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A review by 2treads
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories by Temi Oh
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
3.0
Bringing a collection like this into the canon is a way in which readers of Black science fiction can draw threads of similarity between style and voice of writers past and present. It is a way to interrogate form and see what ideas and how they relayed have evolved or remained the same. What is mirrored and what is foremagined.
These trace the times in which the authors lived and how they drew inspiration from within their own time but also looked forward and imagined what the world could become and what we could become beyond the world and systems we exist within.
As with any anthology there are stories that captured the attention, left an imprint and engaged the reader with the creativity and breadth of ideas that were conceptualized and related. All these stories contained some influence of identity and place of the writers and was evident in the prose and dialogue between characters.
These trace the times in which the authors lived and how they drew inspiration from within their own time but also looked forward and imagined what the world could become and what we could become beyond the world and systems we exist within.
As with any anthology there are stories that captured the attention, left an imprint and engaged the reader with the creativity and breadth of ideas that were conceptualized and related. All these stories contained some influence of identity and place of the writers and was evident in the prose and dialogue between characters.