So anyone who follows this author has probably read some if not all of them. On my other hand, all of the stories in this collection have been previously published. I loved every story, and that’s extremely rare for me in a short story collection. On my one hand, the collection is absolutely awesome from beginning to end. I’m trying not to just SQUEE and it’s hard. I recognize that I’m talking around the book, rather than about the book. My favorite treatment of Earth religions in the future is the Babylon 5 episode The Parliament of Dreams. I’m not going to include treatments of religion in the future because that’s all over the map in its own way. Also relatively few from a female perspective, or a non-cis, non-het perspective, or, again, any perspective other than male WASPs. It’s a damn good question, isn’t it? Just how long will it be until everyone is celebrated all the damn time, and we don’t need to call out non-male (also non-straight and non-cis) people? How long will it be until Black Future Month?Īs the author points out, there has been very little science fiction that includes non-white characters or posits a future as seen from the perspective of people of color. Especially when you take out the FEMALE WASPs, because Women’s History Month is its own thing, along with holidays and/or months that celebrate non-Anglo origins, non-Christian religions, and, particularly relevant to this book (and this month) non-White people. Have you ever taken a good, hard look at which groups get special “days” or “months” and which ones don’t? There’s no such thing as “WASP month” to celebrate White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestants, because they are considered the so-called “norm” even though they are increasingly not the majority even in the U.S. 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. A black mother in the Jim Crow south must figure out how to save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Purchasing Info: Author's Website, Publisher's Website, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Jemisinįormats available: hardcover, paperback, ebook, audiobook How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K.

How long until black future month