The Black God’s Drums — P. Djèlí Clark

Take some super good fantasy with a good African/Caribbean flavour, season with a nice hint of steampunk, and bake slowly for a few of hours in an althist New Orleans: what more can you ever want from a book?

This good length novella is from around the same time as Djèlí was writing the Dead Djinn series, and with all of these stories you really pick up on the time in Djèlí’s writing that he begins to introduce steampunk elements into his unique and wonderful style of fantasy.

A really well written, really enjoyable read.

For my next P. Djèlí Clark story, i’m going back in time.   I managed to track down some earlier stories of his that i missed: gotta read them all.   First up of those will be The Things My Mother Left Me.

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Fantasy Magazine — Issue 60

I bought this for “The Things My Mother Left Me” written by P. Djèlí Clark.   However, if the rest of it is anything like Djèlí’s writing i will definitely be reading through all of it.

Original Short Stories

Black, Their Regalia — Darcie Little Badger
The Rock in the Water — Thoraiya Dyer
The Things My Mother Left MeP. Djèlí Clark
Red Dirt Witch — N.K. Jemisin

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Reprint Fiction

Eyes of Carven Emerald — Shweta Narayan
gezhizhwazh — Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Walkdog — Sofia Samatar
Name Calling — Celeste Rita Baker

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Nonfiction

Learning to Dream in Color — Justina Ireland
Give Us Back Our Fucking Gods — Ibi Zoboi
Saving Fantasy — Karen Lord
We Are More Than Our Skin — John Chu
Crying Wolf — Chinelo Onwualu
You Forgot to Invite the Soucouyant — Brandon O’Brien
Still We Write — Erin Roberts

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The Found and the Lost — Ursula K. Le Guin

Standalones

Buffalo Gals, Won’t You Come Out Tonight – 1987
Hernes – 1991
Paradises Lost – 2002

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Hainish

Vaster than Empires and More Slow – 1971
The Matter of Seggri – 1994
Another Story or A Fisherman of the Inland Sea – 1994

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Yeowe and Werel

Forgiveness Day – 1994
A Man of the People – 1995
A Woman’s Liberation – 1995
Old Music and the Slave Women – 1996

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Earthsea

Dragonfly – 1998
The Finder – 2001
On the High Marsh – 2001

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