Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nnedi Okorafor, and C. T. Rwizi are on Amazon’s new digital collection of science fiction which features black authors. The anthology also feature works by Nalo Hopkinson, Victor LaValle, and Nisi Shawl.
The anthology is titled Black Stars, and it is being edited by Nisi Shawl and Latoya Peterson. It features six writers, with three coming from Africa.
Adichie’s work is titled “The Visit.” Here is a blurb from the publishers:
One night in Lagos, two former friends reunite. Obinna is a dutiful and unsophisticated stay-at-home husband and father married to a powerful businesswoman. Eze is single, a cautious rebel from his university days whose arrival soon upsets the balance in Obinna’s life. In a world where men are constantly under surveillance and subject to the whims of powerful women, more than Obinna’s ordered and accustomed routine might be on the line.
Here is a blurb from Nnedi Okorafor’s “The Black Pages:”
Issaka has returned home to Timbouctou and a devastating al-Qaeda raid. His only hope for survival is Faro, a stunning, blue-beaded supernatural entity who rises free from the flames of her imprisoning book as it burns. Compelled to follow Faro, Issaka is opening his eyes to their shared history and the ancestral wisdom of his own past.
C. T. Rwizi’s “These Alien Skies:”
Copilots Msizi and Tariro are testing a newly constructedd wormhole jump that presumably leads to unsettled habitable worlds. Then an explosion sends them off course, far from where they started and with little chance of ever making it back. Now they’re stranded on their new home for the diaspora. It’s called Malcolm X-b. But they’re beginning to wonder how many light-years from civilization they really are.
Black Stars will be released today, August 31st, 2021. It will be available on Kindle and Audible.
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