How Long 'Til Black Future Month?: Stories, (Paperback)

from Juva

The Ones Who Stay and Fight - A tale of a Utopian civilization as told my an observer to another outsider. The people of this nation have devoted themselves to fighting oppression and injustice, and it's bearing fruit to shame the multiverse. The City Born Great - A gritty story told in a noir s...

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I really enjoyed this collection of short stories. As with most short story collections, even one by a single author, I enjoyed some stories more than others, but the thing that I love about short story collections is that the stories I really liked might be different from those another reader re...

from rivkat

Story collection mixing f/sf, with a number of stories about various forms of locus genii, including a Fifth Kingdoms story about how those who have evil done to them do evil in return, but maybe there is still goodness in the interstices. Many of the stories are about the ways that discriminatio...

from gypsysmom

I listened to this book which had a variety of narrators all of whom did a good job. I've read Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy so I know what a great writer she is in the long format; she is equally as good in the short format. Some of the stories I would classify as science fiction, some as fanta...

from froxgirl

I find short stories requiring more concentration and attention than novels. With the latter, a reader can drift away for a few pages, return later, and not lose the gist. But stories are sharper, more pinpoint, and you cannot look away even for a sentence. The impact of these Jemisin stories var...