![]() The mental and personal costs of this persistent animus should not be downplayed, but Jemisin’s response to her reception is instructive. “A Hugo acceptance speech should express gratitude, not anger,” he wrote to a private e-mail list. After she denounced the racism she has experienced, in her 2018 acceptance speech for her third consecutive Hugo Award, the prominent science fiction writer Robert Silverberg (who edited Le Guin’s story) scoffed at her candor. ![]() ![]() Before that, her novel The Killing Moon was rejected by publishers for being too Black, a slander that was retracted after she became a known name and the book found a home. It was before the awards,” she would recall in an interview. ![]() When her debut novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, was published in 2010, she received her first death threat. That embrace of fight over flight is a hallmark of both Jemisin’s work and her experience as a Black woman writing speculative fiction. ![]()
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