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Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin
5.0

Full series review available here from 1st February 2021: https://inkandplasma.com/2021/02/01/the-forward-collection/

Emergency Skin is hard to review. It was a wonderfully strange piece challenging white supremacy and the illogical beliefs that come along with it with an incredible and voicey piece of writing. Those who left the abandoned and damaged Earth, unsurprisingly the white and rich and powerful, sent a soldier back to the graveyard world to find something essential for their survival. The soldier sent back encounters unbeautiful savages - an affront to the eugenics obsessed culture of those who left. This is written in a fantastic second person perspective, as the narrator speaks directly to the listener as he handles the mission.