POZ Publishes Excerpt of Randy Boyd’s The Unfrozen Few
The magazine also included the novel in its summer roundup of new works on AIDS history and HIV.
POZ has published the opening of Randy Boyd’s The Unfrozen Few, Book One: Welcome to the Future, in which a group of AIDS patients frozen in the 1980s wake up in a dark room with no apparent way out. As the green glow of their cryo-chambers fades, the questions come fast: What year is it? Is there a cure? And where are the scientists who froze them?
Founded in 1994 to amplify the voices of people living with HIV, POZ has a long history with Boyd. The magazine published his essay “Halftime Show” in 2008 and named him to the 2018 POZ 100, which honored people living with HIV who are 50 and over.
On May 22, POZ’s Trent Straube featured the novel in a summer roundup, “AIDS History and HIV Propel New Works of Art, From Page to Stage and Screen,” calling Boyd “a five-time Lambda Literary Award finalist whose fiction explores race, sexuality and survival in the long shadow of the AIDS crisis.”
“POZ magazine has long reflected the broad and diverse world of people living with HIV,” Boyd said. “I’m deeply grateful for the ways they’ve supported and recognized my voice over the years, and for the vital work they continue to do.”
About Randy Boyd: Randy Boyd is the author of five novels, with his first four earning five Lambda Literary Award finalist honors. His latest novel, The Unfrozen Few, Book One: Welcome to the Future, is published by West Beach Books and available in print and digital editions. More information is available at RandyBoydAuthor.com.
Media Contact: Steven V., West Beach Books — stevenv@westbeachbooks.com