{"product_id":"black-star-line-william-lohier-9781668219546","title":"Black Star Line: Stories","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Lohier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1668219549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668219546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.77lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.50w x 0.59d","brand":"William Lohier","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49097365881087,"sku":"9781668219546","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-star-line-william-lohier-9781668219546","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}