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If you ever wanted to hear LeVar Burton say the phrase “sweet and salty love”, then this is the collection for YOU!

The Visit by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Black Pages by Nnedi Okorafor

2043...A Merman I Should Turn to Be by Nisi Shawl

These Alien Skies by C.T. Rwizi

Clap Back by Nalo Hopkinson

We Travel the Spaceways by Victor LaValle

March 2, 2022 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

You can hear LeVar say lots of other things, if you like! You can also hear Nyambi Nyambi, Naomi Ackie, Indya Moore, Adenrele Ojo, and Brian Tyree Henry! The six-entry Black Stars collection is another new(ish) group of short stories available from Amazon Originals. They are available on both kindle and through audible, and if you are interested in diving into this collection then I highly recommend taking the audio route! Every story is enhanced by the audio performances, and I am sure that I rated […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: Adenrele Ojo, african diaspora, amazon original stories, Amazon Originals, andtheIToldYouSos, Black Stars, Black Stars collection, black voices, Brian Tyree Henry, C.T. Rwizi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, djinn, feminism, Indya Moore, Islam, LeVar Burton, lgtbqia, Nalo Hopkinson, Naomi Ackie, nisi shawl, Nnedi Okorafor, Nyambi Nyambi, religious extremism, technology, timbuktu, tradition, Victor LaValle

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR14 Review No:13 · Genres: Audiobooks, Fiction, Science Fiction, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: Adenrele Ojo, african diaspora, amazon original stories, Amazon Originals, andtheIToldYouSos, Black Stars, Black Stars collection, black voices, Brian Tyree Henry, C.T. Rwizi, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, djinn, feminism, Indya Moore, Islam, LeVar Burton, lgtbqia, Nalo Hopkinson, Naomi Ackie, nisi shawl, Nnedi Okorafor, Nyambi Nyambi, religious extremism, technology, timbuktu, tradition, Victor LaValle ·
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An Afrofuturist short story trio (part 1)

The Visit (Black Stars #1) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Black Pages (Black Stars #2) by Nnedi Okorafor

Clap Back (Black Stars #5) by Nalo Hopkinson

December 31, 2021 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I was struggling with my Goodreads reading goal until I came across this short story collection, Black Stars. This Amazon Original contains six afro-futurist novellas from Black authors. I’m only reviewing three since I had limited kindle unlimited borrows. I’m sure some of you can relate to this problem. 🙂 I started with Clap Back (Black Stars #5) by Nalo Hopkinson since I just finished her Sandman Universe book, House of Whispers. We enter the story with news headlines about a new haute couture line that […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: afrofuturism, Amazon Originals, Black authors, Black Stars, Black Women authors, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, short stories

teresaelectro's CBR13 Review No:40 · Genres: Audiobooks, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction · Tags: afrofuturism, Amazon Originals, Black authors, Black Stars, Black Women authors, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, short stories ·
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Welcome to the House of Whispers

House of Whispers Vol 1: Power Divided by Nalo Hopkinson, Neil Gaiman, Dominke Stanton

December 31, 2021 by teresaelectro Leave a Comment

I have a blossoming habit of buying graphic novels, but rarely find the time to read them. I picked up House of Whispers Volume 1: Power Divided from the independent Black-owned bookstore, Sistah Sci-Fi. I wanted to support them on Indie Bookstore Day. I’ve been meaning to start the Sandman novels by Neil Gaiman, but it always felt so daunting! When I came across this volume, it was an instabuy since I’ve been meaning to read something by Nalo Hopkinson. House of Whispers kicked off […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: DC Comics, dominke stanton, Dreams, gods, House of Whispers, magic, mythology, Nalo Hopkinson, Nalo Hopkinson, Neil Gaiman, Dominke Stanton, Neil Gaiman, New Orleans, Sandman, voodoo

teresaelectro's CBR13 Review No:37 · Genres: Fantasy, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: DC Comics, dominke stanton, Dreams, gods, House of Whispers, magic, mythology, Nalo Hopkinson, Nalo Hopkinson, Neil Gaiman, Dominke Stanton, Neil Gaiman, New Orleans, Sandman, voodoo ·
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The setting is otherworldly but the trauma is not

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

December 9, 2020 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

This is my third Nalo Hopkinson novel, and while I think Brown Girl in the Ring and Sister Mine are better works, I nevertheless liked this one quite a lot. Hopkinson has a unique talent for blending fantasy, science fiction, and Afro-Caribbean culture/history into stories of female empowerment. Midnight Robber’s main character is a girl who suffers trauma at the hands of someone she ought to have been able to trust and who then must find the path to her own healing. Midnight Robber is […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction Tagged With: #fantasy, cbr12, ElCicco, Fiction, Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson

ElCicco's CBR12 Review No:51 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction · Tags: #fantasy, cbr12, ElCicco, Fiction, Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson ·
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Any Sufficiently Advanced Science Fiction is Indistinguishable from Magic

Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson

March 20, 2020 by Pheagan Leave a Comment

  Once in a while you encounter a book that makes you fall so in love with it that you check an author’s bibliography and pray that it’s long enough to give you stuff to read for the rest of your life, and Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber is that book for me. Hopkinson is one of those sci fi writers that I’ve been aware of for awhile and have been meaning to read and I am ashamed it took me this long, because she just […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson, sci-fi

Pheagan's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Midnight Robber, Nalo Hopkinson, sci-fi ·
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Even Canada isn’t safe from our horrible future

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

June 25, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Not a boxing book like I thought it was going to be! I have read some Nalo Hopkinson before and that book was a kind of post-colonial, magical realist book about a child from the sea. I liked it. I liked this one too, but man oh man was it way different. This book is kind of Neal Stephenson writing a Jamaica Kincaid novel. Or William Gibson writing Gloria Naylor. Oh, with some light eroticism and heavy body-horror mixed in. It’s kind of Hoodoo Punk. […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:257 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Brown Girl in the Ring, Nalo Hopkinson ·
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