So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy
10 best books like So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction and Fantasy (Nalo Hopkinson): The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe, How Long 'til Black Future Month?, The Black Tides of Heaven, The Red Threads of Fortune, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown, The Black God's Drums, Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora, Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe, Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
| Author | Kij Johnson |
| ISBN | 0765386518 |
When a student from the Ulthar Women's College goes missing with her dreaming lover, Vellitt Boe journeys across the dreamlands to find a way to the waking world to bring her back. With a cat in tow, will Vellitt be able to find Clarie Jurat?
Ghouls, ghasts, and gugs, oh my! The Dream-Quest of Vellitt...
How Long 'til Black Future Month?
| Author | N.K. Jemisin |
| ISBN | 0316491349 |
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful spirits haunt the flooded city of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In a parallel universe, a utopian...
The Black Tides of Heaven
The Black Tides of Heaven is one of a pair of standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series. For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Red Threads of Fortune
Mokoya and Akeha, the twin children of the Protector, were sold to the Grand Monastery as children. While Mokoya developed...
The Red Threads of Fortune
| Author | J.Y. Yang |
| ISBN | 0765395398 |
The Red Threads of Fortune is one of a pair of unique, standalone introductions to JY Yang's Tensorate Series, which Kate Elliott calls "effortlessly fascinating." For more of the story you can read its twin novella The Black Tides of Heaven, available now.
Fallen prophet, master of the elements,...
Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
| Author | Gilles Deleuze |
| ISBN | 0816612250 |
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality...
The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown
| Author | Julia Flynn Siler |
| ISBN | 1101875267 |
A revelatory history of the trafficking of young Asian girls that flourished in San Francisco during the first century of Chinese immigration (1848-1943) and the "safe house" on the edge of Chinatown that became a refuge for those seeking their freedom
From 1874, a house on the edge of San Francisco's...
Creeper, a scrappy young teen, is done living on the streets of New Orleans. Instead, she wants to soar, and her sights are set on securing passage aboard the smuggler airship Midnight Robber. Her ticket: earning Captain Ann-Marie’s trust using a secret about a kidnapped Haitian scientist and a mysterious...
| 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.
Fiction.
Sister Lilith - Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
The Comet...
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
| Author | Thomas Ligotti |
| ISBN | 0143107763 |
Two terrifying classics by “the best kept secret in contemporary horror fiction” (The Washington Post)
Thomas Ligotti’s debut collection, Songs of a Dead Dreamer, and his second, Grimscribe, permanently inscribed a new name in the pantheon of horror fiction. Influenced...
Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction
| Author | Grace L. Dillon |
| ISBN | 0816529825 |
In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction Grace Dillon collects some of the finest examples of the craft with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors. The collection includes seminal authors such as Gerald Vizenor,...
| Author | Jay Michaelson |
| ISBN | 0807001597 |
An alien anthropologist analyzing our early-21st century society in America, based solely on media coverage, would probably assume that the issue of gay rights popped instantly into existence sometime in the mid-1980s, around the time of the early AIDS epidemic, which was originally dubbed the...
| Author | Judith Butler |
| ISBN | 0804728127 |
As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what “one” is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand...
Fever Year: The Killer Flu of 1918
| Author | Don Brown |
| ISBN | 0544837401 |
From the Sibert Honor–winning creator behind The Unwanted and Drowned City comes a graphic novel of one of the darkest episodes in American history: the Spanish Influenza epidemic of 1918.
New Year’s Day, 1918. America has declared war on Germany and is gathering troops to fight....
| Author | Nnedi Okorafor |
| ISBN | 1506710751 |
From Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award Winner Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death, Binti, Akata series) comes Laguardia. Set in an alternative world where aliens have come to Earth and integrated with society, LaGuardia revolves around a pregnant Nigerian-American doctor, Future Nwafor Chukwuebuka,...
Kabu Kabu - unregistered, illegal Nigerian taxis - generally get you where you need to go, but Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu takes the reader to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations. This debut short story collection by award-winning author Nnedi...
The Longings of Wayward Girls
| Author | Karen Brown |
| ISBN | 1476724911 |
It's an idyllic New England summer, and Sadie is a precocious only child on the edge of adolescence. It seems like July and August will pass lazily by, just as they have every year before. But one day, Sadie and her best friend play a seemingly harmless prank on a neighborhood girl. Soon after, that same...
Three brand new short stories by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin, set in the world of the Inheritance trilogy.
From the shadows of the greater stories, away from the bright light of Sky and wending 'round the sagas of the Arameri, come three quieter tales....
| Author | Jacques Derrida |
| ISBN | 0226143341 |
"The English version of Dissemination [is] an able translation by Barbara Johnson . . . . Derrida's central contention is that language is haunted by dispersal, absence, loss, the risk of unmeaning, a risk which is starkly embodied in all writing. The distinction between philosophy and literature...
