So, I published a short for Amazon last year in an anthology titled The Time Traveler’s Passport, alongside some greats like John Scalzi, RF Kuang, and Olivie Blake. Being asked to do a thing for Amazon, was… weird. But the folk behind it were good people. So, I channeled a bit of my inner Dan Freeman (look it up) and the result was… Cronus—a dystopian story of a near future that mirrors our times. And resistance.
Guess I maybe shoulda mentioned it.
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Ring Shout has a paperback edition–which came out from Tor Nightfire back in October. Guess I shoulda maybe said something about it. Never too late!
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Image: Activist Malcolm X holds up a paper for the crowd to see during a 1963 rally in New York City. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
It’s that time of year again, Black History Month. Well, we’re actually on the last few days. But I made it just in time. Only, these aren’t normal times. Black History Month–like just about everything else–is under attack, by the same destructive forces of bigotry, racism, and hate that inspired its very creation. So, looks like the past is prologue. But get ya’ chin off ya’ chest. Hold your head up. This ain’t the first time we’ve had this fight. And Black History Month can help us understand where we are, how we got here, and how we can survive, fight back, and overcome this dark moment.
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Image: From the New Yorker article: Madame President: The Cover That Never Was | Art by Kadir Nelson. We coulda had a real one, and racism and misogyny done f–d it up for everybody.
It’s that time of year again, Black History Month. Only, these aren’t normal times. Black History Month–like just about everything else–is under attack, by the same destructive forces of bigotry, racism, and hate that inspired its very creation. So, looks like the past is prologue. But get ya’ chin off ya’ chest. Hold your head up. This ain’t the first time we’ve had this fight. And Black History Month can help us understand where we are, how we got here, and how we can survive, fight back, and overcome this dark moment.
Every February in the United States, the country usually sets aside 28 (or 29 in a leap year) days to celebrate, discuss and engage Black History. Innocuous enough. And yet Feb. 1st seems to signal the beginning of a 28-day long ritual of whining. How come they get their own month? What about White History Month? It’s a cornucopia of misconceptions and endless micro-aggressive racial faux-pas.
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Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. We will find a way to make a way out of no way.”–John Lewis, 1940-2016
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