4 Books Published by StoryTime on AALBC — Book Cover Collage

Space, the astronomical wilderness that has captivated human curiosity since we first looked up at the sky. The latest installment of the AfroSF series, AfroSFv3, offers twelve visions of the future from African perspectives, ranging from space opera to cyberpunk, post-colonial narratives to biopunk. This collection invites you to take a journey into the great expanse, asking what will become of Africans in the realms beyond our planet.

Award Nominations:

• Shortlisted for the ASFS Nommo Awards 2019: T. L. Huchu ’Njuzu’, Cristy Zinn ’The Girl who stared at Mars’, Biram Mboob ’The Luminal Frontier’
• Nine nominations for the African Speculative Fiction Society Nommo Awards 2019
• Four nominations for the 2018 British Science Fiction Association Awards

Testimonials:

"The third in this pioneering series with an honour roll of some of African writing’s biggest names contributing. Unmissable." - Geoff Ryman, award-winning author.

"The compelling, graceful stories in AfroSFv3 embrace a generous spectrum of places and peoples, eras and objectives… Truly, these writers speak the same science fiction tongue as their like-minded cousins from the rest of the planet, with beautiful accents of their native soil." - Paul Di Filippo, author.

"As quality storytelling - rooted in every culture and tradition - doesn’t belong to a single country or language, these stories prove that the future does happen everywhere. Excellent reading!" - Francesco Verso, author and editor.

Table of Contents:

• T. L. Huchu ’Njuzu’
• Cristy Zinn ’The Girl who stared at Mars’
• Mandisi Nkomo ’The Emo Hunter’
• Biram Mboob ’The Luminal Frontier’
• Gabriella Muwanga ’The Far Side’
• Wole Talabi ’Drift Flux’
• Stephen Embleton ’Journal of a DNA Pirate’
• Masimba Musodza ’The Interplanetary Water Company’
• Dilman Dila ’Safari Nyota’
• Mazi Nwonwu ’Parental Control’
• Andrew C. Dakalira ’Inhabitable’
• Mame Bougouma Diene ’Ogotemmeli’s Song’

Edited by Ivor W. Hartmann, this anthology continues the mission to explore the future through African lenses, adding to the richness and diversity of global science fiction.

AfroSF is the first ever anthology of Science Fiction by African writers only that was open to submissions from across Africa and abroad. It is comprised of original (previously unpublished) works only, from stellar established and upcoming African writers: Nnedi Okorafor, Sarah Lotz, Tendai Huchu, Cristy Zinn, Ashley Jacobs, Nick Wood, Tade Thompson, S.A. Partridge, Chinelo Onwualu, Uko Bendi Udo, Dave de Burgh, Biram Mboob, Sally-Ann Murray, Mandisi Nkomo, Liam Kruger, Chiagozie Fred Nwonwu, Joan De La Haye, Mia Arderne, Rafeeat Aliyu, Martin Stokes, Clifton Gachagua, and Efe Okogu.

’Proposition 23’ by Efe Okogu nominated for the 2013 BSFA Awards.

"A ground-breaking anthology. I could not recommend it enough." - Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award winning author of Osama.

"AfroSF will serve as an admirable antidote for all those who have to be reminded that Africa is a continent, not a country. Both the stories and the authors are as diverse as any reader could wish…Looking over this broad assortment…it’s clear that this anthology has lived up to its ambition…highly readable and enjoyable stories that take the raw materials of science fiction and give them a different spin…Although it is coming from a small press, it would be lovely if this anthology were to get some of the wider attention it deserves." - Karen Burnham, Locus December 2012.

"Africa is in our future and AfroSF demonstrates that the same can be said of its authors. These stories have an energy and a vitality that is missing from much western science fiction today, and they’re as varied as the continent itself. Read them and you’ll find your new favourite authors. Recommended." - Jim Steel, Interzone’s Book Reviews editor and widely published short-story writer.

"The stories in AfroSF feature all the things fans of science fiction expect: deep space travel, dystopian landscapes, alien species, totalitarian bureaucracy, military adventure, neuro-enhanced nightlife, artificial intelligence, futures both to be feared and longed for. At once familiar and disarmingly original, these stories are fascinating for the diversity of voices at play and for the unique perspective each author brings to the genre. This is SF for the Twenty-first Century." - David Anthony Durham, Campbell Award winning author of The Acacia Trilogy.

"I’d like the repurpose the title of an old anthropological study to describe this fine new anthology: ’African Genesis.’ The stories in this unprecedented, full-spectrum collection of tales by African writers must surely represent, by virtue of their wit, vigor, daring, and passion, the genesis of a bright new day for Afrocentric science fiction. The contributors here are utterly conversant with all SF subgenres, and employ a full suite of up-to-date concepts and tools to convey their continent-wide, multiplex, idiosyncratic sense of wonder. With the publication of this book, the global web of science fiction is strengthened and invigorated by the inclusion of some hitherto neglected voices." - Paul Di Filippo, co-author of Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010.

"This is a book of subtle refractions and phantasmic resonances. The accumulated reading effect is one of deep admiration at the exuberance of the twenty-first century human imagination." - A. Igoni Barrett, author of Love is Power, Or Something Like That.

"AfroSF is an intense and varied anthology of fresh work. Readers and writers who like to explore new viewpoints will enjoy this book." - Brenda Cooper, author of The Creative Fire.

African Roar 2011, is the second in a series of annual anthologies dedicated to publishing new short fiction by African writers, edited by Emmanuel Sigauke and Ivor Hartmann. Featuring: Zukiswa Wanner, Memory Chirere, Uche Peter Umez, the late Ruzvidzo Stanley Mupfudza (to whom the anthology is dedicated), NoViolet Bulawayo, Mbonisi P. Ncube, Hajira Amla, Murenga Joseph Chikowero, Dango Mkandawire, Emmanuel Sigauke, Emmanuel Iduma, Ivor Hartmann, Chimdindu Mazi-Njoku, Ayodele Morocco-Clarke, and Isaac Neequaye.

African Roar is a fiction anthology initially drawn from the very best stories published from 2007-2009, in the StoryTime weekly literary ezine dedicated to publishing African writers. Between these covers you will find eleven stories that stand as a testament to the upsurge of talented African writers boldly utilising the cutting edge of technology and the writing craft to be read globally. Spanning Africa and the African Diaspora in past, present and future, each story has a fresh and diverse vision that opens up new vistas of experience. From the lucid terrors of domestic violence through the eyes of a child, and the anguish of those left behind by a fleeing Diaspora, to a full circle, when the prey becomes the hunter and has the opportunity for revenge, and a dryly humourous look at what it’s like to lose a quarter of your brain, to name just a few of the treasures that lie within. Edited by Emmanuel Sigauke & Ivor W. Hartmann.