Rivers Solomon

William Hutson

Jonathan Snipes

Daveed Diggs

ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clipping Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu. Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago. Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are. Inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping for the This American Life episode “We Are In The Future,” The Deep is vividly original and uniquely affecting.

The Deep

A triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction Vern—seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised—flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest, Vern is a hunted woman. Forced to fight back against the community that refuses to let her go, she unleashes incredible brutality far beyond what a person should be capable of, her body wracked by inexplicable and uncanny changes. To understand her metamorphosis and to protect her small family, Vern has to face the past, and more troublingly, the future—outside the woods. Finding the truth will mean uncovering the secrets of the compound she fled but also the violent history in America that produced it. Rivers Solomon’s Sorrowland is a genre-bending work of Gothic fiction. Here, monsters aren’t just individuals, but entire nations. It is a searing, seminal book that marks the arrival of a bold, unignorable voice in American fiction.

A Novel

Sorrowland

Odd-mannered, obsessive, withdrawn, Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She's used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, as they accuse, she'd be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her until nothing remained of her world, save for stories told around the cookfire. Aster lives in the low-deck slums of the HSS Matilda, a space vessel organized much like the antebellum South. For generations, the Matilda has ferried the last of humanity to a mythical Promised Land. On its way, the ship's leaders have imposed harsh moral restrictions and deep indignities on dark-skinned sharecroppers like Aster, who they consider to be less than human

An Unkindness of Ghosts

Model Home

Anger is an energy. A young girl, a slave in the South, is presented wth a moment where she can grasp for freedom, for change, for life. She grabs it with both hands, fiercely and intensely, and the spirit world is shaken. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Tor.com Original

Blood Is Another Word for Hunger

Yoon Ha Lee

Becky Chambers

SL Huang

In the fading light of a dying star, a soldier for hire searches for a missing refugee ship and uncovers a universe-shattering secret. Orphan, refugee, and soldier-for-hire Asala Sikou doesn't think too much about the end of civilization. Her system's star is dying, and the only person she can afford to look out for is herself. When a ship called The Vela vanishes during what was supposed to be a flashy rescue mission, a reluctant Asala is hired to team up with Niko, the child of a wealthy inner planet's president, to find it and the outer system refugees on board. But this is no ordinary rescue mission; The Vela holds a secret that places the fate of the universe in the balance, and forces Asala to decide—in a dying world where good and evil are far from black and white, who deserves to survive? From award-winning science fiction authors Becky Chambers (The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, A Closed and Common Orbit, and Record of a Spaceborn Few), Yoon Ha Lee (Ninefox Gambit, Raven Stratagem, Revenant Gun, Dragon Pearl), Rivers Solomon (An Unkindness of Ghosts), SL Huang (Zero Sum Game.) Don't miss the sequel to the Vela, coming in 2020 from Serial Box (serialbox.com)

The Vela: The Complete Season 1

La quatrième de couverture indique : "Lors du commerce triangulaire, quand une femme tombait enceinte sur un vaisseau négrier, elle était jetée à l'eau. Mais en fait, toutes ces femmes ne sont pas mortes. Certaines ont survécu, se sont transformées en sirènes et ont oublié cette histoire traumatique. Un jour, l'une d'entre elles, Yetu, va leur rappeler."

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Soif de sang et autres textes

Derinlikler

Annalee Newitz

Mary Robinette Kowal

Elizabeth Bear

John Chu

Seanan McGuire

E. Lily Yu

Laurie Penny

Kathleen Ann Goonan

Carole Johnstone

Brenda Peynado

Rich Larson

S. L. Huang

JY Yang

Greg Egan

Christopher Rowe

Karin Tidbeck

Siobhan Carroll

Mimi Mondal

Erinn L. Kemper

KJ Kabza

Lis Mitchell

M. Evan MacGriogair

Silvia Park

A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short fiction published on Tor.com in 2019. Includes stories by: Elizabeth Bear Siobhan Carroll John Chu Greg Egan Kathleen Ann Goonan S. L. Huang Carole Johnstone KJ Kabza Erinn L. Kemper Mary Robinette Kowal Rich Larson M. Evan MacGriogir Seanan McGuire Lis Mitchell Mimi Mondal Annalee Newitz Silvia Park Laurie Penny Brenda Peynado Christopher Rowe Rivers Solomon Karin Tidbeck JY Yang E. Lily Yu At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2019 Edition

En las profundidades

St. Juju

Aster est une jeune femme que son caractère bien trempé expose à l'hostilité des autres. Son monde est dur et cruel. Pourtant, elle se bat, existe, et aide autant qu'elle le peut, avec son intelligence peu commune, ceux et celles qu'elle peut aider. Mais un jour, un type la prend en grippe. Et Aster comprend qu'elle ne peut plus raser les murs, et qu'il lui faut se tenir grande. Sa rébellion est d'autant plus spectaculaire qu'elle est noire, dans un vaisseau spatial qui emmène les derniers survivants de l'humanité vers un éventuel Eden, un vaisseau où les riches blancs ont réduit en esclavage les personnes de couleur. Un premier roman qui prend pour prétexte la science-fiction pour inventer un microcosme de l'Amérique, et de tous les maux qui la hantent, tels des fantômes. Rivers Solomon est une personne transgenre, née aux Etats-Unis, qui vit désormais en Grande-Bretagne. L'incivilité des fantômes est son premier roman.

L'incivilité des fantômes

Rivers Solomon

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