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✨ Beyond the Glittering World is not just a collection—it’s a constellation of voices, visions, and vibrant futures. 🌌

From adventures in Indigenous futurism to tender tales of first love, this groundbreaking anthology celebrates a collection of Native American storytellers who are redefining what speculative fiction can be. With stories and poems that shimmer with joy, resistance, heartbreak, and hope, this anthology is a bold declaration: Native voices belong in every genre, every universe, every timeline.

Featuring twenty brilliant Native women writers and writers of marginalized genders, the Glittering World invites you into realms where imagination knows no limits and tradition meets transformation.

📚 Genre-bending. Boundary-breaking. Utterly unforgettable. 🌟 Pre-order your copy now and be part of the future these storytellers are shaping.

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“They killed my mother. They took our magic. They tried to bury us. Now we rise.”

🔥 Step into the richly imagined world of Orïsha, where ancient magic, royal betrayal, and the power of resistance collide. In Children of Blood and Bone, Zélie Adebola fights to reclaim the magic stolen from her people—and ignite a revolution.

Once, the land thrummed with power. Burners, Tiders, and Reapers wielded elemental forces. But now, under a ruthless monarchy, the maji are gone… and hope is fading. With a rogue princess at her side and an enemy prince on her heels, Zélie must risk everything to awaken a legacy that could change Orïsha forever.

⚔️ Epic. Emotional. Unforgettable. 📚 Children of Blood and Bone is a modern fantasy classic that will leave you breathless and burning for more.

✨ Order now and join the uprising.

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🌟🎶 Lalovavi — an Afrofuturist opera for a new era 🎶🌟 Summer 2026 | Music Hall • Springer Auditorium 🎼 Music by Kevin Day | ✍🏾 Libretto by Tifara Brown 🗣️ Sung in English and Tut* with projected English captions

“With each step, love’s beacon shall shine bright.” 💫

Set 400 years in the future, Lalovavi is a sweeping Afrofuturist opera that follows Persephone, a teenage daughter of Atlas’s ruling family. In a society where power is measured by possession of the rare Syndica gene—granting vitality and longevity—Persephone's discovery of her own Syndica status sets off a devastating betrayal by her own blood.

Forced into exile, she begins a breathtaking journey of survival, self-discovery, and rebellion—uncovering a hidden past and learning that true power lies in the courage to choose one’s own destiny… and to love.

✨ A story of legacy, resistance, and radical transformation, Lalovavi blends operatic tradition with Black speculative vision in a bold new work that will move hearts and ignite imaginations.

🎟️ Coming Summer 2026 — stay tuned for ticket details and updates.

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🍷✨ Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday ✨🍷 📅 June 25, 2025 🕔 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PDT

Join us for an unforgettable evening of love, magic, and literary brilliance as @besteadwell dives into their stunning debut novel, Chocolate Chip City, in conversation with the luminous Junauda Petrus (The Stars and the Blackness Between Them) and beloved bookish host Bri's Bookish Date! 📚🖤

✨ Chocolate Chip City is a warm, witty, and wondrous Afrofuturist love story steeped in sisterhood, magic, and self-discovery. Think Practical Magic meets Black Cake — a delicious blend of fantasy and familial depth that’s impossible to put down.

Expect laughter, insight, and community as we celebrate stories that heal, resist, and shine.

💫 Pour a glass, bring your heart, and let’s get into it.

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✨👻 In a city where glamour meets the ghostly, The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery is a fast-paced adventure that will leave you breathless—and maybe a little haunted.

Gwendolyn Montgomery is New York’s top publicist, the queen of spin at Sublime Media. But beneath the glitz and power lies a secret: she can communicate with the dead. She’s buried her mystical past and built a new life—until a chilling incident at the Brooklyn Museum and the return of an old connection, Fonsi Harewood, force her to confront the spirit world she tried to forget.

Fonsi is a queer Latinx psychic tangled in a love triangle with a ghost and his ex, and he’s bringing a message: the veil between the living and the dead is crumbling. Now, Gwendolyn must step into her power or risk watching New York—and everything she’s built—fall into chaos.

🌙✨ Wickedly funny, deliciously seductive, and charged with otherworldly mystery, this novel is a wild ride through love, power, and the spirit realm.

📚 The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery is calling. Will you answer? 🛒 Order now and get ready to be spellbound.

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We’re proud to bring you the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machines — a carefully curated collection of visionary works by Black and Indigenous authors who are reshaping the future of speculative fiction. 🌌📚

From epic sci-fi adventures to spellbinding fantasy and revolutionary futurism, each book inside our machines showcases the brilliance, creativity, and boldness of writers whose voices deserve center stage.

📍 Find us here: @Chapter510 – Oakland, CA 📖 Featured Books: 🔹 The Me I Choose to Be @NatashaAnastasiaTarpley 🔹 Mae Among the Stars by @RodaAhmed

📍 @DistantWorldsCoffee - 6401 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, United States 📖 Featured Books: 🔹 Survive the Dome by @KosokoJackson 🔹 Kinning: Book 2 Everfair Duology by @NisiShawl

📍 @NAAMNW - 2300 S Massachusetts St, Seattle, WA 98144, United States 📖 Featured Books: 🔹 Parable of the Sower: Book 1 The Parable Series by @OctaviaE.Butler 🔹 Everfair: Book 1 Everfair Duology by @NisiShawl

These stories are here to spark your imagination, expand your universe, and celebrate narratives that too often go unheard. Next time you're nearby, stop by and take home a portal to another world. 🌍✨

🔗 Learn more and explore the full collection: sistahscifi.com/pages/sistah-scifi-vending-machine

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Credit to @sistahscifi ✊Happy Juneteenth, everyone! We’re celebrating by spotlighting incredible Black authors and Black-owned bookstores.

Check out these amazing bookstores: 📖 @mahoganybooks 📖 @baldwinandcompany 📖 @marcus.books

And for some must-read books, we highly recommend:

📚 Wake by Rebecca Hall

📚 Blood At the Root by @itsladarrion

📚 The Reformatory by @tananarivedue

📚 Kindred Graphic Novel by @damiand2duffy

These powerful titles delve into freedom through the lenses of gender, sexuality, race, and class. Which book would you recommend and why? Drop your favorites in the comments! ⬇️❤️

#Juneteenth #juneteenth2024 #happyjuneteenth #happyjuneteenth2024 #celebrateblackculture #blackpower #blackexcellence #blackauthors #blackculture #blackhistory #unapologeticallyblack #blackandproud #sistahscifi #sistahscifibookstore

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✨ Thank you to everyone who joined Sistah Scifi at the Schomburg Centennial Festival and Black Utopias! ✨

From celebrating Black literature with authors like #ShereeRenéeThomas, #IbiZoboi, and #TochiOnyebuchi to dreaming of brilliant futures with #CeboCampbell, #AndreaHairston, and #ClarenceAHaynes, you made these moments unforgettable. 💫 📸 Swipe through to relive the magic, the joy, and the brilliance of our time together!

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🍷✨ Throwback to Wine Down Wednesday with Sistah Scifi & @TananariveDue ✨🍷

We had an incredible evening diving into The Reformatory with the brilliant Tananarive Due. Her chilling new novel — set in Jim Crow-era Florida — sparked a powerful conversation about racism, injustice, and the spirits that linger in history. 📖

If you missed it, don’t worry — you can still grab a copy of The Reformatory here: 📚 https://sistahscifi.com/products/preorder-the-reformatory-by-tananarive-due?_pos=1&_sid=cf89487c0&_ss=r&variant=44982238806333

Or check it out at your local library. 💜

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🎧 Audiobook of the Week: Pet 🎧

Pet is here to hunt a monster. But are you brave enough to look?

In the city of Lucille, the children are taught that monsters don’t exist anymore. But sometimes, the real monsters are hiding in plain sight. This powerful, provocative story challenges what we believe about safety, truth, and justice — and asks who gets to decide what’s real.

Dive into this gripping audiobook and experience a tale that’s as haunting as it is necessary.

✨ Listen now and face the monsters lurking beneath the surface.

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🔥✨ Get ready to power up. ✨🔥

Marvel Television’s Ironheart is almost here — the highly anticipated new series from executive producer Ryan Coogler blasts off with a 3-episode premiere on June 24 at 6PM PT / 9PM ET, exclusively on @DisneyPlus! 🚀🧠

📅 Mark your calendars. Rally your crew. It’s time to meet the next evolution of a hero in the Marvel Universe.

► Stream it on Disney+: [https://bit.ly/2XyBSIW]

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🍷✨ Hey Sistah Scifi Siblings! ✨

Mark your calendars for 07/09/2025 because this is one virtual gathering you won’t want to miss. We’re diving deep into the mysterious, magical, and mind-bending world of The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery — and we’re doing it with some phenomenal voices guiding the conversation.

Join @ClarenceAHaynes, @booksandbounty, and @wellreadandratchet as they unpack the themes, hauntings, and heart of this powerful story. 👻📚

So pour yourself a glass of your favorite sip 🍷, bring your curiosity, and meet us there — we promise it’ll be insightful, affirming, and a little bit magical. ✨

📅 Date: July 9, 2025 🕖 Time: 5PM PST 📍 Link in bio.

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✨📚 Meet Me at the Crossroads by @MeganGiddings ✨

Megan Giddings brings her signature brilliance and eye-opening storytelling to this unforgettable novel that dazzles the senses and bewitches the mind.

Meet Me at the Crossroads is a deeply moving story about faith, love, and family—woven with emotional complexity and surprising twists that will stay with you long after the last page.

From one of today’s most exciting young voices, this is a must-read for anyone craving a story that’s as heartfelt as it is thought-provoking.

✨ Pre-order now and discover a novel that challenges and charms in equal measure.

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🌍🔥 Parable of the Sower by @OctaviaEButler — Book 1 of The Parable Series

Step into a hauntingly prophetic vision of 2025 California, a world fractured by chaos, fear, and survival. In this powerful odyssey, Lauren Olamina, an 18-year-old Black woman gifted and burdened with hyperempathy (the ability to feel others’ pain as her own), navigates a landscape where communities barricade themselves against desperate scavengers and addicts driven by a deadly drug.

When her walled community falls, Lauren embarks on a perilous journey along coastal highways, moving north into the unknown, determined to find safety and build a new future.

But this isn’t just a story of survival—it’s a revolutionary exploration of empathy, resilience, and the fierce hope that blossoms even in the darkest times.

📖 A seminal work from a visionary author, Parable of the Sower challenges us to rethink what it means to feel, to fight, and to lead in a world on the edge.

✨ Ready to begin the journey?

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🖤✨ What would you sacrifice to live forever? In @tananarivedue’s chilling and unforgettable novel My Soul to Keep, love, immortality, and ancient secrets collide in a tale that’s as heart-wrenching as it is haunting.

When journalist Jessica marries David, she believes she’s found the love of her life. But as the people around her begin to die under mysterious, violent circumstances, she uncovers a terrifying truth: David is not what he seems. He has traded his humanity for eternal life—and now, he’s willing to invoke a forbidden ritual to bind Jessica and their daughter to him forever. 🕯️🩸

This is a story of love turned obsession, the cost of immortality, and the devastating power of secrets too dark to stay buried.

📖 Order now and step into a suspenseful, soul-shaking journey that blends supernatural horror with emotional depth and cultural resonance.

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🌟✨ Black Utopias: Visionary Black Futures ✨🌟

What does freedom look like when imagination knows no bounds? On Saturday, June 15, 2025 at 12:00 PM EDT, join us at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library) for an unforgettable conversation that centers Afrofuturism, speculative fiction, and the radical power of Black liberation.

This free and open-to-all event brings together some of today’s most visionary writers and thinkers who are reshaping how we see the future:

🔥 Cebo Campbell — author of Sky Full of Elephants 🔥 Andrea Hairston — author of Archangels of Funk 🔥 Clarence A. Haynes — author of The Ghosts of Gwendolyn Montgomery

The discussion will be expertly moderated by Isis Asare, founder of Sistah Scifi, alongside Erika Hardison from Fabulize Magazine presenting MSAB! Mixtape Vol.1.

Together, we’ll explore how Black speculative fiction and Afrofuturism offer us new blueprints for liberation — visions of a future where Blackness thrives in all its complexity, beauty, and power. This is a space to dream, challenge, and create beyond limitations.

✨ Don’t miss this chance to be part of a transformative dialogue imagining Black futures without limits.

🎟️ Register now and join us in celebrating visionary voices shaping tomorrow’s stories.

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✨ THANK YOU to everyone who joined us for A Teenage Superhero: Celebrating Octavia E. Butler’s Lauren Oya Olamina, both in-person at the SF Public Library and online!

Together, we honored Butler’s legacy, uplifted youth power, and celebrated Lauren Oya Olamina’s visionary strength as a teen literary superhero.

Big thanks to moderator #AidaNdiaye and panelists #DRKRParker, #SusanaMMorris, and #MaggieTokuda-Hall for a powerful evening of storytelling, scholarship, and reflection. 🌱📚

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