These things collectively would open a bit more room within the genre for people who weren’t cishet white guys- just in time for the release of my first published novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms. In a few more years there would come the Slushbomb, an attempt by women writers to improve one of the most sexist bastions among the Big Three the Great Cultural Appropriation Debates of DOOM and Racefail, a thousand- blog storm of fannish protest against institutional and individual racism within the genre. Science fiction claimed to be the fiction of the future, but it still mostly celebrated the faces and voices and stories of the past. At the time, it was clear that the speculative genres had stagnated to a dangerous degree. I wasn’t expecting more than that, for reasons beyond pessimism. Then I could get out of debt in twelve or thirteen years, instead of fifteen. If I could make that much (or even just one hundred a year!), I might be able to cover some of my utility bills or something. In an attempt to resolve frustration with the state of my life, I finally decided to see whether my lifelong writing hobby could be turned into a side hustle worth maybe a few hundred dollars. 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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