17 May, 2021
Doing the WFC's Homework
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Rivers Solomon’s 2021 Sorrowland is a standalone contemporary SF novel.
Vern finally escapes the Blessed Acres of Cain, the African-American separatist community in which she was raised. She leaves behind her mother and Reverend Sherman, the husband she did not want. She takes with her her two unborn children.
The woods into which she flees are a refuge … but a forbidding one.
9 Sep, 2019
Miscellaneous Reviews
The Deep is an upcoming standalone speculative fiction novel by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes.
Each historian selects their replacement. Yatu is the current wajinru historian. Inconveniently for her people, her task may be killing her.
6 Sep, 2018
Miscellaneous Reviews
Rivers Solomon’s 2017 An Unkindness of Ghosts is a generation-ship novel.
The generation ship Matilda set out lifetimes ago to convey a handful of people to a distant promised land1. It carries within it every flaw known to human society. Until the ship arrives at its destination, there is no escape, not for the ship’s rulers (the Sovereignty) and not for the unfortunates relegated to the lower decks.
Aster is brilliant. Her intellectual gifts recommend her to the great surgeon Theo — not as a potential surgeon, but as a surgeon’s assistant. That is all she can ever be, because her skin is brown. That marks her as one of the underclass, as someone who can be oppressed and victimized without consequence.