Mojorhythm

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

BRAND NEW, NEVER BEFORE SEEN STORIES, INCLUDING THE NOVELLA "FAST." Award-winning writer Sheree Rene Thomas returns with MOJORHYTHM, her newestcollection of Hoodoo, fantasy, magic myths, and lore.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.Meet a spacefaring prophet ofthe future digging in the crates of earth's past, follow intrepid ancient bodysnatchers in search of the elixir of life, fall in love with a shapeshifting, aliengoddess intent on the world's most epic family reunion. Beware of theCandylady whose sweets hide secrets yet to be seen, and enter a legendarydiner whose culinary wares change fates. These tales masterfully speak to themagic and mystery, the rhythms and blues of the soul's turn through life andbeyond.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.

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"Sheree Rene Thomas is a master of the craft and a true literary alchemist."
-- Daniel Jos Older, New York Times-bestselling author of Shadowshaper,

The Book of Lost Saints, Star Wars Last Shot, Star Wars High Republic, and 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 Rene Thomas is a griot for the 21st century." - WRAL

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

Author Bio

Sheree Rene Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and a twice Hugo Awardnominated, Locus Award, and three-time World Fantasy Award-winning editor. Her work isinspired by myth and folklore, natural science, Hoodoo, and Mississippi Delta conjure and hasearned her fiction fellowships at the Millay Colony of the Arts, Bread Loaf Environmental, withthe Cave Canem Foundation, and many others. Her work is widely anthologized and appears inThe Big Book of Modern Fantasy. The author of four collections, including Mojorhythm, Nine BarBlues: Stories from an Ancient Future, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life, and Shotgun Lullabies,Sheree is a co-editor for Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction, Trouble the Waters:Tales of the Deep Blue, and is the editor of the groundbreaking Dark Matter speculative fictionanthologies that first introduced W.E.B. Du Bois's work as science fiction and explored 165+years of Black Speculative Fiction. In 2023 she was honored with the Octavia E. Butler Award.She is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy of Science Fiction and associate editor ofObsidian.Her poems appear most recently in This is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary BlackPoets and The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry. Hercollaboration with artist Janelle Mone on the "Timebox Altar(ed)" novelet appears in TheMemory Librarian and Other Stories of Dirty Computer (HarperVoyager), a New York Timesbestseller. Sheree is a Marvel writer, including the novel, Black Panther: Panther's Rage(Titan/Penguin Random House), an adaptation of Don McGregor's legendary graphic novel, andher comic book debut, "The World Is Not Ready" featuring the Black Panther and Stormappears in Marvel Voices: Legends #1 (January 31, 2024). She has new stories in BlackPanther: Tales of Wakanda and in Captain America: The Shield Sam Wilson (January 14,2025). Her essays have appeared in The New York Times and Scientific American. She lives inher hometown, Memphis, Tennessee near a mighty river and a pyramid. Visit

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