The interweaving stories in Recurrence Plot and Other Time Travel Tales present characters whose experiences challenge the notion that time flows in only one direction. If you want to understand what is happening at any given point in time, you cannot only look to the past for clues. You must consider the future. A journalist races against time itself to expose the entity preying on young male teens in Philadelphia. A crystal, memory-storing bracelet transports a young mother back to the day of her own mother's traumatic death. An unknown force of nature causes time to start flowing backwards. Using quantum physics as an imaginative landscape, Phillips' debut speculative collection Recurrence Plot attempts to walk the fine line between fiction and reality, fate and free will, and past, present, and future. Rasheedah Phillips is a queer housing advocate, lawyer, parent, and interdisciplinary artist working through a Black futurist lens. She is the founder of the AfroFuturist Affair, founding member of the Metropolarity Queer Speculative Fiction Collective, and co-creator of the art duo Black Quantum Futurism. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, The Wire, New York Magazine, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, and e-flux. Publisher: Afrofuturist Affair Publish Date: March 25 2014 Pages: 232 Language: English Type: Paperback EAN/UPC: 9780996005005 Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 | 0.6 pounds BISAC Categories: Art & Politics, Physics - Quantum Theory, Feminism & Feminist Theory, Black Studies (Global)
