![]() ![]() Walidah Imarisha, co-editor of Octavia’s Brood It helps so many to understand how to take these mythologies that speak to us, pull them into our flesh, and breathe out visionary communities of resistance.” It has filled the desires of oppressed and marginalized peoples for stories of the fantastic that wear our faces. “The Gilda Stories has been vitally important for the development of a generation of dreamers engaged in radical imagination. Sarah Waters, author of Tipping the Velvet Gomez’s characters are rooted in historical reality yet lift seductively out of it, to trouble traditional models of family, identity, and literary genre and imagine for us bold new patterns. ![]() “The Gilda Stories was ahead of its time when it was first published in 1991, and this anniversary edition reminds us why it’s still an important novel. “The Gilda Stories is groundbreaking not just for the wild lives it portrays, but for how it portrays them-communally, unapologetically, roaming fiercely over space and time.” “This revolutionary classic by a pioneer in black speculative fiction will delight and inspire generations to come.” ![]()
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