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Jennifer Marie Brissett

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Once in her life Jennifer Marie Brissett owned and operated an indie bookstore. Now she is an author and has written the novels ELYSIUM (Aqueduct Press) and DESTROYER OF LIGHT (Tor Books). Her work has been the finalist for a number of awards and has won the Philip K. Dick Special Citation. You can find her short stories in FIYAH Magazine, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, Lightspeed Magazine, Motherboard Vice, Uncanny Magazine, The Future Fire, the anthology APB: Artists against Police Brutality and other publications. She lives and writes in NYC. ...more

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Average rating: 3.65 · 2,728 ratings · 731 reviews · 17 distinct works • Similar authors

	Elysium 3.47 avg rating — 1,284 ratings — published 2014 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Destroyer of Light 3.56 avg rating — 462 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Magazine Issue 13: November/December 2016 by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Damian Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.94 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn by Brian Merchant (Editor), Claire L. Evans (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.89 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 73, June 2016: People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction! by Nalo Hopkinson (Editor), Kristine Ong Muslim (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Dayo Ntwari (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.33 avg rating — 162 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Welcome to Dystopia: 45 Visions of What Lies Ahead by Gordon van Gelder (Editor), K.G. Anderson, Richard Bowes (Goodreads Author) 3.37 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2018 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Luminescent Threads: Connections to Octavia E. Butler by Alexandra Pierce (Senior Editor), Mimi Mondal (Goodreads Author) (Editor), K. Tempest Bradford (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.08 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Uncanny Magazine Issue 34: May/June 2020 by Lynne M. Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Damian Thomas (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Elsa Sjunneson (Editor) 3.81 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Circumstances change everything.”
― Jennifer Marie Brissett, Elysium

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“-Papà?
-Sì?
-Io voglio imparare a volare.
[...]
-Ci sono tanti modi per volare, Antoine. Uno è mettersi queste ali. Un altro è farlo con la propria mente, e quello è il modo più bello. Vedere cose che gli altri non posso vedere e renderle reali con le tue mani ti fa volare più in alto di qualunque uccello - e ti rende più grande di qualunque creatura capace di uccidere, come me quando ho questo affare addosso. Ecco cosa voglio per te. Voglio insegnarti a volare nel modo giusto. Queste ali sono fine, figliolo. Solo la tua mente è reale.”
― Jennifer Marie Brissett, Elysium

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APRIL SCIENCE FICTION: This poll decides which of the two top vote-getters will be April's Book of the Month ion Science Fiction.

Grass by Sheri S. Tepper

43 votes, 53.8%

Elysium by Jennifer Marie Brissett

37 votes, 46.3%

80 total votes

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Jennifer’s Quotes

“give your daughters difficult names. give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. my name makes you want to tell me the truth. my name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.”
― Warsan Shire

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“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

tags: fear, hate, pain

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“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.”
― James Baldwin

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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

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“Life's too short to spend time trying to explain the obvious to an idiot.”
― Gloria Naylor, Bailey's Café

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