![]() I’d just ended a lackluster relationship, and I was in student loan debt up to my eyeballs, like pretty much everybody else in my generation. (Yeah, I know.) I was living in Boston, where it was cold and hard to make friends and nobody put seasoning on any-thing. I’d just turned thirty and had my first “midlife” crisis. Once upon a time, I didn’t think I could write short stories. 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 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 streets 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. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. ![]() Read an extract from triple Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N. This Black History Month let us ask How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? ![]()
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