Spec-Fic Month: A Conversation with Karen Healey & Rhydian Thomas

During June 2017, The Pantograph Punch is celebrating the fantastical, futuristic, and magical with excerpts, interviews, and poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand spec-fic authors.

Karen Healey is the author of four books, most recently the futuristic adventures, When We Wake and When We Run. Rhydian Thomas is a writer and musician from South Wales who lives in Wellington. His debut novel, the dystopian satire Milk Island, came out in 2017. Books Editor Sarah Jane Barnett talked to them about spec-fic, escapism, and why literary fiction can be so fucking boring.