How Long 'Til Black Future Month?: Stories

Author: N. K. Jemisin

Publisher: Orbit (2019)

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.

"The most celebrated science fiction and fantasy writer of her generation . . . Jemisin seems able to do just about everything."

–New York Times

"Jemisin's phenomenal success has been something like an earthquake ripping through the traditional order of fantasy itself."

–New York/Vulture

"The most critically acclaimed author in contemporary science fiction and fantasy."

–GQ