Lewis
Read for a speculative fiction short story book club.
I’ve read a number of speculative fiction short story collections in the past couple of years, and this one leaves something to be desired, for me. I think it is not the best showcase of Black Canadian Speculative Fiction that it could be, though there are a couple of stories in it that worked reasonably well. The volume would have benefitted from being longer/including more stories, a bit more editing/revision for some of the stories, and probably also benefited from the inclusion of authors’ postscripts or editor’s notes on the stories (this is a general preference I have for any collection like this, but I think some of these stories in particular would have been aided by contextualizing notes).
The stories that I most recommend from the volume are: Ravenous, Called Iffy (Chimedum Ohaegbu) and Just Say Garuka (Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga).
Read for a speculative fiction short story book club.
I’ve read a number of speculative fiction short story collections in the past couple of years, and this one leaves something to be desired, for me. I think it is not the best showcase of Black Canadian Speculative Fiction that it could be, though there are a couple of stories in it that worked reasonably well. The volume would have benefitted from being longer/including more stories, a bit more editing/revision for some of the stories, and probably also benefited from the inclusion of authors’ postscripts or editor’s notes on the stories (this is a general preference I have for any collection like this, but I think some of these stories in particular would have been aided by contextualizing notes).
The stories that I most recommend from the volume are: Ravenous, Called Iffy (Chimedum Ohaegbu) and Just Say Garuka (Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga).