{"id":309,"date":"2021-06-11T08:43:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T13:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/?p=309"},"modified":"2021-07-17T13:03:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T18:03:14","slug":"guest-of-honor-nicky-drayden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/2021\/06\/11\/guest-of-honor-nicky-drayden\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest of Honor Nicky Drayden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ArmadilloCon 2021 welcomes Compton Crook Award winner Nicky Drayden as our 2021 Guest of Honor! Nicky Drayden is a systems analyst, and when she\u2019s not debugging code, she writes weird and wonderful stories that keep us turning the pages while our brains explode! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Book: Symbiosis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Her new novel, Symbiosis<\/a>, is the second in a series that started with Escaping Exodus<\/a>. Kirkus<\/em> described the first book as “an Afrofuturist love story, set inside a giant space-creature, about two women of different castes” and praised it for “top-notch worldbuilding and sharp characterization<\/a>.” Lightspeed<\/em> said, “Escaping Exodus<\/em> is another fine entry from a clearly talented writer. Read if you ever wondered what it would be like if the Millennium Falcon decided to live inside that asteroid worm<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Minecraft Book Coming in July!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of new things, Drayden has a new book coming out in July — Minecraft: The Dragon<\/a>! We are betting that her new Minecraft story will be as much fun as her previous game-related book, The Hero of Numbani<\/a>! Kirkus<\/em> described The Hero of Numbani<\/em> as an “engrossing read with smooth pacing and action-packed scenes<\/a>.” While Hero<\/em> is set in the world of Overwatch, you don’t need to be familiar with the game to enjoy the book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Don’t Miss Her Earlier Books!<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times<\/em> featured her debut novel, The Prey of Gods<\/a> in their 2017 list Best of New Science Fiction and Fantasy<\/a>. The Wall Street Journal<\/em> featured it in Summer Reading: One Expert, One Book<\/a>. Her second novel, Temper<\/a><\/em>, is an exciting blend of Afrofuturism and New Weird, praised by Kirkus<\/em> for its “wildly imaginative worldbuilding<\/a>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drayden frequently dabbles in short fiction, with over 50 publications in Fiyah<\/a>, Shimmer<\/a>, Daily Science Fiction<\/a>, Space and Time Magazine<\/a> and more. We are proud to note that one of her early stories, “The Atmosphere Man<\/a>,” appeared in our anthology Rayguns Over Texas<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can find out more about her at nickydrayden.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ArmadilloCon 2021 welcomes Compton Crook Award winner Nicky Drayden as our 2021 Guest of Honor! Nicky Drayden is a systems analyst, and when she\u2019s not debugging code, she writes weird and wonderful stories that keep us turning the pages while our brains explode! New Book: Symbiosis Her new novel, Symbiosis, is the second in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":637,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4,30,33,32,34,31,35],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nicky-drayden.jpg?fit=398%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armadillocon.org\/d43\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}