Reddit reviews Lion's Blood (Insh'Allah Book 1)

1. Hmmmm.
   
   
2. There's something extra galling about this being announced when Underground is in limbo and probably off the air forever. HBO has infinite money, why not pick it up or develop a new show with its showrunners?
   
   
3. Let's get real, we all know exactly how this show is going to go. We're hitting the limits of the white American male imagination, and it all just feels so lazy, tired, and played-out. When do we get an adaptation of Lion's Blood or High Aztech or The Yiddish Policeman's Union? Why not option this? Why not do one of those feminist utopia stories where there are few/no men?

check out Lion's Blood and Zulu Heart. they're an alternate history where Africa is in charge in the 1800s instead of Europe. The Aztecs are in power in South America, and in North America the black African colonists have Irish slaves. one of the things it showed me was all the ways we use "light" and "white" as synonyms for good in our everyday expressions. it's not just a thought experiment, it has fighting, politics, steampunky gadgets, and interesting charaters.

Lion's Blood by Steven Barnes

Male Rising by Jonathan Edelstein