All the rappers in Koontown are being killed, and everybody thinks it is vampire crack babies who are doing the killing. Desperate, the police reach out to Genevieve Noire, a former supermodel and homicide detective now working as a private eye, to save the day. With this work, author Bill Campbell conducts a gleeful evisceration of the social tropes, stereotypes, and conspiracy theories running rampant in today’s popular culture.
Bill Campbell is the author of
Sunshine Patriots, My Booty Novel
, and the anti-racism satire,
Koontown Killing Kaper
. Along with Edward Austin Hall, he co-edited the groundbreaking anthology,
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond
. He also co-edited
Stories for Chip: A Tribute to Samuel R. Delany
with Nisi Shawl,
Future Fiction: New Dimensions in International Science Fiction and Fantasy
with Francesco Verso, and
APB: Artists against Police Brutality
with Jason Rodriguez and John Jennings (for which he won a Pioneer/Lifetime Achievement Glyph Award). His Afrofuturist spaceploitation graphic novel,
Baaaad Muthaz
(with David Brame and Damian Duffy) was released in 2019. His historical graphic novel with Bizhan Khodabandeh,
The Day the Klan Came to Town
, was released by PM Press in 2021. In the summer of 2021, Campbell won a Locus Award for his work helping to diversify the field of science fiction. Campbell lives in Washington, DC, where he spends his time with his family and helms Rosarium Publishing.