Black Stars Series by Nisi Shawl, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Victor LaValle, Nalo Hopkinson, Nnedi Okorafor, C.T. Rwizi

3.82 · 112 ratings
  • The Visit (Black Stars #1)
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    The Visit (Black Stars #1)

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings · published 2021

    As a powerful matriarchy reshapes the world, two men—old friends—confront the past and future in a bracing speculative short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah.One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite. Obinna is a dutiful and unsophisticated stay-at-home husband and father married to a powerful businesswoman. Eze is single, a cautious rebel from his university days whose arrival soon upsets the balance in Obinna’s life... more

  • The Black Pages (Black Stars #2)
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    The Black Pages (Black Stars #2)

    Nnedi Okorafor

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings · published 2021

    By fate and fire, a being four millennia old is reborn in Mali in a short story of contemporary African life and ancient secrets by the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of the Binti trilogy.Issaka has returned home to Timbouctou and a devastating al-Qaeda raid. His only hope for survival is Faro, a stunning, blue-beaded supernatural entity who rises free from the flames of her imprisoning book as it burns... more

  • 2043...A Merman I Should Turn to Be (Black Stars #3)
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    2043...A Merman I Should Turn to Be (Black Stars #3)

    Nisi Shawl

    Rated: 3.03 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings · published 2021

    African-descended USians are finally obtaining reparations—underwater. Plunge into the action of a visionary future by the award-winning author of Everfair, with narration by LeVar Burton (Star Trek: The Next Generation).Five miles off the South Carolina coast, Darden and Catherina are getting their promised forty acres, all of it undersea... more

  • These Alien Skies (Black Stars #4)
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    These Alien Skies (Black Stars #4)

    C.T. Rwizi

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2021

    Accidents happen in the strange realms of the African Union system. One of them sends two humans to the far side of a star gate in a thrilling short story of hope, survival, and new dimensions.Copilots Msizi and Tariro are testing a newly constructed wormhole jump that presumably leads to unsettled habitable worlds. Then an explosion sends them off course, far from where they started and with little chance of ever making it back. Now they’re stranded on their new home for the diaspora... more

  • Clap Back (Black Stars #5)
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    Clap Back (Black Stars #5)

    Nalo Hopkinson

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 2021

    A past struggle for racial equity could achieve a profound future victory in this audacious short story about technology, hoodoo, and hope by a Nebula Award–winning author.Burri is a fashion designer and icon with a biochemistry background. Her latest pieces are African inspired and crafted to touch the heart. They enable wearers to absorb nanorobotic memories and recount the stories of Black lives and forgiveness. Wenda doesn’t buy it... more

  • We Travel the Spaceways (Black Stars #6)
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    We Travel the Spaceways (Black Stars #6)

    Victor LaValle

    Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings · published 2021

    Otherworldly interference in real-world New York City? Or delusions? For the answer, follow two loving strangers in an astonishing short story of faith and hope by a World Fantasy Award winner.Grimace is a homeless man on a holy mission to free Black Americans from emotional slavery. His empty soda cans told him as much. Then he meets Kim, a transgender runaway who joins Grimace on his heroic quest... more

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