Kirjahaku

From humour to horror, the speculative fiction in Broken Fevers has a gleaming edge. This new collection by award winner Tenea D Johnson features 14 tales. Though many are dark, they pull one through the light, if only for a moment, to visit the next vista, a new world, or this one recast in an uncertain future. Whether it be the lengths a woman will go to for performance art or how best to communicate the Middle Passage's horrors to the privileged, darkness has room to breathe here and bring wonder. Social commentary and genetic adaptation exist alongside fairy crises, alien liminalities, and the responsibilities of those holding up the world and those who communicate with the next. Broken Fevers shares the heart in the hurt, the courage in a cataclysm, and the connections that we make wherever we find ourselves.

Two girls barely in their teens devise an escape from a world abandoned by the privileged, ravaged by climate change, and losing its way. Will they find what the world has lost and what they've so far only found in one another? Can a manufactured heaven floating amongst the stars provide more than illusions of perfection? How might it improve the world that its customers vacated? When all you have left is the space between you, can you overcome the distance, and what might be lurking in the things that you don't say, the days you can't share, the secrets you keep from yourself? In the absence of government, how can the people left behind avoid a grim fate of air thinner by the day, hope thinner by the hour? Is home where you're from or how it treats you? How much a home is a place where you're not equal? Might you change that by stepping into another person's life? Or stepping into new territories within your own?Once forever is attainable what will it be spent on and in this ultimate success of sustainability who decides what exactly should be sustained? Only one way to find out. From award-winning author Tenea D. Johnson comes Blueprints for Better Worlds. In these linked stories, discover.