Real Sugar is Hard to Find is a collection of stories for reluctant witches, sugar smugglers, and soil thieves-exploring the intersections of deep-rooted and timely issues such as climate change, reproductive justice, queer identities, and family trauma. Whether fantasy, science fiction, or terrifyingly close-to-home, the worlds of these stories are inhabited by flawed characters whose lives are profoundly impacted by climate change and environmental degradation.\nArranged in a progression from dystopian to utopian worlds, the stories chart a path from climate despair towards resilience and revolutionary optimism. Even in the bleakest of futures, however, Kern offers reasons to hope, connect, and keep fighting for a better world.\nLike Kelly Link’s Magic for Beginners or Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove, Kern's stories are unflinching, intimate explorations of trauma and our deepest fears, rendered irresistible through the infusion of fantastic speculative elements and a dark sense of humor.

Real Sugar is Hard to Find: Stories

Literature & Fiction

Kern, Sim

Short Stories & Anthologies

Android Press

Edited by Voodoonauts founders Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Hugh "HD" Hunter, and LP Kindred\nAuthors include Lysz Flo, S.O. Arogunmati, Eden Royce, Ernestine-Vera Kabushemeye Gahimbare, Tina Jenkins Bell, Tola Owolabi, Jermane Cooper, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Wesley Fox, T.L. Huchu, Christopher Caldwell, and LP Kindred. 
From the Voodoonauts Afrofuturist collective for Black science fiction and fantasy writers. 
When a desperately mundane woman borrows clothing from her mother, a soucouyant goes searching for her skin. A Nigerian parent climbs mountains to heaven to steal a name and glorious destiny for their newborn. A master tailor gets her skills tested when a spectral customer enters her workshop and she can't say no. A preacher casts dark magic from his pulpit when the Word ain't enough to run his church. These tales and more populate Voodoonauts Present: (Re)Living Mythology. 
Called from the imaginations of its inaugural fellows and a handful of solicited authors including Christopher Caldwell, TL Huchu, and Eden Royce, Voodoonauts curates a coterie of short fiction and poetry that paints across the breadth of magic and Blackness. Co-editors/founders Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Hugh "HD" Hunter, and LP Kindred ask Black Writers to interrogate their mythologies, folklores, superstition, and wives' tales to create the book within your hands.

Voodoonauts Presents: (Re)Living Mythology

Flo, Lysz

Njeri Kagunda, Shingai

Arogunmati, S.O.

Eden Royce, Eden

Kabushemeye Gahimbare, Ernestine-Vera

Jenkins Bell, Tina

Owolabi, Tola

United States

Bioluminescent: A Lunarpunk Anthology

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Norton-Kertson, Justine

Fantasy

When I left home I took only what I could carry... What will you bring with you down the path, through the hills and into the woods? Fragments, stories, living things? Echoes of the past, promises for the future? In fifty new and collected poems, Marisca Pichette celebrates myth, folklore, and memory. Her poems traverse landscapes both real and imagined, taking inherited tales and retelling them through a queer lens. From dusk into the night and out again at dawn, her work offers you a magical journey in speculative verse.

rivers in your skin, sirens in your hair: poems

Pichette, Marisca

The debut novella by Phoebe Wagner, editor of the first English language solarpunk anthology.\n"A nuanced exploration of the concept of ecological balance, and the stories we tell each other about it." 
~Sarena Ulibarri, editor of Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers & author of Another Life\n"A truly lovely novella about storytelling, hope, love, and standing up as a community. Wagner has matched the contemplative vibes of Becky Chambers' Monk and Robot duology." ~Phoenix Arden, The Firebird's Bookshelf 
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One rule oversees the post-apocalypse: never refuse a Harmonizer. 
Storytellers claim there are two original stories. When a stranger named Eduardo, a Harmonizer with extraordinary powers, arrives with a warning, Rowan senses life is about to change. Eduardo warns that Haven City is growing and all those living in the expansion zone are in danger. 
As the living world recovers from ecocide, the Harmonizers control cities to keep the human population in balance. But while the Harmonizers claim their actions are peaceful, Eduardo says they’re taking too much and returning to the patterns that caused the world to warm. 
Rowan decides to head out with Eduardo on a quest to warn others living in solarpunk communities that have fallen within the newly expanded city limits. Along the way, Rowan collects stories of survival and realizes fleeing the city will only encourage its expansion. Rowan and Eduardo must face the harm buried deep in their pasts if they’re to have any hope of bringing the city to a halt.

When We Hold Each Other Up

Wagner, Phoebe

Science Fiction

There are dragons in Lagos and witches who wear their sons’ skins, while a cabal of otherworldly beings are collecting intelligent life forms in the depths of the universe. 
Nigerian author Dare Segun Falowo’s poetically precise language and spine-tingling plot twists are reminiscent of both Poe and Kafka as they tackle themes of belonging, abusive maternal relationships, and tragic love in an unforgettable literary adventure. 
This collection features some of Falowo’s most notable previously published stories alongside new tales of magic and terror. Ngozi Ugegbe Nwa was longlisted for the 2021 NOMMO for short stories and Vain Knife was longlisted for the 2020 NOMMO for short stories. Convergence in Chorus Architecture appeared on the 2020 Locus 
Recommended reading list and was longlisted for the BFSA short fiction award, the 2021 NOMMO for novellas, and the 2021 SCKA award for short fiction.

Caged Ocean Dub: Glints & Stories

Falowo, Dare Segun

Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and Solarpunk Tales

DOCTOROW, CORY

Lambert, Brent

The Inn at the Amethyst Lantern

Teen & Young Adult

Dotson, J. Dianne

Ninefox Gambit RPG

Ha Lee, Yoon

Fighting for the Future: A Cyberpunk-Solarpunk RPG

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