Crittendon, Denise
Entry updated 13 March 2023. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US activist, journalist, editor and author, professionally active from before 1980s; she is of sf interest for her first novel, Where It Rains In Color (2022), set in a portion of the home galaxy occupied by Homo sapiens, on the planet Swazembi, colonized by an African civilization (see Afrofuturism Colonization of Other Worlds; (race in sf); Space Opera). The protagonist, after winning a beauty contest and being named the Rare Indigo as a consequence, finds herself succumbing to a disfiguring disease, which opens gates of Perception for her which are both self-healing, and revelatory about the true structure of galactic civilization. [JC]
Denise Crittendon
born Detroit, Michigan. 11 January.
works (selected)
- Where It Rains In Color (New York: Angry Robot, 2022) [pb/]
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