Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2022.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ekpeki, Oghenechovwe Donald.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

270 p.

Place of Publication:

Arc Manor 2023.

Summary:

"In the highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed 2021 anthology descibed as containing "some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year," readers will be blown away by the caliber of stories and poems collected in this exciting new volume. The Year's Best African Speculative Fiction 2021 won the World Fantasy Award for best anthology and was met with widespread critical acclaim from all around the globe, with the science fiction trade magazine, Locus, calling it a "must read." Multiple award-winning editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, who created the first anthology, now joins forces with Eugen Bacon, a 2023 British Fantasy Award winner, and Milton Davis, an award-winning black speculative fiction writer and editor, to introduce readers to an ever more diverse list of authors associated with Africa. Timely and relevant to today's world, the fiction selected for this book will astonish, shock and amaze readers, while introducing them to rich cultures and vibrant characters that push the envelope." -- back cover

Contents:

Stories. March magic / WC Dunlap

When she speaks / Ugochi Agoawike

A sunken memory / Donovan Hall

Make a memory with me / Xan van Rooyen

Destiny delayed / Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki

Broad dutty water : a sunken story / Nalo Hopkinson

How we are / Chikodili Emelumadu / Them doghead boys / Alex Jennings

A pall of moondust / Nick Wood

Kaleidoscope / Milton J. Davis

Memories of the old sun / Eugen Bacon

Peeling time (deluxe edition) / Tlotlo Tsamaase

It calls to you / Jamal Hodge

The coward of Umustead / Nnamdi Anyadu

Old Solomon's eyes / Cheryl S. Ntumy

The travelling man / Radha Zutshi Opubor

An arc of electric skin / Wole Talabi

A soul of small places / Mame Bougouma Diene

Barefoot and midnight / Sheree Reňe Thomas

The mercy of the sandsea / T. L. Huchu

Deep in the gardener's barrow / Tobi Ogundiran

If the Martians have magic / P. Djeli Clark

District to cervix: the time before we were born / Tlotlo Tsamaase

Like stars daring to shine / Somto Ihezue

Poems. Child price / Akua Lezli Hope

Igbo landing / Akua Lezli Hope

Nyankopoxyican breath of fresh air / Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss

Pigeon police / Bryant O'Hara

The drone's retort / Bryant O'Hara

The revenge of Henrietta Lacks / Cecilia Caballero

Tons of liquid oxygen buckle too late under strain / Eugen Bacon

And this is how it begins / Gerald Coleman

That poor woman / Gerald Coleman

That time your best friend called you a sissy as a plate of ̉m̉l̉ and gb̈gr cooked by your or̕ / Ishola Abdulwasiu Ayodele

Loving Venus / Jamal Hodge

Fracking-lution / Linda D. Addison

The un-awakened / Linda D. Addison

Becoming / Miguel O'Mitchell

Street names / Ndaba Sibanda

ISBN:

9781647100766

1647100763

OCLC:

1388534872

Publisher Number:

99995008061