6/26/2023 0 Comments Feed by mira grant summary![]() ![]() In 2013, she was nominated for a Hugo Award an impressive five times in a single year (twice as Mira Grant and three times as Seanan McGuire). An incredibly prolific and highly-regarded author, Grant has won a Nebula, a Hugo, and a Locus. ![]() ![]() Urban fantasy author Seanan McGuire uses the Mira Grant pen name for her forays into horror. Grant adds a new kind of fear to this canon, one centered on the interaction of scientific discovery and financial interest. Sci-fi horror forces us to confront and examine our fears of engineered nature, of contamination, and of scientific advancement beyond our control. By and horror go together like peanut butter and jelly and have remained enduringly popular as topics, from Mary Shelley’s original tale of the ethics of scientific creation to the several thousand zombie virus novels that have been published over the last decades (including one of Mira Grant’s). ![]()
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