'Under review here are two smashing books by Eugen Bacon: Chasing Whispers and An Earnest Blackness, both snapped up by a US publisher, the twin houses of Anti-Oedipus Press and Raw Dog Screaming. One is a collection of Afro-Australian stories, the other a selection of essays that interrogates black writing and black speculative fiction, including some of its author’s in the aftermath of Black Lives Matter.' (Introduction)