links in the show notes.

Your reader for this story is Rebecca Waistier.

Rebecca is a Taiwanese American actor,

writer, translator, and sensitivity reader based in NYC.

Having grown up across several continents,

her work focuses on the interplay between Asia and the Asian diaspora, as well as gender,

queerness and mental illness and has been featured in outlets like We Need Diverse Books,

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