With Archangels Of Funk (hardcover, Kindle, audiobook), writer Andrea Hairston is giving us a third opportunity to hang out with Cinnamon Jones, the main character of her novels Redwood And Wildfire and Will Do Magic For Small Change.
In the following email interview, Hairston discusses what inspired and influenced this Afrofuturist story.
There are no set rules when it comes to geographically based short story anthologies. Some editors impose strict guidelines; others take a broader approach. But while their reasoning can be as varied as the selections in their collections, they often have to do with the realities of publishing: page count, budgets, and so on.
But in the following email interview with Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, co-editor of The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 (paperback, Kindle), he explains why he and his co-editors Eugen Bacon and Milton Davis favored a broader approach, and not just in terms of the geography but also the genres and formats as well: “Because unity is what I believe Africans need most.”
For people who were unfamiliar with the comics, seeing a technologically advanced country populated entirely by black people in the movie Black Panther was a revelation. But in her new novel Where It Rains In Color (paperback, Kindle), writer Denise Crittendon is going one step further by creating a black planet. In the following email interview, she discusses what inspired and influenced this Afrofuturistic sci-fi space opera story.
Following on the heels of the reissue of 2011’s Redwood And Wildfire, writer Andrea Hairston has issued a new version of that book’s sequel of sorts, 2016’s Will Do Magic For Small Change (paperback, hardcover, Kindle, audiobook).
In the following email interview, Hairston discusses what originally inspired and influenced this Afrofuturism / fantasy / genre-mashing novel.