How Long 'til Black Future Month?

N. K. Jemisin's first short story collection gathers twenty-two stories of science fiction, fantasy and speculative fiction written between 2004 and 2018, four of them new to this book.

A city takes human form through an unlikely friendship, a mother in the segregated South faces down a fey threat to her daughter, a man searches flooded New Orleans while spirits follow him, and a near-utopia is weighed against the world we live in. Jemisin introduces the stories with a note on how the collection came together.

It won the Locus Award for Best Collection and an Alex Award, and was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award.