A perfect utopia being corrupted by our own little slice of heaven. Now imagine they discovered us and learn about concepts like greed. A place where it’s the norm to put other people’s feelings before your own. The Ones Who Stay and Fight – Imagine a place where people care and are actually nice to one another as a matter of course. I’ve never read anything by N K Jemisin, so a short story collection seemed like the ideal way to discover an author’s work for the first time.Ī little about some of my favourite stories then, don’t worry I’ll not going into too much detail. I’ve been trying to expand my reading horizons of late. It has been quite a while since I’ve read an anthology, so when How Long ‘til Black Future Month arrived I was keen to give it a go. 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 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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