{"product_id":"9781668154526","title":"Black Star Line","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Star Line\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a genre-defying story collection in the vein of Octavia Butler and Jordan Peele that fuses speculative fiction, Sci-Fi, and magical realism to explore Black life at the edge of collapse and possibility.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning virtual worlds, haunted cities, and dystopian futures, the stories in this collection follow characters facing impossible conditions in their relentless pursuit of freedom and pleasure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn “Drapetomania,” a mysterious epidemic causes Black people to run uncontrollably until their bodies give out, transforming a racist 19th-century pseudoscientific diagnosis into a chilling meditation on escape, exhaustion, and collective grief; in “Return Doors,” a couple’s unraveling coincides with the appearance of portals visible only to Black people; in “The Armillary Sphere,” a boy travels to Seoul to undergo a procedure that allows him to glimpse the future and relive the past; in “Lifeblood,” a woman seeks gender euphoria in a virtual reality under the watchful eye of a sinister corporation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eElectrifying and radically inventive, \u003ci\u003eBlack Star Line\u003c\/i\u003e channels both blistering rage and profound tenderness, mapping the fragile, queer, ecstatic, and often perilous possibilities that emerge when we dare to imagine beyond the constraints of the present.","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":60008227307806,"sku":"9781668154526","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.simonandschuster.com\/products\/9781668154526","provider":"Simon and Schuster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}