Black Star Line

Black Star Line is a genre-defying story collection in the vein of Jordan Peele and Octavia Butler that fuses speculative fiction and satire to explore Black life at the edge of collapse and possibility.

Spanning virtual worlds, haunted cities, and destabilized realities, the stories of this collection ask: what does freedom look like when it is presumed rather than fought for?

In “Drapetomania,” a mysterious epidemic causes Black people to run uncontrollably until their bodies give out, tr...