The year's best African speculative fiction 2021 /
"Africa has a long history of stories of a speculative nature, going back centuries. The continent has a rich, vibrant, and extremely diverse culture steeped in stories and myths of the unknown. It is no wonder then, that so many great African authors harken towards speculative fiction. However...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rockville, Maryland : [Nigeria] :
Caezik SF & Fantasy, an imprint of Arc Manor LLC ; O.D. Ekpeki Presents, an imprint of Jembefola Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First Caezik/WordFire edition. |
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| Summary: | "Africa has a long history of stories of a speculative nature, going back centuries. The continent has a rich, vibrant, and extremely diverse culture steeped in stories and myths of the unknown. It is no wonder then, that so many great African authors harken towards speculative fiction. However, they are essentially missing from Western culture, even though many African authors write their stories in English to reach a wider audience. Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, one of the very few African authors who has been able to make this cultural breakthrough, recognized this and set upon the almost impossible task of bringing greater awareness of the greatness of Afican Speculative Fiction to the world at large. After not getting much supporte from institutional publishers he decided to do it himself as a labor of love. This is the book he created highlightin some of the greatest stories by African and African descended authors. This is the first time the book has been published in paper form. If you appreciate great science fiction and fantasy and are looking for something different than the run-of-the-mill, this one is for you" -- "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)." -- Amazon.com |
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| Physical Description: | 347 pages ; 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781647100742 1647100747 |