Africa Risen by Sheree Renee Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and Zelda Knight

A 2023 NAACP Image 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 Renee 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.
If you like short stories, are looking for an entry point to short speculative
fiction, or need something to break a reading (...)

Sheree Renee Thomas is an award-winning fiction writer, poet, and editor.
Her work is inspired by myth and folklore, natural science and the genius of
the Mississippi Delta. She is a co-editor of Africa Risen: A New Era of
Speculative Fiction (Tordotcom) and Trouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep
Blue (Third Man Books). Her fiction collection, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from
an Ancient Future was a finalist for the 2021 Ignyte, Locus, and World Fantasy
Awards. She is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction,
associate editor of Obsidian, and also edited the two-time World Fantasy
Award-winning groundbreaking anthologies, Dark Matter: A Century of
Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora and Dark Matter: Reading the
Bones (Grand Central). She lives in Memphis, Tennessee near a river and a
pyramid Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction

Tor
On Sale: Nov 14/23
5.38 x 8.25 • 528 pages
9781250848192 • $26.99 • pb
Fiction / Fantasy / Short Stories