A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures, and the uncanny.
As a screenwriter, he has written two episodes of the Steve McQueen BBC series Small Axe..
In 2016 he was awarded the Roland Rees Bursary for playwriting.
About author(s): Courttia Newland is the author of seven books including A River Called Time, The Gospel According to Cane, and his much-lauded debut, The Scholar.
Through transfigured bodies and impossible encounters, Newland brings a sharp, fresh eye to age-old themes of the human capacity for greed, ambition, and self-destruction, but ultimately of our strength and resilience.
Kill parties roam the streets of a post-apocalyptic world; a matriarchal race of mer creatures depends on interbreeding with mortals to survive; mysterious seeds appear in cities across the world, growing into the likeness of people in their vicinity.
Wide-ranging and deeply imaginative
Newland is equally at home in council flats and deep space." -- Kirkus Reviews In his exquisite first collection of speculative fiction, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora. . .
But his chief skill is weaving those tropes into stories that are both wildly speculative and on the news .
Jemisin-style Afrofuturism to Jeff VanderMeer-esque eco-fiction.
Speculative fiction fans won\'t be able to put this down." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "Newland\'s writing is in league with a host of SF subgenres, from pulpy space opera to N.
K.
It\'s no small feat to so immediately and repeatedly appeal to readers\' hearts and minds, and Newland\'s mastery of short-format storytelling is sure to impress. "Newland easily engages readers with complex world-building, well-shaded characters, and stories as entertaining as they are meaningful.
A dark and incisive collection of speculative short stories set in an alternate future of interstellar space travel, robots, mythical creatures, and the uncanny
