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Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2023

Ludicrous. Nonsensical. Irrational in the most delicious ways possible. This story challenged me. Tenderly bold and confrontational. Teasingly provocative. I’m intimidated by my own intrigue.

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Toinette

This story made me sad.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 28, 2022

This is a hard review to write. I really wanted to like the story, but simply couldn't get past a few things that killed all the good qualities of the story. In a nutshell, the idea of attacking religious establishments based on the demands of another deity screams hatred. I get what this author is trying to accomplish and as much as I want black people to be free of oppression all over the world, I can't see tearing down others to do it. What's the point in freeing one people if it condemns another? I want to be clear that these specific ideas and or words are not stated in this story, but this is what I felt after reading it. If I ever muster the energy to reread it, maybe my opinion will change. This story made me sad. That's all I have to say.

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Jasmine Jones

Far Out

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2023

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Ludicrous. Nonsensical. Irrational in the most delicious ways possible. This story challenged me. Tenderly bold and confrontational. Teasingly provocative. I’m intimidated by my own intrigue.

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Misse Jones

What a way to close out the collection!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 29, 2021

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4.5 stars.

“I’ll be honest, when New York City voted in Mayor Dinkins, a Black mayor, I swore there would be a change down here on street level. But so far I hadn’t seen it. The cops still carried guns and clubs and used them at their discretion.”

Victor Lavalle’s addition to the Black Stars collection, “We Travel The Spaceways” was unexpectedly and incredibly GOOD! I enjoyed this story and its concept as it was clear and concise.

The story takes place in New York and it is on those streets that we meet Grimace. Grimace is homeless and at the story’s opening we find him searching for food on the and specifically at fast food restaurants where he has developed quite the reputation.

Oddly enough, Grimace believes that the cans he’s been carrying around are talking to him. They’ve told him that his mission is to free Black people from emotional slavery. As a result he’s been setting fires in Black churches. The overarching problem though is that Grimace hardly feels heard nor seen. To many he is invisible. That is, until he meets Kim, a transgender runaway that will join him in his quest for freedom against oppression and make it all make sense.

All this to say, I need to read more from this author! Nice work.

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Nisha Ward

Amazing and a little crazy

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 2, 2022

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This is the first time I've read any of LaValle's work and I'm impressed. He has a grasp of the situation that ought to make anyone envious, but also, he makes you want to delve more and more into this world.

One of the best things I've read this year.

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Zuzecawi

Enjoyable, but too short!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 4, 2022

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If you enjoy Samuel Delaney or RA Lafferty, you’ll love this one. There are shades of old science fiction, back when deep thought and fierce juxtapositions were still encouraged, before the more vapid and consumable styles favored today took over.

My only complaints with this are that A: it’s too dang short! And B: the character development was also a little too short. This feels like a world that deserves expansion, and I’ll definitely look for more LaVelle stories in the future.

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Sarmat Chowdhury

a unique LaValle sci-fi novella with a touch of fantasy

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 21, 2022

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I love Victor LaValle and his writing style ever since I came across one of the first novellas that I truly enjoyed “The Ballad of Black Tom” and so when I saw that he had released another novella with collection, I knew I had to read it and once again, it did not disappoint.

The story is based on the character Grimace who operates as a Signalman - at least, he thinks he does. To our eyes, he’s one of the millions of New Yorkers who is homeless and part of the unseen of the city and what makes the novella even more gripping is that LaValle makes the novella current - and ties it one of the darker episodes that undermine America today.

Def a novella to check out from a needed voice in the genre.

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Frieda

Unusual

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 24, 2022

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I was so confused for about 3/4s of this story. Rather interesting once I understood more. Still an unusual one.

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E. Burris

Out of my comfort zone in a good way

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 17, 2022

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I admit it made me use my imagination. It was funny and adventurous. I kind of wanted it to continue

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Traveled to my heart

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 19, 2022

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This one concluded these amazing reads and I enjoyed travel to the many worlds offered to my heart ! !

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Exquisite

Excellent ending

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 26, 2021

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I thought this was a really strong ending for the book series. It was very fun and an interesting take on Black speculative fiction. I took a point off solely because my mind kept wandering as it typically does when I read sci-fi.

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Ollie@TheStoneCloud

Definitely something special here.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 10, 2021

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Credit to the audiobook narrator for giving the story an extra dimension to a powerful tale. My first Victor Lavalle read to date, and I savored every minute of it.

What really struck me was in the way the story flips from the heart shattering reality of poverty and mental illness to a grand scale Cosmic space operatic vision. Read it, listen to it, cry to it. It's raw and for such a short read, provided much payoff.

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