Evolution Review
Evolution’s first review is in: Apart from a story arc that spans the best part of 200 hundred years, there’s one particular aspect that stands out most clearly about Evolution. Johnson writes hope into her work. She builds it in, gently, quietly, without fanfare. It isn’t obvious at first, just a soft nudge here and there—in the face of gassed populations, dengue fever and total injustice, you think you’re mistaken at first. Around every page turn, you’re expecting disaster, and there are enough of those to justify the lack of belief you have that hope could even be a thing in such a world. But keep reading.For that, Johnson is currently my total writing hero….
Revolution: The Lost Recordings
Revolution came first, then exclusively in the Afrofuturism storybundle,the Evolution ebook. On the horizon, Evolution in print and The Lost Recordings. Here, a bit of the latter.
Evolution Now Available in Afrofuturism Storybundle
The second book in the Revolution duology is out. As a special bonus to readers, for the next 3 weeks the ebook is available exclusively in an Afrofuturism storybundle. What’s the bonus? For $15 you receive Evolution, Revolution and EIGHT other Afro/African Futurism titles including a Tiptree winner, modern classic and Pan-African anthology of speculative fiction featuring African authors. You can find all of them right here.
Stay tuned for the print edition release in early June
The Rep War World Reappears in “Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets”
William Woods, the world’s oldest man and one of the talented progeny in R/evolution‘s reparation generation reappears in “Each Star a Sun to Invisible Planets.” The story is included in Stories for Chip, a tribute to SF icon, Samuel Delany.
Look out for William and the next reparations generation in the upcoming novel, evolution®
R/evolution Now Available
People are starving, biogenetic adaptations are prevalent amongst the privileged, and the poor are being ground to a sharp and dangerous point. This is the future US where in the struggle for survival citizens are pushed to the breaking point as relationships start to fracture along the lines of class and race. These are stories of the leaders and the followers, the victims, heroes, and the everyday people caught in history’s wake, chief among them Dr. Ezekiel Carter, a genius in his field who decides to offer genetic reparations to those being left behind. In this world, what will become of the people at the fringes and more than that of humanity itself?
Print book available at IndieBound and Amazon. Ebook available at Weightless Books, iBookstore, Sony, B&N and Amazon.
“The Taken” in Dark Dreams III
The Taken, a short story, is now available as part of Whispers in the Night: Dark Dreams III collection.
