I get angry when I hear the word ‘empire’; it reminds me of slavery, it reminds me of thousands of years of brutality, it reminds me of how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised.
-- Benjamin Zephaniah (on being offered the OBE)
-- Benjamin Zephaniah (on being offered the OBE)
Issue 2012.22
![[ Issue 2012.22; Cover art © 2012 Robin E. Kaplan ]](http://futurefire.net/images/f22cover.jpg "[ Issue 2012.22; Cover art © 2012 Robin E. Kaplan ]")
- ‘A History of the 20th Century, with illustrations: Atonement’, Ian Sales (illustrated by Robin E. Kaplan)
- ‘Bilaadi’, S. Ali (illustrated by Carmen)
- ‘The City of Sand and Knives’, A.J. Fitzwater (illustrated by Laura-Anca Adascalitei)
- ‘The Boy who Shattered Time’, Mark D. Dunn (illustrated by Cécile Matthey)
- ‘Requiem for Shiva’, D. Thomas Minton (illustrated by Rhiannon Rasmussen-Silverstein)
