Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Freedom Race | 2021 | Lucinda Roy | Buy |
| 2 | Flying the Coop | 2022 | Lucinda Roy | Buy |
| 3 | Flying the Coop: The Dreambird Chronicles, Book Two | 2022 | Lucinda Roy | N/A |
The Dreambird Chronicles is a speculative fiction series set in a dystopian version of the United States. Published in 2021 and 2022, the series imagines a future America where racial segregation has returned and Black people are enslaved on plantations in regions called “superplantations.”
The Freedom Race (2021) introduces this world through Ji-ji Lottermule, a young woman born into servitude who enters a deadly competition for her freedom. Flying the Coop (2022) continues Ji-ji’s story as she escapes into a dangerous world beyond the plantations. Roy draws on the history of American slavery and Jim Crow to construct a speculative future that asks what happens when the worst chapters of the past are allowed to repeat themselves.