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Black Star Line
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Product Details
Author:
William Lohier
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
224
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster (March 23, 2027)
Imprint:
Simon & Schuster
Release Date:
March 23, 2027
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9781668219546
ISBN-10:
1668219549
Weight:
12.37oz
Dimensions:
5.5" x 8.375" x 0.585"
File:
Eloquence-SimonSchuster_07232026_P10381072_onix30-20260723.xml
Folder:
Eloquence
List Price:
$27.00
Pub Discount:
65
Case Pack:
40
As low as:
$20.79
Publisher Identifier:
P-SS
Discount Code:
A
Overview
Black Star Line is a genre-defying story collection in the vein of Octavia Butler and Jordan Peele that fuses speculative fiction, Sci-Fi, and magical realism to explore Black life at the edge of collapse and possibility.
Spanning virtual worlds, haunted cities, and dystopian futures, the stories in this collection follow characters facing impossible conditions in their relentless pursuit of freedom and pleasure.
In “Drapetomania,” a mysterious epidemic causes Black people to run uncontrollably until their bodies give out, transforming a racist 19th-century pseudoscientific diagnosis into a chilling meditation on escape, exhaustion, and collective grief; in “Return Doors,” a couple’s unraveling coincides with the appearance of portals visible only to Black people; in “The Armillary Sphere,” a boy travels to Seoul to undergo a procedure that allows him to glimpse the future and relive the past; in “Lifeblood,” a woman seeks gender euphoria in a virtual reality under the watchful eye of a sinister corporation.
Electrifying and radically inventive, Black Star Line channels both blistering rage and profound tenderness, mapping the fragile, queer, ecstatic, and often perilous possibilities that emerge when we dare to imagine beyond the constraints of the present.
Spanning virtual worlds, haunted cities, and dystopian futures, the stories in this collection follow characters facing impossible conditions in their relentless pursuit of freedom and pleasure.
In “Drapetomania,” a mysterious epidemic causes Black people to run uncontrollably until their bodies give out, transforming a racist 19th-century pseudoscientific diagnosis into a chilling meditation on escape, exhaustion, and collective grief; in “Return Doors,” a couple’s unraveling coincides with the appearance of portals visible only to Black people; in “The Armillary Sphere,” a boy travels to Seoul to undergo a procedure that allows him to glimpse the future and relive the past; in “Lifeblood,” a woman seeks gender euphoria in a virtual reality under the watchful eye of a sinister corporation.
Electrifying and radically inventive, Black Star Line channels both blistering rage and profound tenderness, mapping the fragile, queer, ecstatic, and often perilous possibilities that emerge when we dare to imagine beyond the constraints of the present.
