Saturday, January 14, 2023

THE YEAR'S BEST AFRICAN SPECULATIVE FICTION (2021): Volume One, winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology!


THE YEAR'S BEST AFRICAN SPECULATIVE FICTION (2021): Volume One
OGHENECHOVWE DONALD EKPEKI

CAEZIK SF & Fantasy
$29.99 hardcover, available 23 April 2023

Winner of the 2022 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology!

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The Publisher Says: 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.”

I RECEIVED A DRC FROM THE PUBLISHER VIA NETGALLEY. THANK YOU.

My Review
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“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”




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