Sistah Scifi | Bookstore

Sistah Scifi is the first Black owned book store focused on science fiction and fantasy in the United States as verified by the American Booksellers Association

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🎂 Happy birthday, Cadwell Turnbull.

Book one belonged to the people. Book two to the monsters. Book three belongs to the gods.

Signed copies of A Ruin, Great and Free at https://t.co/39hWGwQGhZ

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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🎂 Happy birthday to Be Steadwell.

Queer pop composer, filmmaker, and author of Chocolate Chip City, a debut about three Black sisters in DC who conjure and aren't sure the world deserves their magic yet.

Signed copies at https://t.co/39hWGwQGhZ

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Season of the Serpent by Suyi Davies Okungbowa closes out The Nameless Republic.

The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope opens on Y2K and a twin nobody else remembers.

Both out today.

https://t.co/39hWGwQGhZ

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Five fall preorders 📚

Black Arts (Sept 8)
The Big Bad Book of Kaiju (Sept 22)
Forged in FIYAH (Sept 29)
Children of Owl (Oct 6)
Love, Witches, and Wahala (Nov 17)

Preorders decide what gets printed.

https://t.co/39hWGwQGhZ

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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🎧 A young African writer vanishes at a residency. Her sister gets a true crime podcast instead of answers.

HOUSE OF MARGINS by Tlotlo Tsamaase, out now from Erewhon Books. Audiobook through our https://t.co/6akWJN6Pvx partnership:

https://t.co/rZFUObsk1b

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The Social Justice Children's Book Fair turns 10. Last year: 4,000 books into Bay Area schools, tribal libraries, and the San Quentin literacy project.

Donations matched up to $5K right now.

https://t.co/QLuUIhzG38

#SistahScifi #KidLit

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🍷 Tonight: Markus Redmond joins Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday to talk Blood Rising, book two of The Blood Saga.

Vampires, rebellion, colonial Carolina.

5PM PST / 8PM EST
https://t.co/dPGZAwOJyt

#SistahScifi #BlackHorror #WineDownWednesday

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🌌 Seattle Black Nerd Festival returns to LANGSTON August 28 to 30. Three days of Black Nerd Magic: panels, gaming, cosplay, live music, and a marketplace built by Black creators. Free with RSVP.

Siblings in Seattle, pull up.

#SistahScifi #BlackNerdMagic

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🗓 August with Sistah Scifi.

Aug 5: Markus Redmond on BLOOD RISING
Aug 12: Gwendolyn Paradice on THE DIVINING SEASON
Aug 15: D.E.A.R. in Oakland
Aug 17: Ghana, nine days
Aug 30: Graphic Novel Club
Aug 31: Black Futures Book Club

https://t.co/dPGZAwOJyt

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🎧 Audiobook of the Week🎧

In RING SHOUT by P. Djèlí Clark, the Klan’s hatred has become literal monsters, and Maryse Boudreaux is hunting back.

🎧 Listen through our @Libro.fm partnership at https://t.co/BsVK0W8grb or borrow free via @libby.app

#SistahScifi #BlackHorror

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Angela Bassett at Black Girls Rock said it plain: stop asking if you belong. Start declaring it. ✊🏾

Black women have been building worlds without permission for generations.

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SupportBlackAuthors

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🍷 Tonight: Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday with Greg Burnham.

Pull up at 5 PM PST / 8 PM EST for a live conversation on *The Search for Sadiqah* from Rosarium Publishing.

Join us at https://t.co/39hWGwQGhZ.

#SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday #TheSearchForSadiqah #GregBurnham

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Black history, still being written.

Tananarive Due at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, wearing the names of Black writers who have long imagined what could come next.

History remembers. Black imagination reaches forward.

#SistahScifi #BlackFutures

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📚 What’s your Sunday ritual?

Isis is spending hers with DELICIOUS MONSTERS by Liselle Sambury because Daisy is plant mom goals. Listen through eligible Spotify Premium plans, then support an indie bookstore through https://t.co/Qf3LdZ7Jc2.

#SistahScifi #SundayReading

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🎧 Audiobook of the Week🎧

WHEN THE RECKONING COMES by LaTanya McQueen, turns plantation nostalgia into Southern Gothic horror.

Listen: https://t.co/TTwvwHBdBR

#SistahScifi #BlackHorror #Audiobooks

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The monstrous can also be a language of resistance.

Join the Black Futures Book Club for a virtual discussion of SORROWLAND by Rivers Solomon.

📅 July 27
⏰ 6:00 to 7:30 PM

#SistahScifi #Sorrowland #BlackFutures

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🍷 TONIGHT: Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday with Clarence A. Haynes on THE BROKEN HEARTS AGENCY.
An empath PI, a ghost-plagued DC, and a force feeding on desire.

5PM PST / 8PM EST.

Register: https://t.co/dPGZAwOJyt

#SistahScifi #WineDownWednesday

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Save your sister or doom the world. No pressure. 🌌

Preorder The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass by Leslye Penelope at https://t.co/VkKr9yH7C7. 👉🏾

#SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #PreorderBooks #SupportBlackAuthors #BlackReaders

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Andrea Hairston calls The Redemption Center is Closed on Sundays a SFF mystery romance.

The real question: why does everyone ask if the mystery was hard to write, but never the romance?

🔗 https://t.co/4oeJw7DAtt

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📚Flyers are up across West Oakland for tomorrow's A is for Afrofuturism Family Storytime with Isis Asare + author Angela Dalton. An afternoon of books, wonder, and Black futures for the whole family.

🗓Sat July 18, 3:30 PM PT
📍West Oakland Library

#Afrofuturism #OaklandReads