MOJORHYTHM is book one of the the three book The Root and Sky Series of short stories.
"Sheree Renéeacute;e Thomas gives us a whirlpool of poem and story, a 'wild and strangeful breed' of cosmology. . ."―Tyehimba Jess, author of Olio, Pulitzer Prize Winner.The award-winning Sheree Renée Thomas, author of Nine Bar Blues, returns with a new collection steeped in Hoodoo, fantasy, magic myths, and lore.Meet a spacefaring prophet of the future digging in the crates of earth's past. Step into a Memphis salon where coiled braids hold ancient power, and stylists conjure Rootwork against forces both seen and unseen. Witness a future where the state claims bodies, and women forge a rebellion of fire and spirit from the land's deep memory. Follow a stylish African dandy spy navigating a world woven with intrigue and hidden currents of power. and enter a legendary diner whose culinary wares change fates.
These tales resonate with the magic and mystery, the deep rhythms and blues of the soul's passage through life and beyond. Short stories that invite readers into realms where ancient traditions and futuristic visions collide in a vibrant chorus of magic, music, and adventure, where the raw pulse of the natural world intertwines with the hum of tomorrow's technology, revealing the boundless wonders of existence.
This is a multigenre brew, strange and wondrous, exploring the supernatural currents of music, history, and culture, Hoodoo as an ancient modern spiritual force and living folklore, the exquisite whimsy and profound horrors found in existence, and the boundless territories of the impossible.
Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning writer, poet, editor, and a 2023 Hugo Award Finalist and Locus Award Winner. She was honored with the 2023 Octavia E. Butler Award and was also an Ember Award Finalist. Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science, music, and the culture of the Mississippi Delta. She is the author of the short fiction collection, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future, a Finalist for the 2021 Locus Award, Ignyte Award, and World Fantasy Award for Year's Best Collection and winner of the 2022 Darrell Award for Year's Best Novella. She is the winner of the 2022 Dal Coger Memorial Hall of Fame Award and is #339 in the Walter Day Science Fiction Hall of Fame Trading Cards. She is also the author of collections, Sleeping Under the Tree of Life and Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & Poems. She edited the two-time World Fantasy Award-winning Dark Matter anthologies, co-edited Trouble the Waters: Tales from the Deep Blue with Pan Morigan and Troy L. Wiggins, and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction with Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight, a NAACP Image Award Finalist and winner of the 2023 Locus Award. Sheree Renée Thomas is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949 and is the associate editor of Obsidian, founded in 1975. She lives in her hometown, Memphis, Tennessee near a mighty river and a pyramid.
