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Black Stars #5
Clap Back
A past struggle for racial equity could achieve a profound future victory in this audacious short story about technology, hoodoo, and hope by a Nebula Award–winning author.
Burri is a fashion designer and icon with a biochemistry background. Her latest pieces are African inspired and crafted to touch the heart. They enable wearers to absorb nanorobotic memories and recount the stories of Black lives and forgiveness. Wenda doesn’t buy it. A protest performance artist, Wenda knows exploitation when she sees it. What she’s going to do with Burri’s breakthrough technology could, in the right hands, change race relations forever.
Nalo Hopkinson’s Clap Back is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.
Burri is a fashion designer and icon with a biochemistry background. Her latest pieces are African inspired and crafted to touch the heart. They enable wearers to absorb nanorobotic memories and recount the stories of Black lives and forgiveness. Wenda doesn’t buy it. A protest performance artist, Wenda knows exploitation when she sees it. What she’s going to do with Burri’s breakthrough technology could, in the right hands, change race relations forever.
Nalo Hopkinson’s Clap Back is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.
21 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 31, 2021
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Nalo Hopkinson
143 books2,033 followersNalo Hopkinson is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories often draw on Caribbean history and language, and its traditions of oral and written storytelling.
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November 8, 2023
In a Nutshell: Deserves a couple of claps. That’s it.
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Too bored by this story to write sensible full-length sentences. Here’s a shortcut review.
Story Synopsis:
Enjoyed:
👍 The imagination, especially the role of nanobots in this story.
👍 The idea of the forgiveness quilt and how manipulative people used it for self-promotion forgetting that it was supposed to be sarcastic.
👍 The news articles used to proceed the story.
Yawned at:
👎 The disjointed execution – took me a while to understand who’s who and what’s what.
👎 The racial generalisation – so fed up of this trope!
👎 The story structure – haphazard.
👎 The plot gaps – not good to have loopholes in a short story.
👎 The ending – sheesh!
Overall, mostly meh despite the great intent. Might have worked better as a novella, but as a short story, it attempts too much within too few words. The potential simply isn’t realised.
Not a fan.
2 stars.
This standalone work is the fifth story in the “Black Stars” collection, described by Amazon as ‘a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own.’ It is currently available free to Amazon Prime subscribers.
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Too bored by this story to write sensible full-length sentences. Here’s a shortcut review.
Story Synopsis:
A Black fashion designer uses her biochem background to create specialist African garments, where the wearer absorbs memories through nanobots and narrate stories of Black forgiveness. A Black protestor pans the idea, calling it exploitation.
Who is right? And what do they do next?
Enjoyed:
👍 The imagination, especially the role of nanobots in this story.
👍 The idea of the forgiveness quilt and how manipulative people used it for self-promotion forgetting that it was supposed to be sarcastic.
👍 The news articles used to proceed the story.
Yawned at:
👎 The disjointed execution – took me a while to understand who’s who and what’s what.
👎 The racial generalisation – so fed up of this trope!
👎 The story structure – haphazard.
👎 The plot gaps – not good to have loopholes in a short story.
👎 The ending – sheesh!
Overall, mostly meh despite the great intent. Might have worked better as a novella, but as a short story, it attempts too much within too few words. The potential simply isn’t realised.
Not a fan.
2 stars.
This standalone work is the fifth story in the “Black Stars” collection, described by Amazon as ‘a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own.’ It is currently available free to Amazon Prime subscribers.
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Connect with me through:
My Blog | The StoryGraph | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
September 4, 2021
This book was for Black people, by a Black person. I'm all for the concept and the message and the negative reviews are from people who clearly were not the target demographic.
And you know exactly who I mean.
Ha! Die mad about it.
And you know exactly who I mean.
Ha! Die mad about it.
January 24, 2022
This was an interesting concept but the story was a bit fragmented. The beginning is all a setup for a thought experiment that goes nowhere, because the story ends right then.
I didn't hate it because it was an interesting story and a fascinating question. However, part of me was upset that once again, I'm reading a Black person write speculative fiction featuring Black people and yet again, the plot centers around racism. I'm tired of every piece of Black media being forced to react to white supremacy. It absolutely exists but our lives are about more than how we deal with that. What about our internal struggles, our problems with our family, friends, lovers, jobs, or communities? Why does it always have to boil down to slavery, police brutality or other acts of white terrorism? We deserve happy endings too!
I didn't hate it because it was an interesting story and a fascinating question. However, part of me was upset that once again, I'm reading a Black person write speculative fiction featuring Black people and yet again, the plot centers around racism. I'm tired of every piece of Black media being forced to react to white supremacy. It absolutely exists but our lives are about more than how we deal with that. What about our internal struggles, our problems with our family, friends, lovers, jobs, or communities? Why does it always have to boil down to slavery, police brutality or other acts of white terrorism? We deserve happy endings too!
September 10, 2021
I wanted to like this story more than I actually did. I'd heard great things about Nalo Hopkinson, and was excited to try her work. Possibly I too tired when I read the story and didn't fully follow it. So, I'll try it again a bit later. I love the cover!
February 15, 2023
Story Number 5 in the "Black Stars" Amazon Original Series
I started with Nalo Hopkinson's story because I love her short story collection, Falling in Love with Hominids. Her speculative writing style genre-blends folk, dark fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. I love it. Clap Back is an afrofuturist tale with dual narratives. One is about a fashion designer infusing her haute couture line of clothing with nano-technology; one-line stories about forgiveness that get absorbed into the wearer's skin causing them to speak the story out loud until the story is eventually assimilated by the body and exits through their urine.
The other story is about a woman named Wenda embarking on a project to take antique, racist figurines from the past and transform them with hoodoo magic. She plays a vibration through a flute made of bone.
I will show up for Nalo's storytelling all day, every day. I love her imagination and the characters she creates that come alive on the page.
I started with Nalo Hopkinson's story because I love her short story collection, Falling in Love with Hominids. Her speculative writing style genre-blends folk, dark fantasy, horror, and sci-fi. I love it. Clap Back is an afrofuturist tale with dual narratives. One is about a fashion designer infusing her haute couture line of clothing with nano-technology; one-line stories about forgiveness that get absorbed into the wearer's skin causing them to speak the story out loud until the story is eventually assimilated by the body and exits through their urine.
The other story is about a woman named Wenda embarking on a project to take antique, racist figurines from the past and transform them with hoodoo magic. She plays a vibration through a flute made of bone.
I will show up for Nalo's storytelling all day, every day. I love her imagination and the characters she creates that come alive on the page.
January 26, 2023
Yeahhhh, I don't know how I feel about this one?
August 9, 2022
Oh, this was good, until the story basically ended where it would've been more interesting (and harder to write!) to continue. You see this a lot in short stories, not just in sci-fi, authors stopping when things would really get cooking.
I really liked the idea of rich white people commodifying the pain of Black people, making it into an accessory to wear for a couple of days.
Basically these are three stories, that certainly connected, but now they were clunkily smushed together (Agnetta visiting Wenda in prison felt uncomfortably unbelievable - as if someone as rich as Agnetta couldn't hire another team of coders). This needed more room for each part to breathe.
I really liked the idea of rich white people commodifying the pain of Black people, making it into an accessory to wear for a couple of days.
Basically these are three stories, that certainly connected, but now they were clunkily smushed together (Agnetta visiting Wenda in prison felt uncomfortably unbelievable - as if someone as rich as Agnetta couldn't hire another team of coders). This needed more room for each part to breathe.
May 5, 2022
Cool concept, but it may have gone over my head or not been for me because I didn't enjoy it or fully get into it.
September 19, 2023
Wonderful SF fable about nanites, tchotchkes, haute couture ... and a mysterious whistle made from the thigh bone of a dead cat. Whimsical, incisive Africanfuturism.
July 24, 2022
Clap Back is a really interesting installment in this series. It merges advanced technology with artifacts from the past as a way of telling stories about the history of oppression of Black people, and the push back on the way that history can be romanticized.
December 9, 2021
Another in this collection where I liked the concept — overall an interesting idea to explore in Clap Back — but the writing style made it hard to access the deeper content. Many short stories, especially in sci-fi, seem to be limited by this big idea and the short amount of space. So, often the writing comes off as broken and uneven throughout the majority of the narrative and rushed at the end. I found that to be the case here — I wish this story had more room to stretch and relax for Hopkinson to better explore the ideas and these women's lives.
Audiobook, as narrated by Adenrele Ojo: Ojo has a wonderful and commanding reading voice. Easy to tell she's a consummate professional here. I wasn't overly fond of her voice for the man — her range kind of landed it in the took-me-out-of-the-story area — but really another great example of a new audiobook narrator this collection has brought to me.
Audiobook, as narrated by Adenrele Ojo: Ojo has a wonderful and commanding reading voice. Easy to tell she's a consummate professional here. I wasn't overly fond of her voice for the man — her range kind of landed it in the took-me-out-of-the-story area — but really another great example of a new audiobook narrator this collection has brought to me.
May 16, 2024
Ehhh
I like the idea behind the science fiction aspect about people putting on clothes that within them had programming within it to tell a story. But then I felt like the story got a little convoluted and the ending just kind of made me cringe. I don't know maybe everybody else feels a little bit differently about it.
I like the idea behind the science fiction aspect about people putting on clothes that within them had programming within it to tell a story. But then I felt like the story got a little convoluted and the ending just kind of made me cringe. I don't know maybe everybody else feels a little bit differently about it.
November 19, 2021
Nanites and Magic
Review of the Amazon Original Kindle eBook (August 2021)
Clap Back combines speculative science fiction and fantasy magic fiction in an inventive way. A trendy designer is appropriating black culture in their programmed nanite-infused clothing from which the nano-technology seeps into the body of the wearer. A performance artist appropriates that technology in such a way as to both reclaim the culture but to also make a statement. Very unique story.
Clap Back is the 5th of the 6 short stories making up the speculative / fantasy / science fiction series Black Stars, released simultaneously on August 31, 2021 as an eBook by Amazon Originals and as an audiobook by Audible Originals.
Review of the Amazon Original Kindle eBook (August 2021)
Clap Back combines speculative science fiction and fantasy magic fiction in an inventive way. A trendy designer is appropriating black culture in their programmed nanite-infused clothing from which the nano-technology seeps into the body of the wearer. A performance artist appropriates that technology in such a way as to both reclaim the culture but to also make a statement. Very unique story.
Clap Back is the 5th of the 6 short stories making up the speculative / fantasy / science fiction series Black Stars, released simultaneously on August 31, 2021 as an eBook by Amazon Originals and as an audiobook by Audible Originals.
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September 18, 2021Black science fiction writers are the link for Amazon's latest collection of free-if-you-have-Prime stories. So when Nalo Hopkinson's contribution to that range is a story about corporate America's ongoing commodification of racism, and how hard it is to achieve anything by pushing back against that, but how it's sure as hell worth trying and you might even find love along the way, I can't help but respect the raised middle finger of that.
March 3, 2022
Clap Back was a cool concept hindered by the writing choices of Hopkinson. Normally, I do not mind when a story is broken up by news articles or similar things that expound upon its world. In this story, I felt like it broke the flow and confused the story more than added to it. In the end, that confusion drew me out of the narrative. I was not getting the connections of the two characters. I can see a version of this that I love, but unfortunately, this was not it.
September 14, 2021
"you become a sort of megaphone for a story the world needs to hear"
A fascinating concept and awesome take on science fiction as well as being an easy read but I think it's beginning is somewhat confusing. That being said, once I understood the premise, I zoomed through it.
I wanted to like this way more than I actually did, unfortunately - especially as it was the one that caught my eye to read first as part of Amazon's 'Black Stars Collection' and I think that's because I felt I was only getting bit's of a story. I think what frustrated me was simply that I wanted MORE!
I'm not entirely sure that the short story format was the best way to tell this story (with all it's intricacies) as I can see it absolutely blooming as a novel.
A fascinating concept and awesome take on science fiction as well as being an easy read but I think it's beginning is somewhat confusing. That being said, once I understood the premise, I zoomed through it.
I wanted to like this way more than I actually did, unfortunately - especially as it was the one that caught my eye to read first as part of Amazon's 'Black Stars Collection' and I think that's because I felt I was only getting bit's of a story. I think what frustrated me was simply that I wanted MORE!
I'm not entirely sure that the short story format was the best way to tell this story (with all it's intricacies) as I can see it absolutely blooming as a novel.
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September 25, 2021I can't give this one stars because I don't know how many is fair. The writing style is densely packed, and that's not to my personal preference, but this is still quite well-written.
My problem is more with some of the content. Especially the bits about dismembering a dead cat, and casual discussion of torturing cats to death in the past. It kinda came out of nowhere and left me feeling shaken, because I wasn't prepared to brace for it. Nothing is particularly detailed, other than the stench, but still. No, thanks.
It's luckily a minor part of the story, the concept of which does admittedly intrigue me. I just... don't care for the ending.
Everything until the end was, though not always fully engaging due to my disinterest in the denser-written portions, actually rather good. (Cat desecration aside, of course.) The nano-magic was interesting once I got past how jarringly unrealistic the 'science' felt (I won't say was; I'm no scientist, it just sounded off to me, but for all I know could be plausible).
But instead of exploring and lingering on the character we already met and her actions, the story shifts to the future long after she's dead and tosses us into a scene where an unknown man is having some kind of anxiety attack which almost seems to include age regression - I thought he was a small child based on how he spoke and was spoken to at first - and we learn he's been the victim of police brutality. This is used as a jumping-off point for his lover's descent into the ending I didn't care for, using a neural imprint AI type thing of the character we already knew as a co-conspirator.
I'm just... at a loss, here. I don't know how to fairly rate the story. I wanted so much more of the middle, and so much less of the beginning and end. Maybe this would work for me as a full-length novel with time to meet all the characters and see more of what happens.
Perhaps I'd even like the ending if it were expanded to explore repercussions instead of being presented as a potential cure-all. I don't know. That's basically the main emotion I got from this: "I just don't know."
My problem is more with some of the content. Especially the bits about dismembering a dead cat, and casual discussion of torturing cats to death in the past. It kinda came out of nowhere and left me feeling shaken, because I wasn't prepared to brace for it. Nothing is particularly detailed, other than the stench, but still. No, thanks.
It's luckily a minor part of the story, the concept of which does admittedly intrigue me. I just... don't care for the ending.
Everything until the end was, though not always fully engaging due to my disinterest in the denser-written portions, actually rather good. (Cat desecration aside, of course.) The nano-magic was interesting once I got past how jarringly unrealistic the 'science' felt (I won't say was; I'm no scientist, it just sounded off to me, but for all I know could be plausible).
But instead of exploring and lingering on the character we already met and her actions, the story shifts to the future long after she's dead and tosses us into a scene where an unknown man is having some kind of anxiety attack which almost seems to include age regression - I thought he was a small child based on how he spoke and was spoken to at first - and we learn he's been the victim of police brutality. This is used as a jumping-off point for his lover's descent into the ending I didn't care for, using a neural imprint AI type thing of the character we already knew as a co-conspirator.
I'm just... at a loss, here. I don't know how to fairly rate the story. I wanted so much more of the middle, and so much less of the beginning and end. Maybe this would work for me as a full-length novel with time to meet all the characters and see more of what happens.
Perhaps I'd even like the ending if it were expanded to explore repercussions instead of being presented as a potential cure-all. I don't know. That's basically the main emotion I got from this: "I just don't know."
September 5, 2021
I want more of this too!
April 15, 2023
Equal parts fascinating and frightening, this is a modern Yoruba tale for the ages.
September 12, 2021
What it's about: A fashion designer is creating clothing laced with chemicals that will make the wearer remember and tell the story of an exploited African girl.
An art student prepares to share her final project, which she expects will land her in prison.
The paths of these two will cross in an unexpected way. And fifty years on, the art student's granddaughter will consider the legacy these two have left behind, and how she might use it.
What I thought: It is incredibly depressing to think that a) there are markets for "Black Americana" now or in the future, and b) that Black men will still be getting pulled over for "driving while Black" - and possibly shot for simply being Black. But as my wife pointed out, we're 60 years on from the Civil Rights movement and things are not much better than they were before the Movement, so why would things be different 60 years from now?
Why I rated it like I did: This story really grabbed me with its observations of where race relations are now and where they are likely to be in the future. Yet as dark and cynical as this story is, it also offers some moments of hope, and the idea that perhaps someday, racism will be a part of our history, rather than a part of our society.
An art student prepares to share her final project, which she expects will land her in prison.
The paths of these two will cross in an unexpected way. And fifty years on, the art student's granddaughter will consider the legacy these two have left behind, and how she might use it.
What I thought: It is incredibly depressing to think that a) there are markets for "Black Americana" now or in the future, and b) that Black men will still be getting pulled over for "driving while Black" - and possibly shot for simply being Black. But as my wife pointed out, we're 60 years on from the Civil Rights movement and things are not much better than they were before the Movement, so why would things be different 60 years from now?
Why I rated it like I did: This story really grabbed me with its observations of where race relations are now and where they are likely to be in the future. Yet as dark and cynical as this story is, it also offers some moments of hope, and the idea that perhaps someday, racism will be a part of our history, rather than a part of our society.
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October 8, 2021This one wasn’t for me. I don’t think I can rate it fairly.
October 15, 2021
What a cool concept!
In Black Stars #5, Nalo Hopkinson takes us on a futuristic journey with her submission, Clap Bank.
Her concept is simple and highlights how race
relations are at present harrowing and what the future of race relations will be with a bit of technology, science and people driven by hope taking the lead.
We meet generations of women in a family who are as affected as anyone else by relations but have decided to do something about it and CLAP 👏🏾 BACK 👏🏾. One is a fashion designer who is creating customized clothing laced with chemical compounds in hopes to spread diverse messages about exploitation, family, love, forgiveness and understanding. The other is an art student who is working on her final class project which she anticipates will land her in prison. While there are two competing time periods here (roughly 50 years apart) it is nice to see that the two women are related and how this knowledge forces the granddaughter to do her own searching.
“Auntie gave me gravy with peanuts in it. I nearly died. I forgive her.” —Malawi group project, “The Forgiveness Quilt”
In Black Stars #5, Nalo Hopkinson takes us on a futuristic journey with her submission, Clap Bank.
Her concept is simple and highlights how race
relations are at present harrowing and what the future of race relations will be with a bit of technology, science and people driven by hope taking the lead.
We meet generations of women in a family who are as affected as anyone else by relations but have decided to do something about it and CLAP 👏🏾 BACK 👏🏾. One is a fashion designer who is creating customized clothing laced with chemical compounds in hopes to spread diverse messages about exploitation, family, love, forgiveness and understanding. The other is an art student who is working on her final class project which she anticipates will land her in prison. While there are two competing time periods here (roughly 50 years apart) it is nice to see that the two women are related and how this knowledge forces the granddaughter to do her own searching.
“Auntie gave me gravy with peanuts in it. I nearly died. I forgive her.” —Malawi group project, “The Forgiveness Quilt”
April 20, 2023
So Real!
This story was more like a Black Mirror episode, than a piece of literature. But that didn’t reduce its impact. It remained too true, too close to home.
Too real!
This story was more like a Black Mirror episode, than a piece of literature. But that didn’t reduce its impact. It remained too true, too close to home.
Too real!
February 27, 2024
It's a cool concept, but the narrative lost me. In the end, when things got exciting again with philosophical questions... the story was over. = 2,5⭐
September 14, 2021
3 / 5 stars
I really liked the Hoodoo elements but I needed more pages for this story to truly breathe.. unfortunately it all felt a bit shoehorned into these roughly 20 pages.
content notes:
◦ moderate: racism, police brutality
◦ minor: animal death, sexism
February 16, 2024
That was
something
-I didn't love it or hate it. I felt it though. A feeling of dread even though Wenda's Clap Back and the ending are supposed to be these carthatic moments, it feels like it'll be shortlived.
A 2.75⭐ not rounded . This series has only produced maybe 2 stories I have actually liked. I have 1 more to go. Let's hope for an even split down the middle.
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Performance art can be so snobby cringe and sometimes stinks of hipster-meets-white trustfund "I hate being rich pity me and see my art I'm different! I am enlightened" - well usually.
Wenda's Clap Back was depressing, righteous, painful and angry - so successful in the end.
Two Sentences, A Scene or less -Characters:
Let's for a second pretend Agnetta Burri actually did the quilt to couture thing - how very neocolonial with a huge splash of capitalistic greed. She was annoying but she tried to roght her wrongs so I guess there's that.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene: :
Student Loans Paid!
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Please make this work. Please make this work.” Maybe speaking her intention would help. It certainly couldn’t hurt. Intention was plenty. It had brought the horrors on the table into existence, after all.” (Wenda attempting to transmute centuries of Anti-black knick knacks and shit)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts :
■ Storylet: nanite-story fabric/nanobot stories
■Wenda's Blackamoors, Jemima figurines and Iwin
■ The forgiveness quilt
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Short Stories by 2025
A 2.75⭐ not rounded . This series has only produced maybe 2 stories I have actually liked. I have 1 more to go. Let's hope for an even split down the middle.
Plot/Storyline/Themes:
Performance art can be so snobby cringe and sometimes stinks of hipster-meets-white trustfund "I hate being rich pity me and see my art I'm different! I am enlightened" - well usually.
Wenda's Clap Back was depressing, righteous, painful and angry - so successful in the end.
Two Sentences, A Scene or less -Characters:
Let's for a second pretend Agnetta Burri actually did the quilt to couture thing - how very neocolonial with a huge splash of capitalistic greed. She was annoying but she tried to roght her wrongs so I guess there's that.
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Scene: :
Student Loans Paid!
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Quotes:
🖤 “Please make this work. Please make this work.” Maybe speaking her intention would help. It certainly couldn’t hurt. Intention was plenty. It had brought the horrors on the table into existence, after all.” (Wenda attempting to transmute centuries of Anti-black knick knacks and shit)
Favorite/Curious/Ludicrous/Unique Concepts :
■ Storylet: nanite-story fabric/nanobot stories
■Wenda's Blackamoors, Jemima figurines and Iwin
■ The forgiveness quilt
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Short Stories by 2025
August 3, 2022
A hard hitting story of black persecution, past, present and future, told through the prism of vintage art installation depicting black lives in servitude. The latest invention in the block is nanites or micro robots, that absorb in the skin and make you spout the message of schoolgirls working on a forgiveness quilt in the hinterlands of Africa, woven into exclusive fashion lines. But are they as harmless as they have been portrayed to be? Are the blacks ready to forgive the injustices and insults? What is iwin, a synthetic compound that might just make you remember the black magic of old? And how do they tie together in this powerful story of taking back the narrative?
This was an excellent mix of science, art and political commentary. The story might come across as disjointed but they tie together in the end to perfectly justify the title. When someone's misery is entertainment for others, they wait for their time to clap back and take back what is rightfully theirs.
This was an excellent mix of science, art and political commentary. The story might come across as disjointed but they tie together in the end to perfectly justify the title. When someone's misery is entertainment for others, they wait for their time to clap back and take back what is rightfully theirs.
September 13, 2021
Part of Amazon Originals Black Stars collection.
Could see this being developed into a novel-length work. I am a huge fan of the short story format but I'm not sure it was the best way to tell this story. Feel like the ideas need to be expanded, they need a bit more room to breathe. I am also a fan of using science fiction to tell stories about power structures and systems of privilege & oppression. This story does that well. It is worth reading even though I feel like it is perhaps shoehorned into a shorter format than it should be.
Could see this being developed into a novel-length work. I am a huge fan of the short story format but I'm not sure it was the best way to tell this story. Feel like the ideas need to be expanded, they need a bit more room to breathe. I am also a fan of using science fiction to tell stories about power structures and systems of privilege & oppression. This story does that well. It is worth reading even though I feel like it is perhaps shoehorned into a shorter format than it should be.
July 7, 2022
Wild
I saw this going in a different direction, but I like where it ended up. for a second, I almost imaged she have the black people, having taken over, re-REwriting history so that now, not only were historically black people depicted as white black again, but we’d get, like, Larry Bird & Hunter S. Thompson too!
I saw this going in a different direction, but I like where it ended up. for a second, I almost imaged she have the black people, having taken over, re-REwriting history so that now, not only were historically black people depicted as white black again, but we’d get, like, Larry Bird & Hunter S. Thompson too!
February 20, 2025
Entertaining relationship listening 🎉🤓
This kindle ebook novella is from my Kindle Unlimited account book five of six
I had issues following this novella.
I would recommend this series and author to readers of Sci-fi, magic, and family relationship adventure novels 🤗😕 2025 🙂😯
This kindle ebook novella is from my Kindle Unlimited account book five of six
I had issues following this novella.
I would recommend this series and author to readers of Sci-fi, magic, and family relationship adventure novels 🤗😕 2025 🙂😯
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