Welcome to the Sci-Fi Sci, a podcast about black science fiction, fantasy, and staying on the same page in this relationship.

I am one of your incredible co-hosts, Amber Wallet.

I'm Ben.

Hey Ben, welcome to the show.

And listeners at home, welcome to episode 29 of the Sci-Fi Sci.

If you're new to the show, hello and welcome you're in for a treat.

You know we got some followers on the pizza.

So I had to give them a little special greeting.

Ben is rolling his eyes at me.

Today on episode 29 of the Sci-Fi Sci, we're going to be talking about Walter Mosley's book, Future Land.

Just so you know, there's going to be some spoilers for the book.

It came out in 2001, but we're really going to dig deep in some of the characters today.

Also, if you haven't read the book, it's all good because we're going to make it so that you can still interact with the content, if you will.

That's what we do, if you will.

So Ben, why don't we start by talking a little bit about why you chose this book.

Listeners, if you don't know, Ben chooses most of our material.

And he always is, you know, quite meticulous and thorough with his choices.

So we just want to hear a little bit about what was the inspiration behind this book.

So Nisi Shaw recommended this book, an amazing science fiction writer.

And this is one of the books you need to read if you want to understand black science fiction.

And so I decided to have my science fiction book club also read this

because we are a classic science fiction book club.

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