Futureland

10 best books like Futureland (Walter Mosley): An Unkindness of Ghosts, Brown Girl in the Ring, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, Skin Folk, The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism, A Gift Upon the Shore, Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times, Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1, Agent 6

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Author	Rivers Solomon
ISBN	1617755885

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until...

Brown Girl in the Ring

Author	Nalo Hopkinson
ISBN	0446674338

The rich and privileged have fled the city, barricaded it behind roadblocks, and left it to crumble. The inner city has had to rediscover old ways--farming, barter, herb lore. But now the monied need a harvest of bodies, and so they prey upon the helpless of the streets. With nowhere to turn, a young woman...

After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall

Author	Nancy Kress
ISBN	1616960655

The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell.

Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the Six—children who were born deformed or sterile and raised in the Shell....

Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora

Author	Sheree Thomas
ISBN	0446677248

This volume introduces black science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction writers to the generations of readers who have not had the chance to explore the scope and diversity among African-American writers.


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Skin Folk

Author	Nalo Hopkinson
ISBN	0446678031

A new collection of short stories from Hopkinson, including "Greedy Choke Puppy," which Africana.com called "a cleverly crafted West Indian story featuring the appearance of both the soucouyant (vampire) & lagahoo (werewolf)," "Ganger (Ball Lightning)," praised by the Washington Post Book...

The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism

Author	Jemar Tisby
ISBN	0310597269

In August of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, calling on all Americans to view others not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. Yet King included another powerful word, one that is often overlooked. Warning against the "tranquilizing...

A Gift Upon the Shore

Author	M.K. Wren
ISBN	0595143415

In the Pacific Northwest of the near future, the golden age has ended in apocalypse. Nuclear war has unleased firestorms and the killing cold of nuclear winter. Earthquakes and tidal waves have ravaged the West Coast of America. Desperate violent looters comb the devastated land. And a horrifying...

Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times

Author	Soong-Chan Rah
ISBN	0830836942

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Buffy the Vampire Slayer #1

Author

Jordie Bellaire

Go back to the beginning as the critically acclaimed pop culture phenomenon Buffy The Vampire Slayer is reimagined under the guidance of series creator Joss Whedon. This is the Buffy Summers you know, who wants what every average teenager wants: friends at her new school, decent grades, and to escape...

Agent 6

Author	Tom Rob Smith
ISBN	0446550760

Tom Rob Smith—the bestselling, award-winning author of Child 44, and one of the most critically-acclaimed new writers of our time—returns with a thrilling and provocative new novel: Agent 6.

How far would you go to solve a crime against your family?

It is 1965. Leo Demidov, a...