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How Long 'til Black Future Month
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'''''How Long 'til Black Future Month''''' is the first collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by fiction writer [[N. K. Jemisin]]. The book was published in November 2018 by Orbit, an imprint of [[Hachette Book Group]]. The name of the collection comes from an [[Afrofuturism]] essay (not included in the book) that Jemisin wrote in 2013<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref>. The stories were written between 2004 and 2017, and some include seeds of ideas that later became full-length books.
== Contents ==
In the introduction, Jemisin notes that she didn't think she could write short stories but, after attending a weeklong workshop, decided to spend the next year trying to write short fiction to improve her longer fiction<ref></ref>. The collected stories were published between 2004 and 2017, and include themes of race, power, culture, family, gender, sexuality, destruction and redemption, dystopia, magic, and technology.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>
* "The Ones Who Stay and Fight"
* "The City Born Great"
* "Red Dirt Witch"
* "L'Alchimista"
* "The Effluent Engine"
* "Cloud Dragon Skies"
* "The Trojan Girl"
* "Valedictorian"
* "The Storyteller's Replacement"
* "The Brides of Heaven"
* "The Evaluators"
* "Walking Awake
* "The Elevator Dancer"
* "Cuisine des Mémoires"
* "Stone Hunger"
* "On the Banks of the River Lex"
* "The Narcomancer"
* "Henosis"
* "Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows"
* "The You Train"
* "Non-Zero Probabilities" (nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2010)
* "Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters"
== References ==
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== Contents ==
In the introduction, Jemisin notes that she didn't think she could write short stories but, after attending a weeklong workshop, decided to spend the next year trying to write short fiction to improve her longer fiction<ref></ref>. The collected stories were published between 2004 and 2017, and include themes of race, power, culture, family, gender, sexuality, destruction and redemption, dystopia, magic, and technology.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (1 for 2)</ref><ref></ref><ref></ref>
* "The Ones Who Stay and Fight"
* "The City Born Great"
* "Red Dirt Witch"
* "L'Alchimista"
* "The Effluent Engine"
* "Cloud Dragon Skies"
* "The Trojan Girl"
* "Valedictorian"
* "The Storyteller's Replacement"
* "The Brides of Heaven"
* "The Evaluators"
* "Walking Awake
* "The Elevator Dancer"
* "Cuisine des Mémoires"
* "Stone Hunger"
* "On the Banks of the River Lex"
* "The Narcomancer"
* "Henosis"
* "Too Many Yesterdays, Not Enough Tomorrows"
* "The You Train"
* "Non-Zero Probabilities" (nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2010)
* "Sinners, Saints, Dragons, and Haints, in the City Beneath the Still Waters"
== References ==
<references />
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