


The ship is organized around the same racial lines as the antebellum South, with light-skinned individuals at the top of the ship and darker-skinned individuals enslaved in the bowels of the vessel. Described by Amal El-Mohtar for NPR as "a syringe full of stars," An Unkindness of Ghosts is set on a generation spaceship traveling to a mythical planet of plenty. Their first novel won the Firecracker Award and was nominated for the Locus, Lambda, and Tiptree Award, among others. Solomon made perfect sense as the next player to explore the world of this game of Telephone. With Clipping's permission, Wolfe reached out to Rivers Solomon, author of the award-winning Afrofuturist sci-fi novel An Unkindness of Ghosts. Saga Press editor Navah Wolfe heard “The Deep” at the 2017 Hugo Awards and recognized that the world explored in Clipping's song contained rich possibilities.
