#amanda hopkinson

[yokyopeli]

Ace Week 2023 Day 7:

No one is watching my videos so here's some a-spectrum representation re: Finnish.

Aka Finnish literature with a-spec characters; literature and poetry translated to Finnish/by Finns; a film and a webseries.

Väki trilogy(2018-2020) Elina Rouhiainen: Bollywood, aro not ace, genderqueer, brown (Punjabi). Sense manipulation.

Tapa(a) books(2022-2023) J.S. Meresmaa: Nora, agender and asexual 130+ year old vampire. Sims enthusiast.

Mähän tiesin ettei täällä ole mitään (2022) Kuura Juntunen: Leeni, asexual girlfriend to nonbinary Helle.

Lukitut (2020) Salla Simukka: Vega, aro. Johannes & Meea, demisexuals. (Have not read yet)

Freestyle (2023) Dess Terentjeva: Kai, aroace dancer.

Kaapin Nurkista (2022) Eve Lumerto: multiple, mainly Jaro Elomaa & Alina Linnanen

Jenna Clare, Water Runs Red, Finnish American, asexual, poet and youtuber.

Amanda Lovelace, asexual poet. The Princess Saves Herself in This One

Alice Oseman, aroace artist. Solitaire.

Elizabeth Hopkinson, asexual, edits asexual fairytales and myths into collections. Miracle of Marjatta in Asexual Myths and Tales

Tytöt tytöt tytöt/ Girl Picture (2022). Reetta Rönkkö is possibly asexual. Directed by Alli Haapasalo

Ace & Demi webseries (2023-). Alyssa/Ace is aroace and Demitria/Demi is demirose. Laura Eklund Nhaga also wrote related audiobooks in Finnish and English.

[liriostigre]

I'm learning Spanish so I understood the tags a little and I'm curious about the book, would you mind sharing the title?

of course! the book is Rabia by Sergio Bizzio (Argentine writer). it's Rage in english, translation by Amanda Hopkinson. really good so far! if you watched and liked Bong Joon-ho's Parasite you're gonna like this book 🤓

i hope you're having fun learning spanish btw 🩷

[peacehopeandrats]

That was fast.

In the end, I decided to use the free space for this book. I have a lot of other options for all of the others, so there it is.

As the translator says at the end of the book, there is a lot about this book that is Japanese. There was a shift in thinking that I had to make after reading the other, very American, books, but once I did that I could see what the author was doing. Actually a very good read.

Next up:

A Long Petal of the Sea, a book by Chilean author Isabel Allende. Originally published in Spain by Plaza & Janés, it was first published in the United States by Vintage Espanol. The novel was issued in 2019 in Spanish as Largo pétalo de mar, and was translated into English by Nick Caistor and Amanda Hopkinson.

In the late 1930s, civil war grips Spain. When General Franco and his Fascists succeed in overthrowing the government, hundreds of thousands are forced to flee in a treacherous journey over the mountains to the French border. Among them is Roser, a pregnant young widow, who finds her life intertwined with that of Victor Dalmau, an army doctor and the brother of her deceased love. In order to survive, the two must unite in a marriage neither of them desires.

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[Translated by Amanda Hopkinson.]

[womenintranslation]

The 2020 Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, judged by Amanda Hopkinson, Boyd Tonkin and Susan Bassnett, was awarded to The Eighth Life (for Brilka) by Nino Haratischvili, translated from German by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin, during an online event held on Thursday 26 November.

On her Translating Women blog Helen Vasallo gives a thumbs-up to the winner: “This multi-generational story of revolution and downfall strikes a endnote of possibility and new chances....I cannot recommend this extraordinary book highly enough, and I hope you will read it and love it as I did.” Read Helen’s rave review here.

The event was capped by readings from all the shortlisted titles, beginning at  00:26:00 (not to be missed: Lissie Jacquette reading from Thirteen Months of Sunrise with her week-old baby at 00:45:38):

Abigail by Magda Szabó, translated from Hungarian by Len Rix (MacLehose Press, 2020)

Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg, translated from Italian by Minna Zallmann Proctor (Daunt Books Publishing, 2019)

Lake Like a Mirror by Ho Sok Fong, translated from Chinese by Natascha Bruce (Granta Publications, 2019)

Letters from Tove by Tove Jansson, edited by Boel Westin & Helen Svensson, translated from Swedish by Sarah Death (Sort of Books, 2019)

The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischvili, translated from German by Charlotte Collins and Ruth Martin (Scribe UK, 2019)

Thirteen Months of Sunrise by Rania Mamoun, translated from Arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette (Comma Press, 2019)

White Horse by Yan Ge, translated from Chinese by Nicky Harman (HopeRoad, 2019)

Congratulations to the prizewinning author and translators!

[rbolick]

Books On Books Collection - Guy Laramée

Books On Books Collection – Guy Laramée

A Caverna (2012)

A Caverna (2012) Guy Laramée Portuguese-Spanish dictionary carved. Wood and velvet plinth, wood-framed glass cover. H260 x W276 x D226 mm Acquired from William Baczek Fine Arts, 12 September 2017.

H160 x W105 x D80 mm

Inspired by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago’s novel of the same name, A Cavernatreats the pages of words as so much clay to be gouged from the dictionary.…

[tallmadgeandtea]

Hi so if you want to get into colonial/18th century music, here is a good website to start with! I just found this last night and it includes a couple songs I’ve never heard, and some of my favorites like Castle Island Song and Young Ladies in Town! I like this one because it includes samples you can listen to so you can learn the tune that goes along with the lyrics!

https://ageofrevolution.net/born-in-battle-the-american-revolution-online/music/introduction/

[rockislandadultreads]

Nonlinear Storylines: Literary Fiction

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Yaa Gyasi's stunning follow-up to her acclaimed national best seller Homegoing is a powerful, raw, intimate, deeply layered novel about a Ghanaian family in Alabama. Gifty is a fifth-year candidate in neuroscience at Stanford School of Medicine studying reward-seeking behavior in mice and the neural circuits of depression and addiction. Her brother, Nana, was a gifted high school athlete who died of a heroin overdose after a knee injury left him hooked on OxyContin. Her suicidal mother is living in her bed. Gifty is determined to discover the scientific basis for the suffering she sees all around her. But even as she turns to the hard sciences to unlock the mystery of her family's loss, she finds herself hungering for her childhood faith and grappling with the evangelical church in which she was raised, whose promise of salvation remains as tantalizing as it is elusive. Transcendent Kingdom is a deeply moving portrait of a family of Ghanaian immigrants ravaged by depression and addiction and grief--a novel about faith, science, religion, love. Exquisitely written, emotionally searing, this is an exceptionally powerful follow-up to Gyasi's phenomenal debut.

In the Midst of Winter by Isabel Allende, Nick Caistor (Translator), Amanda Hopkinson (Translator)

New York Times and worldwide bestselling “dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident—which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster—a 60-year-old human rights scholar—hits the car of Evelyn Ortega—a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala—in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn. What at first seems just a small inconvenience takes an unforeseen and far more serious turn when Evelyn turns up at the professor’s house seeking help. At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz—a 62-year-old lecturer from Chile—for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia.

Tin Man by Sarah Winman

This is almost a love story. Ellis and Michael are twelve when they first become friends, and for a long time it is just the two of them, cycling the streets of Oxford, teaching themselves how to swim, discovering poetry, and dodging the fists of an overbearing father. And then one day this closest of friendships grows into something more. But then we fast forward a decade or so, to find that Ellis is married to Annie, and Michael is nowhere in sight. Which leads to the question, what happened in the years between? This is almost a love story. But it's not as simple as that.

The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermott

On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement. He is determined to prove—to the subway bosses who have recently fired him, to his badgering, pregnant wife—“that the hours of his life belong to himself alone.” In the aftermath of the fire that follows, Sister St. Savior, an aging nun, appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century. Decorum, superstition, and shame collude to erase the man’s brief existence. Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives and over the decades—testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations. The characters we meet, from Sally, the unborn baby at the beginning of the novel, who becomes the center of the story, to the nuns whose personalities we come to know and love, to the neighborhood families with whose lives they are entwined, are all rendered with extraordinary sympathy and McDermott’s trademark lucidity and intelligence.

[whilereadingandwalking]

The Hole by José Revueltas, translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Sophie Hughes, is a dark, sharp novella. The main characters have tasked their two girlfriends, plus one's mother, with smuggling heroin into the prison for them. It’s just 70 pages long, all takes place in 30 minutes, a rushing single paragraph. 

Revueltas wrote it while in jail for opposing the government, specifically in the infamous panopticon Lecumberri Prison. The guards and the prisoners are all trapped in a cycle of violence, exploitation, and spectacle. It is a scathing critique of the incarceration system: of how the conditions of a prison, the power dynamics, the dehumanization, only cause people to become worse, can only encourage more violence or pain. It ends in a sharp betrayal that will leave you gasping.  

Content warnings for ableism, self-harm, drugs, slut-shaming and sexism, sexual assault, and violence.

[rataplani]

“Feet of Clay is a fascinating book, and an enthralling script, and I was very excited when invited to direct it. It is a timely play speaking as it does about identity, freedom and truth, all wrapped inside a fun murder mystery.” 

~ Shaun King, Director’s Notes.

Since there’s been a lot of negativity at the moment about a certain adaptation that doesn’t care about its source material, I thought I’d share something more positive. 

So in case there are any Discworld fans in Queensland who don’t know this, there’s this little indie theatre called the Brisbane Arts Theatre that’s been working through all the Discworld books over a number of years now (also atm it’s doing an adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s Dodger).

A few weeks back I went to see their production of Feet of Clay and it was pretty good! (and run in line with QLD Covid policy) As it was weeks ago I don’t remember all the details, but one thing I found pretty hilarious was that for soundtrack moments they generally used music that sounded like they’d gotten it from 80s cop comedies. Also I think they did alright with Cheery’s character arc as basically a transgender woman’s coming out story, though I'm hesitatingly ambivalent about the few moments of Cis Awkward Supportiveness(tm) from other characters on stage (though importantly the laughs were directed at them, not Cheery) and of course there were Carrot’s dwarf culture gender issues for a bit until he got his prejudices sorted out.

Although I knew the plot coming in, it was still fun to watch the mystery unfold, and it was funny how over-the-top blatantly evil Dragon was in his introduction scene just for the drama. Dorfl’s storyline cut out the Dorfl vs All The Priests bit and most of his run through the town, but was still good (and I like the design differences between him and the King Golem you can see in the photo below). Overall it was quite funny and a pretty faithful adaptation; can’t wait until next year.

Adaptation-wise, there were a couple of parts where they were able to use the visual element through a couple of physical comedy jokes (Vetinari: I’m Fine Now *passes out five seconds later*) or using props to point out how Carry’s new crest looks very similar to the Assassin’s Guild crest)

On a meta level, a few characters had their gender changed for cast reasons, including ‘Dr’ (Lord) Downey (played by a lady who I swear could play Susan when they get to her books), Drumknott, and Arthur Carrey (the candle maker), who became Artemis Carry to keep the “Art Brought Forth the Candle” pun intact.

Also not only did the guy who played Carrot played Salzella last year when they did Maskerade, but Vetinari’s actor doubled as Nobby so I got a double serve of mental whiplash there.

Here’s the cast photo! (Due to Covid restrictions a lot of cast members played two or three roles, so not all characters are shown, but I’ve bolded the ones that are)

Cast List left to right (then front row left to right):

Simon Lyell as Dorfl Daniel Baker as King Golem & Detritus Julian Hobson as Dragon King of Arms John Grey as Lord Vetinari & Corporal Nobbs Isobel Smith as Doughnut Jimmy, Mr Slant, & ‘French Maid’ Caitlin Smith as Drumknott, Mildred Easy, & Pardessus (of the College of Heralds) Paul Fear as Gerhardt Sock & Wengel Raddley Lucette Eggleton as Dr Downey, Prebble Skink & Mrs Kanacki Steve Durber as Constable Visit & Mr Boggis Daniel Grey as Commander Vimes Stuart Fisher as Sergeant Colon Alastair Wallace as Father Tubelcek, Mr Hopkinson, & Professor Whiteface Samantha Mclaughlin as (Artemis) Carry Tallulah M. E. Gray as Rosie Palm (and Assistant Director) Amanda Lay as Constable (Cheery) Littlebottom Sasha Barclay as Constable Angua Callum Pulsford as Captain Carrot

[asexual-library]

Books with Asexual Rep

The Bone People by Keri Hulme (Adult, Fiction)

Perfect Rhythm by Jae (Adult, Fiction)

Loveless by Alice Oseman (YA, Fiction, includes Aromantic rep)

Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijikamp (YA, Fiction)

Summer Bird Blue by Akemi Dawn Bowman (YA, Fiction, includes Aromantic rep)

Let’s Talk About Love by Claire Kann (YA, Fiction)

If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann (YA, Fiction, includes Aromantic Rep)

This Song is (Not) For You by Laura Nowlin (YA, Fiction)

Rick by Alex Gino (Middle Grade, Fiction)

Vicious by V. E. Schwab (Adult, Speculative Fiction)

Vengeful by V. E. Schwab (Adult, Speculative Fiction)

City of Strife by Claudie Arseneault (Adult, Speculative Fiction, includes Aromantic Rep)

Asexual Fairy Tales by Elizabeth and Anna Hopkinson (Adult, Speculative Fiction)

Stake Sauce by RoAnna Sylver (Adult, Speculative Fiction)

Beyond the Black Door by A. M. Strickland (YA, Speculative Fiction)

This Golden Flame by Emily Victoria (YA, Speculative Fiction, includes Aromantic Rep)

Elatsoe by Darci Little Badger (YA, Speculative Fiction)

Hullmetal Girls by Emily Skrutskie (YA, Speculative Fiction, includes Aromantic Rep)

Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire (YA, Speculative Fiction)

Little Black Bird by Anna Kirchner (YA, Speculative Fiction)

Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand (YA, Speculative Fiction)

Summer of Salt by Katrina Leno (YA, Speculative Fiction, includes Aromantic Rep)

Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (YA, Speculative Fiction, includes Aromantic Rep)

Beneath the Citadel by Destiny Soria (YA, Speculative Fiction)

Brief Chronicle of Another Stupid Heartbreak by Adi Alsaid (YA, Fiction, includes Aromantic Rep)

All Out: The No-longer-secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages anthology (YA, Fiction)

Jughead by Chip Zdarsky and Erica Henderson (YA, Fiction)

Daughter of the Burning City by Amanda Foody (YA, Speculative Fiction)

Quicksilver by R. J. Anderson (YA, Speculative Fiction)

The King’s Name by Jo Walton (Adult, Speculative Fiction, includes Aromantic Representation)

Fourth World by Lyssa Chiavari (YA, Speculative Fiction)

How To Be a Normal Person by T. J. Klune (Adult, Fiction)

Upside Down by N. R. Walker (YA, Fiction)

Banner of the Damned by Sherwood Smith (Adult, Speculative Fiction)

Hazel’s Theory of Evolution by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (Middle Grade, Fiction)

Six Angry Girls by Adrienne Kisner (YA, Fiction)

The Black Veins by Ashia Monet (YA, Speculative Fiction)

(will keep updating)

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Afro-Futurist Reading List Vol 2.

Afro Futurism Reading List Vol 1:

Afro Futurism Reading List Vol 2:

Black Speculative Fiction Breakdown by Genre

African Fantasy (early myths and fables from the continent): Forest Of A Thousand Deamons: A Hunter's Saga by Daniel O. Fagunwa The Palm Wine Drinkard by Amos Tutuola My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle by Amos Tutuola The Brave African Huntress by Amos Tutuola Feather Woman of the Jungle by Amos Tutuola Ajaiyi and his Inherited Poverty by Amos Tutuola The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town by Amos Tutuola

Utopia (alternate histories written during the jim crow & antebellum eras): Blake Or The Huts Of Africa by Martin Delany Imperium In Imperio by Sutton E Griggs Light Ahead For The Negro Edward A Johnson One One Blood by Pauline Hopkins Black No More by George Shuyler Lord Of The Sea by MP Sheil

Space Opera (far future sci fi worlds of interplanetary travel): Nova by Samuel R Delany Stars In My Pocket Like Grains Of Sand by Samuel R. Delany Binti Trilogy by Nnedi Okorafor An Unkindness Of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon Midnight Robber by Nalo Hopkinson Rayla 2122 Series by Ytasha Womack Trouble On Triton by Samuel R. Delany Babel 17 by Samuel R Delany Empire Star by Samuel R Delany The Galaxy Game by Karen Lord The Best Of All Possible Worlds by Karen Lord Ancient Ancient by Klini Iburu Salaam Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden Ascension: Tangled Axon by Jacqueline Koyanagi Teleportality by T Cisco Nadine's Bible Seris by T Lindsey-Billingsley Nigerians In Space Series by Deji Bryce Olukotun

Aliens (alien encounters): Lilith's Brood Trilogy by Octavia Butler Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor Rosewater Trilogy by Tade Thompson The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbell The Wave by Walter Mosley

Dystopia (oppressive futures and realities): Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjie Brenyah Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi War Girls Series by Tochi Onyebuchi Sunshine Patriots by Bill Campbell Gunmen's Peace by Milton J Davis Dragon Variation by T Cisco

Experimental (literary tricksters): The Ravicka Series by Renee Gladman The Freedom Artist by Ben Okri The Structure Of Dante's Hells by LeRoi Jones The House Of Hunger by Dumbudzo Marachera Black Sunlight By Dumbudzo Marachera Yellow Back Radio Broke Down by Ishmaeel Reed The Last Days Of Louisiana Red by Ishmaeel Reed The Sellout by Paul Beatty Koontown Killing Kaper by Bill Campbell The African Origin Of UFOs by Anthony Joseph Quantum Black Futurism(Theory & Practice Volume 1) by Rasheeda Philips by Rasheeda Philips Spacetime Collapse: From The Congo to Carolinas Spacetime Collapse II: Community Futurisms by Rasheeda Philips consent not to be a single being trilogy by Fred Mot

Post-Apocalyptic (worlds falling apart): The Purple Cloud by MP Shiel Dhalgren by Samuel R Delany The Parable Series by Octavia Butler Brown Girl In The Ring by Nalo Hopkinson

Dying Earth (far future post-apocalyptic worlds + magic):

The Broken Earth Trilogy by NK Jemisin The Einstien Intersection by Samuel R. Delany The Jewels Of Aptor by Samuel R. Delany The Fall Of The Towers Trilogy by Samuel R. Delany Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorofor The Book Of Phoenix by Nnededi Okorofor The Prey Of Gods by Nicky Drayden

Alternate History (alternate timelines and what-ifs): Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed Everfair by Nisi Shawl The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates The Insh'Allah Series by Steven Barnes Ring Shout by P Djelia Clark A Dead Djinn In Cairo by P Djelia Clark The Black God's Drum by P Djelia Clark Washington Black by Esi Edugyan Pimp My Airship: A Naptown By Airship Story by Maurice Beaudice The Dream Of Perpetual Motion by Dexter Palmer Pym by Matt Johnson, Dread Nation Series by Justina Ireland From Here to Timbuktu by Milton J Davis

High Fantasy (magical kindoms and high adventures): The Neveryorn Series by Samuel R. Delany Black Leapard Red Wolf by Marlon James The Deep by Rivers Solomon & Clipping Imaro Series by Charles R. Saunders The Children Of Blood & Bone by Tomi Adeyemi The Children Of Virtue & Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi The Sorcerer Of The Wildeeps by Kai Ashai Washington A Taste Of Honey by Kai Ashai Washington Beasts Made Of Night Series by Tochi Onyebuchi A Place Of Nights: War & Ressurection by Oloye Karade, Woman Of The Woods: A Sword & Soul Epic by Milton J Davis Temper by Nicky Drayden They Fly At Ciron by Samuel R. Delany Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman The House Of Discarded Dreams by Etakterina Sedia

Magic Realism (literary naturalism with surreal, dreamlike, and mythic imagery): The Echo Tree & Other Stories by Henry Dumas The Kingdom Of This World by Alejo Carpentier General Sun My Brother by Jacques Stephen Alexis The Famished Road Series by Ben Okri The New Moon's Arms by Nalo Hopkinson The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson Montaro Caine by Sydney Portier Mama Day by Gloria Naylor Redemption In Indigo by Karen Lord Mem by Bethany C Morrow

Urban Fantasy (modern citybound fantasy): The City We Became by NK Jemisin  Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson The Chaos by Nalo Hopkinson The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Blue Light By Walter Mosley Fire Baptized by Kenya Wright

Time Travel (stories unstuck in time): Kindred by Octavia Butler Version Control by Dexter Palmer Recurrence Plot by Rasheedah Phillips

Horror (nightmare, terrors, and hauntings): Beloved by Toni Morisson African Immortals by Tananarivue Due Fledgling by Octavia Butler The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez Lakewood by Meggan Giddings The Ballad Of Black Tom by Victor Lavalle Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff The Changeling by Victor Lavealle Zone One by Colson Whitehead The Between by Tananarive Due The Good House by Tananarive Due Ghost Summers: Stories by Tananarive Due Unhollowed Graves by Nunzo Onho Catfish Lullaby by AC Wise

Young Adult (books for young adults): Akata Witch Series by Nnedi Okorofor Zarah The Windseeker & The Shadow Speaker by Nnedi Okorofor Long Juju Man by Nnedi Okorofor Ikenga by Nnedi Okorofor Tristan Strong Series by Kwame Mbalia A Song Below Water by Bethany C Morrow Daughters Of Nri by Reni K. Amayo A River Of Royal Blood by Amanda Joy 47 by Walter Mosley

Comics (graphic storytelling) George Herriman Library: Krazy & Ignatz (1919-1921) by George Herriman The Boondocks Complete Collection by Aaron Mcgruder Birth Of A Nation by Aaron Mcgrudger, Reginald Hudlin, & Kyle Baker Prince Of Cats by Ronald Wimberly Concrete Park by Erika Alexander & Tony Puryear Incognegro Series by Matt Johnson Your Black Friend & Other Stories by Ben Passmore Bttm Fdrs Ezra Clayton Daniels & Ben Passmore Sports Is Hell is Ben Passmore LaGuardia by Nnedi Okorofor & Tana Ford Bread & Wine: An Erotic Tale Of New York by Samuel R Delany & Mia Wolff Empire by Samuel R Delany & Howard Chaykin Excellence by Brandon Thomas Bitteroot by David F Walker, Chuck Brown & Sanford Greene Black by Kwanza Osajyefo Niobe: She Is Life by Amandla Stenberg & Sebastian A Jones Black Panther by Christopher Priest Black Panther by Reginald Hudlin Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates Shuri by Nnedi Okorofor World Of Wakanda by Roxane Gay Truth: Red, White, & Black by Kyle Baker House Of Whispers by Nalo Hopkinson & Neil Gaiman Naomi by David F Walker, Brian Micheal Bendis, & Jamal Campbell Far Sector by NK Jemison & Jamal Campbell

Short Stories (collections by single authors): Driftglass by Samuel R Delany, Distant Stars by Samuel R Delany Bloodchild & Other Stories by Octavia Butler Unexpected Stories by Octavia Butler Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson Skin Folk by Nalo Hopkinson, Kabu Kabu by Nnedi Okorofor, How Long Til Black Future Month? by NK Jemisin Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Reneee Thomas

Anthologies (collections from multiple authors) Dark Matter edited by Sheree Renee Thomas So Long Been Dreaming edited by Nalo Hopkinson Conjure Stories edited by Nalo Hopkinso Whispers From The Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction edited by Nalo Hopkinson Afro SF: Science Fiction by African Writers edited by Wor. W. Hartmaan Stories For Chip: A Tribute To Samuel R Delany edited by Nisi Shawl Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories From Social Justice Movement edited by Adrienne Marie Brown & Walidah Imarisha Mothership: Tales of Afrofuturism and Beyond edited by Bill Campbell The City: Cyberfunk Antholoy edited by Milton J Davis Steamfunk edited by Milton J Davis Dieselfunk edited by Milton J Davis Griots: A Sword & Soul Anthology by Milton J Davis & Charles R Saunders Griots: Sisters Of The Spear by Milton J Davis & Charles R Saunders

Non-Fiction (histories, essays, and arguments) Afrofuturism And The World Of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture by Ytasha Womack Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise Of Astral Blackness edited by Reynaldo Anderson & Charles E Jones The Black Imagination: Science Fiction, The Future, and The Speculative by Sandra Jackson & Julie E Woody-Freeman Afro-Futures & Astral Black Travel by Juice Aleem The Sound Of Culture: Diaspora & Black Technopoetics by Louis Cude Soke Black Utopia: The History Of An Idea From Black Nationalism To Afrofuturism by Alex Zamalin Afrouturism Rising: The Literary Pre-History Of A Movement by Isiah Lavendar III A Pure Solar World: Sun Ra & The Birth Of Afrofuturism by Paul Youngquist Where No Black Woman Has Gone Before: Subversive Poryrals In Speculative Film & TV by Diana Adesola Mafe Black Kirby: In Search Of The Motherbox Connection by John Jennings & Stacey Robinson Super Black: American Pop Culture & Black Super-Heroes by Adilifu Nama Black Space: Imagining Race In Science Fiction Film by Adilifu Nama Black Super-Heroes, Milestone Comics, And Their Fans by Jeffery A Brown Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changin Worlds by Adrienne Marie Brown

*cover image from Ytasha Womack’s “Afrofuturism: The World Of Black Sci-Fi & Fantasy Culture”

(please post anything I might have left out in the comments) 

[hellyeahheroes]

Happy International Women’s Day

Here are some female-lead books from DC’s adult-oriented Black Label imprint and it’s subdivisions Hill House and Sandman Universe (which landed in Black Label when DC closed Vertigo) that you can buy right now

Basketful of Heads written by Joe Hill and illustrated by Leomacs is a story of June Branch, who must save her boyfriend from hardened criminals, armed with a magic ax that can cut off a man’s head in a single strike....but keep the head very much alive.

Daphne Byrne - Daphne is a 14 years old girl in XIX century New yorks, who suddenly finds herself haunted by a mysterious “brother”

The Dollhouse Family written by Mike Carey and illustrated by Peter Gross it is a horror story involving young Alice getting a gift of strange dollhouse

Harleen written and illustrated by Stjepan Sejic, it is a retelling of Harley Quinn's origin story with an emphasis on how manipulative and abusive Joker actually been to her. Sejic wants to do a sequel called Pamela about Harley breaking out from Joker and getting together with poison Ivy.

Harley Quinn and the Birds of Prey written by Jimmy Palmiotti and Amanda Conner and illustrated by the latter, it is a sequel to their Harley Quinn ongoing where she teams-up with the comics counterparts of characters from recent birds of Prey movie.

The House of Whispers - written by Nalo Hopkinson and illustrated by Dominike Stanton it tells a story of Vodun deity Erzulie as fate ties her fate with a family of mortal girl Latoya, her girlfriend Maggie and sisters Lumi and Habibi, when her house ends up hurled from her domain and trapped in the Dreaming, currently abandoned by its master, Dream of Endless.

Joker/Harley: Criminal Sanity - written by Kami Garcia and illustrated by Mico Suayan - another retelling of Harley’s origin, this one reimagining Harley as a police profiler trying to hunt down a serial killer who murdered her roommate, the Joker.

The Low, Low Woods written by Carmen Machado and illustrated by Dan McDaid tells a story of two teenagers, El and Octavia, who suddenly wake up in a movie theater with no memories of their last hours, which leads them to the discovery of secrets of their hometown

Wonder Woman: Dead Earth, written and illustrated by Daniel Warren Johnson it tells a story of Wonder Woman awakening in a post-apocalyptic world.

- Admin

[bookclub4m]

Episode 115 - New Weird

This episode we’re talking about New Weird Fiction! Strap in, because we spend a lot of time discussing what this genre even is (or if it exists at all!). We talk about whether a genre needs more than two authors to be a genre, how to describe books in which the plot is not the point, “capital W” Weird vs “lowercase w” weird, and more!

You can download the podcast directly, find it on Libsyn, or get it through Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or your favourite podcast delivery system.

In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | RJ Edwards

Things We Read

The Etched City by KJ Bishop

The Vorrh by Brian Catling

Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer

Palimpsest by Catherynne M. Valente

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval

The Blood of Angels by Johanna Sinisalo

The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker

Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti

Other Media We Mentioned

The Yawhg - Friday Night Spooktacular Visual Novel Stream (Watch Matthew, Meghan, RJ, and Amanda play!)

The Yawhg

A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832–1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror by Jonathan Newell

Perdido Street Station by China Miéville

Neuromancer by William Gibson

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Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer 

Uzumaki by Junji Ito

Are You Afraid of the Dark? (Wikipedia)

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She Walks in Shadows edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R. Stiles 

Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy by Transgender Authors edited by Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick

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British Library’s Tales of the Weird

King City by Brandon Graham

Prophet, Volume 1: Remission by a bunch of people

Borne by Jeff VanderMeer

The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle

The Horror at Red Hook (Wikipedia)

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe by Kij Johnson

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente

Episode 058 - The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Troll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo

The Core of the Sun by Johanna Sinisalo

Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Links, Articles, and Things

H. P. Lovecraft (Wikipedia)

LockedOutOfElfland’s definition of New Weird fiction

Introduction: Old and New Weird

Finnish Weird

The Midnight Society (Twitter account)

Tweet about Lovecraft

Submitted for the Approval of the Midnight Pals by BitterKarella

Episode 019 - Weird Fiction (Book Club for Masochists)

Episode 069 - Bizarro Fiction (Book Club for Masochists)

China Miéville: Marxism and Halloween

Men Writing Women (Reddit)

12 New Weird Books by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

Empire of Wild by Cherie Dimaline

Temper by Nicky Drayden

Escaping Exodus by Nicky Drayden

Falling in Love with Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson

Tentacle by Rita Indiana

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin

The Night Cyclist by Stephan Graham Jones

A Song for Quiet by Cassandra Khaw

The Changeling by Victor LaValle

Gingerbread by Helen Oyeyemi

Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

The Age of Blight by Kristine Ong Muslim

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