{"product_id":"black-star-line-stories","title":"Black Star Line \/\/ Stories (Pre-order, March 23 2027)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Star Line\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a genre-defying story collection in the vein of Octavia Butler and Jordan Peele that fuses speculative fiction, Sci-Fi, and magical realism to explore Black life at the edge of collapse and possibility.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpanning virtual worlds, haunted cities, and dystopian futures, the stories in this collection follow characters facing impossible conditions in their relentless pursuit of freedom and pleasure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn “Drapetomania,” a mysterious epidemic causes Black people to run uncontrollably until their bodies give out, transforming a racist 19th-century pseudoscientific diagnosis into a chilling meditation on escape, exhaustion, and collective grief; in “Return Doors,” a couple’s unraveling coincides with the appearance of portals visible only to Black people; in “The Armillary Sphere,” a boy travels to Seoul to undergo a procedure that allows him to glimpse the future and relive the past; in “Lifeblood,” a woman seeks gender euphoria in a virtual reality under the watchful eye of a sinister corporation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eElectrifying and radically inventive, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Star Line\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e channels both blistering rage and profound tenderness, mapping the fragile, queer, ecstatic, and often perilous possibilities that emerge when we dare to imagine beyond the constraints of the present.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Lohier\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Haitian and Korean American writer from Brooklyn, New York. He is an English PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, and received his master’s degree from Oxford and bachelor’s degree from Harvard. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eOne Story \u003c\/i\u003eand his story “Drapetomania” was selected by Celeste Ng for \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2025\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: March 23, 2027\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9781668219546\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 8.4 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.6 in T | 0.8 lb Wt\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"William Lohier","offers":[{"title":"(Pre-order, March 23 2027) Hardcover","offer_id":49402637091051,"sku":"9781668219546","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9781668219546.jpg?v=1789343154","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/black-star-line-stories","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}