I've two more short stories to read in New Suns, the one I've just read being my favourite so far: One Easy Trick by Hiromi Goto which includes an encounter with a spirit bear. Synchronistically, reading on in Sharon Olds collection was a poem, A Song Near the End of the World, which is also about a bear encounter and its meaningfulness. I love when readings resonate and reinforce each other 🐻😌
One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served his time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he‘s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University.
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pickFirst snow at my new house! Happily it‘s less than an inch and the roads are fine so far.
This is a thought provoking novella of speculative fiction, set just a bit in the future. Every American gets a Universal Basic Income once a year, on the title date. Told from 4 women‘s POVs, each with a very different life circumstance. I think it‘s one of the best TOR novellas I‘ve read.
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Reading this before work today. I love his other books
pickIncredible. In this novel, we are plunged into a world in which all the white people in America are gone and the ones who are left - focus on the black and biracial MCs- have the opportunity to center themselves and in a new world and examine their identity, their heritage and generational trauma and what this new future could bring. I‘ll be thinking about this for a long time and I hope the rest of the book group feels the same!
"I am a huge fan of science fiction!"
- Foreword, LeVar Burton
"When Galactics arrived at JFK they often reeked of ammonia, sulfur, and something else Tavi could never quite put a finger on."
- The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex, Tobias S. Buckell
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"When a world leader advocates for the creation of a militaristic Space Force to exercise "dominance" in the heavens, we are moving further than ever from Gene Roddenberry's United Federation of Planets."
- LeVar Burton
Next up, a SciFi short story anthology edited by a non-binary person of colour, with a foreword by LeVar Burton 🖖😊, and written by people of colour. 🖤🤎🩷🤍🩵❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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so-soTakes a lot to get a so-so out of me but when you put a famous person in a fictional book it hits wrong… unless that person was a jerk-face in real life and still not right but I‘m sure this is a good read for others … I just want my fiction- fiction and not with real world characters 👀 unless it‘s not fiction… like an autobiographical or true crime 👀 sorry… not sorry really but sorry
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