{"title":"Eugen Bacon","description":"\u003cp\u003eExplore the imaginative worlds of \u003cstrong\u003eEugen Bacon\u003c\/strong\u003e, where speculative fiction meets compelling storytelling. From the richly crafted landscapes of \u003cem\u003eClaiming T-Mo\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSerengotti\u003c\/em\u003e to the gripping narratives in \u003cem\u003eDanged Black Thing\u003c\/em\u003e, her work invites readers into thought-provoking sci-fi and fantasy realms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeyond fiction, Bacon offers insightful guidance for aspiring writers with titles like \u003cem\u003eWriting Speculative Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, blending creativity with practical advice. 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In his past, a darkness rose from the river, and something nameless and mystical continues to envelop his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 'A Taste of Unguja', sweet taarab music, full of want, seeps into a mother's life on the streets of Melbourne as she evokes the powers of her ancestors to seek vengeance on her cursed ex. In the cyberfunk of 'Unlimited Data', Natukunda, a village woman, gives her all for her family in Old Kampala.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOther stories explore with power what happens when the water runs dry and who pays, capture the devastating effects on women and children of societies in which men hold all the power, and themes of being, belonging, otherness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpeculative, realistic, and even mythological, but always imbued with truth, empathy, and Blackness, \u003cem\u003eDanged Black Thing\u003c\/em\u003e is a literary knockout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Eugen Bacon gives us a cornucopia of dark fruitfulness. Her writing is equal parts fecund earth and fine-cut jewels; her stories juxtapose the scarred and abused with the powerfully magical, the numinous and the deceptively mundane. They travel the known world, remaking all its parts as they go, and they pull new worlds, fully formed, from Bacon's unfettered imagination.' - Margo Lanagan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Lyrical, rich, oftentimes dark and sometimes hopeful, \u003cem\u003eDanged Black Thing\u003c\/em\u003e is a speculative fiction collection that takes the reader on a journey from Africa to Australia. The cities and villages the stories are set in are sometimes familiar, while others are plucked fully formed from author Eugen Bacon's imagination, providing a vast backdrop to her exploration of the emotional costs of being a woman... Where men rule, there will be women who suffer. 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As life unexpectedly spirals out of control, Ch'anzu turns to hir charismatic Aunt Mae for comfort and wisdom, and makes the bold move to work on a project in \u003cem\u003eSerengotti\u003c\/em\u003e, a migrant African outpost in rural Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a novel haunted by the strangeness and yearnings of a displaced community—both beautiful and fractured—Ch'anzu is forced to confront hir many demons. Back in the city, brother Tex has gone missing. In Serengotti, violence and infidelity simmer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a novel bathed in sensuous, original language, a love letter to the strong women who bind families together despite everything. 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The novel brilliantly combines crime and romance, gritty realist dialogue and sumptuous language, caustic humour and emotional gravity, to evoke different and unexpected ways of seeing and being in the world.'\u003c\/em\u003e - Susan Midalia, award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eA History of the Beanbag\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAn Unknown Sky\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFeet to the Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Bacon's voice is unique. Her African Australian perspective resonates ... 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She is a mother, a daughter, a sister, a woman, a writer, an author, an editor, a scholar, and a friend. She is many, and it reflects in this collection that traverses transformative stories of longing and belonging, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds, mythology, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing a black heroine, each story includes a cameo or secondary character of a black dingo. 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