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Also by Nalo Hopkinson:

Blackheart Man, August 2025
Trade Paperback
Jamaica Ginger and Other Concoctions, November 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Blackheart Man, August 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Clap Back, September 2021
e-Book / audiobook
The Salt Roads, February 2015
Paperback / e-Book

CLAP BACK
By: Nalo Hopkinson

Black Stars #5
Amazon Publishing
September 2021
On Sale: August 31, 2021
21 pages
Kindle: B098QNLW6D
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Fantasy | Science Fiction

A past struggle for racial equity could achieve a profound future victory in this audacious short story about technology, hoodoo, and hope by a Nebula Award–winning author.

Burri is a fashion designer and icon with a biochemistry background. Her latest pieces are African inspired and crafted to touch the heart. They enable wearers to absorb nanorobotic memories and recount the stories of Black lives and forgiveness. Wenda doesn’t buy it. A protest performance artist, Wenda knows exploitation when she sees it. What she’s going to do with Burri’s breakthrough technology could, in the right hands, change race relations forever.

Nalo Hopkinson’s Clap Back is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.