How Long 'Til Black Future Month?

Stories

De: N. K. Jemisin

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

Three-time Hugo Award-winner N. K. Jemisin's first collection of short fiction challenges and enchants with breathtaking stories of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.

N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.

Dragons and hateful 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.

For more from N. K. Jemisin, check out:

The Inheritance Trilogy:

• The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
• The Broken Kingdoms
• The Kingdom of Gods
• The Inheritance Trilogy (omnibus edition)
• Shades in Shadow: An Inheritance Triptych (e-only short fiction)
• The Awakened Kingdom (e-only novella)

Dreamblood Duology:

• The Killing Moon
• The Shadowed Sun
• The Dreamblood Duology (omnibus)

The Broken Earth:

• The Fifth Season
• The Obelisk Gate
• The Stone Sky

©2018 N. K. Jemisin (P)2018 Hachette Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"The stories are wonderful. In worlds both invariably cruel and brilliantly imagined, heroism thrives in the margins." (Nicky Drayden, author of The Prey of Gods)

"There are so many things in How Long 'Til Black Future Month - from firebirds to Megacops, from truffles to hurricanes, from utopias (maybe) to civil rights marches - that it's impossible to describe. Except to say that every single story here is riveting, provocative, and remarkable. An extraordinary story collection from an extraordinary writer!" (Connie Willis, Hugo and Nebula Award winner)

"[E]loquently develops a series of passionately felt themes.... [O]ne of speculative fiction's most thoughtful and exciting writers." (Kirkus, starred review)

most interesting voice in science fiction/fantasy

awesome characters in a fascinating array of environments where metaphysics is stood on its head

Exceptionally Excellent! (yes, it's that good).

A grand collection of superb stories, especially the last story about haints, lizards, and a flood. I'll read it again soon. Exciting, wondrous and full of both dread and joy. Amazing characters, unique ideas, and the absolute best storytelling. Want to lose yourself over and over? These stories are the ticket to new worlds wonderfully imagined.

So Enjoyable!

I particularly enjoyed the memory story. Jemisin's detailed description of the preparation of the food and the food itself made me long for a taste. Too, it revealed meticulous research or an intimate top chef knowledge of food or both. The last story was appropriately the final one, and left me feeling quite satisfied.
Overall, well-imagined stories.

Amazing collection of short stories

The best compendium of short stories that I have ever read. I read the broken earth trilogy and also the thousand Kingdoms by NK Jemison. I love her novels. Short stories however are completely different animal. As someone who loves to read and has tried to write, I believe that short stories take the most amount of talent to write. Not only do you have to hook the reader quickly and spin very satisfying plot in a short period of time, you have to develop a depth to your characters in a very short period of time. And Ms. Jemison has shown herself to be one of the best writers in the genre today having obviously mastered the novel and the short story.

All of the short stories are wonderful. I loved many of them and liked all of them. My favorite short stories were The City Born Great which she won an award for, The Effluent Engine, The Brides of Heaven and Sinners, Saints, Dragons and Haints in the City Beneath the Still Waters Which is the last story in the collection.

Her love for New York City shines bright and strong in this collection as well as her enjoyment of New Orleans. This book is well worth your time and credit.

Some of the best stories I've ever read.

A wide variety of styles, topics, and voices.
Black Future Month IS the future or a big part of it.

Beautiful

A wonderful collection of stories, from other worlds and our own, conceived and developed by Jemisin, then excellently brought to life by a host of narrative voices.

N.K. Jemisin is Amazing!

I would like to thank N.K. Jemisin for reminding me what imagination is. She has created so many worlds in this collection it boggles the mind that they all came from the brain of one person! Her writing is smart, poetic (in many different voices) and can also be very funny. The speakers are top-notch — extremely talented at bringing all these disparate characters to life. I highly recommend this book and the Audible version in particular.

Enjoyable Appetizers

Regardless of your preferred genre, there is probably something in here for you. My favorites were the anachronistic or futuristic stories that used magical realism. Don't skip the intro either.

Absolutely fantastic!

I keep coming back to this book again and again. The wide variety of possible worlds represented in these stories have broadened my horizons and elevated my dreams.

Genius

This author is a treasure and these stories are individual jewels!

The character building, especially in these works sucks you in and holds you.