A few months ago I was asked to participate in an afrofuturism bundle, curated by Tenea D. Johnson. I gladly accepted, and I'm proud to day that the bundle is available today. I'll let Tenea describe the bundle in her own words.
The Afrofuturism Bundle - Curated by Tenea D. Johnson
The future is inclusive. You're invited. So am I. Let's explore Afrofuturism. Afrofuturism, the word, can be fraught and full, the concept long overdue and long overlooked. For this engaging group of work, consider it shorthand for Black futures bound up in science and magic, past and present. These are diasporic extrapolations that mirror the beauty and struggle of life—on this plane and the next, this planet and ones further out. Read these and encounter the as yet unknown soon to be named.
Big words, huh? Helluva promise, right? Right.
Imagine what it would take to satisfy such a tall order. I invite you to take a taste because that's what we have here: a satisfying multitude.
Nisi Shawl's Tiptree Award-winning Filter House collects fourteen tales that encompass a wide and wonderful universe of experience from a Pragmatic Princess's feminist twist on a fairy tale trope to The Huts of Ajala's transactional monster sex and its consequences and rewards. Each story's unforgettable characters and deft, lyrical writing carry you from each reality to the next.
Ayize Jama-Everett's The Liminal People provides an original take on superpowers and those living in transitional intersections where creation, crime, and romance coexist. Taggert can hurt or heal with a touch. Navigating underground cultures and the superpowered people that inhabit them, he decides to save his ex's daughter, and discovers power far beyond his own.
The inaugural volume of the AfroSF anthology series features the work of Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author, Nnedi Okorafor, as well as Tade Thompson and other stars of African SF. In this first ever exclusively Pan-African anthology, Ivor Hartmann has assembled an excellent introduction to and appreciation of some of the best speculative fiction written by African authors.
Andrea Hairston's Will Do Magic for Small Change, recognized on the Tiptree Award Honor List and as a finalist for both the Lambda Literary and Mythopoeic Awards, shares Cinnamon Jones' world and in doing so brings together a Dahomean warrior woman, an alien from another dimension, theatre culture and family secrets.
R/evolution and Evolution comprise the Revolution duology, an exploration of a near-future U.S. where biogenetic adaptations are as rampant as inequality. When a genius decides to give them away first as reparations for slavery and then to subsidize the survival of poor people who and what will decide how humanity evolves? R/evolution was a Parallax Award honorable mention, and Evolution is hot of the electronic press.
Nicole Givens Kurtz's Silenced serves up future noir. Meet Cybil Lewis, a 22nd century private investigator. Come along as she unravels a murder mystery involving a mayor of one of the collapsed United States' Quadrants.
Bill Campbell's Sunshine Patriots is more than multicultural space opera with gravity and real consequence. It's cyborg military sci fi with an ecological sensibility and humor. Enlist and see what happens when rebellion erupts on the paradise planet of Elysia, and an elite corps from United Earth arrives.
Milton J. Davis, not satisfied just with sharing new worlds is sharing a unique subgenre. Cyberfunk is front and center in The City, a work of linked stories with a common setting. No one has left or entered the city in 20 centuries. Welcome to it.
Edited by Edward Austin Hall and Bill Campbell, the modern classic, Mothership: Tales of Afrofuturism and Beyond presents leading and rising voices of Black speculative fiction including Nalo Hopkinson (Aurora and World Fantasy Winner), N.K. Jemisin (three-time Hugo winner), Linda Addison (Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Winner), and genre forefather, Charles Saunders.
Whether you're an Afrofuturism aficionado, new to it, or just looking to visit new worlds, for three weeks come get your 'what if?' on at a great price. You'll get infinite possibilities with sophisticated cultural sensibilities, plus an opportunity: the chance to donate to a great organization helping kids shape the future. – Tenea D. Johnson
For StoryBundle, you decide what price you want to pay. For $5 (or more, if you're feeling generous), you'll get the basic bundle of four books in any ebook format—WORLDWIDE.
● r/evolution by Tenea D. Johnson
● The Liminal People by Ayize Jama-Everett
● Filter House by Nisi Shawl
● Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall
If you pay at least the bonus price of just $15, you get all four of the regular books, plus SIX more!
● evolution by Tenea D. Johnson
● Silenced - A Cybil Lewis SF Mystery Volume 1 by Nicole Givens Kurtz
● AfroSF - Science Fiction by African Writers by Ivor W. Hartmann
● Will Do Magic for Small Change by Andrea Hairston
● Sunshine Patriots by Bill Campbell
● The City - A Cuberfunk Anthology by Milton Davis
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