Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Eugen Bacon 
The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction (2022) [EPUB ebook] 

This is the follow up to the highly acclaimed 2021 anthology described as containing “some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year.”

The first won the World Fantasy Award for best anthology and was met with widespread critical acclaim from across the world, with the science fiction trade magazine, Locus, calling it a “must read.”

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, who created the first anthology now joins forces with Eugen Bacon, a 2022 World Fantasy Award finalist and Milton Davis, an award-winning Black Speculative fiction writer and editor to introduce readers to an ever more diverse set of writers associated with Africa.

Timely and relevant to today’s world, the set of stories in this book will astonish, shock and amaze the reader while introducing them to a whole new world.

Over de auteur

Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki is a highly acclaimed, award-winning African speculative fiction writer, editor, and publisher in Nigeria.

He has won the Nommo award twice, and an Otherwise and British Fantasy award. His novelette “02 Arena” won the Nebula award, and is a Hugo award finalist, making him the first African to be a Nebula best novelette winner and Hugo best novelette finalist. The thought-provoking piece was also a finalist for British Science Fiction, British Fantasy and Nommo awards.

He edits The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction anthology series, of which he’s the first African Hugo award best editor finalist for Volume One. He’s the first BIPOC to be a Hugo award finalist in fiction and editing categories in the same year, and The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction Volume One anthology he edited and published is also a Locus, British Fantasy and World Fantasy award finalist.

He co-edited the Dominion anthology, Africa Risen anthology, and is a guest of honor at the forthcoming 2022 Cancon and 2023 International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA).

He currently resides in Lagos, Nigeria.