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Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction by Zelda Knight, Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Unfortunately, the form of this book is putting the stories and their authors at a disadvantage. If you put any 30 pieces of fiction they slowly start to melt together, even if the authors would otherwise have a distinct style and voice. I think it would be a much better move to split this collection into three volumes, with different genres. In this form, I know it will end up read only partially on someone's "diversity read" tbr list and it makes me very sad for the authors.
It is extremely hard for me to judge a collection like this, and I don't want to add to this unfair bundling of stories together. My absolute favourites were:
Peeling Time (deluxe edition)
A Girl Crawls in a Dark Corner
A Soul of Small Places
The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library
For those stories, I do intend to keep an eye out for the authors' next works.
Peeling Time (deluxe edition)
A Girl Crawls in a Dark Corner
A Soul of Small Places
The Lady of the Yellow-Painted Library
For those stories, I do intend to keep an eye out for the authors' next works.