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So Long Been Dreaming by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan
From starships to futures reshaped by resistance, this groundbreaking anthology gathers voices from around the world to reimagine power, history, and who gets to tell the tale. So Long Been Dreaming offers vibrant, subversive speculative fiction that challenges the past and claims the future.
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... postcolonial confrontations with empire told through speculative lenses?
Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora by Sheree Renée Thomas
If the way stories in So Long Been Dreaming flip the colonizer/colonized dynamic—turning first contact, invasion, and “discovery” on their heads—grabbed you, you’ll love how Dark Matter assembles a century of Black SFF that does the same. From insurgent starfarers to magic-fueled resistance, it echoes the anthology’s drive to reclaim narrative power and imagine futures where the formerly subjugated set the terms.
... globally diverse voices reshaping speculative tropes?
New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color by Nisi Shawl
You enjoyed how So Long Been Dreaming foregrounds Caribbean, African, South Asian, and Indigenous perspectives—queer, diasporic, and multilingual. New Suns brings that same breadth of voice and vision, offering stories that, like your favorite pieces, braid folklore with near-future tech, interrogate assimilation, and center characters whose identities aren’t an afterthought but the heart of the tale.
... a mosaic of sharp, self-contained stories that reimagine power and belonging?
How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
If the anthology’s vignette-by-vignette impact—the way each piece stands alone yet contributes to a larger conversation—worked for you, How Long ’til Black Future Month? delivers that same punch. Like your favorite stories that jump from haunted histories to reengineered futures, Jemisin’s tales move swiftly but land hard, exploring city spirits, alt-hist kitchens, and storm-tossed communities with resonant, anthology-style bite.
... culture-rich, character-driven speculative tales where tech and myth blur?
The Assimilated Cuban's Guide to Quantum Santeria by Carlos Hernandez
If you were drawn to the socially focused, character-first feel of So Long Been Dreaming—stories where the speculative element illuminates migration, memory, and heritage—Hernandez’s collection will hit the same notes. It blends gentle SF ideas with spiritual technologies and family lore, much like the pieces you loved that fuse spacefaring futures with ancestral reckonings.
... intimate, folklore-laced reclamations of erased histories?
Empress of Salt and Fortune by Nghi Vo
If the narratives in So Long Been Dreaming that center memory, naming, and the act of telling—characters piecing together who they are after conquest—stayed with you, The Empress of Salt and Fortune offers a similarly intimate uncovering. Through quiet testimony and artifacts, it charts a marginalized figure’s rise and self-definition, mirroring the anthology’s most poignant journeys of identity and belonging.
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