How Long 'til Black Future Month?

How Long 'til Black Future Month?
Book cover listing title, author and promotional quote; the cover image is a photograph of a Black girl in side profile, backlit against a black background.
AuthorN. K. Jemisin
GenreScience fiction, fantasy
PublisherOrbit Books
Publication date
November 2018
Media typePrint, ebook, audiobook
Pages432
ISBN978-0-316-49134-1
OCLC1061287995

How Long 'til Black Future Month? is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by American novelist N. K. Jemisin. The book was published in November 2018 by Orbit Books, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group. The name of the collection comes from an Afrofuturism essay (not included in the book) that Jemisin wrote in 2013.[1] Four of the 22 stories included in the book had not been previously published; the others, written between 2004 and 2017, had been originally published in speculative fiction magazines and other short story collections. The settings for three of the stories were developed into full-length novels after their original publication: The Killing Moon, The Fifth Season, and The City We Became.

  1. ^ "How Long 'til Black Future Month?". Epiphany 2.0. September 30, 2013. Retrieved February 22, 2019.