Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction [Paperback]

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

ANPRBest of the Year pick
ABook RiotBest SFF of the Year pick

[A]magnificent and wide-ranging anthology . . . Amust-read for all genre fans. Publishers Weekly, starred review

From award-winning editorial team Sheree Ren?e 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 countrys ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmothers ability to change her appearanceand perhaps the world.

Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology seriesDark Matter,Africa Risencelebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not risingits already here.

Sheree Ren?e Thomasis 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 ofAfrica Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction(Tordotcom) andTrouble the Waters: Tales of the Deep Blue(Third Man Books). Her fiction collection,Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an Ancient Futurewas a Finalist for the 2021 Ignyte, Locus, and World Fantasy Awards. She is the editor ofThe 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 DlcX