Blood & Rain Episode 73: "Automaton" Featuring: TR Hudson

<p>Rest In Peace Cormac McCarthy<br>Rest In Peace John Steinbeck<br>Rest In Peace Ernest Hemingway</p><p>The American canon has its authors who are obvious, stable additions to its pantheon.</p><p>Fitzgerald.<br>Twain.<br>Poe.<br>Faulkner.<br>Steinbeck.</p><p>But then there are those who forge their own path who use America as the occasional backdrop, giving life to a new form of writing that can't be integrated into its canon due to their destructive essences.</p><p>Hemingway wrote with a blank slate and wrote to go far beyond the frontier, far beyond where anyone could help him, writing something truly new, truly authentic.</p><p>McCarthy wrote with red colored glasses, seeing fire, bloodshed, and vice color every being of all his characters within fictional, American borders. </p><p>Add these to the open questions rooted in America asked by Steinbeck and you have the mind and style of an author writing new, not so shiny science fiction.</p><p>The first of these is "Automaton," a story of decay, the war of two ideas for America's future, the ugly truths of the martial way, and rugged individualism for better or for worse. </p><p>The Blood &amp; Rain Podcast </p><p>Episode 73</p><p>"Automaton" </p><p>Featuring: TR Hudson</p><p>Enjoy.</p>