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A past struggle for racial equity could achieve a profound future victory in this audacious short story about technology, hoodoo, and hope by a Nebula Award–winning author.

Burri is a fashion designer and icon with a biochemistry background. Her latest pieces are African inspired and crafted to touch the heart. They enable wearers to absorb nanorobotic memories and recount the stories of Black lives and forgiveness. Wenda doesn’t buy it. A protest performance artist, Wenda knows exploitation when she sees it. What she’s going to do with Burri’s breakthrough technology could, in the right hands, change race relations forever.

Nalo Hopkinson’s Clap Back is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.

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Amazon Original Stories
Publication date

August 31, 2021
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“Science fiction invites audiences to imagine new and different worlds…Soon readers (and listeners) will be able to add some new voices and stories to this mix, thanks to an upcoming collection of short stories from Amazon Original Stories.” —SYFY Wire

“Part of what makes Black Stars so special is the fact that it is showcasing speculative science fiction from Black authors from around the world.” —SYFY Wire

“With a host of amazing authors, Black Stars is perfect for lovers of Afrofuturism, Caribbean science fiction, and African jujuism. As you read the stories, you’ll start to understand why there are so many different genres in the collection…Black Stars introduces people to so many different frameworks, showing the diversity of stories created when Black authors across the diaspora infuse their unique cultural perspectives into these narratives, creating an abundance of originality that lets readers imagine wildly different worlds, realities, and futures.” —Shondaland

About the Author

Jamaican Canadian writer Nalo Hopkinson has been a published author since 1995, with six novels, two collections of short stories, and a chapbook. She has received numerous literary awards, including the World Fantasy Award and the Andre Norton Nebula Award. Between 2018 and 2020, she wrote scripts for the DC Comics series House of Whispers, set in the universe of Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman. She currently lives in California and is on the faculty of the creative writing department at the University of California, Riverside.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B098QNLW6D
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Amazon Original Stories (August 31, 2021)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 31, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5697 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 21 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled

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I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books. If you like knowing about awards and such, my work has received the Warner Aspect First Novel award, the Sunburst Award for Canadian literature of the fantastic, the World Fantasy Award, the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, and Honourable Mention in Cuba's Casa de las Americas Prize for literature.

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Misse Jones

What a cool concept!

Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2021

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In Black Stars #5, Nalo Hopkinson takes us on a futuristic journey with her submission, Clap Bank.

Her concept is simple and highlights how race
relations are at present harrowing and what the future of race relations will be with a bit of technology, science and people driven by hope taking the lead.

We meet generations of women in a family who are as affected as anyone else by relations but have decided to do something about it and CLAP 👏🏾 BACK 👏🏾. One is a fashion designer who is creating customized clothing laced with chemical compounds in hopes to spread diverse messages about exploitation, family, love, forgiveness and understanding. The other is an art student who is working on her final class project which she anticipates will land her in prison. While there are two competing time periods here (roughly 50 years apart) it is nice to see that the two women are related and how this knowledge forces the granddaughter to do her own searching.

“Auntie gave me gravy with peanuts in it. I nearly died. I forgive her.” —Malawi group project, “The Forgiveness Quilt”

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Kindle Customer

Amazing book

Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2021

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I loved this book. It was written so well, despite it's shortness. The character development for such a short story was great. I cared about the characters and was sad when the story was over. It made me both laugh and cry, though I don't normally cry because of a book. Most importantly, it showed a view of being black so well, and the struggles and wishes for those of color, that I think it would give those that weren't of a darker skin tone something more to think on. That it could even change the understanding of what it means to be black to those that aren't, and understand a part of the struggle of being black when there is so much racial injustice in the world.

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Tonya Fennell-Johnson

Better

Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2021

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Each book is different and I didn't know to when I started reading! Aa I'm reading, each book is getting better then the one before. I really enjoyed it, eventhough in the beginning it kind of pissed me off! The anger came from picturing the statues as she described them.

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Kay

I liked this!

Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2021

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These little stories are giving me so much life. Specifically the first of these stories (The Visit) and this one (Clap Back) . . . Don't give me any ideas. You know how much I would be able to do? Baby!!!

5 stars

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Kindle Customer

Loved this one

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2021

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“Wouldn’t freeing us be a step toward freeing all humanity? Would dark skin cease to be an axis of violence if everyone had it?”

What an absolutely stunning line, I love speculative fiction by Black people.

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Elisha

The little poppets pulled me in.

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2021

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A big fan of Nalo Hopkinson's books. This story is magical. I was walking past the gallery. The poppets opened the door and pulled me in. The geese kept nipping.

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jsweat1

Would that it could

Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2021

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Would that it could be possible. Intriguing story. I enjoyed the read. Thank you for the time and energy put into this work of art.

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lesliethesmith

Lives up to the title

Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2021

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I feel like this story was very tongue in cheek, in the best possible way. A great read.