How Long 'til Black Future Month?

By: N. K. Jemisin

Narrated by: Jeanette Illidge, Shayna Small, Robin Ray Eller, Ron Butler, Kevin Stillwell, Je Nie Fleming

Hugo award-winning and New York Times best-selling author N. K. Jemisin sharply examines modern society in her first short story collection.

N. K. Jemisin is one of the most powerful and acclaimed speculative fiction authors of our time. In the first collection of her evocative short fiction, Jemisin equally challenges and delights listeners with thought-provoking narratives of destruction, rebirth, and redemption.

In these stories, Jemisin sharply examines modern society, infusing magic into the mundane and drawing deft parallels in the fantasy realms of her imagination. Dragons and hateful 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' soul.

©2018 N. K. Jemisin (P)2018 Hachette Audio UK

Critic reviews

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

"Smart, sharp and very, very timely." (i newspaper)

"An important collection by a rising star." (Guardian)

One of this generation's greatest storytellers

NK Jemisin tells the most wonderful, gripping and unique stories. She paints pictures for me, while I read, and I thoroughly enjoy them.