Nearly every year now, BASS and Pushcart have stories that use science-fiction elements, particularly near-future dystopias predictable by current climate science. Read them now and you’ll be ready for whatever comes next.I haven’t read much contemporary science fiction. That makes them the perfect jumping-off place for subsequent stages in her bright artistic future. As she tells us in the book’s introduction, short stories are where Jemisin started out. Gathered together, they mark a new high in Jemisin’s stellar career. They’ve been collected from sources as diverse as online genre venues, printed anthologies, literary magazines, and podcasts. The twenty-two stories in How Long ‘Til Black Future Month span more than a decade. Plus the appearances here of “Stone Hunger,” set in the world of her acclaimed Broken Earth trilogy, and “The Narcomancer,” set in the world of her Dreamblood duology, help us see all forms of Jemisin’s writing as part of a glorious whole. Le Guin’s unforgettable “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” How Long ‘Til Black Future Month includes among other joys an adventure tale set in a steamfunky 19th-century New Orleans (“The Effluent Engine”) a strangely plausible, deeply moving depiction of the virtual survivors of a real-life apocalypse (“Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows”) and an opulently sensual account of wealthy gourmets playing havoc with taste and time (“Cuisine des Mémoires”). Opening with the audacious “The Ones Who Stay and Fight,” a story in direct conversation with Ursula K. Jemisin demonstrates the enormous reach of her shorter work, which is galaxy-wide and eons-deep. This first collection by multiple award-winning novelist N. You can expect The Inheritance Trilogy to be priced much more closely to The Broken Earth Trilogy. How Long 'Til Black Future Month? is an outlier. They had some customers express concern that they were establishing a new, much higher price point for Nora's books with this collection. The Subterranean edition of How Long ‘Til Black Future Month will be oversized, printed in two colors on 80# Finch, with a full-color dust jacket and four full-color interior plates by Paul Lewin. Dust jacket and full-color interior illustrations by Paul Lewin.

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