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In the latest wave of science fiction, authors of color take space to imagine multiple new societies Salon 2 hrs ago The female engine, woman as a machine Getty Stock Photo
The year 1968 was one of racial progress and retreat: the year athletes raised their fists in a Black power salute at the Olympics, the year Martin Luther King Jr. was slain. In the world of science fiction – far ahead in an invented future – the period brought more progress. Star Trek aired the first kiss between two characters of different races on television. And in literature, Ursula Le Guin launched the Earthsea Cycle, a series whose protagonist had red-brown skin, Le Guin s attempt to correct a canon populated by pale heroes.
The Rock Eaters Explores The Boundaries Of Emotion, Possibility And Longing knpr.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from knpr.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Brenda Peynado wastes no time in yanking her reader into her stories – and into the burning issues that consume her. Her debut collection,
The Rock Eaters, demonstrate this superbly. Thoughts and Prayers and The Radioactives are the two tales that bookend
The Rock Eaters, and they kick off and conclude the collection with punchy yet lingering impact.
The opening of Thoughts and Prayers instantly magnetizes the topic of school shootings by folding in the presence of eerie angels with human faces and the bodies of birds; the opening of The Radioactives mashes immigration and farfetched technology into a deconstructed superhero narrative one that stirs the soul with justice and rage. Just as spectacularly, Thoughts and Prayers is a fantasy story, while The Radioactives is science fiction and within that bracket of genres, the author wields a righteous voice that s as frank as it is dreamlike.