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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So, we finally got some new Trek. And we probably complained it to death. Starfleet Academy, we probably didn’t deserve you.
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He drew a deep breath. Well, I’m back he said.
Hi everyone. Been a long time since I blogged. But, I think I may be ready to return. Perhaps for real this time. A lot has happened since I last posted in February. I finished and submitted the first book in my upcoming MG series which was announced back last April. My novel A Master of Djinn was nominated for several awards, and won both a Nebula, Locus, and Ignyte award. My short story “If the Martians Have Magic” published in Uncanny Magazine, has also been nominated and won an Ignyte award. I attended a few cons, including one where I got to be a guest of honor for winning the Compton Crook. Lots has happened in genre too. We got tons of new fantasy and sci-fi books, movies and shows–a golden era of geekdom. And we got some folks losing their natural minds and acting a damn fool over Black Hobbits or Black Mermaids. (Go outside and touch grass nerds.) What a time to be alive. I have missed however being on this blog, talking about writing, my favorite TV series, issues of diversity, politics and more in SFF.
So I’m gonna try to be here more. To talk bout stuff. We’ll see how long it lasts.
Turns out the SFF I write is pretty political? Who knew? The answer is, everybody. Everybody knew. Including me.
Art by Odera Igbokwe, from the short essay Fantasy’s Othering Fetish.
Phenderson Djèlí Clark 