Ring Shout on Saturn - by Sheree Renée Thomas (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

RING SHOUT SATURN is book two of the the three book The Root and Sky Series of short stories.

Sheree Renée Thomas's electrifying collection transports readers on a cosmic journey where ancient African Diasporic wisdom meets expansive Afrofuturist visions. From a prophet building a starship from salvaged dreams on a Martian farm to children breaking generational curses through powerful moonsongs, these tales explore themes of transformation, survival, and the enduring quest for liberation. Alien sisters navigate human complexities and river spirits offer profound wisdom, all set to an ancient beat that transcends time and space. Pulsing with Hoodoo, music, and myth, this collection resonates with the profound rhythms of existence, proving that true freedom knows no bounds--not even the cold void of space.

Review Quotes

"Thomas renders the oral tradition of storytelling into stunning prose, effortlessly capturing the feel of performance. The words spring off the page and dance. I hear the rhythm and music of each narrator; I feel the physical power of her tall tales and sly mysteries; I smell and taste the world that she conjures. Thomas engages all the senses and delights the mind with her stories and poems. She succeeds in offering a fresh narrative style-an Afrospeculative approach, to use her term, that brings past, present and future together in a powerful idiomatic mix that sounds familiar yet deliciously new. Her imagination doesn't let you get away with anything. She's a 21st century conjure woman!"
-- Andrea Hairston, Tiptree Award Winner, Philip K. Dick Award Finalist

". . .Thomas invokes the rhythms of African-American ring shouts and the dense, humid atmosphere of the American South. Her stories include reinventions of mythology and haunting modern folktales.-- Publishers Weekly

". . .A whirlpool of poem and story."-- Tyehimba Jess, Pulitzer Prize Winner, author of Leadbelly

"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 an award-winning writer, poet, editor, and a 2023 Hugo Award Finalist and Locus Award Winner. She was honored with the 2023 Octavia E. Butler Award and was also an Ember Award Finalist. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, music, and the culture of the Mississippi Delta. She is the author of the short fiction collection, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, a Finalist for the 2021 Locus Award, Ignyte Award, and World Fantasy Award for Year's Best Collection and winner of the 2022 Darrell Award for Year's Best Novella. She is the winner of the 2022 Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award and is #339 in the Walter Day Science Fiction Hall of Fame Trading Cards. She is also the author of collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life and Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems. She edited the two-time World Fantasy Award-winning Dark Matter anthologies, co-edited Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue with Pan Morigan and Troy L. Wiggins, and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction with Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, a NAACP Image Award Finalist and winner of the 2023 Locus Award. Sheree Renée Thomas is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949 and is the associate editor of Obsidian, founded in 1975. She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee near a mighty river and a pyramid.