People are starving, biogenetic adaptations are prevalent amongst the privileged, and the poor are being ground to a sharp and dangerous point. This is the future US where in the struggle for survival citizens are pushed to the breaking point as relationships start to fracture along the lines of class and race. These are stories of the leaders and the followers, the victims, heroes, and the everyday people caught in history’s wake, chief among them Dr. Ezekiel Carter, a genius in his field who decides to offer genetic reparations to those being left behind. In this world, what will become of the people at the fringes and more than that of humanity itself?

R/evolution: A Mosaic Novel (Book One)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Johnson, Tenea D.

Science Fiction

counterpoise

The city of Leiodare is unlike any other in the post-climate change United States. Within its boundaries, birds are outlawed and what was once a crater in Appalachia is now a tropical, glittering metropolis where Anna Armour is waiting. An artist by passion and a factory worker by trade, Anna is a woman of special gifts. She has chosen this beautiful, traumatized city to wait for the woman she's lost, the one she believes can save her from her troubled past and uncertain future. When one night Anna creates life out of thin air and desperation, no one is prepared for what comes next-not Lucine, a smooth talking soothsayer with plans for the city; Lucine's brother Eugenio who has designs of his own; Seife, a star performer in the Leiodaran cosmos; or Rory, a forefather of the city who's lived through outbreak, heartbreak, and scandal. Told through their interlocking stories, Smoketown delves into the invisible connections that rival magic, and the cost of redemption.

Smoketown: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Blind Eye Books

Heiresses of Russ 2013: The Year's Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction

“One of the most compelling aspects of speculative fiction is its ability to fulfill otherwise unattainable desires—whether one wants to create a magical society or travel through time, visit an alien civilization or remake history. It also satisfies more mundane reader desires, the ones it would not seem so hard to fulfill. To call a few of these out, I'll willingly step on this mine: the explosion of ‘should.’ It should not be easier to find a zombie apocalypse than it is to find a lesbian protagonist in the aisles of your local bookstore. Falling for werewolves and shape shifters should not be more accepted than a transgendered love affair; marginalized people really will still exist in the future; more folks should know that, and more so create like they know it. Someone then must step into the gap, or to be more accurate the gaping holes in the collective visions of our possibilities as human beings. In these pages, someone has. Seventeen someones to be exact.” —from the Introduction by Tenea D. Johnson

LGBTQ+ Books

Lo, Malinda

MacFarlane, Alex Dally

Rios, Julia

Humphrey, Claire

Gomez, Jewelle

Vaughn,Carrie

Merrow, J L

Mandelo, Brit

Lethe Press

From humour to horror, the speculative fiction in Broken Fevers has a gleaming edge. This new collection by award winner Tenea D Johnson features 14 tales. Though many are dark, they pull one through the light, if only for a moment, to visit the next vista, a new world, or this one recast in an uncertain future. Whether it be the lengths a woman will go to for performance art or how best to communicate the Middle Passage's horrors to the privileged, darkness has room to breathe here and bring wonder. Social commentary and genetic adaptation exist alongside fairy crises, alien liminalities, and the responsibilities of those holding up the world and those who communicate with the next. Broken Fevers shares the heart in the hurt, the courage in a cataclysm, and the connections that we make wherever we find ourselves.

Broken Fevers

Rosarium Publishing

Over a century after being gifted with exceptional genetic adaptations, William Woods still walks the earth, as strong and physically healthy as the day he was born. The country is not so fortunate. Corporations, in the hunt for his elusive genes, have ripped apart communities and twisted laws to try to cash in on his slow aging, and its promise for immortality. Their minions in the government have erased the past to control the future. To preserve his anonymity and, with it, a chance at equality for millions, he’s witnessed the deterioration of personal freedoms, ethical boundaries and basic infrastructure. But some acts he can’t just sit by and watch. In his quest to save people from being hunted down, William happens upon the survivors who will shape his destiny and the world’s fate. Now that those in power have sidelined all progress they can’t profit from, it's up to William, Lillian and us others to wrestle back evolution, lest it become one more product to manufacture cheaply, poorly and for one faction's gain.

Evolution (Revolution)

Counterpoise Records

Two girls barely in their teens devise an escape from a world abandoned by the privileged, ravaged by climate change, and losing its way. Will they find what the world has lost and what they've so far only found in one another? Can a manufactured heaven floating amongst the stars provide more than illusions of perfection? How might it improve the world that its customers vacated? When all you have left is the space between you, can you overcome the distance, and what might be lurking in the things that you don't say, the days you can't share, the secrets you keep from yourself? In the absence of government, how can the people left behind avoid a grim fate of air thinner by the day, hope thinner by the hour? Is home where you're from or how it treats you? How much a home is a place where you're not equal? Might you change that by stepping into another person's life? Or stepping into new territories within your own?Once forever is attainable what will it be spent on and in this ultimate success of sustainability who decides what exactly should be sustained? Only one way to find out. From award-winning author Tenea D. Johnson comes Blueprints for Better Worlds. In these linked stories, discover.

Blueprints for Better Worlds

Short Stories & Anthologies

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