How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories
N K Jemisin
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How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories
N K Jemisin
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Some of the pieces are simple yet highly enjoyable.
Established fans of Jemisin’s work and general fantasy and sf readers alike should check out this collection of diverse and exciting new speculative fiction..
But one of the most marvelous aspects of this gorgeously Afrofuturist collection is that it's also, ironically, a time capsule. Containing stories written between 2004 and 2017, it occasionally imagines futures grown from earlier moments of our shared lives on the internet — from LiveJournal, from fora and discussion boards — that tripped me into nostalgia for earlier, more innocent visions of apocalypse.
Some of Jemisin’s strongest stories deal explicitly with the horrors of racism in a world that is recognizably our own.
[Jemisin's] follow-up to The Broken Earth, a new collection of short fiction titled How Long ’til Black Future Month?, confirms that she’s one of science fiction and fantasy’s finest world-builders, but her work is also changing those genres in important ways: Jemisin’s writing is making space in science fiction and fantasy to better reflect—and to reimagine—the world in which we live.
How Long ’til Black Future Month? illustrates time and again that Jemisin’s skill isn’t limited to novels, nor is it limited to worlds of epic fantasy; her short fiction shows that Jemisin just has talent, and it shines no matter the world.
... a brilliant example of how we in the present are making the future with our actions and how the future may exist in our past.
How Long ‘til Black Future Month?, N. K. Jemisin’s new collection of short stories, is the perfect example of the [kind of collection you consume in one sitting]. Each of the pieces held within is masterfully written and beautifully imagined, making the book difficult to put down even as it flits from dragons in Earth’s ruined sky to predators among us to the relationship between machines and reality.
Passionately felt themes.
Powerful and mind-expanding stories.