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I‘ve been wanting this book for SO LONG. And signed too!
Thank you so much @Laughterhp for this fantastic #Jolabokaflodswap package. I love it!

Erlick continues to deliver some of the most creative, emotionally resonant stories. The Poppy Fields is an original and thought-provoking exploration of grief, one that lays bare the fragility of humanity. Sleeping off grief is such an interesting concept. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Book #90 in 2025

I've two more short stories to read in New Suns, the one I've just read being my favourite so far: One Easy Trick by Hiromi Goto which includes an encounter with a spirit bear. Synchronistically, reading on in Sharon Olds collection was a poem, A Song Near the End of the World, which is also about a bear encounter and its meaningfulness. I love when readings resonate and reinforce each other 🐻😌

One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served his time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he‘s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University.
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First snow at my new house! Happily it‘s less than an inch and the roads are fine so far.

This is a thought provoking novella of speculative fiction, set just a bit in the future. Every American gets a Universal Basic Income once a year, on the title date. Told from 4 women‘s POVs, each with a very different life circumstance. I think it‘s one of the best TOR novellas I‘ve read.

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Incredible. In this novel, we are plunged into a world in which all the white people in America are gone and the ones who are left - focus on the black and biracial MCs- have the opportunity to center themselves and in a new world and examine their identity, their heritage and generational trauma and what this new future could bring. I‘ll be thinking about this for a long time and I hope the rest of the book group feels the same!

"I am a huge fan of science fiction!"
- Foreword, LeVar Burton

"When Galactics arrived at JFK they often reeked of ammonia, sulfur, and something else Tavi could never quite put a finger on."
- The Galactic Tourist Industrial Complex, Tobias S. Buckell

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

I saw this post on Instagram about being nostalgic and wrote a #haiku about it.

#haikuhive

"When a world leader advocates for the creation of a militaristic Space Force to exercise "dominance" in the heavens, we are moving further than ever from Gene Roddenberry's United Federation of Planets."

- LeVar Burton

Next up, a SciFi short story anthology edited by a non-binary person of colour, with a foreword by LeVar Burton 🖖😊, and written by people of colour. 🖤🤎🩷🤍🩵❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
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