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How Long 'Til Black Future Month?: Stories

by N. K. Jemisin

Speculative stories shaped by history and transformation

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Awards & Recognition

  • Author recognition

    Three-time Hugo Award winner

    The metadata describes the credited author as a three-time Hugo Award winner.

  • Critical praise

    Praised by Entertainment Weekly as “Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold”

    Attributed praise describes the book as “Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold.”

AlbakiReads Editorial

Speculative stories shaped by history and transformation

This collection brings together fantasy and speculative fiction across sharply varied settings, from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to the Jim Crow South and a parallel-world society observing our own. Its stories connect fantastical elements—spirits, fey bargains, and a city’s emerging soul—with questions of social history, memory, and the possibility of renewal. The range of settings and premises makes the book a portrait of how the extraordinary can illuminate different pressures within the modern world.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in fantasy and speculative short fiction.
  • Readers drawn to stories that engage with race, history, and social questions.
  • Readers who enjoy collections spanning multiple settings and fantastical premises.

Themes

History and its aftermathRace and societyDestruction and renewalCities and belonging

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Book overview

Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.

"Marvelous and wide-ranging." -- Los Angeles Times"Gorgeous" -- NPR Books"Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold." -- Entertainment Weekly

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.
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