The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman Will Make You Believe in Steamfunk

This is the last of my Summer Reading List book reviews: reviews I did of older books that had been sitting on my Kindle waiting for the right time. I didn’t get to all of them (Sorry, Octavia) but the ones I didn’t finish will sit on my virtual shelf, waiting for their chance. Happy end of Summer, all. Time to refresh that reading list for Black Speculative Fiction Month and beyond. Balogun Ojetade is a prolific author, and along with a group of other Black authors, he has been involved in the development and evolution of entire arms of Black Speculative Fiction: Steamfunk, Dieselfunk, Sword and Soul, Cyberfunk. I mean, dude’s busy. I’ve reviewed Steamfunk books in the past, but I wanted to come back and read one of the originals from Ojetade, Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman, Books 1&2, so I could really come to enjoy the genre. And let me tell you I’m glad I did. She looks real unassuming here. But let me tell you, she will throw you those hands faster than you can say Underground Railroad.[divider type=”space_thin”]Here’s the set up: Harriet Tubman is not only a hero in the small-h, saving slaves kind of way, she’s also Gifted. By which I mean, she has superhero powers. She has super healing, uncanny strength, the ability to create illusions, and legendary dexterity. She also occasionally has blackouts, in which she receives messages from the Lawd. Given that the historical Tubman did have blackouts, this may be more true than we know. This version of Steamfunk…