Danged Black Thing

by Eugen Bacon

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Pub Date Jun 20 2023 | Archive Date Jun 30 2023

Apex Book Company

Literary Fiction | Sci Fi & Fantasy

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Description

Danged Black Thing is a unique voice of black speculative fiction in transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds and mythology. It casts a gaze at mostly women and children haunted by patriarchy in Eugen Bacon’s bold and evocative text.

Honorable Mention Foreword Indie Awards

Finalist Australian Shadows Awards, Aurealis Awards

Otherwise Award Honor List

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A Note From the Publisher

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels, prose poetry and fiction collections. She’s a 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist, and was announced in the honor list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for ‘doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction’. Her short story release Danged Black Thing received a 2021 Otherwise Award honor as a ‘sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work’. Recent books: Mage of Fools (novel), Chasing Whispers (short stories) and An Earnest Blackness (essays). Eugen has two novels, a novella and three anthologies (ed) out in 2023, including Serengotti, a novel, and the US release of Danged Black Thing. Visit her website at eugenbacon.com and Twitter feed at @EugenBacon

Eugen Bacon is an African Australian author of several novels, prose poetry and fiction collections. She’s a 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist, and was announced in the honor list of the 2022...

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Advance Praise

This sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work takes the reader to near-future dystopic states where the body and tech and magic are all intertwined, twisted, and pulled from the earth. Myths are born and undone from the quotidian and later broken down through a candid and unafraid voice. —Ana Hurtado, judge, OTHERWISE AWARDS

Brilliant, erudite, playful – LEE KOFMAN, award-winning author of Split and Imperfect

The stories within Danged Black Thing build worlds that can transmute to provocative dystopias in a matter of a sentence. – FOREWORD REVIEWS

With the lyricism of Toni Morrison and the worldbuilding of Ken Liu, Bacon secures herself as an important voice in Australian genre fiction. Danged Black Thing is the feminist science fiction debut that brings women and Blackness to the forefront. – BOOKS+PUBLISHING

This sharp collection of Afro-Surrealist work takes the reader to near-future dystopic states where the body and tech and magic are all intertwined, twisted, and pulled from the earth. Myths are...

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