I am a multi-award-winning African Australian writer, and have a deep passion for stories by people of colour, stories that engage with difference. I write across genres and forms, and my award-winning works are mostly Afrocentric. I am especially curious about unique voices in black speculative fiction in transformative stories of culture, diversity, climate change, writing the other, and betwixt.
This book is a SauĂștiverse novella set in Afrocentric universe of five planets and focusing on sound, music, language, cultures, and histories.
This lyrical story in chanting prose and the meditation of sound and silence encapsulates the reader in matters of time, life, and grief, as our protagonist Shad-Dari seeks to escape her past.
Shad-Dari has escaped her past, her dreams now in reach. An excavator of the valuable old sounds of Ărino-Rin, she steals tiny, unheard fragments of the sacred songs to erase the painful echo of her home planet, Ekwukwe. In one rebellion too far, she sets off a chain of events that severs her from time itself, forcing her, without another way forward, to face her past.
âSet in the SauĂști universe and tightly packed with rich worldbuilding, Songs for the Shadows is crafted in beautiful prose and depth, meditating on silence and sound andâŠ
This book brings together a whole cast of writers from Africa and the diaspora to focus stories on intrigue, lies, the clandestine, and the intriguing.
It races across the past, present, and future in cross-genre stories of science, technology, and the fantastical from authors with much imagination and a yearning to make a difference with a different kind of story that features Black people hero/ines.
âRowdyâ Randy Cox, a woman staring down the barrel of retirement, is a curmudgeonly blue-collar butch lesbian who has been single for twenty years and is trying to date again.
At the end of a long, exhausting shift, Randy finds her supervisor, Bryant, pinned and near death at the warehouseâŠ
This book is a philosophical thriller that is as complex as itâs action-packed.
In a highly-imagined world, the South African Police Service tracks people through their souls and has zeroed in on a serial killer.
Stephen Embletonâs book is more than a murder investigation. It also scrutinises the inherent perils of unregulated technology and, like Philip K. Dickâs Minority Report, it challenges the ethical concerns surrounding algorithms and state-sanctioned surveillance.
Science has learned to understand the soul, and can track souls through this life and beyond.
A specialist unit of the South African police is using a Soul Tracker device in a harrowing search for a serial killer. As Tracker Ruth Hicks and her partner Franklin Banks race to find the killer before the next victim dies, the case becomes frighteningly personal. They begin to question the morality of their methods.
When one's soul can incriminate them before birth, can there ever be justice?
Who can be trusted with the power to look inside the soul?
Wole Talabiâs debut fantasy novel is a love story, an adventure story, and a spirit world story, rivetted with non-human protagonists.
Shigidi is an Afrocentric novel that spans across London, Nigeria, Singapore, Ethiopia, and everywhere else, and traversing centuries in vacillation. This multi-hued narrative is fast-paced and a riveting read.
A Washington Post top 10 best science fiction and fantasy book of 2023
"A heist caper with sex, violence, and superpowers popping off every technicolor page." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Defiantly ambitious...an action-packed thrill ride." -The Washington Post
A mythic tale of disgruntled gods, revenge, and a heist across two worlds, perfect for fans of Nnedi Okorafor, Neil Gaiman, Marlon James, and Karen Lord
Shigidi is a disgruntled and demotivated nightmare god in the Orisha spirit company, reluctantly answering prayers of his few remaining believers to maintain his existence long enough to find his next drink. When he meets Nneoma,âŠ
Lovers of Afrocentric collections of short stories will savour Wole Talabiâs second collection of short stories, following the Yoruba mythology in his first collection, Incomplete Solutions.
Convergence Problems brings its own vein of African-hued stories with an eye to the future and how technology and belief can shape our lives.
Convergence Problems is a new short story collection from award-winning, Nebula-nominated Nigerian author Wole Talabi.
Containing brand-new stories rewrites of early work, and a few previously published pieces, Wole Talabi's new collection, Convergence Problems, consists of sixteen short stories and one previously unseen novella. All of the stories in this collection are set in or relate to Africa and investigate the rapidly changing role of technology in our lives as we search for meaning, knowledge, and justice, constantly converging to our future selves.
In Lagos, Nigeria, a roadside mechanic volunteers to undergo a procedure that will increase the electrical conductivityâŠ
In this SauĂștiverse novella from the queen of genre-bending speculative fiction, a precocious Guardian misuses sound magic to summon creatures of unrealityâwith consequences. The Guardians punish ChantâL by stripping away her magic but, stranded on a sound island, she quickly discovers that magic is never truly lost or taken. She summons the Ngaâphandileh, creatures of unrealityâonly her magic is more than she bargained for. Now the Guardians find themselves with a catastrophe they must not only keep secret, but resolve. Sci fi horror from an award-winning queen of Afro-Irreal genre bending.
A glossary of Bantu, Afrocentric, and made-up words complements this genre-bending, cross-cultural novella. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish, and hope.
Resonant Blue and Other Stories
by
Mary Vensel White,
The first collection of award-winning short fiction from the author of Bellflower and Things to See in Arizona, whose writing reflects âhow we can endure and overcome our personal histories, better understand our ancestral ones, and accept the unknown future ahead.â
"Is this supposed to help? Christ, you've heard it a hundred times. You know the story as well as I do, and it's my story!" "Yeah, but right now it only has a middle. You can't remember how it begins, and no-one knows how it ends."
