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November 6, 2010 by elliottzetta

Ok, so it’s just one list for one year, but it’s still very exciting to know that THREE black women authors made Amazon’s Top Ten Sci-Fi/Fantasy list!!! Congratulations, ladies! You can read my rave review of The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms here; I recommend Karen Lord‘s beautifully written Redemption in Indigo, and I’m planning to read Nnedi Okorafor‘s Who Fears Death (which has been optioned for a film!). Charles Yu also made the list—you can read The Rejectionist’s interview with him here.

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Posted in African American Literature, awards and honors, Caribbean literature, multicultural literature, speculative fiction | 6 Comments

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on November 6, 2010 at 3:45 pm | Reply Edi

This is significant, Zetta especially given how few POC we’ve seen in speculative fiction.
Didn’t Okorafor write adult this time? Could any of these cross over to YA?
on November 6, 2010 at 11:49 pm | Reply elliottzetta

Four out of ten’s pretty good, right? Who Fears Death is an adult title, though she also has a new YA novel coming out–Akata Witch. I’m not sure how adult novels crossover, but teens definitely could get into The 100K Kingdoms! and the next book in the series is out now, too!
on November 7, 2010 at 1:21 am | Reply Doret

3 out of 10 is very good. I think Who Fears Death would work as a crossover as well. I will have to check out Redemption Indigo. Somehow I missed your review.
- on November 7, 2010 at 3:11 am | Reply elliottzetta
  
  You didn’t miss it, Doret–I failed to write up my impressions! it reads like a folktale; quiet, not much dramatic action, and I didn’t fully understand the value/purpose of the chaos stick–let me know what you think if you read it. Can’t wait to read book 2 by Jemisin!
on November 7, 2010 at 1:53 am | Reply Shadra

I am amazed at how much reading you do. I need to step up my game.
on November 7, 2010 at 3:12 am | Reply elliottzetta

It’s not much, really…if I’m taking the train uptown a lot, I get more reading done. Otherwise the darn TV’s on all the time (PBS, but still).