![]() ![]() ![]() Here’s our edited conversation about busting genre walls, dystopia as realism under the pandemic and the prospect of pop-culture world domination. ![]() The book, the first in the planned Dark Star trilogy, is rooted in African mythology and animated by queer desire it expands the genre it enters, asking us to continue to expand our reality and explore our relationship to the very idea of truth. Narrated by a man called Tracker, whose supernaturally keen nose has earned him work as a kind of bounty hunter, “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” is also a distinctly Jamesian entry into the fantasy canon. Marlon James’ fourth novel, “ Black Leopard, Red Wolf,” the winner of The Times’ inaugural Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, is his first foray into fantasy, but it retains the epic scope and kaleidoscopic quality familiar from his Booker Prize-winning novel, “ A Brief History of Seven Killings” - a mind-expanding, brain-bending sensibility that asks for (and rewards) a reader’s focus and dedication. If there’s a person you want to talk to in the midst of a pandemic, it’s probably a writer of speculative fiction - someone whose imagination is as wild and gnarly as the wild and gnarly times. ![]()
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