AFRICA RISEN, a new era of speculative fiction

514pp., paperback, Tom Doherty Associates, New York, 2022

ISBN: 9781250848192

Winner of the 2023 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology and the 2023 Locus Award for Best Anthology.

Thirty-two original science-fiction short stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. Includes stories by Yvette Lisa Ndlovu and Tlotlo Tsamaase.

Sheree Renée Thomas is the author of three short fiction and multigenre collections, Nine Bar Blues: Stories from an ancient future; Sleeping Under the Tree of Life and Shotgun Lullabies: Stories & poems, and the novel Black Panther: Panther's rage. She edited the anthologies, Dark Matter: A century of speculative fiction from the African Diaspora (2000) and Dark Matter: Reading the bones (2004), which won the 2001 and 2005 World Fantasy Awards for Year's Best Anthology, making her the first Black author to win the award since its inception in 1975. She is the editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and is the Associate Editor of the Black Arts Movement literary journal Obsidian: Literature & arts in the African Diaspora.

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an African speculative fiction writer and editor from Nigeria. He won the Nommo Award for best short story by an African in 2019, the 2020 Otherwise Award, and the HWA diversity grant. He co-edited Dominion: An anthology of speculative fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora. He is guest editor at Interstellar Flight Press, and is the editor of the Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology.

Zelda Knight is an author, editor, and diverse bookseller. She’s the publisher and editor-in-chief of Aurelia Leo, an independent press based in Louisville, Kentucky, and co-edited Dominion: An anthology of speculative fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.