Tag: Arwen Elys Dayton

Amazing Audiobooks (#AA2020) Nominees Round Up, May 22 Edition

Click here to see all of the current Amazing Audiobooks nominees along with more information about the list and past years’ selections.

How Long ‘Til The Black Future Month?: Stories by N.K. Jemisin; Narrated by Shayna Small, Gail Nelson-Holgate, Robin Ray Eller, Ron Butler
Orbit Hachette Audio
Publication Date: November 27, 2018
ISBN: 9780316491341

In N.K. Jemisin’s first collection of short fiction, she provides 22 short stories featuring fantasy and science fiction narratives. Each story, in essence, provides a platform for black characters to be seen in fantasy and science fiction as Jemisin states in her prologue “ How terrifying it’s been to realize no one thinks my people have a future. And how gratifying to finally accept myself and begin spinning the future I wanted to see.” Stories include a king who trusts in magic and dragons to secure his future, a woman who recreates a strange recipe featuring magical ingredients, a restaurant that can recreate any meal from your memories, strange visions in the subway train, enigmatic aliens, and how cities become live being.

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Best Fiction for Young Adults (#BFYA2020) Nominees Round Up, March 8 Edition

Strong, Faster, and More Beautiful by Arwen Elys Dayton
Delacorte Press / Penguin Random House
Publication Date: December 14, 2018
ISBN: 9780-525580966 

Six short stories are connected by a world where the possibilities of body and genetic modification become more advanced and dark with each story. From a twin about to take part of his sister’s organs in order to live, to a religious zealot fighting against the advancements science has made against God’s creations until he needs them himself, each story shows us how far society will go to become perfect.

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