![]() SciFri producer Christie Taylor, Journal of Science Fiction managing editor Aisha Matthews, and speculative fiction author K. This week, we talk about ‘Dumb House,’ plus its place in Afrofuturism -culture and storytelling that imagines futures with African-descended people and culture at the forefront. African-American author Andrea Hairston ’s story ‘Dumb House,’ is about a woman named Cinnamon who finds herself pestered by a pair of traveling salesmen, who hope to persuade her to upgrade her house into something smarter. ![]() The Science Friday Book Club continues this week, this time reading another short story from the speculative fiction collection New Suns. Want to participate? Sign up for our newsletter or record a voice message as you read on the Science Friday VoxPop app. ![]() This is a part of our fall Book Club conversation about the short story collection, New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction By Writers of Color, edited by Nisi Shawl. ![]()
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