AFRICA RISEN BY SHEREE RENE THOMAS

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 Rene 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.

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