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Lost Children
A class outing to a botanical garden goes horribly wrong; a vampire survives the zombiepocalypse in the Mother City; a woman confronts a child's ghost in an empty house-these are but a few of Nerine Dorman's stories that have drifted between the cracks and lodged themselves in dusty corners. Step closer and take a seat. There's a warm fire, and the wind is rattling the windowpanes. Stay a while; let me whisper in your ear. Dream.
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction
In this vibrant and approachable book, award-winning writers of black speculative fiction bring together excerpts from their work and creative reflections on futurisms with original essays. Features an introduction by Suyi Okungbowa. Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction showcases creative-critical essays that negotiate genre bending and black speculative fiction with writerly practice. As Afrodecendant peoples with lived experience from the continent, award-winning authors use their intrinsic voices in critical conversations on Afrofuturism and Afro-centered futurisms. By engaging with difference, they present a new kind of African study that is an evaluative gaze at African hi...
Summer
In the far future on the outer reaches of the great space diaspora Hannali toils daily under alien skies on their farm. On a break into town she spots Summer, a childhood friend, on a scaffold waiting to be hanged... What ensues is a touching tale of choices made, different paths taken, bonds formed and broken, what makes us who we are, and how we travel through life. "Nerine Dorman delivers a swift, scathing commentary on the restrictions of societal expectation, the allure of stepping away from it, and the inexorable consequences of doing so. The world is rich; it feels layered and well-conceptualised - a tough job for a short story. This passage in particular moved me: "Whose dreams are e...
African Small Publishers Catalogue 2024
This is the 6 th edition of the African Small Publishers Catalogue. An invaluable reference book and tool for African publishers, booksellers, and literary professionals to discover and collaborate with peers across borders. It’s also for anyone interested or in any way involved in the African book/publishing/literary scene, or writers looking for a publisher. Lists a wide range of over 60 small and independent publishers in countries from around Africa and elsewhere that publish African books. Listings include literary agents, and NGOs that promote children’s literature and reading. Cameroon, Canada, Egypt, France, Ghana, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland Togo, Tunisia Uganda, the UK, the USA and Zimbabwe. The catalogue connects independent African publishers with a global audience and fosters vital networks within the continent itself. It’s a tool for African publishers, booksellers, and literary professionals to discover and collaborate with peers across borders. It acknowledges the formidable challenges faced by independent publishers in Africa.
Amazing Stories: Best of 2023
Embark on a journey through the cosmos with this stellar collection of science fiction tales curated from the depths of Amazing Stories. From the minds of esteemed authors such as Paul Saka, Heather N. Santo, Adrian Tchaikovsky, and Norman Spinrad, among others, immerse yourself in worlds where the boundaries of reality blur and the possibilities of the universe are endless. Join a team of intergalactic explorers as they navigate the treacherous depths of space in search of a new home. Encounter sentient AI grappling with existential questions of identity and purpose. Witness the struggle for survival on distant planets, where humanity's resilience is put to the ultimate test against formida...
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Anglophone Literature and Migration
Focusing on a significant 70-year period as a climactic phase of displacement, the book investigates the role of literature in producing new modes of representing and understanding migration in a global context. Globally felt and reported as a geographical, sociological, anthropological, and historical phenomenon, migration has produced an unprecedented corpus of literary narratives that demands to be approached through its own set of cross-disciplinary critical approaches. This Handbook explores tales of migration via a systematic study of the large corpus of Anglophone literary texts that have been written by migrant authors and/or on the topic of migration between 1946 and 2016-from the s...
Camdeboo Nights
Helen Ashfield's world is about to be turned upside down. Is she ready? Helen Ashfiel's life is complicated. Not only must she adjust to her parents' divorce, but she has to come to grips with her new school in the small South African Karoo town of Graaff-Reinet. She's sorely mistaken if she thinks she's going to slot seelessly into her new life. Her growing magical powers have attracted the unwanted attention of Trystan, a vampire, who may not have her best interests at heart. Outcast from his kind for drinking another vampire's blood, Trystan has been on the run for almost a hundred years from Mantis--the closest thing their kind has to an enforcer. All Trystan wants is an existence of quiet anonymity, but Helen turns his world upside-down. Helen's powers also mark her as one of Mantis' targets. If Mantis gets control of Helen, she'll change the course of history. . .for the worse. CONTENT WARNING: Violence, language. 79,835 Words
The Guardian's Wyrd
Jay didn't realise that sticking up for Rowan, the gangly new kid at school, would plunge him into the dangers and politics of the magical realm of Sunthyst. But if anyone is up for the challenge it's Jay September. With his trusty dog, Shadow, at his side, he braves the Watcher in the dark that guards the tunnels between the worlds, and undertakes a dangerous quest to rescue the prince. It's a race against time - can he sneak Prince Rowan away from under King Lessian's nose and bring him safely back home - all before the prince's sixteenth birthday? Or is Rowan's mother, the exiled Queen Persia, secretly trying to hold onto her power by denying her son his birthright? Jay is ready for anything, except, perhaps, the suffocating darkness of the tunnels. And that howling ...
The Firebird
What is true evil? How do you fight it? Since she was little, Lada wanted to be part of the Order of Fennarin, one of the warrior-monks who are the last bastion in a war against the demons and insurgents that threaten her island home. Yet to achieve her dream, Lada turned blood traitor, her decision leading to the death and exile of her family. Her betrayal comes to haunt her now, ten years later, when her elders demand that she oversees her brother Ailas's trial. Lada feared him lost forever, thanks to his covenant with demons, which makes him anathema to her and her order. Will she deny her blood and uphold the order that's become her family? Or will she listen to the whispers of the demons? After all, they might just be telling the truth - though a truth that may make her question everything, even the organisation to which she's entrusted her very soul.
