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✨ Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine Spotlight ✨

Now available in the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @206langston and @naamnw:

📚 SIGNED Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

🏆 National Bestseller 📖 Read With Jenna Book Club Pick

In a chilling near-future America, incarcerated people are forced to compete in televised death matches for a chance at freedom. Loretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the fan-favorite champions of CAPE (Criminal Action Penal Entertainment)—a brutal spectacle built on profit, punishment, and mass incarceration.

But as Thurwar gets closer to winning her freedom, she must decide how far she’s willing to go—and what freedom really means in a system designed to deny it.

A powerful dystopian novel examining systemic racism, capitalism, and the prison industrial complex.

🚀✨ The Future of Book Access is Here.. ✨

We’re beyond excited to bring you a carefully curated collection of books that celebrate the diversity, creativity, and brilliance of Black voices in speculative fiction.

Our book vending machines are packed with handpicked titles that will spark your imagination, feed your curiosity, and keep you turning pages long into the night.

📍 Here’s where you can find us:

📍 @Chapter510 - 9th St, Oakland, CA 94607, United States 📖 Featured Books: 🔹 There There by Tommy Orange 🔹 The Chaos (Hardcover) by Nalo Hopkinson 🔹 Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed

📍 @DistantWorldsCoffee - 6401 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, WA 98115, United States 📖 Featured Books: 🔹 My Rainy Day Rocket Ship by @markettesheppard 🔹 Friday Black by NanaKwame Adjei-Brenyah 🔹 Kinning: Book 2 Everfair Duology by @nisi_shawl

📍 @NAAMNW - 2300 S Massachusetts St, Seattle, WA 98144, United States 📖 Featured Books: 🔹 Parable of the Sower by @octaviaebutler 🔹 Womb City by @tlotlotsamaase 🔹 Archangels of Funk by @dangerouswomeninc

Come visit, explore, and grab your next favorite read right from the machine. The revolution will be read. 💫

🚨 Fresh From the Machine 🚨

Speculation by @nisi_shawl

Bold, brilliant, and inventive — Nisi Shawl’s Speculation is ready to spark your weekend reading.

🚀 Now in the Sistah Scifi Book Vending Machine at @chapter510!

SIGNED copies of To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights by @angeladalton_author are available now.

This inspiring picture book tells how Nichelle Nichols’ role as Lt. Uhura on Star Trek helped open doors for a more diverse generation of astronauts and STEM leaders—including Sally Ride and Dr. Mae Jemison.

Perfect for young readers ages 4–8 and fans of Hidden Figures and Mae Among the Stars.

📚 Deep Dives in Butler 📚

Understanding Octavia Butler by @drkrparker

Kendra Parker’s Understanding Octavia Butler gives readers and scholars a closer look at a visionary mind.

🔮 Future Forward 🔮

A Few Rules For Predicting The Future by @octaviaebutler, illustrated by @artxman

Octavia Butler’s insights guide us still. A Few Rules For Predicting The Future belongs in your hands today.

📖 Speculative Masterpiece 📖

Everfair by @nisi_shawl

Everfair is a wonderful neo-Victorian alternate history novel that explores the question of what might have come of Belgium's disastrous colonization of the Congo if the native populations had learned about steam technology a bit earlier.

Steampunk, revolution, and reimagined history — Nisi Shawl’s Everfair is ready for your weekend stack.

🎨 Weekend Comics Drop 🎨

Bitter Root by @davidf.walker

Monster-hunting meets family drama in the award-winning Bitter Root. Fresh in the machine for graphic novel fans.