She said she couldn't remember if the image on the front was a spaceship, an alien landscape or an uncanny extraterrestrial, but "something on that cover called to me."
Thomas said her first real exposure to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction occurred when she was in elementary school and she begged her mother, Jacqueline Thomas, to buy her the latest issue, from a newsstand in a grocery store. "My parents were big genre fans - horror fans, really - who helped me to have a love of fantasy at an early age." "My mind just flashes back to my childhood, really, here in Memphis," Thomas said. "I'm still pinching myself," said Thomas, 48, a Downtown resident who is the author of dozens of stories, poems and essays, most of which qualify as science fiction or fantasy or tap into genre themes. (Her new collection of original fiction, "Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Future," was published in May by Nashville-based Third Man Books, owned by musician Jack White.) Ballard, Joyce Carol Oates and Stephen King, to name a few. Thomas is the first Black person or person of color to oversee the magazine, which boasts a legacy of authors that includes Ray Bradbury, Ursula K. Sheree Renée Thomas is the new editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, arguably the most respected fiction journal in the history of a genre that during the magazine's seven-decade run has emerged from the realms of pulp fiction and B movies to become a dominant force in popular culture. Once you place your order, we will give you more detailed instructions on where to pick up your book(s).A Memphis author has landed one of the most prestigious jobs in science fiction, fantasy and horror literature - and made history in the process. We will hand deliver your order to the convention for you.
Visit her on Twitter: Facebook/Instagram: you would like your order to be delivered to you at Multiverse Con, please select, " I would like to pick up my order". Look for her first all-fiction collection, Nine Bar Blues , forthcoming from Third Man Books in 2020. Her editorial work uncovered a legacy of over a century of black science fiction writing and helped launch the careers of some of the most exciting new voices in the field. Thomas edited the two Dark Matter (Hachette) black speculative fiction volumes, winning two World Fantasy Awards (2001, 2005), and Trouble on the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue (Rosarium).
She is the author of Sleeping Under the Tree of Life (Aqueduct Press), honored with a Publishers Weekly Starred Review and longlisted for the 2016 James Tiptree, Jr. Sheree Renée Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor.
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