How long 'til black future month?

Summary: N.K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a Utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story "The City Born Great," a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.

Item details

ISBN: 9780316491341
ISBN: 0316491349
ISBN: 9780316491372
ISBN: 0316491373
ISBN: 9781549147289
ISBN: 9780316491358
ISBN: 9780356512549
ISBN: 0356512541
ISBN: 9780356512532
Physical Description: print
regular print
xii, 400 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : Orbit, 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

The ones who stay and fight -- The city born great -- Red dirt witch -- L'Alchimista -- The effluent engine -- Cloud dragon skies -- The Trojan girl -- Valedictorian -- The storyteller's replacement -- The brides of heaven -- The evaluators -- Walking awake -- The elevator dancer -- Cuisine des mémoires -- Stone hunger -- On the banks of the River Lex -- The narcomancer -- Henosis -- Too many yesterdays, not enough tomorrows -- The you train -- Non-zero probabilities -- Sinners, saints, dragons, and haints, in the city beneath the still waters.

Awards Note:

Alex Award, 2019

NPR Best Books, 2018

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FICTION Science Fiction Collections & Anthologies
FICTION Science Fiction Space Exploration
FICTION Short Stories (single author)
Short stories, American
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