How Long til Black Future Month?, N. K. Jemisin
How Long til Black Future Month?, N. K. Jemisin
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How Long 'til Black Future Month?
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Author: N. K. Jemisin

Narrator: Shayna Small, Gail Nelson-Holgate, Robin Eller, Ron Butler, Kevin Stillwell, Je Nie Fleming, Jeanette Illidge

Unabridged: 14 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 11/27/2018

Synopsis

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.

"Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles Times"Gorgeous" -- NPR Books"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold." -- Entertainment Weekly

Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. 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.

About N. K. Jemisin

N(ora). K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has won the Hugo Award for best novel (The Fifth Season); been shortlisted for the Crawford, Gemmell Morningstar, and Tiptree Awards; and been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She also won a Locus Award for Best First Novel (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms) as well as multiple Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards.Jemisin's short fiction has been published in pro markets such as Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; semipro markets such as Ideomancer and Abyss & Apex; and podcast markets and print anthologies. Her first six novels, a novella, and a short story collection are available from Orbit Books. Jemisin is a member of the Altered Fluid writing group. In addition to writing, she is a counseling psychologist and educator (specializing in career counseling and student development), a sometime hiker and biker, and a political/feminist/anti-racist blogger.N. K.'s stories include The City Born Great and The Fifth Season.

Reviews

Goodreads review by emma on February 10, 2021

my becoming-a-genius project, part 5! in case you somehow missed parts one and two and three and four clogging your feed for the past 4 months (and thank heavens for small mercies), here's the situation: i have decided to become a genius. to accomplish this, i'm going to work my way through the collec......more

Goodreads review by s.penkevich on February 07, 2024

Multiple Hugo-winning author N.K. Jemisin is known for her expansive series, like the incredible Broken Earth Trilogy or Inheritance Trilogy, full of dynamic world building and vast scopes. Here, in How Long ‘til Black Future Month, she collects her short fiction, written between 2004 and 2017, whic......more

Goodreads review by Cece on March 04, 2020

God this was brilliant. I’ll come back later with a full review for every story in the collection. For now - Average rating: 4/5 Final rating: 4.5/5 Update 3/4/20: Ok let's talk about how good this collection is. I'm obsessed with N.K. Jemisin and I've only read 2 books by her at this point, so I can o......more

Goodreads review by Cindy on February 19, 2020

I think I just need to accept that I cannot get into short story collections haha. So many of these were a hit or miss for me that overall I felt very lukewarm and stuck in the middle. Jemisin is definitely a great author and she has really cool concepts. I appreciate the various ways she tried to e......more

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on May 31, 2019

Updated to add additional reviews for stories that are in this collection. "The Storyteller's Replacement" and "Cuisine des Mémoires" are nominated for a 2019 Locus award. Goodreads has pulled together a couple of my Jemisin short story reviews and dumped them here, since they appear in her new short......more

Quotes

"The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation... Jemisin seems able to do just about everything."—New York Times

"Jemisin's phenomenal success has been something like an earthquake ripping through the traditional order of fantasy itself."—New York/Vulture

"The most critically acclaimed author in contemporary science fiction and fantasy."—GQ

"Jemisin's stories are discerning, thought-provoking, and beautifully crafted, showcasing a master at work."—Pen America

"Marvelous and wide-ranging."—Los Angeles Times

"One line from [Jemisin's introduction] has tattooed itself on my mind, a sort of manifesto for her ongoing work and all the fiction I love: 'Now I am bolder, and angrier, and more joyful.' I felt, after reading these stories, that I was too."—NPR Books

"N. K. Jemisin is a powerhouse of speculative fiction. So, obviously, you need to read this new short story collection."—Bustle

"Read her books-they're probably better than whatever else you were going to read next."—Literary Hub

"Jemisin is now a pillar of speculative fiction, breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold."—Entertainment Weekly

"Nora Jemisin is a writer of uncanny gifts who is to a moral certainty one of the five best we have right now."—Sci-Fi

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