The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2022)

2023-04-25 Fiction

Author : Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Release : 2023-04-25
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2022) written by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. This book was released on 2023-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the follow up to the highly acclaimed The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2021 which collected twenty-nine stories by twenty-five writers, which the press describes as "some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year." This new anthology introduces three two new editors who join award-winning writer and editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki of teh first to introduce readers to an ever more diverse set of writers associated with Africa. Ekpeki is the author of "The Witching Hour," which won a 2019 Nommo award, and the co-editor of two other forthcoming anthologies: the nonfiction collection Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic (with Zelda Knight) and the speculative fiction collection Africa Risen (with Zelda Knight and Sheree Renée Thomas). For the new anthology he is joining forces with Eugen Bacon, a 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist and Milton Davis, an award-winning Black Speculative fiction write and editor.

Africa Risen

2022-11-15 Fiction

Author : Sheree Renée Thomas
Release : 2022-11-15
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Africa Risen written by Sheree Renée Thomas. This book was released on 2022-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology Winner of the 2023 Locus Award for Best Anthology A 2023 NAACP Image Award Nominee A 2023 British Fantasy Award Nominee A NPR Best of the Year pick A Book Riot Best SFF of the Year pick "[A] magnificent and wide-ranging anthology . . . A must-read for all genre fans."—Publishers Weekly, starred review From award-winning editorial team Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother’s ability to change her appearance—and perhaps the world. Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not rising—it’s already here. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2021

2023-04-04 Fiction

Author : Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Release : 2023-04-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 742/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2021 written by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki. This book was released on 2023-04-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER BEST ANTHOLOGY, WORLD FANTASY AWARDS "You are bound to be wonderstruck."--Lightspeed Magazine "A must-read."--Locus Magazine "Highly recommended."--The British Fantasy Society The world's first ever "year's best" anthology of African speculative fiction. Edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction collects twenty-nine stories by twenty-five writers, which the press describes as "some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year." The anthology includes stories from Somto O. Ihezue, Pemi Aguda, Russell Nichols, Tamara Jerée, Tlotlo Tsamaase, Sheree Renée Thomas, Tobias S. Buckell, Inegbenoise O. Osagie, Tobi Ogundiran, Chinelo Onwualu, Moustapha Mbacké Diop, Marian Denise Moore, Michelle Mellon, C.L. Clark, Eugen Bacon, Craig Laurence Gidney, Makena Onjerika, T.L. Huchu, Yvette Lisa Ndlovu, Derek Lubangakene, Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, WC Dunlap, ZZ Claybourne, and Dilman Dila. As Ekpeki notes, the announcement also includes a list of twenty-one additional notable stories from 2020--an excellent further reading list once you've finished the book. Ekpeki is the author of "The Witching Hour," which won a 2019 Nommo award, and the co-editor of two other forthcoming anthologies: the nonfiction collection Bridging Worlds: Global Conversations on Creating Pan-African Speculative Literature in a Pandemic (with Zelda Knight) and the speculative fiction collection Africa Risen (with Zelda Knight and Sheree Renée Thomas).

Africa Risen

2022-11-15 Fiction

Author : Sheree Renée Thomas
Release : 2022-11-15
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book Africa Risen written by Sheree Renée Thomas. This book was released on 2022-11-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] magnificent and wide-ranging anthology . . . A must-read for all genre fans."—Publishers Weekly, starred review From award-winning editorial team Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother’s ability to change her appearance—and perhaps the world. Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not rising—it’s already here.

The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)

2021

Author : Oghenechovwe Ekpeki
Release : 2021
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Download or read book The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021) written by Oghenechovwe Ekpeki. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever Year's Best African speculative fiction anthology with works from some of the most exciting voices in Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year."Where You Go" by Somto O. Ihezue"Things Boys Do" by Pemi Aguda"Giant Steps" by Russell Nichols"The Future in Saltwater" by Tamara Jerée"The ThoughtBox" by Tlotlo Tsamaase"The Parts That Make Us Monsters" by Sheree Renée Thomas"Scar Tissue" by Tobias S. Buckell"Ancestries" by Sheree Renée Thomas"Breath of the Sahara" by Inegbenoise O. Osagie"The Many Lives of an Abiku" by Tobi Ogundiran"A Love Song for Herkinal as composed by Ashkernas amid the ruins of New Haven" by Chinelo Onwualu"A Curse at Midnight" by Moustapha Mbacké Diop"A Mastery of German" by Marian Denise Moore"Are We Ourselves?" by Michelle Mellon"When the Last of the Birds and the Bees Have Gone On" by C.L. Clark"The Goatkeeper's Harvest" by Tobi Ogundiran"Baba Klep" by Eugen Bacon"Desiccant" by Craig Laurance Gidney"Disassembly" by Makena Onjerika"The River of Night" by Tlotlo Tsamaase"Egoli" by T.L. Huchu"The Friendship Bench" by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu"Fort Kwame" by Derek Lubangakene"We Come as Gods" by Suyi Davies Okungbowa"And This is How to Stay Alive" by Shingai Njeri Kagunda "The Front Line" by WC Dunlap"Penultimate" by ZZ Claybourne"Love Hangover" by Sheree Renée Thomas"Red_Bati" by Dilman Dila

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