Ring Shout on Saturn

“Thomas renders the oral tradition of storytelling into stunning prose, effortlessly capturing the feel of performance. The words spring off the page and dance. I hear the rhythm and music of each narrator; I feel the physical power of her tall tales and sly mysteries; I smell and taste the world that she conjures. Thomas engages all the senses and delights the mind with her stories and poems. She succeeds in offering a fresh narrative style–an Afrospeculative approach, to use her term, that brings past, present and future together in a powerful idiomatic mix that sounds familiar yet deliciously new. Her imagination doesn’t let you get away with anything. She’s a 21st century conjure woman!” — Andrea Hairston, Tiptree Award Winner, Philip K. Dick Award Finalist

". . .Thomas invokes the rhythms of African-American ring shouts and the dense, humid atmosphere of the American South. Her stories include reinventions of mythology and haunting modern folktales.— Publishers Weekly

". . .A whirlpool of poem and story."— Tyehimba Jess, Pulitzer Prize Winner, author of Leadbelly

"Sheree Renée Thomas masterfully weaves together myth, history, and science fiction into a tapestry of the human experience." — Eco Lit Review