"The Red Thread"

Title"The Red Thread"
Year for Search2016
AuthorsSamatar, Sofia(b. 1971)
Secondary AuthorsHopkinson, Nalo, and Muslim, Kristine Ong(b. 1980)
Secondary TitlePeople of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction!
Volume / EditionSpecial Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73
Pagination61-67
Date PublishedJune 2016
KeywordsFemale author, Somali-American author
Annotation

The story is set in a dystopia after the environment has completely collapsed and people are struggling to survive.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 262-273; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 28-37. 

Illustration

Illus. Melanie Ujimori. 

Holding Institutions

PSt, Public

Author Note

The Somali-American female author (b. 1971) teaches English at James Madison University.

Full Text

2016 Samatar, Sofia (b. 1971). “The Red Thread.” Illus. Melanie Ujimori. People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! Ed. Nalo Hopkinson and Kristine Ong Muslin Special Issue of Lightspeed, no. 73 (June 2016): 61-67 with an interview with the author by Isabel Yap (321-22). Rpt. in her Tender: Stories (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer Press, 2017): 262-73; and in Wastelands: The New Apocalypse. Ed. John Josephs Adams (London: Titan Books, 2019), 28-37. PSt, Public

The story is set in a dystopia after the environment has completely collapsed and people are struggling to survive. The Somali-American female author teaches English at James Madison University.