Chasing Whispers

by Eugen Bacon

Overview

Chasing Whispers is a unique Afro-irrealist collection of black speculative fiction in transformative stories of culture, longing, hybridity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds and folklore. It contains 13 stories, 11 of which are original, with a commanding introduction by D. Harlan Wilson. The collection is aligned with the themes of Eugen Bacon's other fiction, and her recognition in the honor list of the 2022 Otherwise Fellowships for "doing exciting work in gender and speculative fiction."

Chasing Whispers casts a gaze at mostly women and children haunted by patriarchy, in stories packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope. The connecting theme is a black protagonist with a deep longing for someone, someplace, something... and a recurring phrase in each story: "a deep and terrible sadness."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781947879447
Publisher:	Raw Dog Screaming Press
Publication date:	09/08/2022
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

EUGEN BACON is an African Australian author of several novels and fiction collections as well as Writing Speculative Fiction by Bloomsbury. Her books Ivory's Story, Danged Black Thing, and Saving Shadows were finalists for the British Science Fiction Association Awards, and she has been nominated for, or has won awards including the Foreword Indies Award, Bridport Prize, Copyright Agency Prize, Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, Otherwise Fellowship, Nommo Award, and others. Bacon's creative work has appeared in Award Winning Australian Writing, Fantasy Magazine, Year's Best African Speculative Fiction, and Fantasy & Science Fiction. Visit her website at eugenbacon.com.