Mat Johnson
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English
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"The Delany, captained by a swashbuckling capitalist named Bob, is circling Europa--one of the moons of Jupiter--studying its atmosphere, but inside, the ship is divided into two warring camps. First there are the group of "Bobs" who slavishly follow the ship's vain, ignorant captain and who antagonize the two crew members who've run afoul of the Bobs: Dwayne and Nalani, who are studying the surface of the moon itself. But it is Dwayne and Nalani...
2) Pym: a novel
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English
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American literature professor Chris Jaynes is obsessed with "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket," Edgar Allan Poe's strange and only novel. He resolves to seek out Tsalal, the remote island of pure and utter blackness that Poe describes with horror.
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Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
©2015.
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English
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"Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons: his marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart; his comic shop in Cardiff has failed; and his Irish-American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures in the grass outside; when he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear....
4) Incognegro
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English
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"This tenth anniversary edition of the acclaimed and fearless graphic novel features enhanced toned art, an afterword by Mat Johnson, character sketches, and other additional material. In the early 20th Century, when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South, a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were African-American men who, due to their light skin color, could "pass" among the...
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Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"A page-turning thriller of racial divide, Incognegro: Renaissance explores segregation, secrets and self-image as our race-bending protagonist penetrates a world where he feels stranger than ever before. When a black writer is found dead at a scandalous interracial party in 1920s' New York, Harlem's cub reporter Zane Pinchback is the only one determined to solve the murder. Zane must go "Incognegro" for the first time, using his light appearance...
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DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
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The King of Voodoo has a long history, but where did it all begin? Follow the story of the curse that made Midnite immortal, from its origin in 1712 through the failed slave rebellion of 1741 and into the present day, where he continues to pay the price for his original sin.
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Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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John Constantine has seen it all as London's premier street-level sorcerer. But there are other cities to explore. In India, the working-class Magus runs into an old friend seeking enlightenment--and a monstrous demonic entity fed by centuries of oppression and misery. In Iraq, Constantine's quest to clear his name of a terrorism charge begins with a search for a veil-clad femme fatale--and leads to a confrontation with an evil that predates any Western...
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