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Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (PRIDE Anthologies) Kindle Edition
A magician teams up with a disgruntled civil servant to find his missing wand. A taboo error in a black market trade brings a man face-to-face with his deceased father—literally. The death of a King sets off a chain of events that ensnare a trickster, an insane killing machine, and a princess, threatening to upend their post-apocalyptic world. Africa is caught in the tug-of-war between two warring Chinas, and for Ibrahima torn between the lashings of his soul and the pain of the world around him, what will emerge? When the Goddess of Vengeance locates the souls of her stolen believers, she comes to a midwestern town with a terrible past, seeking the darkest reparations. In a post-apocalyptic world devastated by nuclear war, survivors gather in Ife-Iyoku, the spiritual capital of the ancient Oyo Empire, where they are altered in fantastic ways by its magic and power.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateAugust 17, 2020
- File size629 KB
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"Dominionis worth picking up not just for the wealth it contains, but because it's an important anthology, one that will help shape this decade of reading." - Cat Rambo, Nebula Award-winning Author and former President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)
"The Dominion Anthology contains an explosion of new voices and creativity from all across the diaspora. It's a feast of ideas that connects the old and the new, a song of new songs, and an exciting new collection of writers that I expect we'll see even greater things from in the near future." - Tobias S. Buckell, New York Times Bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning, Hugo and Nebula Nominated Author
"Dominionis a massive achievement-the first new anthology with African editorship in some years. Established writers like Dilman Dila, Mame Bougouma Diene, Ekpeki Oghenechovwe, and Dare Segun Falowo join writers from Africa and the Diaspora. Each story is a coruscating world of its own." - Geoff Ryman, Award-winning and Critically-acclaimed Author of Air
"I love this anthology. New voices, new visions-science fiction would be much poorer without it." - Pat Cadigan, Hugo, Locus & Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Author of Synners and Vice President of the British Science Fiction Association
"The Dominion Anthology is an excellent addition to the imaginative writing of authors of African/African Diasporan descent. The stories provide an exciting and thought-provoking journey. It's a mind-expanding book where the authors weave cultural details from their respective origins that are fascinating and enlightening. Dominion belongs in every speculative fiction anthology collection." - Milton J. Davis, Black Fantastic Author and Owner of MVmedia, LLC
About the Author
JOSHUA OMENGA (Line Editor) is an editor and writer of literary fiction. He is a practicing attorney who divides his time between the legal and the literary professions. He can be contacted via the following media: Email: joshuaomenga@gmail.com; Blogs: www.joshuaomenga.wordpress.com; www.lexgius.wordpress.com; Facebook: /JoshuaOmenga; LinkedIn: /joshua-omenga.
EKPEKI OGHENECHOVWE DONALD ("Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon") is a Nigerian writer and editor. He has been awarded an honourable mention in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest, twice. His short story "The Witching Hour," made the Tangent Online Recommended Reading List and won the Nommo award for Best Short Story by an African. He has been published in Selene Quarterly, Strange Horizons, Tor, and other venues, and has works forthcoming in several journals, magazines, and anthologies. He has guest edited and co-edited several publications, including Selene Quarterly, Invictus Quarterly, and the Dominion Anthology. He is a member of the African Speculative Fiction Society, Codex, the Horror Writers of America, the British Science Fiction Association, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. You can find him on Twitter at @penprince_NSA and on his website https: //www.ekpeki.com
Product details
- ASIN : B088SD5YJY
- Publisher : AURELIA LEO; 1st edition (August 17, 2020)
- Publication date : August 17, 2020
- Language : English
- File size : 629 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 266 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1946024791
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,547,813 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the authors
Suyi Davies Okungbowa is an award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. His latest books include Lost Ark Dreaming, Warrior of the Wind and Son of the Storm (both in the Nameless Republic epic fantasy trilogy). He lives in Ontario, where he is a professor of creative writing at the University of Ottawa.
ZELDA KNIGHT is a USA Today Bestselling author of spicy and diverse sci-fi and fantasy romances. She’s also an award-winning editor (Locus, British Fantasy & World Fantasy). Zelda co-edited Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Crowne, 2020) and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Tordotcom, 2022), which have received critical acclaim. Africa Risen was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in 2023. Her hobbies include reading books and comics, raving to the grave, and ranting about her book boyfriends.
Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is an award-winning African speculative fiction writer and editor from Nigeria. He won the Nommo award for best short story by an African in 2019, the 2020 Horror Writers Association Diversity Grant, the 2020 Otherwise award and the 2021 British Fantasy award. He has been a finalist in the Nebula, Locus, BSFA, Sturgeon, and This Is Horror awards.
Nicole Givens Kurtz has been called "a genre polymath who does crime, horror, and SFF (Book Riot)." They've named her as one of the 6 Black SFF Indie Writers You Should be Reading, 30 Must-Read SFF Books by Black Authors, and The Best of the West: 8 Alternative History Westerns (Sisters of the Wild Sage). She's a two-time Atomacon Palmetto Scribe Award winner. With over 20 years in publishing, she’s written for Pseudopod, Fiyah, Apex Magazine, White Wolf, The Realm (formerly Serial Box), Subsume, and Baen. Nicole has over 50 published short stories and is the author of the Cybil Lewis and Death Violations cybernoir series as well as the Kingdom of Aves fantasy mystery series. She's written the critically acclaimed, weird western anthology, Sisters of the Wild Sage: A Weird West Collection.
Nicole has conducted workshops for Clarion and is an active instructor at Speculative Fiction Academy. She is the owner of Mocha Memoirs Press. She’s the editor for the groundbreaking SLAY: Stories of the Vampire Noire anthology.
Nicole is professional level member of SFWA and HWA. She's represented by Justin Bell at Spectrum Literary Agency.
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- Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2023This phenomenal collection of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora goes beyond the Black Panther movie. Diverse stories range from enslavement to colonialism and Afrofutures. All the stories engaged my imagination. So many great writers came together in one spectacular volume.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2020Dominion is an anthology of twelve speculative short stories (and a poem) from Africa and the African Diaspora. With that being the singular factor uniting these works, they represent a wide range of genres, subjects, and settings. Robots, magicians, angry goddesses, zombies, greedy corporations, and more make appearances across small towns, spaceships, crumbling worlds, and interdimensional spaces.
Despite this great variance, there is one noticeable theme; a majority of these stories are post-apocalyptic, dealing with survival and recovery from a past that can never truly be healed. Though some are more optimistic than others, very few of these tales are truly uplifting. Instead, they purposefully confront difficult topics including racism, sexism, and many types of violence. This collection may not be for the faint of heart, but it is compelling and meaningful.
So far as the quality of each story, there were some that worked much better for me than others, but as a whole the anthology is excellent. There were several stories that I loved, and even those that I didn’t like as well were engaging and explored fascinating concepts. When I was unsatisfied, it often felt like it was more because I was missing something than that the story was. Below are some brief thoughts on the standout stories for me.
"Red_Bati" by Dilman Dila - A robot dog taking over a spaceship to avoid being reprogrammed. Throughout the heist, questions of sentience are explored and we get glimpses of the world beyond the spaceship which piqued my curiosity.
"The Unclean" by Nuzo Onoh - An uncomfortable horror story addressing the oppression of women through expectations and domestic abuse and the terrible decisions that this can force them into. It was incredibly creepy and kept me on the edge of my seat.
"A Mastery of German" by Marian Denise Moore - Examines the possibility of transferring memories and what this would mean for personal worth and identity. This subject always fascinates me, and I enjoyed the author’s take on how it might come about in a real-world setting.
"Clanfall: Death of Kings" by Odida Nyabundi - This sci-fi about various tribes of killer cyborgs was so entertaining. My only complaint is that it felt more like an introduction than a completed work, which gives me hope that it may be expanded into a longer story in the future.
"The Satellite Charmer" by Mame Bougouma Diene - Follows Ibrahim throughout his life in an Africa that is in peril from gigantus mining corporations. For me, there was just the right mix of everyday life and perplexing sci-fi.
"Ife-Iyoku, the Tale of Imadeyunuagbon" by Epeki Oghenechovwe Donald - A small civilization of survivors of the apocalypse have been blessed with magical powers, but inept leadership and patriarchal beliefs might be their downfall. I liked the exploration of gender roles and power dynamics combined with a strong main character and, well, superpowers.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2020If you haven't delved into writings by African and African American authors, this book of shorts, published in my hometown by a brilliant Louisville writer, will astound you. There's highly fantastical adventures, deep dives into the psyche, and perspectives we all need to consider in our journey toward a lasting, anti-racist world. I'm white, nearly 70, who grew up in a predominantly Black neighborhood where we were all poor, so of course, I believe I don't have a prejudice bone in my body. Recent social injustices have made me think deeper, spurring me into actions, not just platitudes. If you're seeking to open your mind to untold riches in our literary world, this book provides stories with short reading times for each, allowing you the opportunity to really think about our sameness and our differences with Black brothers and sisters. And then you get to read another one!
- Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2020Review also posted to Goodreads.
This collection is nothing short of incredible! Every entry is thought-provoking, emotional, and many are so surreal I had to stop reading for a bit to wrap my head around what was happening. From a Halloween origin story to a young woman reclaiming herself and defying the status quo, not all stories were easy to read (see end for content/trigger warnings), but each one will certainly stay with me for a very long time.
My favorites were the surreal "Convergence in Chorus Architecture" (telling of three young people who survive a mass abduction by ethereal and sinister beings beyond time and space), "Emily" (a short poem-like snapshot of a moment frozen in time), "To Say Nothing of Lost Figurines" (a wholly charming story in which a time-space-traveling wizard has to team up with a low-level biracial civil servant who dreams of being and doing *more* to find his stolen wand), and "Thresher of Men" (where a goddess wreaks horrible, yet oftentimes well-deserved, vengeance on those who harm her stolen followers). The imagery and emotion in each of these is so utterly captivating and beautiful even in its horror I still find myself thinking about them. (I also really need Netflix or Shudder to get these on their radars and make them into full movies, especially "Convergence".)
As beautiful, horrific, and wonderful as this anthology is, there are some things to be aware of for those sensitive to disturbing content (not every entry contains these things and not all of them are graphic in nature): graphic violence, domestic violence, sexual assault, violence against women, familial abuse, child death, corpse desecration, body horror, loss of sanity, mentions of suicide, rape, disturbing imagery, violent abortion, racism and racial slurs, sexism in a patriarchal society.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2021Rafeet's story is quite good, though under developed. Other stories here are uncomfortable to read, at varying degrees. You will definitely find yourself to think about various issues, but may not necessarily enjoy the experience. Lots of stories feel rough.
- Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2020I think it is an excellent book and it was great to read story written by people with a different background.
I strongly appreciated the world building and the characters.
Not all the story were at the same level but I can say I liked the all.
It's strongly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.