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• Parable of the Sower

  Butler, Octavia E.

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  In the year 2024, Lauren Olamina lives with her family in one of the only safe places left outside Los Angeles. When fire destroys not only her home but kills her entire family, Lauren begins an odyssey to the safety of the north with other refugees.

• Black Leopard, Red Wolf

  James, Marlon, 1970-

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  When Tracker, a works-alone mercenary, is hired to find a boy that's been missing for three years, he finds himself breaking his own rules when he bands together with a ragtag group of volunteers also looking for the missing boy.

• Sorrowland

  Solomon, Rivers

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  After escaping her strict religious compound, Vern gives birth to twins in the woods. However, she cannot outrun the community she left behind, and one act of severe brutality will change her forever.

• The Black God's Drums

  Clark, P. Djèlí

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  In an alternative world, Creeper is just one more personal trying to escape the American Civil War: by yearning her place on the airship Midnight Robber. However, passage on a ship can't stop what's coming for them: chaos and mass destruction from…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Asiri. Volume 1

  Okupe, Roye,

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  A once-thriving civilization colonizing Mars is threatened by a mysterious enemy from deep space. Capable of manipulating technology in ways unimaginable, these space explorers will have to fight for what's theirs.

• Do You Dream of Terra-Two?

  Oh, Temi

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  Four space-race veterans and six well-trained teenagers embark on a 23-year trip to an Earth-like planet discovered by a nearby star. As they travel deeper and deeper into space, their reliance on each other is tested.

• Excellence. Volume 1, Kill the Past

  Thomas, Brandon

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  Spencer Dales was born to follow in his father's footsteps: becoming a magician tasked with bettering the lives of those with high potential. However, after experiencing the flaws and brokenness of the system, he has to decide if he'll stay the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Monsters We Defy

  Penelope, L., 1978-

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  In 1925, Clara Johnson is determined to uncover the malevolent entity preying in her community. Using her natural spiritualism and leading a ragtag group of others, she has to pull off a near-impossible heist to appease the spirits only she can see.

• Who Fears Death

  Okorafor, Nnedi,

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  In the future, post-nuclear holocaust Africa, a young girl, Onyesonwu, is destined to end the genocide of her people, the Okeke, at the hands of the Nuru.

• A Phoenix First Must Burn

  Sixteen Stories of Black Girl Magic, Resistance, and Hope

  Caldwell, Patrice

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  An anthology of sixteen stories that center Black women and gender-nonconforming individuals in speculative fiction.

• The Scourge Between Stars

  Brown, Ness,

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  After a failed colonization of a far-off planet, acting captain Jacklyn Albright is tasked with returning the last of humanity - herself and her crew - back to Earth. However, as tensions rise and the journey becomes treacherous, someone - or…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Babel-17

  Empire Star

  Delany, Samuel R.

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  Poet and linguist Rydra Wong is tasked with translating an alien language after the language has been intercepted and a number of high-ranking assassinations.

• The Fifth Season

  Jemisin, N. K.,

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  After Essun discovers her husband has not only brutally murdered her son but kidnapped her daughter, she goes on a journey - through the collapse of the Sanze empire and the deadly rift formed in a vast continent known as the Stillness - to save her.

• Everfair

  Shawl, Nisi

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  Everfair is known as a safe haven, a utopia, for the native Congo populations and former enslaved people returning to Africa from America. However, when the "owner" of Everfair, King Leopold II, decides to sell the land, the people will do anything…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Rage of Dragons

  Winter, Evan,

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  In a world where every one in two thousand women can call on dragons and one in every one hundred men can transform themselves into killing machines, gift-less Tau has a plan to escape. However, after those closest to him are murdered, he vows his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Home - The Ignyte Awards

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  The Ignyte Awards began in 2020 to highlight contributions and experience of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) creators, specifically in speculative fiction.