The World Wasn't Ready for You

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<p><b>“The most profound terror is rooted in love—the terror of losing love, of love betrayed, of love in peril. Justin C. Key’s work is a cold knife through a hot heart, a surgical blade unleashing gouts of searing fear.”—Cory Doctorow, author of <i>Red Team Blues, Little Brother, </i>and <i>Radicalized</i></b></p><p>“An electrifying collection of stories that would make Octavia E. Butler smile.”—<i>Ebony</i></p><p><i>Black Mirror</i> meets <i>Get Out</i> in this gripping story collection reminiscent of the work of Octavia E. Butler, deftly blending science fiction, horror, and fantasy to examine issues of race, class, and prejudice—an electrifying, oftentimes heartbreaking debut from an extraordinary new voice—<br>now available as a limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial.</p><p>In <i>The World Wasn’t Ready for You, </i>Justin C. Key builds on his lifelong obsession with monsters as he expands and subverts the horror genre to expertly explore issues of race, class, prejudice, love, exclusion, loneliness, and what it means to be a person in the world, while revealing the horrifying nature inherent in all of us.</p><p>In the opening story, “The Perfection of Theresa Watkins,” a sci-fi love story turned nightmare, a husband uses new technology to download the consciousness of his recently deceased Black wife into the body of a white woman. In “Spider King,” an inmate agrees to participate in an experimental medical study offered to Black prisoners in exchange for early release, only to find his body reacting with disturbing symptoms. And in the title story, a father tries to protect his son, teaching him how to navigate a racist world that does not understand him and sees him as a threat.</p><p><i>The World Wasn’t Ready for You</i> is a gripping, provocative, and distinctly original collection that demonstrates Key’s remarkable literary gifts—a skill at crafting science fiction stories equaled by an ability to sculpt characters and narrative—as well as his utterl

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780063567979

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

177 x 114 x 23 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2026

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. USA