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A ground-breaking anthology of haunting speculative stories by contemporary Black Canadian writers that explore growth, futurity, and hope.
Edited by Terese Mason Pierre, this bold and innovative anthology of speculative short fiction reveals and uplifts the spectacular imaginings, reveries, reflections, experiments, and hopes of Black writers in Canada. A masseuse attends her mother’s fourth funeral, only to encounter family she’s never met. A postdoc instructor navigates an almost-life in an Elsewhere realm of safety and comfort. After societal collapse, an immigrant leaves her precarious station, and her memories, behind. A woman isolating from a new virus starts hallucinating. A young nanny accepts a job with a peculiar employer in search of immortality. A medium is tasked with summoning a spirit that hits too close to home. And two teenagers test a friendship over magic carpet flying practice.
These ten breathtaking stories explore natural and urban landscapes, living and dead relationships, economic catastrophe, love, and desire—all while celebrating the persistent and ever-changing self, and envisioning powerful futures.
Featuring stories by:
Trynne Delaney
francesca ekwuyasi
Whitney French
Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga
Chimedum Ohaegbu
Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Chinelo Onwualu
Lue Palmer
Terese Mason Pierre
Zalika Reid-Benta
PRAISE FOR AS THE EARTH DREAMS
“Taking us across time, place, and possibility, As the Earth Dreams offers a distinctly Canadian vision of Black life that is as lush and expansive as it is tender and rooted.” —The Walrus
“As with all the best speculative fiction, though, the real treat is in realizing how much of what’s described sounds like the way we live now.” —The Toronto Star
“As the Earth Dreams packs powerful short fiction into a wide-ranging, not-so-quiet anthology of work by emerging and more established Black voices.” —Quill & Quire, starred review
“The stories in As the Earth Dreams comprise a powerful, gracefully written, thematically varied contribution by Black Canadian writers to the documentation of their own futures.” —Ancillary Review of Books
Terese Mason Pierre 