{"id":12909,"date":"2020-02-25T12:44:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=12909"},"modified":"2020-02-25T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T17:44:07","slug":"episode-363-cassandra-khaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-363-cassandra-khaw","title":{"rendered":"Episode 363 – Cassandra Khaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 363:
\nCassandra Khaw<\/a><\/p>\n

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“In novels, you’re trusting the reader to follow you along the whole way. In video games, you’re working with the idea that people’s attention spans are scattered, they’re going to approach it at different times, and maybe just walk off and explore for a while.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>In a murder hotel in Jersey City, author Cassandra Khaw<\/a> joins the show to talk about her bad luck with AirBNBs, the root of her fixation on body horror, and how she settled on a cannibal chef for one of her main characters so she could (imaginatively) explore the concept of turning 180 or so pounds of human being into a fine meal. We get into her Food of the Gods<\/a> series and her other supernatural horror books<\/a>, her fascination with the aftereffects of violence, the influence of Lovecraft on her work, and the time she embarrassed herself in front of Frances Hardinge<\/a>. We also talk about her work in the video-game industry and how she entered it by following the convention circuit, what writing games has taught her about storytelling, diversity in the gaming community, and the unique way that games can bring people into other lives and other modes of seeing. Oh, and we get into how she settled on her mythological name! Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“I did a lot of traveling around the world over a decade, and I discovered people let you sleep on their sofa if you clean up after them and leave them three-course meals.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n