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JOURNEY TO MECHA For those who love the work of Philip K. Dick, Walter Mosley, Nnedi Okorafor, or William S. Burroughs, Journey to Mecha - Minister Faust's second collection of short stories - presents eights startling, bizarre, frightening and comical tales exploring inner and outer worlds of experience. In these stories, we behold the terrifying results of planetary colonisation from the coloniser's perspective ("The Ghosts of Carnivores"), anti-colonial liberation struggle at the cosmic level ("The Sun Dogs"), philosophical explorations of the nature of organic and artificial intelligence ("Droplets of Thought"), and the hypocrisy that afflicts human communities ("Shecky the Green Pig"), among many other tales. This is Minister Faust at some of his earliest and most remarkable leaps of imagination. |
A BAD BAD BEAT WAS BREWING A powerful and alternately humorous and disturbing odyssey through modern and ancient African realities. Journey with Minister Faust through the playful but angry re-imagining of recent history ("Jali Tales") to a revisionist take on D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation ("The Worth of a Nation"), a barbershop fight over Alice Walker ("De-Conking Some Sense from the Colour Purple") and a Grendel-style psychohistory of ancient Egypt's founding myth ("The Belly of the Crocodile," a companion story to Minister Faust's novel The Alchemists of Kush), among many others. Bold, angry, and visionary, A Bad Bad Beat was Brewing demonstrates that Minister Faust is, in the words of Imaro author Charles R. Saunders, "shaping up to become a one-man New Wave in the SF genre. With the story-telling skills of a modern jali, the Minister creates new vistas of history, mythology, erudition, uplift, tragedy, triumph, and contemporary community activism." |
E-FORCE: SIXTEEN STORIES OF PURE FREAKING AWESOMENESS For fans of Nalo Hopkinson, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Eldridge Cleaver, Tananarive Due, John Gardner, Chuck D., Steven Barnes, and Stephen King, comes E-Force: Sixteen Stories of Pure Freaking Awesomeness, including a companion story to Minister Faust's acclaimed novel The Alchemists of Kush. Containing all the stories collected in A Bad Bad Beat Was Brewing and Journey to Mecha, E-Force is the definitive short fiction collection by Minister Faust, an author increasingly described as one of the best writers of his generation. E-Force presents sixteen wide-ranging stories, including the hilarious, the terrifying, the mystical and the compassionate. Behold anti-colonial liberation struggle at the cosmic level ("The Sun Dogs"), philosophical explorations of the nature of organic and artificial intelligence ("Droplets of Thought"), the hypocrisy that afflicts human communities ("Shecky the Green Pig"), a revisionist take on D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation ("The Worth of a Nation"), and a Grendel-style psychohistory of ancient Egypt's founding myth ("The Belly of the Crocodile," a companion story to Minister Faust's novel The Alchemists of Kush), among many others. |