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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 7h

🍷 Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday opens October tonight. 📖 Oct 7: Alyssa Collins on Survivor by Octavia E. Butler 🔥 Oct 14 + 28: Forged in FIYAH 🌲 Oct 21: Tananarive Due on Mazywood ⏰ 5PM PST / 8PM EST 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🦉🌑 Happy Pub Day! Children of Owl by Darcie Little Badger The Angel at the Gates by Karen Lord What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote-Bonne An Owl omen, a priory under siege, a cave that feeds. Pick your descent. 👇🏾 📚 sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #PubDay

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

📚 Spotted at your #locallibrary: Mazywood by Tananarive Due on the Lucky Day shelf at Alameda Free Library Main. No holds, no wait. Old Hollywood, a family secret, and something hunting the woods. 🌲 #SistahScifi #Mazywood

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📚 How did you meet Octavia E. Butler? Andrea Hairston, Jewelle Gomez, Duane Horton and Eboni Dunbar told us at the San Francisco Public Library. One photocopied all of Kindred. One walked off with a copy. #SistahScifi #OctaviaButler

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🕯️ October with Sistah Scifi: tarot, a free query workshop, Black horror & healing panels, a Black fantasy book club, and a Halloween book fair. Pull up 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #BlackHorror

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🍷🌲 The redwoods remember everything. Allison Mick sat down with Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday to talk HUMBOLDT CUT. This reel is the teaser. The full conversation is waiting 👇🏾 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=iShhcRh2anc #SistahScifi #BlackHorror

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🔥📚 Double Pub Day. Forged in FIYAH, edited by DaVaun Sanders (Tordotcom): 18 stories for ten years of FIYAH. The Siren by Tomi Adeyemi (Henry Holt BYR): dark academia with teeth. 🌑 👉🏾 www.sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #PubDay

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🔥 "Every day I ask myself what would Erykah Badu do." Maurice Broaddus opens Forged in FIYAH with a whole attitude. sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: The Broken Hearts Agency by Clarence A. Haynes. An empathic PI, a haunted DC, and something feeding on desire. libro.fm/audiobooks/9781668656716?bookshop=sistahscifi #SistahScifi #Audiobooks

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🩸 A will, a storm, and a demon hiding somewhere in the family. This Monday, Black Futures Book Club x Langston Seattle reads You Should Have Been Nicer to My Mom by Vincent Tirado 🌑 🗓 Sept 28, 6 PM PT 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #BlackFuturesBookClub

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🍷 From the Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday archive: The Reformatory by Tananarive Due. A Jim Crow reform school. A boy who sees haints. A family history finally spoken. 👇🏾 sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackHorror

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📚🖤 Grown folks, Black books + a little haunting? Sistah Scifi is headed to the Grown Folks Book Fair at @aaaculturecomplex with @tamikadthompson and THE CURSE OF HESTER GARDENS. 🗓 9/30 | 5:30–8:30 PM 📍 762 Fulton St, San Francisco

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🎬🦖 DOUBLE PUB DAY for Tananarive Due! Mazywood, the follow-up to The Reformatory, and The Big Bad Book of Kaiju are both out today. 👉🏾 www.sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

💔 The Broken Hearts Agency by Clarence A. Haynes has a soundtrack: Marvin Gaye, Sylvester, D'Angelo, Jazmine Sullivan and more. Spotify here: open.spotify.com/playlist/5I1... #SistahScifi #TheBrokenHeartsAgency

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

From the first year of Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday, three or four years back: M'Shai S. Dash on THE OBELISK GATE, N.K. Jemisin's Hugo-winning book two. Essun or Nassun? youtu.be/1BtdE2xldak #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

✨Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine Spotlight 📚 New Suns 2, edited by Nisi Shawl, is now in the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @206Langston and @naamnw! 📍Stop by and grab your copy from the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine today! #SistahScifi #NewSuns2 #SSBVM

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📦✨ THEY'RE HERE!!! Signed bookplates from André M. Carrington just arrived🙌🏾🤎 📚 Grab your signed copy at www.sistahscifi.com or request it from your favorite #library.

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

📚 Wednesday, September 30: the Grown Folks Book Fair at the African American Art & Culture Complex, SF. Sistah Scifi will be there with a table. 6PM to 8:30PM, doors 5:30, 18+. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/grown-folk... #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tonight in West Oakland: the Black Authors Book Club takes on THE INTUITIONIST by Colson Whitehead. 6PM, 1801 Adeline St. Then Bay Area Playwrights Festival 47 opens Friday, and N.K. Jemisin talks fantasy and revolution Sept 29. #SistahScifi #Library

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Pub day, and every one of these is about what gets handed down 📚 THE TONGUE I DREAM IN by Sheree Renée Thomas ASHES AT THE ALTAR by LaDarrion Williams OBSERVER by Nicholas Russell THE PERILOUS FIGHT by Colin Kaepernick sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #PubDay

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🍷 A psychic PI runs a detective agency for the heartbroken while something in DC feeds on desire. Highlights from Wine Down Wednesday with Clarence A. Haynes on The Broken Hearts Agency. Full talk: youtu.be/nQm4Uk8xtF4 #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: They Made Us Blood and Fury by Cheryl S. Ntumy. The Queen is dying, the gods have gone silent, and the clan's magic is running out. libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #DarkFantasy

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The Carl Brandon Society is running a free weekend query workshop for BIPOC writers with a completed manuscript, taught by Tamika Thompson. 🗓 Saturday Oct 17 and Sunday Oct 18, 5 PM to 7 PM UTC 💻 Virtual 👉🏾 Apply: events.humanitix.com/the-art-of-t...

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

✨ Sistah Scifi Siblings, join us for two events this week! 📚 Sept. 10: Rewriting Reality with Leslye Penelope at NAAM, 5:30 PM PDT. 🎨 Sept. 11: QTCON: Monthly Mini Comic-Con at Town Bar & Lounge, 5 PM PDT. 🔗 More: mailchi.mp/sistahscifi/... 👉🏾 RSVP: sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

📚 The Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machines are available for rental. Conferences, festivals, pop-ups. Put a wall of Black and Indigenous speculative fiction in the room with your people. Email info@sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📚 Happy Pub Day. BLACK ARTS: STORIES by Megan Giddings is out today from Amistad. Thirteen stories where the supernatural sits down at the kitchen table. Black art has always been part craft, part conjure. sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nisi Shawl answered for a friend who could no longer answer. Vonda N. McIntyre died in 2019, two weeks after finishing a final draft. The Curve of the World is out from Aqueduct Press. Nisi Shawl's books: sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #SupportBlackAuthors

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We love seeing Stacy Nathaniel Jackson rock the Sistah Scifi Black Authors List Shirt. Stacy joined Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday this year to talk The Ephemera Collector, libraries and AI. Wear what you read. sistahscifi.com/collections/litmerch #SistahScifi #LITMerch

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Two by Laura Gao on the shelf. Messy Roots, the Wuhan to Texas coming of age memoir. Kirby's Lessons for Falling (in Love), where a school astrology column turns into a slow burn. Both in stock. sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #GraphicNovels

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"If there is one thing scarier than a dystopian novel about the future, it's one written in the past that has already begun to come true." Gloria Steinem, from her introduction to Parable of the Sower. She died Wednesday at her home in New York. She was 92.

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

🐍 Bassa has fallen. The islands are under water. Everyone left has to choose a side. SEASON OF THE SERPENT closes out The Nameless Republic. Suyi Davies Okungbowa's West African epic fantasy trilogy is complete. Out now: sistahscifi.com #BlackSpeculativeFiction #SistahScifi

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🩸🌌 Two September rooms. Two books about who gets to record what happened. Sept 5, Oakland: Markus Redmond on The Blood Saga, with Sumiko Saulson. Sept 10, Seattle: Leslye Penelope on Zahara Douglass. sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

🍷 Tonight: Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday Leslye Penelope on The Inevitable Undoing of Zahara Douglass. A twin vanishes. The world forgets she existed. Only Zahara remembers. 5PM PST / 8PM EST IG Live: instagram.com/sistahscifi #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

📚 Publication day for Survivor by Octavia E. Butler. Back after nearly fifty years out of print, with "A Necessary Being" and new historical context from scholar Alyssa Collins. sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #OctaviaButler

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

✨ Nneka brewed a love potion to break a family curse. It ended up in her puff puffs. Now every man on the lane is in love with her. Except one. Love, Witches, and Wahala. Out Nov 17. Preorder: sistahscifi.com #CozyFantasy #BlackSpecFic

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

📚 Why these are on our shelf: Sistah Scifi was the bookseller for Night of Ideas at San Francisco Public Library, where Maia Kobabe spoke on a book bans panel. Both titles in stock now. sistahscifi.com #BannedBooks #SistahScifi

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

🎧 Audiobook of the Week: The Broken Hearts Agency by Clarence A. Haynes. A psychic PI works heartbreak like a case file while DC starts losing its memory. Full cast, 7h 57m. libro.fm/audiobooks/9... #SistahScifi #BlackHorror

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🖤 Long Dark House opens Tuesday, Sept 1 in Old Town Alexandria. Black-owned, horror and science fiction at the center of the shelves, plus whatever strange things earned a spot next to them. Grand opening Sat, Sept 5. #SistahScifi #BlackHorror

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🎉 Happy birthday, Roseanne A. Brown. Kumasi born. Raised on Anansi stories. Now builds worlds out of Akan mythology. BY DIVINE RAGE, the adult romantic fantasy debut, lands Spring 2027. Start with A Song of Wraiths and Ruin 👉🏾 sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #Romantasy

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🍷 Tonight: Gwendolyn Paradice discusses The Divining Season with cohost Naomi Darling at Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday. Missing Native girls, ancestral voices, and a town holding its secrets. 5PM PST / 8PM EST sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #IndigenousFuturism

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

🩸 Pub day. BLOOD RISING by Markus Redmond, book two of The Blood Saga, is out now. A Ramanga tribe of formerly enslaved Africans holds the ground it took, and the worst threat comes from inside the bloodline. sistahscifi.com #SistahScifi #BlackHorror

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Fall lineup 🩸 Sept 5, Oakland: Markus Redmond on The Blood Saga Sept 10, Seattle: Leslye Penelope Sept 30, SF: Grown Folks Book Fair Oct 20 + 21, Berkeley and SF Public Library: Black horror, Black healing Register: sistahscifi.com/pages/events #SistahScifi #BlackHorror

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

🎧 Audiobook of the Week 🎧 BLACK LITURGIES by Cole Arthur Riley. 43 liturgies for rage, rest, grief and repair, read in the author's own voice. libro.fm/audiobooks/9781399815024?bookshop=sistahscifi #SistahScifi #Audiobook #SupportBlackAuthors

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🩸 The Black Vampire Renaissance: Blood, Rebellion & Reimagined Histories Sat, Sept 5 • 2 PM • Oakstop17, Oakland Join Markus Redmond for a conversation on Black vampires, liberation, resistance & reimagined histories, moderated by Isis Asare. 🎟️ Register: sistahscifi.com/pages/events

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Two archives. Two futures. Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Susana M. Morris on Audre Lorde and Octavia E. Butler, moderated by Sistah Scifi at Bay Area Book Festival. Full conversation on our YouTube. #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #Afrofuturism

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🍷 Be Steadwell on Chocolate Chip City: three sisters in a gentrifying DC who inherited conjure and are not sure the world deserves it. With cohost Junauda Petrus at Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday. #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🍷 Susana M. Morris on Positive Obsession, with Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday cohost Kendra R. Parker. A piece of the conversation. Full episode: youtu.be/SjAONpN08ZQ #SistahScifi #OctaviaEButler

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🌑 A haunted house novel where the house is a housing project. Tamika Thompson and cohost Sasha Fountain on The Curse of Hester Gardens, from Sistah Scifi Wine Down Wednesday. Watch the full conversation: youtu.be/cVCrhdmDFmc #SistahScifi #BlackHorror

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

✨Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine Spotlight ✨ Now at the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @naamnw: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. Stop by and grab your copy today. #SistahScifi #FridayBlack #NAAM #BlackSpeculativeFiction

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Sistah Scifi @sistahscifi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

🎧 Three Black sisters in DC. All conjurers. None convinced the world has earned their magic. Chocolate Chip City by Be Steadwell is our audiobook pick this week. 👉🏾 libro.fm/audiobooks/9798318524929?bookshop=sistahscifi #SistahScifi #BlackSpeculativeFiction #Audiobook

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