A review by lep42
Lightspeed Magazine, June 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Special Issue by Nalo Hopkinson, Kristine Ong Muslim
5.0
Probably the best of the Destroy series that I've read so far.
Notes on favorite stories, authors to check out, etc.
Original Short Fiction
"A Good Home" by [a:Karin Lowachee|107732|Karin Lowachee|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1282963779p2/107732.jpg]
"Salto Mortal" by Nick T. Chan
"Digital Medicine" by Brian K. Hudson
Already reading [a:Terence Taylor|1241978|Terence Taylor|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"Fifty Shades of Grays" by [a:Stephen Barnes|719382|Stephen Barnes|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"Omoshango" by [a:Dayo Ntwari|14184402|Dayo Ntwari|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1473013987p2/14184402.jpg]
"Firebird by Isha[a:Isha Karki|15296804|Isha Karki|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"As Long As It Takes To Make The World" by Gabriela Santiago (https://twitter.com/lifeonearth89) (http://writing-relatedactivities.tumblr.com/)
Original Flash Fiction
"Other Metamorphoses" by [a:Fábio Fernandes|7728887|Fábio Fernandes|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1419947101p2/7728887.jpg]([a:Kafka, Franz|7215381|Kafka, Franz|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]) inspired)
"Morning Cravings" by [a:Nin Harris|14430784|Nin Harris|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1457945004p2/14430784.jpg] (http://www.mythopoetica.com/)
"Binaries" by [a:S.B. Divya|14879139|S.B. Divya|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (http://www.eff-words.com/)(https://twitter.com/divyastweets?lang=en)
"Chocolate Milkshake Number 314" by [a:Caroline M. Yoachim|4412920|Caroline M. Yoachim|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1454339768p2/4412920.jpg]
"Four and Twenty Blackbirds" by [a:JY Yang|16095595|JY Yang|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (http://www.misshallelujah.net/)(https://twitter.com/halleluyang?lang=en)(TBC)
"A Handful of Dal" by [a:Naru Dames Sundar|14202796|Naru Dames Sundar|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (https://twitter.com/naru_sundar?lang=en)(http://www.shardofstar.info/)
Reprint Fiction
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by the brilliant [a:Octavia Butler|15573621|Octavia Butler|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"Deli" by [a:Vandana Singh|377417|Vandana Singh|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1443376807p2/377417.jpg] (http://vandana-writes.com/)
"Empire Star" by the brilliant [a:Samuel Delany|7710050|Samuel Delany|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1466434492p2/7710050.jpg]
Mixed feelings about excerpt of [b:Infomocracy|26114433|Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)|Malka Ann Older|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1444883445s/26114433.jpg|46061300] but the premise is just so me.
Author Spotlights
[b:The Chalice Project|6779039|The Chalice Project (Island Fiction)|Lisa Allen-Agostini|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348953860s/6779039.jpg|6980179] (YA)
[b:The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan|836421|The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan|William Sanders|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348257547s/836421.jpg|822032] (recommended by [a:Brian K. Hudson|7737220|Brian K. Hudson|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
Terence Taylor review column (http://www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com/read-me-reviews-of-not-necessarily-new-books/)
Terrence Taylor work on documentary film about history of black speculative fiction (http://invisibleuniversedoc.com/)
Nonfiction
"Because Some of Us Survived" by Samantha L. Taylor (TBC)
-http://www.upworthy.com/the-interviewer-asks-him-about-despair-his-smile-says-even-more-than-his-words
-https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/wont-you-celebrate-me
"Doing [b:Dhalgren|85867|Dhalgren|Samuel R. Delany|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320531180s/85867.jpg|873021]" by [a:Terence Taylor|1241978|Terence Taylor|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"Interview with [a:Daniel H. Wilson|33773|Daniel H. Wilson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1298332667p2/33773.jpg]"
-[b:Robopocalypse|9634967|Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)|Daniel H. Wilson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327885891s/9634967.jpg|14247828]
[b:The Star-Touched Queen|25203675|The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)|Roshani Chokshi|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1446058438s/25203675.jpg|44916095] (from book reviews)
Personal Essays
[a:Alyssa Wong|8178928|Alyssa Wong|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1469819886p2/8178928.jpg] @crashwong
[a:Alliette de Bodard|5751656|Alliette de Bodard|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
[a:Malon Edwards|1213827|Malon Edwards|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1417054599p2/1213827.jpg]
[a:Yash Kesanakurthy|15296807|Yash Kesanakurthy|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (http://bookriot.com/author/yash-kesanakurthy/)
[a:Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali|4702758|Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1336476603p2/4702758.jpg] (http://www.khaalidah.com/) (https://twitter.com/khaalidah)
[a:Jeremy Szal|8296791|Jeremy Szal|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1483078639p2/8296791.jpg]Jeremy Szal (https://jeremyszal.com/)(https://twitter.com/JeremySzal?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
[a:An Owomoyela|4356849|An Owomoyela|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (TBC)
"Blue-Shifted Futures" by Vajra Chandrasekera (http://vajra.mhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/30823428#e/)
-Talks about Soviet Union science fiction books ([b:Colleagues|9775855|Colleagues|Vasily Aksyonov|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|14764895]/Eternal Wind)
Currently reading [b:Signal to Noise|22609306|Signal to Noise|Silvia Moreno-Garcia|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1411422208s/22609306.jpg|26580567]
"Unlearning Erasure" by [a:Julia Rios|3378114|Julia Rios|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1360095719p2/3378114.jpg] (TBC) (http://www.juliarios.com/) (Boston??)
"Assimilation: The Borg Must Like It When You Don't Fight Back." by [a:S.L. Huang|8057745|S.L. Huang|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
[b:Zero Sum Game|21811107|Zero Sum Game|S.L. Huang|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1396337861s/21811107.jpg|40783281]
Already a bit familiar with [a:Ken Liu|2917920|Ken Liu|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1400610835p2/2917920.jpg]
Suyi Davis Okungbow (http://suyidavies.com/)
[a:Indra Das|5023942|Indra Das|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] (http://indradas.com/)
"Intergalatic Collard Greens" by [a:Troy L. Wiggins|7796399|Troy L. Wiggins|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1428854517p2/7796399.jpg] (https://afrofantasy.net/)(https://twitter.com/TroyLWiggins)
"We Were Always Here" by [a:Mark Oshiro|5183642|Mark Oshiro|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1361575297p2/5183642.jpg] (already have links)
"The People Men Don't See" by [a:Nisi Shawl|806782|Nisi Shawl|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1411718332p2/806782.jpg]
"The New Frontier is the Old Frontier" by [a:Tamara Brooks|6848179|Tamara Brooks|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"An Army of Claudia Kishis" by [a:Sarah Kuhn|612167|Sarah Kuhn|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1449618010p2/612167.jpg] (Babysitters club!)(http://www.heroinecomplex.com/)(https://twitter.com/sarahkuhn?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Misc. Collections, Notes, Etc.
[b:We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology|18096579|We See a Different Frontier A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology|Fábio Fernandes|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1375286608s/18096579.jpg|25411557]
[b:States of Terror: Volume 3|31184169|States of Terror Volume 3 (States of Terror)|Matt E. Lewis|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1469052344s/31184169.jpg|51826090]
[b:Griots: Sisters of the Spear|19303948|Griots Sisters of the Spear|Milton J. Davis|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386560963s/19303948.jpg|27353381]
Notes on favorite stories, authors to check out, etc.
Original Short Fiction
"A Good Home" by [a:Karin Lowachee|107732|Karin Lowachee|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1282963779p2/107732.jpg]
"Salto Mortal" by Nick T. Chan
"Digital Medicine" by Brian K. Hudson
Already reading [a:Terence Taylor|1241978|Terence Taylor|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"Fifty Shades of Grays" by [a:Stephen Barnes|719382|Stephen Barnes|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"Omoshango" by [a:Dayo Ntwari|14184402|Dayo Ntwari|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1473013987p2/14184402.jpg]
"Firebird by Isha[a:Isha Karki|15296804|Isha Karki|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"As Long As It Takes To Make The World" by Gabriela Santiago (https://twitter.com/lifeonearth89) (http://writing-relatedactivities.tumblr.com/)
Original Flash Fiction
"Other Metamorphoses" by [a:Fábio Fernandes|7728887|Fábio Fernandes|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1419947101p2/7728887.jpg]([a:Kafka, Franz|7215381|Kafka, Franz|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]) inspired)
"Morning Cravings" by [a:Nin Harris|14430784|Nin Harris|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1457945004p2/14430784.jpg] (http://www.mythopoetica.com/)
"Binaries" by [a:S.B. Divya|14879139|S.B. Divya|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (http://www.eff-words.com/)(https://twitter.com/divyastweets?lang=en)
"Chocolate Milkshake Number 314" by [a:Caroline M. Yoachim|4412920|Caroline M. Yoachim|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1454339768p2/4412920.jpg]
"Four and Twenty Blackbirds" by [a:JY Yang|16095595|JY Yang|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (http://www.misshallelujah.net/)(https://twitter.com/halleluyang?lang=en)(TBC)
"A Handful of Dal" by [a:Naru Dames Sundar|14202796|Naru Dames Sundar|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (https://twitter.com/naru_sundar?lang=en)(http://www.shardofstar.info/)
Reprint Fiction
"The Evening and the Morning and the Night" by the brilliant [a:Octavia Butler|15573621|Octavia Butler|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"Deli" by [a:Vandana Singh|377417|Vandana Singh|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1443376807p2/377417.jpg] (http://vandana-writes.com/)
"Empire Star" by the brilliant [a:Samuel Delany|7710050|Samuel Delany|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1466434492p2/7710050.jpg]
Mixed feelings about excerpt of [b:Infomocracy|26114433|Infomocracy (The Centenal Cycle, #1)|Malka Ann Older|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1444883445s/26114433.jpg|46061300] but the premise is just so me.
Author Spotlights
[b:The Chalice Project|6779039|The Chalice Project (Island Fiction)|Lisa Allen-Agostini|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348953860s/6779039.jpg|6980179] (YA)
[b:The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan|836421|The Ballad of Billy Badass and the Rose of Turkestan|William Sanders|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1348257547s/836421.jpg|822032] (recommended by [a:Brian K. Hudson|7737220|Brian K. Hudson|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
Terence Taylor review column (http://www.fantasticstoriesoftheimagination.com/read-me-reviews-of-not-necessarily-new-books/)
Terrence Taylor work on documentary film about history of black speculative fiction (http://invisibleuniversedoc.com/)
Nonfiction
"Because Some of Us Survived" by Samantha L. Taylor (TBC)
-http://www.upworthy.com/the-interviewer-asks-him-about-despair-his-smile-says-even-more-than-his-words
-https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/wont-you-celebrate-me
"Doing [b:Dhalgren|85867|Dhalgren|Samuel R. Delany|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1320531180s/85867.jpg|873021]" by [a:Terence Taylor|1241978|Terence Taylor|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"Interview with [a:Daniel H. Wilson|33773|Daniel H. Wilson|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1298332667p2/33773.jpg]"
-[b:Robopocalypse|9634967|Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)|Daniel H. Wilson|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327885891s/9634967.jpg|14247828]
[b:The Star-Touched Queen|25203675|The Star-Touched Queen (The Star-Touched Queen, #1)|Roshani Chokshi|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1446058438s/25203675.jpg|44916095] (from book reviews)
Personal Essays
[a:Alyssa Wong|8178928|Alyssa Wong|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1469819886p2/8178928.jpg] @crashwong
[a:Alliette de Bodard|5751656|Alliette de Bodard|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
[a:Malon Edwards|1213827|Malon Edwards|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1417054599p2/1213827.jpg]
[a:Yash Kesanakurthy|15296807|Yash Kesanakurthy|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (http://bookriot.com/author/yash-kesanakurthy/)
[a:Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali|4702758|Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1336476603p2/4702758.jpg] (http://www.khaalidah.com/) (https://twitter.com/khaalidah)
[a:Jeremy Szal|8296791|Jeremy Szal|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1483078639p2/8296791.jpg]Jeremy Szal (https://jeremyszal.com/)(https://twitter.com/JeremySzal?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
[a:An Owomoyela|4356849|An Owomoyela|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] (TBC)
"Blue-Shifted Futures" by Vajra Chandrasekera (http://vajra.mhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/edit/30823428#e/)
-Talks about Soviet Union science fiction books ([b:Colleagues|9775855|Colleagues|Vasily Aksyonov|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|14764895]/Eternal Wind)
Currently reading [b:Signal to Noise|22609306|Signal to Noise|Silvia Moreno-Garcia|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1411422208s/22609306.jpg|26580567]
"Unlearning Erasure" by [a:Julia Rios|3378114|Julia Rios|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1360095719p2/3378114.jpg] (TBC) (http://www.juliarios.com/) (Boston??)
"Assimilation: The Borg Must Like It When You Don't Fight Back." by [a:S.L. Huang|8057745|S.L. Huang|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
[b:Zero Sum Game|21811107|Zero Sum Game|S.L. Huang|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1396337861s/21811107.jpg|40783281]
Already a bit familiar with [a:Ken Liu|2917920|Ken Liu|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1400610835p2/2917920.jpg]
Suyi Davis Okungbow (http://suyidavies.com/)
[a:Indra Das|5023942|Indra Das|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/m_50x66-82093808bca726cb3249a493fbd3bd0f.png] (http://indradas.com/)
"Intergalatic Collard Greens" by [a:Troy L. Wiggins|7796399|Troy L. Wiggins|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1428854517p2/7796399.jpg] (https://afrofantasy.net/)(https://twitter.com/TroyLWiggins)
"We Were Always Here" by [a:Mark Oshiro|5183642|Mark Oshiro|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1361575297p2/5183642.jpg] (already have links)
"The People Men Don't See" by [a:Nisi Shawl|806782|Nisi Shawl|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1411718332p2/806782.jpg]
"The New Frontier is the Old Frontier" by [a:Tamara Brooks|6848179|Tamara Brooks|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png]
"An Army of Claudia Kishis" by [a:Sarah Kuhn|612167|Sarah Kuhn|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1449618010p2/612167.jpg] (Babysitters club!)(http://www.heroinecomplex.com/)(https://twitter.com/sarahkuhn?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor)
Misc. Collections, Notes, Etc.
[b:We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology|18096579|We See a Different Frontier A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology|Fábio Fernandes|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1375286608s/18096579.jpg|25411557]
[b:States of Terror: Volume 3|31184169|States of Terror Volume 3 (States of Terror)|Matt E. Lewis|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1469052344s/31184169.jpg|51826090]
[b:Griots: Sisters of the Spear|19303948|Griots Sisters of the Spear|Milton J. Davis|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386560963s/19303948.jpg|27353381]