A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
By: Victor LaValle
3.79
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love come…
Want to Read $ 8.99"I turned to my wife and said, "Damn, this country hates women." She said, "You're only now just figuring that out?"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"Father sat in his easy chair, occasionally shaking his head and saying how this was just the way the cycle worked—one time they vote for what they believe themselves to be and the next they get angry and vote for what they really are."-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"There are stories about perfection, but those stories are lies. No one ever made the world better by being perfect. There is only mess in humans, and sometimes that mess turns to magic, and sometimes that magic turns to kindness, to salvation, to survival."-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"It’s quiet for a second and so I start to think. About how people take from each other. They take and take. Our world itself is a great big taking. And life is just giving. We give away everything we have, one day at a time, until we can’t give no more. I guess that’s the price of living."-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
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1. Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse
By: Stephen King , George R.R. Martin , John Joseph Adams , Orson Scott Card , Jonathan Lethem , Octavia E. Butler , Gene Wolfe , Carol Emshwiller , M. Rickert , Cory Doctorow , Paolo Bacigalupi
3.90
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the harbingers of Armagedd… read more
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2. The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles & Their Secret World War
By: Stephen Kinzer
4.01
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A joint biography of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, who led the United States into an unseen … read more
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3. Seed to Harvest (Patternmaster, #1-4)
By: Octavia E. Butler
4.12
Format: 314 pages, Paperback
Contains the novels Wild Seed, Mind of My Mind, Clay's Ark, and Patternmaster. In her classic Patte… read more
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4. Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements
By: Mumia Abu-Jamal , Terry Bisson , Tara Betts , Tananarive Due , David F. Walker , Kalamu ya Salaam , Bao Phi , LeVar Burton , Alexis Pauline Gumbs , Walidah Imarisha , None , Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha , Autumn Brown , Adrienne Maree Brown , None , None , None , None , None , None , Dani McClain , None , None
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing vis… read more
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5. Ghost Summer
By: Tananarive Due
4.20
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Whether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, Amer… read more
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"Letitia knew words were only part of who people were, and usually the least important part."-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
"She had learned long ago that the truth made people angry, and to speak of it was considered evil."-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
"In a cold place, there's no such thing as today, just tomorrow. Will it snow tomorrow? Will it be sunny tomorrow?"-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
"...you know everybody has a turn, and you just try to find something interesting every day to make you glad it hasn't happened yet."-Tananarive Due, Ghost Summer
6. The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
By: Tananarive Due
4.04
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due’s second collection of stories includes offerings… read more
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"All were eager to go home, happy and smiling, except when they saw her. Noticing brown or black skin was a favorite sport in the States, so most stared at her."-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
"...dim light bled through the threadbare curtains she recognized in the window, the ones with patterns of fish Mom had found at a garage sale with Joy a million years ago. Or yesterday. Time was a my…"-Tananarive Due, The Wishing Pool and Other Stories
7. The Terraformers
By: Annalee Newitz
3.37
Format: 338 pages, Hardcover
Destry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted… read more
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8. How Long 'til Black Future Month?
By: N.K. Jemisin
4.28
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane, and dra… read more
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"Still. Marching."-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I’ll take the dreams,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"I need to talk to you,"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
"The monster is amused to be found monstrous"-N.K. Jemisin, How Long 'til Black Future Month?
9. Out There Screaming
By: Jordan Peele
3.79
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more
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"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming
10. New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
By: Nisi Shawl
3.85
Format: 279 pages, Paperback
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color showcases emerging and seasoned writers o… read more
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"The grand philosopher Ancient Leaf once expounded that a man who kills another out of passion or greed is condemned as a murderer, and one who kills ten people is reviled as a maniac, but one who cau…"-Nisi Shawl, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
11. A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
By: Victor LaValle
3.79
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
What if America's founding ideals finally became reality? A future of peace, justice, and love come… read more
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"I turned to my wife and said, "Damn, this country hates women." She said, "You're only now just figuring that out?"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"Father sat in his easy chair, occasionally shaking his head and saying how this was just the way the cycle worked—one time they vote for what they believe themselves to be and the next they get angry…"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"There are stories about perfection, but those stories are lies. No one ever made the world better by being perfect. There is only mess in humans, and sometimes that mess turns to magic, and sometimes…"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
"It’s quiet for a second and so I start to think. About how people take from each other. They take and take. Our world itself is a great big taking. And life is just giving. We give away everything we…"-Victor LaValle, A People's Future of the United States: Speculative Fiction from 25 Extraordinary Writers
12. Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction
By: Sheree Renée Thomas
3.79
Format: 514 pages, Hardcover
From an award-winning team of editors comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing … read more
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13. I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories
By: Julianna Baggott
3.75
Format: 298 pages, Hardcover
“Reading this story collection is like stepping in front of a fun house mirror…Julianna Baggott’s w… read more
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"And when I say my type, I mean the type I liked to destroy!"-Julianna Baggott, I'd Really Prefer Not to Be Here with You, and Other Stories
14. The City in the Middle of the Night
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.50
Format: 366 pages, Hardcover
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"Most people die for stupid reasons. The most anyone can hope for is to make some noises before that happens."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
"I treat this decision the way I learned to treat my memory-panic. I stop, and I give myself space to feel all the worst emotions. Then I move forward."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
"Part of how they make you obey is by making obedience seem peaceful, while resistance is violence. But really, either choice is about violence, one way or another."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
"I can't do this thing anymore, where we live in a tiny space and pretend it's the whole world. People always have brand-new reasons for doing the same thing over and over."-Charlie Jane Anders, The City in the Middle of the Night
15. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020
By: Diana Gabaldon
3.73
Format: 407 pages, Paperback
The best science fiction and fantasy stories from 2019, guest-edited by author of the mega-best-sel… read more
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16. New Suns 2: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color
By: Nisi Shawl
4.08
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The stunning follow-up to the multiple-award-winning anthology of SFF by people of colourOctavia E.… read more
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17. Another Word for Love: A Memoir
By: Carvell Wallace
4.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more
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18. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
By: R.F. Kuang
3.68
Format: 320 pages, ebook
A collection of the year's best science fiction and fantasy writing selected by New York Times best… read more
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"The truce was over; the walls were up; they had reminded her why she'd abandoned them, which was that she could never really, properly, be one of them. And Letty, if she could not belong to a place, …"-R.F. Kuang, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023
19. If You Take My Meaning
By: Charlie Jane Anders
3.66
Format: 34 pages, Kindle Edition
As an ex-smuggler and two-time reluctant revolutionary, Alyssa is used to staring into the razor-sh… read more
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20. The Adventure Zone, Vol. 6: The Suffering Game
By: Clint McElroy
4.58
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Taako, Magnus, and Merle are near the end of their quest to collect the seven Grand Relics, dangero… read more
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21. This Great Hemisphere
By: Mateo Askaripour
3.65
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning and bestselling author of Black Buck : A speculative novel about a young wom… read more
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