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Africa Risen
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 anc...
Dominion
Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his subjects. Once an old woman's pet, a robot sent to mine an asteroid faces an existential crisis. A magician and his son time-travel to Ngoni country and try to change the course of history. A dead child returns to haunt his grieving mother with terrifying consequences. Candace, an ambitious middle manager, is handed a project that will force her to confront the ethical ramifications of her company's latest project—the monetization of human memory. Osupa, a newborn village in pre-colonial Yorubaland populated by refugees of war, is recovering afte...
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)
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 Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), edited by the award-winning Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, is not just a book; it's a gateway to the diverse and rich world of African speculative fiction. This anthology, a winner of the Best Anthology at the World Fantasy Awards, is a groundbreaking collection that brings together twenty-nine extraordinary stories by twenty-five talented writers from Africa and its diaspora. These stories represent some of the most exciting voices in the genre, both old and new,...
Africa Risen
"[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 (2022)
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.
The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2023)
This is the third volume in this highly praised series (the first won the World Fantasy Award). Previous works been praised for their eclectic mix of stories, offering a panorama of themes and styles. For instance, the 2021 edition included a story about a woman struggling with her identity and relationship in the face of a thought-recording device, a tale of a man fostering a rapidly evolving robot, and an adventurous narrative about a sentient robot dog engaging in space piracy. These stories not only explored advanced technologies and speculative scenarios but also delved deep into human emotions, relationships, and societal issues. Themes of personal struggles, such as dealing with depre...
Between Dystopias
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The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction (2021)
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 MbackÃ...
The Road to Afropantheology
African literary scholars and storytellers have long grappled with the incompatibility of stories of African mysticism with the extant literary labels which seem to erase or dismiss essential aspects of African mysticism in their definitions. Between Dystopias: The Road to Afropantheology takes a stab at this age-old problem that cuts across the continent's non-monolithic literature rooted in religion and culture. Afropantheology encapsulates the essence and value of African mysticism and dystopia through its award winning and original stories that cut across forms--essays, short stories, novelettes and novellas. It acknowledges the continent's history in its inexorable journey through time'...
The Best of Galaxy's Edge 2020-2022
Whether it's science fiction stories about wars among the stars, sentient starships or symbiotic aliens, or fantasy tales filled with paper-construct humans or anxiety-ridden monsters, Galaxy's Edge magazine has published some the best the genre has to offer for the past ten years. This remarkable anthology includes fiction from some of the hottest up-and-coming writers like Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Andrea Stewart, and Marina J. Lostetter, as well as stories from veteran stalwarts of the genre like Katherine Kerr and Michael Swanwick. The magazine was created and originally edited by the incomparable Mike Resnick (five Hugo awards), and is now edited by the award-winning writer, Lezli Robyn. Our authors come from many different walks of life, but there is only one requirement necessary for inclusion in The Best of Galaxy's Edge: the ability to write one hell of a story. These stories will entertain you, leave you astonished, and make you think. But most of all, they will show you the beauty of the human imagination.
