A Bad Bad Beat Was Brewing: An Africentric Scroll of Bizarre, Brutal, Inspiring and Supernatural Tales

For fans of Walter Mosley, Eldridge Cleaver, Nalo Hopkinson, Philip K. Dick, Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Gardner, Chuck D., Steven Barnes, and Stephen King, comes A Bad Bad Beat Was Brewing, a powerful and at times humorous and disturbing odyssey through modern and ancient African realities. Journey with Minister Faust through the playful but angry re-imagining of recent history (“Jali Tales”) to a revisionist take on D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation (“The Worth of a Nation”), a barbershop fight over Alice Walker (“De-Conking Some Sense from the Colour Purple”) and a Grendel-style psychohistory of ancient Egypt’s founding myth (“The Belly of the Crocodile,” a companion story to Minister Faust’s novel The Alchemists of Kush), among many others. Bold, angry, and visionary, A Bad Bad Beat was Brewing demonstrates that Minister Faust is, in the words of Imaro author Charles R. Saunders, “shaping up to become a one-man New Wave in the SF genre. With the story-telling skills of a modern jali, the Minister creates new vistas of history, mythology, erudition, uplift, tragedy, triumph, and contemporary community activism.”