An impressive collection of stories.

The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2021), edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, reprints 29 gripping stories that test the limits of everyday reality. As diverse as the stories are, most of them push their characters across boundaries between this world and the spirit world, between past and present, human and robot, the living and the dead, and the mortal and the immortal. These are stories of Africa and the African diaspora, and the authors have provided brief bios at the end. I woul...

This is a really good anthology, giving us stories covering a wide range of topics, settings, themes and motifs across the three main speculative fiction genres--fantasy, scifi, and horror. For me personally, where this book excels was with horror stories--there's a lot of chilling, atmospheric, dark stories whose ideas I just loved. But that's probably simply a personal preference for that genre.The stories collected here are reprints from some well-known and notable speculative fiction magazin...

A fantastic short story collection covering SF, fantasy and horror with tales to delight, scare or pause you and a galaxy of the best current African authors out there Hugely recommended Full review - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net/bl...

I absolutely adore speculative fiction anthologies, so when I saw that both C.L. Clark and T.L. Huchu had stories in this one, I had to read it. This is a collection of twenty-nine stories from 2020 told by African or African diaspora writers, a good mix of science fiction, fantasy and horror. There are stories that deal with age-old problems like racism and parenthood and newer ones like climate change and gentrification, from robot revolutions to vengeful djinn. Most of the stories were a soli...

What a fantastic short story collection! The stories range the gamut of science fiction, fantasy, and horror written by some of the best African SFF authors out there today. I really enjoyed reading this and highly recommend it!

This is a fantastic and wide-ranging collection including stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Editor Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki has truly done a wonderful job in bringing together diverse themes – parenthood, grief, gentrification, technological change, scientific ethics, racism, guilt, sacrifice, environmental destruction – in a range of genres and styles. The majority of authors included in this collection I had not read before; I am thrilled to have discovered quite a few authors...

This collection edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki provides the reader with a fantastic opportunity to sample a wide range of current voices in African speculative fiction in one volume. Works of previously published short fiction from 2020 are brought together in this best of anthology that showcases genres from scifi, fantasy, horror, slipstream, post-apocalyptic, and more under the speculative umbrella. As always with my anthology reviews, I will highlight a few stories that particularly sp...

As someone more au fait with anthologies than me pointed out, this anthology doesn't have a introduction. So there's no discussion of what speculative fiction is, let alone what African speculative fiction is. Which means that the answer to both of those questions is: These stories. All of them. These authors write that. A few of these names - Sheree Renee Thomas, Tobias S Buckell - were familiar to me, but most were not. Part of this is that I don't read a whole heap of short fiction these days...

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Placeholder - Planning to read for r/fantasy Bingo 2022.Read this for Reddit Fantasy's 2022 Bingo Square Five Short Stories. This qualifies for hard mode as it is an entire anthology!Where You Go - Somto O. Ihezue - ⭐ Things Boys Do - Pemi Aguda - ⭐Giant Steps - Russell Nichols - ⭐ The Future in Saltwater - Tamara Jerée - ⭐ The ThoughtBox - Tlotlo Tsamaase - ⭐ The Parts That Make Us Monsters - Sheree Renée Thomas - ⭐ Scar Tissue - Tobias S. Buckell - ⭐ Ancestries - Sheree Renée Thomas - ⭐ Breath...

A fantastic anthology put together by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki full of stories that are sure to thrill and excite you. Some are shocking, some are heart warming, and all of them are moving. They ask us questions about ourselves as people in many different ways. Please pick it up~

He entrado con ganas de conocer nuevos autores en esta antología, pero en conjunto no me ha acabado de convencer. Hay muchos relatos, de temas variados y todos son muy cortos, de 10-12 páginas, con lo que no puedes profundizar en exceso en los ambientes que proponen, aunque algunos proponen cosas muy interesantes. También me quedo con la sensación de que hay reiteración de algunos temas en muchos de los relatos.https://dreamsofelvex.blogspot.com/20...

trigger warning (TL;DR: all of them)(view spoiler)[ death by fire, drug abuse, gun violence, police brutality, victim blaming, rape, trauma, memory loss, slavery, domestic violence, grief, death at childbirth, kidnapping, child disappearance, fat shaming (hide spoiler)]What it says on the tin: The best African speculative fiction in short stories from the year 2021.You can see that it took me a while to start this, and then it took me a while to read through this. In some cases this would mean

4.5. Some wonderful fiction in here.

I'm not sure that the year's best should include quite so many stories by one writer. But there's a lot of variety in the stories, from science fiction to stories apparently based on folklore. Some, I just stalled out on, but others were rich (and sometimes strange). A lot of horror here--or at least stories drawing from horror tropes.Some I especially enjoyed: "Things Boys Do," by Pemi Aguda, which turns out to be wonderfully creepy horror; "Breath of the Sahara," by Inegbenoise O. Osagie, a lu...

BookRiot's 2022 Read Harder Challenge #18. Read a “Best _ Writing of the year” book for a topic and year of your choice.

Table of Contents(view spoiler)[“Where You Go” by Somto O. IhezueOriginally Published in Omenana (Issue 16, December 2020)“Things Boys Do” by Pemi Aguda.Originally Published in Nightmare (Issue 89, February 2020)“Giant Steps” by Russell Nichols Originally Published in Lightspeed Magazine (Issue 118, March 2020)“The Future in Saltwater” by Tamara JeréeOriginally Published in Anathema Magazine (Issue 20, April 2020)“The ThoughtBox” by Tlotlo TsamaaseOriginally Published in Clarkesworld (Issue 163,...

*I received an eARC via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.*I personally love anthologies as a way to introduce myself to new authors and this collection, edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki and containing some of the best science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories of 2020 by African and African Diaspora voices, more than met that mark for me. I am rather ashamed to admit I had never read from any of these authors previously, but that is sure to change soon because this collecti...

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