mixed habitat & densely vegetated hiding places

This is part 5 of my book club notes on Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. (Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.) We're taking a break for the end of the year and will reconvene to finish the book in January.

Nobody liked any of the fiction selections this week! Admittedly, three of them were similar to each other in being unsubtle political satires, so if you hated one it's not improbable that you'd hate all three.


"The Binary" by John Cooley (2004)

( After a near-death experience, a man gains super powers and a new life battling demons. )


"BLACKout" by Jill Robinson (2004)

( The passage of a reparations bill divides the Black community. )


"Sweet Dreams" by Charles Johnson (2004)

( In a dystopian future where people have to pay to dream, a man is audited for underpayment. )


"Buying Primo Time" by Wanda Coleman (1988)

( In a dystopian future where people have to pay to stay alive, a woman sells sex to survive. )


"The Second Law of Thermodynamics" (Transcription of a panel at the 1997 Black Speculative Fiction Writers Conference held at Clark Atlanta University) - Jewelle Gomez, Octavia E. Butler, William Hudson, Tananarive Due, Steven Barnes, Samuel R. Delany

( What it says on the tin. )