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Mojorhythm

Sheree Renée Thomas

"Sheree Renée Thomas gives us a whirlpool of poem and story, a 'wild and strangeful breed' of cosmology. . ."―Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio, Pulitzer Prize Winner.

The award-winning Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Nine Bar Blues returns with a new collection of Hoodoo, fantasy, magic myths, and lore.

Meet a spacefaring prophet of the future digging in the crates of earth's past, follow intrepid ancient body snatchers in search of the elixir of life, fall in love with a shapeshifting, alien goddess intent on the world's most epic family reunion. Beware of the Candylady whose sweets hide secrets yet to be seen, and enter a legendary diner whose culinary wares change fates.

These tales masterfully speak to the magic and mystery, the rhythms and blues of the soul's turn through life and beyond. Short stories that invite readers into a world where ancient traditions and futuristic visions collide in a symphony of magic, music, and adventure, tapping into that natural power and rhythms of a natural world that is connected to futuristic technology.

These stories explore the supernatural rhythms of music, history, and culture, Hoodoo as an ancient modern spiritual tradition and folklore, the whimsy and horrors of life, and the realms of the impossible. It's a multigenre strange and wondrous brew.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Third Man Books
  • Publish Date: Jul 15th, 2025
  • Pages: 300
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00in - 0.00lb
  • EAN: 9798989908943
  • Categories: Science Fiction - GeneralShort Stories (single author)Fantasy - Urban

About the Author

Thomas, Sheree Renée: - Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning writer, poet, editor, and a 2023 Hugo Award Finalist and Locus Award Winner. She was honored with the 2023 Octavia E. Butler Award and was also an Ember Award Finalist. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, music, and the culture of the Mississippi Delta. She is the author of the short fiction collection, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, a Finalist for the 2021 Locus Award, Ignyte Award, and World Fantasy Award for Year's Best Collection and winner of the 2022 Darrell Award for Year's Best Novella. She is the winner of the 2022 Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award and is #339 in the Walter Day Science Fiction Hall of Fame Trading Cards. She is also the author of collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life and Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems. She edited the two-time World Fantasy Award-winning Dark Matter anthologies, co-edited Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue with Pan Morigan and Troy L. Wiggins, and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction with Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, a NAACP Image Award Finalist and winner of the 2023 Locus Award. Sheree Renée Thomas is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949 and is the associate editor of Obsidian, founded in 1975. She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee near a mighty river and a pyramid.

Praise for this book

"Sheree Renée Thomas is a master of the craft and a true literary alchemist." -- Daniel José Older, New York Times bestselling author of Shadowshaper, The Book of Lost Saints, Star Wars Last Shot, Star Wars High Republic, & Ballad & Dagger

"The lyrical gifts of Thomas invokes the rhythms of African-American ring shouts and the dense, humid atmosphere of the American South. " ―Publishers Weekly

"Sheree Renée Thomas is a griot for the 21st century." --WRAL

"Sheree Renée Thomas masterfully weaves together myth, history, and science fiction into a tapestry of the human experience. -- Eco Lit Review