Announcing: The Black Nerd Problems Book Chat

As part of our ongoing mission to share the best, most entertaining and thought provoking Black Speculative Fiction, the BNP staff has gotten it into our heads to start an occasional Twitter book chat for busy people!Let’s break that down: [icon_check]Best/most entertaining/thought provoking: We’ll be reading and discussing the science fiction and fantasy stories that make us happy or powerful or just want to jump up and call someone and say — READ THIS. While we’re picking our favorites to start, we’ll of course be open to suggestions as we get this rolling. [icon_check]Black Speculative Fiction: written by and for Black readers, we love genre fiction that pushes boundaries and imagines new possibilities. This is Afrofurism, but also Sword and Soul, Steamfunk, and a little magical realism thrown in. [icon_check]BNP Staff: That’s us. On the site you’re on. Get with it, do I have to explain everything? [icon_check]Occassional: We’re aiming to read and discuss every couple of months, but we’re not going to hold ourselves to a rigid schedule around here. Because we’re… [icon_check]Busy people: We are. You are. We love to read, but don’t always finish a book in time to keep up with a monthly club. This will give us all a little more time, so reading is self-care, not a deadline stress. We’ll also focus on shorter works, novellas, novellettes, novellinas, long short stories, short novels, whatever. We’ll hold the chats on Saturdays in the afternoon for about an hour — long eno…