Here Jemisin delves into systems of oppression, both those that create dystopias and those that create utopias. How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? isn’t just a collection of short stories. She can do it all, and do it to near perfection. Jemisin can tell a sad story about the ghost trains of the MTA (“The You Train”) just as easily as she can return to the dense fantasy of the Dreamblood duology (“The Narcomancer”) or the science fiction of genetically modified parasites (“Walking Awake”). From the vast to the intimate, each story explores a different world, different people, different ways of being. She exposes the worst of us and the best of us and everything gray in between. Jemisin’s stories crack open humanity and rummage around in the messy insides. And in the Hugo award-winning novella “The City Born Great,” a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis’s soul.” (via Goodreads)
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.
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