How Long 'til Black Future Month?

Overview

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories."Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles Times"Gorgeous" -- NPR Books"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold." -- Entertainment WeeklySpirits 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.

Details

Publisher

Orbit

Published

2018-11-27

Pages

416

Language

EN

Categories

Fiction / Fantasy / Epic, Fiction / Science Fiction / Collections & Anthologies, Fiction / Short Stories (single author), Fiction / Fantasy / Urban, Fiction / Science Fiction / Alien Contact

ISBN-13

9780316491358