A Place Between Waking and Forgetting
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Publisher Description
A Place Between Waking and Forgetting is dark speculative fiction, an Afro-Irreal collection in which transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, collisions of worlds, mythology, and more, inhabit. It cases black people stories in bold and evocative text, at times deeply flawed but potentially redeemable protagonists in rich hues of blackness and light. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope.
Featuring the World Fantasy Award finalist story “The Devil Don’t Come With Horns”, this collection of short stories is the latest offering by a genre-bending, multi-award winner.
It arrives with a poetic introduction by award-winning writer and poet Linda D. Addison, the first African-American recipient of the world-renowned HWA Bram Stoker Award, and has received five awards for her collections. Addison has been honored with the HWA Lifetime Achievement Award, HWA Mentor of the Year and SFPA Grand Master of Fantastic Poetry.
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These 18 impressive speculative shorts from Bacon (Serengotti) nimbly traverse subgenres while combining rich magic and mythology with a sharp exploration of what it means to be African both in and away from Africa. The ungentle folklore of "The Fable of a Monkey's Heart," which follows a young monkey determined to teach the hungry local crocodile a lesson, and "The Lightning Bird," about a too-beautiful bride who can never be complimented enough, sit easily alongside the pure sci-fi of "Derive, Moderately," in which a mother and son flee technological unrest in an escape pod headed for a distant planet, and "The Water Runner," about a young woman whose job is to reclaim the precious water contained in the bodies of the dead. There's even a Sherlock Holmes–riffing murder mystery set in a holiday lodge, "The Mystery of a Place Between Waking and Forgetting." Bacon's fans will be over the moon.
