Winner, 2018 Anthony Award for Best Anthology and Winner, Bronze
Medal, 2017 Indie Book Awards for Anthologies, Foreword Reviews.
Noir meets diverse voices and transforms the genre into an
over-the-top, transcendental psychedelic thriller ride of pulpy
goodness in THE OBAMA INHERITANCE, a collection of fifteen stories
of conspiracy noir curated by editor and award-winning
African-American crime novelist Gary Phillips.
In the
tradition of satirical works of Swift and Twain, with nods to the
likes of William Burroughs, Asimov and Philip K. Dick, these tales
contain vigilante First Ladies, Supreme Court judges who can clone
themselves, gear-popping robots of doom, and races of ancient
lizard people revealing their true master plan … and these are
just the tame ones mashed up in the blender of fake news bots,
climate change is but a hoax by the Chinese and humans roamed with
dinosaurs. In an era where the outlandish and fantastic has
permeated our media 24/7, where mind-bending conspiracy theories
shape our views, THE OBAMA INHERITANCE writers riff on the numerous
fictions spun about the 44th president of the U.S. Although Obama
himself does not appear in most of these stories, contributors spin
deliberately outlandish and fantastic twists on many of the dozens
of screwball, bizarro conspiracy theories floated about the
president during his years in office and turn them on their heads.
THE OBAMA INHERITANCE editor Gary Phillips is a critically
acclaimed author of mystery and graphic novels (Peepland, Violent
Spring, and Warlord of Willow Ridge). Raised in South Central Los
Angeles, Phillips draws on his experiences from anti-police abuse
community organizing and anti-apartheid activism. He was the chair
of the Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color
committee, and is president of the Private Eye Writers of America.
Contributors include famed crime-detective author and essayist
Walter Mosley, professor and former Department of Justice attorney
Christopher Chambers (Sympathy for the Devil), noir raconteur
Andrew Nette, actor and novelist Danny Gardner (A Negro and an
Ofay), former Maine assistant attorney general Kate Flora (Death in
Paradise), award-winning playwright and novelist Désirée
Zamorano, and the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master
Robert Silverberg.
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