Think Out Loud Northwest Passages: Cherie Priest · Oregon Public Broadcasting

<p>Novelist <a href="http://ping.fm/7FSEk" target="_blank">Cherie Priest</a> loves and lives genres, from <a href="http://ping.fm/wF0FQ" target="_blank">goth</a> to <a href="http://ping.fm/IxsLF" target="_blank">steampunk</a>. Her new book <a href="http://ping.fm/2XcUU" target="_blank">Boneshaker</a> is set in her "<a href="http://ping.fm/ev7sG" target="_blank">alternate history</a>" world of, loosely, Civil War-era Seattle.</p> <p>Boneshaker is also the name of a machine designed to mine gold from the frozen north. But on its test run it digs tunnels <a href="http://ping.fm/D4Kby" target="_blank">under Seattle</a>, releasing a poisonous blight gas. Sixteen years later, a curious society still survives in the now walled-off city. Everyone keeps busy trying to avoid the <a href="http://ping.fm/D84mD" target="_blank">flesh-eating zombies</a>. <em>Boneshaker</em> follows the son of the machine's inventor as he enters the Seattle underworld to find answers about his family'spast. And it follows his mother, who goes in to save him.</p> http://ping.fm/fI96d