Black Sci-Fi Short Stories Tia Ross (Editor), Sandra M. Grayson (Introduction) Dystopia, apocalypse, gene-splicing, cloning and colonization are explored here by new authors and combined with proto-sci-fi and speculative writing of an older tradition (by W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin R. Delany, Sutton E. Griggs, Pauline Hopkins and Edward Johnson) whose first-hand experience of slavery and denial created their…
Part 2: Science Fiction and Fantasy Books by Black Authors
Witches Steeped in Gold #1 Witches Steeped in Gold Ciannon Smart Divided by their order. United by their vengeance. Iraya has spent her life in a cell, but every day brings her closer to freedom - and vengeance. Jazmyne is the Queen’s daughter, but unlike her sister before her, she has no intention of dying to…
Part 1: Science Fiction & Fantasy Books by Black Authors
Not all of these books are from 2023, but I want to highlight these series and books that feature either Black Authors or Black Characters (POC/Ownvoices) for Black History Month. I haven't done a list like this specifically before so that's also why I'm hightlighting books people might have already read. Deathless #1 The Gilded Ones…
New Releases I’m Excited About: January 2023
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4QbeCI1zYPfEsAz5yQOuIe?si=d15542c686af4ff1 How to Sell a Haunted House Grady Hendrix Our past and your family can haunt you like nothing else… A hilarious and terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group.Every childhood home is haunted, and each of us are possessed by our parents.When their parents die…
Book Review – White Cat (Curse Workers #1) by Holly Black
White Cat by Holly Black This is a repost from my old blog. Let me know if you see any errors or reformatting. Cassel comes from a family of curse workers — people who have the power to change your emotions, your memories, your luck, by the slightest touch of their hands. And since curse…
Book Sale Haul: October 2021
Hey everyone, I wanted to use today’s Blogtober to share what I got from the Planned Parenthood book sale. There are over several hundred thousand books and media at this event every year. It took me several hours to look over most of the tables but I didn’t even get to all of them. It’s…
Book Review – Across the Universe by Beth Revis
(From Goodreads) Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the…
Book Review – Eona by Allison Goodman
Eona by Allison Goodman This is a repost of an old book review. I appreciate your patience as I continue to import old blog posts over to my new blog. Eon is now Eona, the Mirror Dragoneye - one of just two surviving Dragoneyes, the human links to the twelve energy dragons and their power.…
Mini Book Reviews: A Long Long Sleep, Imaginary Girls, Blood Red Road, and Beautiful Days
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0EtqktBAvEpak8KGKriKdm?si=d9c035d96a4c4651 Hi everyone, this is a repost of an old blog post. These books are from the 2010s! Let me know if you see any errors. A Long Long Sleep It should have been a short suspended-animation sleep. But this time Rose wakes up to find her past is long gone-- and her future full…
Book Review – The Girl in the Steel Corset by Kady Cross
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5FTmz0yTzgBRyjgxXgBhPI?si=0251ba3384c74dd9 This is a repost from my old blog. I am continuing to import past blog posts here. Thank you for your patience. (From Goodreads) In 1897 England, 16-year-old Finley Jayne is convinced she's a freak. No normal Victorian girl has a darker side that makes her capable of knocking out a full-grown man with…
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