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Highlights
- "Sheree Renée Thomas gives us a whirlpool of poem and story, a 'wild and strangeful breed' of cosmology. . ."―Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio, Pulitzer Prize Winner.The award-winning Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Nine Bar Blues returns with a new collection of Hoodoo, fantasy, magic myths, and lore.Meet a spacefaring prophet of the future digging in the crates of earth's past, follow intrepid ancient body snatchers in search of the elixir of life, fall in love with a shapeshifting, alien goddess intent on the world's most epic family reunion.
- About the Author: Sheree Renée Thomas is a twice Hugo Award nominated, Locus Award, and three-time World Fantasy Award-winner.
- 300 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Science Fiction
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Book Synopsis
"Sheree Renée Thomas gives us a whirlpool of poem and story, a 'wild and strangeful breed' of cosmology. . ."―Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio, Pulitzer Prize Winner.
The award-winning Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Nine Bar Blues returns with a new collection of Hoodoo, fantasy, magic myths, and lore.
Meet a spacefaring prophet of the future digging in the crates of earth's past, follow intrepid ancient body snatchers in search of the elixir of life, fall in love with a shapeshifting, alien goddess intent on the world's most epic family reunion. Beware of the Candylady whose sweets hide secrets yet to be seen, and enter a legendary diner whose culinary wares change fates.
These tales masterfully speak to the magic and mystery, the rhythms and blues of the soul's turn through life and beyond. Short stories that invite readers into a world where ancient traditions and futuristic visions collide in a symphony of magic, music, and adventure, tapping into that natural power and rhythms of a natural world that is connected to futuristic technology.
These stories explore the supernatural rhythms of music, history, and culture, Hoodoo as an ancient modern spiritual tradition and folklore, the whimsy and horrors of life, and the realms of the impossible. It's a multigenre strange and wondrous brew.
Review Quotes
"Sheree Renée Thomas is a master of the craft and a true literary alchemist." -- Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author of Shadowshaper, The Book of Lost Saints, Star Wars Last Shot, Star Wars High Republic, & Ballad & Dagger "The lyrical gifts of Thomas invokes the rhythms of African-American ring shouts and the dense, humid atmosphere of the American South. " ―Publishers Weekly "Sheree Renée Thomas is a griot for the 21st century." --WRAL"Sheree Renée Thomas masterfully weaves together myth, history, and science fiction into a tapestry of the human experience. -- Eco Lit Review
About the Author
Sheree Renée Thomas is a twice Hugo Award nominated, Locus Award, and three-time World Fantasy Award-winner. Her work is widely anthologized and appears in The Big Book of Modern Fantasy. The author of four collections, including Mojorhythm, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, and Shotgun Lullabies. Sheree is a co-editor for Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue, and is the editor of the groundbreaking Dark Matter speculative fiction anthologies that first introduced W.E.B. Du Bois's work as science fiction and explored 165+ years of Black Speculative Fiction. In 2023 she was honored with the Octavia E. Butler Award. She is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction and associate editor of Obsidian. Her collaboration with artist Janelle Monáe on the "Timebox Altar(ed)" novelet appears in The Memory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer (HarperVoyager), a New York Times bestseller. Sheree is a Marvel writer, including the novel, Black Panther: Panther's Rage (Titan/Penguin Random House), an adaptation of Don McGregor's legendary graphic novel, and her comic book debut, "The World Is Not Ready" featuring the Black Panther and Storm appears in Marvel Voices: Legends #1 (January 31, 2024). She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee near a mighty river and a pyramid.