Vernon, Leah
Entry updated 27 February 2023. Tagged: Author.
(? - ) US "social media influencer" and author perhaps best known for her nonfiction Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim (2019). Her sf novel, The Impure (2016; rev vt The Union 2022), can be understood as a Thought Experiment depicting a Dystopian Near Future America dominated by Blacks, who behave as badly towards other races (see Race in SF) as Confederate slaveholders (see Slavery) behaved in this world. [JC]
Leah Vernon
born Detroit, Michigan
works
- The Impure (no place given: for the author, 2016) [pb/]
- The Union (Las Vegas, Nevada: 47North, 2022) [rev vt of the above: pb/Mark Nazh]
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