A few more suggestions: Eve by Victor LaValle, an adventure comic book series. Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemison, an Amazon Original in audio format. Only an hour long. PET by Akwaeke Emezi, Middle Grade/Young Adult, 208 pages King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, 272 pages The Trees by Percival Everett, 288 pages
So many great suggestions .. I don't consider myself much of a SFF reader but I have read a number of these authors and books! Loved N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, C.L. Polk, P. Djeli Clark and Karen Lord. I don't have any suggestions of my own but I will be trying Octavia Butler, Rebecca Roanhorse and Jennifer Marie Brissett (at Angela's recommendation) in the coming year.
Yes, Far Sector is excellent! I haven't read anything else by Jemisin yet but I loved this comic. LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor is a great comic too. The Deep was beautiful in that haunting melancholic way. I've been meaning to continue in the Binti series since 2017-18 🙈 I JUST finished The Lies of the Ajungo a few days ago and really enjoyed it - I agree it's very fable-like (which I enjoyed given the length) and I'm curious to see how the sequel goes based on the summary. Escaping Exodus, Space Between Worlds, and Best of All Possible Worlds are all high on my tbr list as I want to prioritize more scifi this year!
You talked about Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark, but I'd also recommend A Dead Djinn in Cairo. It's a prequel to their novel Master of Djinn, very short, and the audiobook is fantastic. A great place for someone to dip their toes into his writing.
Yesssss Far Sector is great! I DNF'd her Inheritance series and haven't read any of her other novels, but Far Sector is not only a wonderful story but gorgeous art, too. My teen "stole" my library copy to read for themself. 🥰
Thank you for suggesting these. I am looking to read more diversely this year and sci-fi is one of my fave genres so it is great to find some new (to me) authors!
I appreciate that you're doing this for Black History Month but Nnedi Okorafor has a long history of being very vocal on trying to exclude African Americans from afrofuturism which is very much not in keeping with the spirit of Black History Month, just fyi
A weird experimental 200 book I read recently was Elysium, its the same author who wrote Destroyer of Light from Tor a few years ago
A few more suggestions:
Eve by Victor LaValle, an adventure comic book series.
Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemison, an Amazon Original in audio format. Only an hour long.
PET by Akwaeke Emezi, Middle Grade/Young Adult, 208 pages
King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender, 272 pages
The Trees by Percival Everett, 288 pages
I love being humbled. I thought I would have read all of these and boy was I wrong. Thanks for such good recommendations!
So many great suggestions .. I don't consider myself much of a SFF reader but I have read a number of these authors and books! Loved N.K. Jemisin, Nnedi Okorafor, C.L. Polk, P. Djeli Clark and Karen Lord. I don't have any suggestions of my own but I will be trying Octavia Butler, Rebecca Roanhorse and Jennifer Marie Brissett (at Angela's recommendation) in the coming year.
Yes, Far Sector is excellent! I haven't read anything else by Jemisin yet but I loved this comic. LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorafor is a great comic too.
The Deep was beautiful in that haunting melancholic way. I've been meaning to continue in the Binti series since 2017-18 🙈
I JUST finished The Lies of the Ajungo a few days ago and really enjoyed it - I agree it's very fable-like (which I enjoyed given the length) and I'm curious to see how the sequel goes based on the summary.
Escaping Exodus, Space Between Worlds, and Best of All Possible Worlds are all high on my tbr list as I want to prioritize more scifi this year!
You talked about Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark, but I'd also recommend A Dead Djinn in Cairo. It's a prequel to their novel Master of Djinn, very short, and the audiobook is fantastic. A great place for someone to dip their toes into his writing.
Yesssss Far Sector is great! I DNF'd her Inheritance series and haven't read any of her other novels, but Far Sector is not only a wonderful story but gorgeous art, too. My teen "stole" my library copy to read for themself. 🥰
Thank you for suggesting these. I am looking to read more diversely this year and sci-fi is one of my fave genres so it is great to find some new (to me) authors!
Great recs Bethany! I really need to pick these up!
Please do! Thanks for watching!
Even though I knew the end sounds interesting!
Thanks for the recs!
I appreciate that you're doing this for Black History Month but Nnedi Okorafor has a long history of being very vocal on trying to exclude African Americans from afrofuturism which is very much not in keeping with the spirit of Black History Month, just fyi