Emmy Award-winning actor Elisabeth Moss, known for her roles in Mad Men and The Handmaid’s Tale, will star in the TV adaptation of The Shinning Girls by Lauren Beukes, one of South Africa’s foremost speculative fiction writers. In 2013, we reported that the rights to Beukes’ fourth novel The Shining Girls had been acquired by […]
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The Anticipated Books of 2020
The year 2019 was full. In December, we released our list of The Notable Books of 2019. In January, we released our list of The Top 15 Debut Books of 2019. Now we look ahead into 2020 with our list of the most anticipated books of the year in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The buzz […]
StoryBundle is Offering Ten Sci-fi Books for One Small Price
StoryBundle is an online platform giving readers the choice to pay what they want for books. They work with authors to put together a pack of e-books that is then sold for one price. There are set bonus prices that unlock various bundle sizes, but readers generally pay what they want. The current bundle features […]
Tade Thompson Explains Why We Should Stop Talking About “The Rise” of African SFF
With the increased visibility of African speculative and fantasy fiction (African SFF, for short), and more and more writers working in the genre, and the unprecedented success of such names as Nigeria’s Nnedi Okorafor and Tomi Adeyemi, South Africa’s Lauren Beukes, and Liberia’s Wayetu Moore, conversations have risen around its description, presentation, celebration, and connection to […]
The Manchester Review’s Issue 18 Is All African Speculative Fiction, Featuring Nnedi Okorafor and Lauren Beukes
The Manchester Review has dedicated its entire Issue 18 to speculative fiction from Africa, and among the contributors are Nnedi Okorafor and Lauren Beukes. Read: Nnedi Okorafor, Igoni Barrett, Tendai Huchu, Lesley Nneka, Ntone Edjabe Lead Inaugural Nommo Awards Shortlist of 19 With an introduction by Geoff Ryman, the issue is divided into six Parts. In Part […]
Dystopia in Many Words | Review of Lauren Beukes’ Slipping | By Kola Tubosun
Lauren Beukes loves dystopia, or has at least has spent a lot of time thinking about it. A number of stories in her latest collection, titled Slipping, examine dire futuristic scenarios, from hyper-commercialization of television to exploitative medical sciences to biotech advertising to air travel — all of them packing sufficient decibels of discomfiture, in […]
15 Shocking/Memorable African Literature Moments in 2016
In the African literary scene, 2016 was a mix of scandals and triumphs. Lots of surprises, lots of happy moments, and a handful of shocking incidents. In the list below, we take you down memory lane to the bold, beautiful, and WTF moments in the African corner of the global literary community. The list was compiled […]
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