Science Fiction
Explore Science Fiction works from across the pan-African world
A young Himba woman leaves Earth to attend an intergalactic university, becoming key to ending an ancient war between humans and the jellyfish-like Meduse.
In 2020s dystopian California, Lauren Olamina develops new religion Earthseed amid societal collapse.
Modern Black woman is transported to antebellum Maryland, confronting slavery firsthand.
Short story collection including Hugo and Nebula-winning title story about humans in alien symbiosis.
First of Xenogenesis trilogy; Lilith awakens on alien ship after nuclear war to breed human-alien hybrids.
First book of Broken Earth trilogy set on supercontinent plagued by catastrophic seismic events.
Second book of Broken Earth trilogy continuing Essun's search for daughter amid apocalypse.
Conclusion of Broken Earth trilogy as Essun must choose between saving or destroying the world.
Novel about poet who must decode alien language that may be weapon, exploring how language shapes thought.
Massive experimental novel set in mysterious American city cut off from world.
Space opera about quest for rare element in dying star, exploring mythology and economics.
Generation ship novel where Black passengers live in lower decks under plantation-like conditions.
In 2066, a Nigerian town has grown up around a mysterious alien biodome. Kaaro, who has psychic abilities from the alien incursion, works for a secret government agency. Part biopunk, part spy thriller, entirely Nigerian.
Second in the Wormwood Trilogy, expanding the alien biodome world as Rosewater declares independence from Nigeria. An increasingly complex examination of consciousness, identity, and alien intervention.
Sunny, an albino Nigerian-American girl living in Nigeria, discovers she is a 'free agent' with magical abilities — and must join a secret group of Leopard People to fight a serial killer.
Lauren Olamina continues building Earthseed as a theocratic American government called 'Christian America' rises to power under a president who promises to 'Make America Great Again.' A deeply disturbing sequel.
Tan-Tan escapes her abusive father to a parallel world, where she becomes the mythic outlaw figure the Midnight Robber, drawn from Caribbean Carnival tradition. Written in Afro-Caribbean creole.
Aliens make first contact not in Washington D.C. but in Lagos. A marine biologist, a soldier, and a hip-hop star are the first to encounter them. Lagos — its chaos, its life force — is the real protagonist.
Included as a comparison text — on an island, objects disappear and the memory of them fades. A profound meditation on forgetting, colonization, and cultural erasure relevant to African memory studies.