Lightspeed Magazine Review of Broken Fevers – “Breathtaking Work”
Hugo Award winning Lightspeed Magazine has weighed in on Broken Fevers (courtesy of Arley Sorg). Spoiler alert: it’s recommended. The review includes choice phrases like “All told, it’s really breathtaking work.” I did not pay him. It is glorious. See for yourself.
Broken Fevers’ Starred Publisher’s Weekly Review/Preorder Available
I really couldn’t ask anything more from a review than the one I just discovered from PW (yes, discovered, perhaps I’ll keep closer tabs on this in the future). Color me pleased.
Broken Fevers is out March 2nd, 2021, but available for preorder now from Tombolo Books and Amazon.
Evolution Review
Evolution’s first review is in: Apart from a story arc that spans the best part of 200 hundred years, there’s one particular aspect that stands out most clearly about Evolution. Johnson writes hope into her work. She builds it in, gently, quietly, without fanfare. It isn’t obvious at first, just a soft nudge here and there—in the face of gassed populations, dengue fever and total injustice, you think you’re mistaken at first. Around every page turn, you’re expecting disaster, and there are enough of those to justify the lack of belief you have that hope could even be a thing in such a world. But keep reading.For that, Johnson is currently my total writing hero….
Evolution Now Available in Afrofuturism Storybundle
The second book in the Revolution duology is out. As a special bonus to readers, for the next 3 weeks the ebook is available exclusively in an Afrofuturism storybundle. What’s the bonus? For $15 you receive Evolution, Revolution and EIGHT other Afro/African Futurism titles including a Tiptree winner, modern classic and Pan-African anthology of speculative fiction featuring African authors. You can find all of them right here.
Stay tuned for the print edition release in early June
Afrofuturism Storybundle
I’m pleased to announce a damn fine Afrofuturism storybundle. It includes work from or edited by Andrea Hairston, Nisi Shawl, Ayize Jama-Everett, Ivor Hartmann, Bill Campbell, Edward Austin Hall, Nicole Givens Kurtz, Milton Davis, and yours truly. Through the magic of anthologies, there’s also N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, Linda Addison, Victor LaValle, Tade Thompson, Charles Saunders, Jaymee Goh, Efe Okogu–and I shit you not–more. I couldn’t be in better company or more humbled by it. It’s available now and for the next 3 weeks with tiered pay-what-you-want pricing. Oh, and as of today Evolution, the sequel to R/evolution has been published and is included (print book to follow).https://storybundle.com/scifi.
Smoketown
The city of Leiodare is unlike any other in the post-climate change United States. Within its boundaries, birds are outlawed and what was once a crater in Appalachia is now a tropical, glittering metropolis where Anna Armour is waiting.
An artist by passion and a factory worker by trade, Anna is a woman of special gifts. She has chosen this beautiful, traumatized city to wait for the woman she’s lost, the one she believes can save her from her troubled past and uncertain future.
Starting Friction
On the off chance you may have woken up this morning thinking to yourself, “Hey you know what I need? Poetry, gods above! Yes, poetry. Of course! That’s what’s been missing!”
Should this be the case you’re in luck. Starting Friction is out. And you know what’s in it? Poetry. (Also some short prose.) (more…)
