How Long 'til Black Future Month?

How Long 'til Black Future Month? gathers twenty-two stories N. K. Jemisin wrote over more than a decade, including the seed of her Hugo-winning Broken Earth trilogy and the story that grew into her novel The City We Became. A newborn city takes human form and fights for its life. A street vendor in a magical New Orleans sells dreams that shift the weather. A community confronts the buried price of its own utopia. The stories move across far-future SF, fantasy, folklore, and alternate history, each one built around a single speculative premise and carried by a voice that braids tenderness, fury, and music. Jemisin treats the short form as a laboratory, the same way Chiang does, while keeping questions of power and justice at the center.