One of the friends, Harold, is understandably suspicious and orders the meal prepared by his ex-wife the night he proposed. There, they can order “any meal from any occasion” in history, such as the final meal of Marie Antionette. “Cuisine des Memoires” tells the story of two friends who go to dinner at an unusual restaurant. Meanwhile, there’s a mysterious darkness lurking in the waters that they must fight, a creature described as “like mean got a shape and gone walkin’ around, spreadin’ more mean everywhere it go.” The protagonist is Tookie, left behind after he couldn’t fit into his family’s car, who looks after an old woman with the occasional help of a snarky, winged lizard. “Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters” also takes place in New Orleans, this time just after Hurricane Katrina. All told, the story is very sexy, very cool. She needs him to build a methane extraction system the Haitians can use to keep their place as the “foremost manufacturers of dirigibles in the Americas.” Along the way she falls in love with the scientist’s intelligent sister and must fight a secret society of white supremacists. Its protagonist, a lesbian spy named Jessaline from the newly-formed nation of Haiti, is on a mission to gain the expertise of a Creole scientist. “The Effluent Engine” is a steampunk story set in an alternate 19th-century New Orleans. As fantastic as they are, Jemisin draws deft parallels and critiques of modern society, commenting boldly on race, gender, and class, as well as sci-fi as a genre.Īll told, there were only a couple that I actively didn’t like, but for the sake of this section I’ll focus on three of my favorites: As I’ve already mentioned, they have an incredible range, all varying in subject, tone, and style. How Long ‘Til Black Future Month contains 22 science fiction stories - it’s impossible for me to summarize them all. Such a great short story collection! Jemisin displays an amazing range within sci-fi/fantasy, from aliens to steampunk to modern politics to AI and everything in between. Do you see how just the idea of this provokes utter rage in some? That is the infection defending itself … because if enough of us believe a thing is possible, then it becomes so. Everyone-even the poor, even the lazy, even the undesirable-can matter.
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