Dear readers, I can finally share an announcement that I have been sitting on for quite a while. It is my delight to let you know that my story The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur has been adapted in the new season of Love, Death + Robots, which drops on Netflix May 15. The episode list has just been announced, so I can finally spill the beans, too!
My novelette The Screaming of the Tyrannosaur was first published in 2017 in the anthology Jurassic Chronicles, edited by the indefatigable Samuel Peralta. It is included in my omnibus Gladiators (in paperback here) and is available as an ebook short here. (Also on Audible, read by Yi Ming Sofyia Xue.)
Images are from the Netflix trailers for Love, Death, + Robots Season 4, dropping May 15.
About the Episode
The animated adaptation for Love, Death + Robots has been animated by Blur Studio (which also did the episode “Sonnie’s Edge” in Season 1 – another wild ride about high-tech, engineered gladiators, based on a short story by Peter F. Hamilton) and the voice talent includes famed Chinese American actress Bai Ling (as the gladiator our story follows) and Youtube personality MrBeast (as the host of the dinodrome where the gladiator games occur).
About the Story
“This day has gone long enough without a death.”
Taken from her home at a young age, Mai Changying is isolated and trained for life in the arena, competing on the backs of stampeding triceratops and other great beasts resurrected from millions of years in the past. But under her timberwolf tattoo and the ferocity of her competitive spirit, she has a secret desire—a longing for a pack, a family, a people.
Today, in a thrilling race on a privately chartered orbital dinodrome, Mai Changying will shock her audiences with an unexpected and transgressive act that will change gladiatorial combat in the dinodromes forever—and prove that even when everything is stripped from us, our need for kinship and our triumph in seeking it remains.
“This is a pulse-pounding story, a triumph of world-building – a story of gladiatorial combat, and of bonds strange and transcendent. Without a doubt, one of the most enthralling stories I’ve come across.” – Samuel Peralta, The Future Chronicles
I am very excited to see my story animated and can’t wait to share it with all of you! Thank you all for your support, encouragement, and love of my fiction!
Stant Litore
While you wait for May 15, check out all of the Colosseums for DInosaurs stories!
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