Saya Woolfalk’s Fantastical World of Plant-Human Hybrids

[ad_1] In a science-fiction cosmology imagined by the multidisciplinary artist Saya Woolfalk, a group of people discover bones from a future race sent back in time. A fungus on the bones allows the finders to transform genetically — becoming part human and part plant — and to perceive the world through one another’s eyes. Called … Read more

Writing Fantasy Came Naturally. Reality Was Far More Daunting.

[ad_1] When Nnedi Okorafor was 19, she woke up disoriented in a hospital room. Fluorescent pink and green grasshoppers and praying mantises bounced around her hospital bed, making strange clicks. An enormous crow threw itself against the window, trying to break in. Once she was no longer hallucinating from pain medication, though, things got stranger … Read more