# How Long 'til Black Future Month?: Stories

**Author:** N. K. Jemisin

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Three-time Hugo Award winner and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin challenges and delights readers with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption that sharply examine modern society in her first collection of short fiction, which includes never-before-seen stories.

> “Marvelous and wide-ranging.” — Los Angeles Times  
> “Gorgeous” — NPR Books  
> “Breathtakingly imaginative and narratively bold.” — Entertainment Weekly.

**Spirits haunt the flooded streets of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.** In a parallel universe, a utopian society watches our world, trying to learn from our mistakes. A black mother in the Jim Crow South must save her daughter from a fey offering impossible promises. And in the Hugo award-nominated short story _The City Born Great_, a young street kid fights to give birth to an old metropolis's soul.

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### Books Mentioned
- Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
- The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
- The Devourers by Indra Das
- Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
- How Long ‘til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

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If you’re looking to diversify your reading in 2024, here are some great fantasy & sci fi picks! And I have so, so many more where these came from.