Diverse Books for a Neighborhood of Readers
butler sower.jpg

Other Worlds

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, Afrofurturism, Feminist & Queer World-Building - an invitation to step into other worlds has always been at the center of our brick-and-mortar. Our first scifi/fantasy lists were built by WisCon fans, heavy on Butler and Le Guin and the other founding women of the genre. We’ve maintained our commitment to find, read, shelve, and recommend diverse voices. Browse here and find books for middle-grade and up, as the best speculative fiction crosses ages and genres!

Rivers Solomon and Daveed Diggs, The Deep

Rivers Solomon and Daveed Diggs, The Deep

$18.35

Price includes state and local tax. Purchase through this screen for store pickup.

To have this book shipped, please use our partner Bookshop.org

To purchase this title as an audiobook, please use our partner Libro.fm

To find your shopping cart click here: https://www.bigbluemarblebooks.com/cart

Quantity:
Add To Cart

Octavia E. Butler meets Marvel's Black Panther in The Deep, a story rich with Afrofuturism, folklore, and the power of memory, inspired by the Hugo Award-nominated song "The Deep" from Daveed Diggs's rap group Clipping.

Yetu holds the memories for her people--water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners--who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly is forgotten by everyone, save one--the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.

Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities--and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.

Yetu will learn more than she ever expected about her own past--and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they'll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity--and own who they really are.

The Deep is "a tour de force reorientation of the storytelling gaze...a superb, multilayered work," ( Publishers Weekly, starred review) and a vividly original and uniquely affecting story inspired by a song produced by the rap group Clipping.

Octavia Butler, Fledgling

Octavia Butler, Fledgling

$20.51
814T937ILlL.jpg

Ytasha Womack, Afrofuturism

$18.31
Octavia Butler, Xenogenesis Trilogy (aka Lilith's Brood) butler dawn lb 1 new cover.jpg

Octavia Butler, Xenogenesis Trilogy (aka Lilith's Brood)

from $19.43
butler patternist 1.jpg butler patternist 2.jpg

Octavia Butler, The Patternist series

from $19.43
bintihome.jpg 81IICHFn4LL.jpg

Nnedi Okorafor, Binti trilogy

from $11.87