Rivers Solomon
Rivers Solomon is an American science fiction author whose An Unkindness of Ghosts is a generation ship novel that uses the confined space to explore the ongoing trauma of slavery. The Deep is a novella imagining the descendants of enslaved Africans thrown overboard during the Middle Passage becoming mer-people. Their work is among the most emotionally powerful in contemporary science fiction.
Works
- An Unkindness of GhostsQueer science fiction where a ship's engineer discovers untold secrets within her vessel
- The DeepNovella about sentient underwater organisms confronting existential identity and memory loss
- SorrowlandSpeculative horror about a pregnant woman surviving in a dangerous post-apocalyptic landscape
- Model HomeDystopian novel exploring identity and displacement in a carefully constructed suburban prison