Book review: Danged Black Thing by Eugen Bacon
Danged Black Thing (2021) is an eclectic collection of speculative short stories by Tanzanian-Australian computer scientist and author Eugen Bacon. Spanning across different continents and cultures, from the past to the future, the stories celebrate the author’s own hybridity with breathtaking complexity and lyricism. They cover the deeper nuances of love, relationships, familial ties, grief, class differences, migration and tradition with a dystopian and often mystical edge.