![]() Still, I enjoy good short stories, so I thought I would give it a try. I am not really the target audience for this collection, because I have not read any of Jemisin’s novels, largely because I am not a big reader of scifi or fantasy. Shorts gave me space to experiment with unusual plots and story forms–future tense, epistolic format, black characters–which otherwise I would’ve considered too risky for the lengthy investment of a novel. Writing short stories taught me about the quick hook and the deep character. At first, she writes, she balked at the advice that she should master the short story, but taking the advice paid off:Īlong the way, I learned that short stories were good for my longer-form fiction. The collection also shows Jemisin’s growth as a writer through her experiments with shorter fiction as she continued to work on novels. The collection emphasizes Jemisin’s success in breaking into the traditionally white and male scifi/fantasy writing market as a woman of color writing about people of color. Jemisin is a collection of short stories spanning the career of the acclaimed scifi author. Published this month, How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?by N.K. ![]()
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