Alien stories

Author

E C Osondu

Call Number

• FICTION OSON (CEN)

Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2021.

Physical Description

176 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

"Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories. These eighteen startling stories, each centered around an encounter with the unexpected, explore what it means to be an alien. With a nod to the dual meaning of alien as both foreigner and exterrestrial, Osondu turns familiar science-fiction tropes and immigration narratives on their heads, blending one with the other to call forth a whirlwind of otherness. With wry observations about society and human nature, in shifting landscapes from Africa to America to outer space and back again, Alien Stories breaks down the concept of foreignness to reveal what unites us all as 'aliens' within a complex and interconnected universe."--

Contents

• Alien enactors
• Memory store
• How to raise an alien baby
• Visitors
• Feast
• Mark
• Spaceship
• Sacrifice
• Light
• Traveler
• Debriefing
• Focus group
• Child's play
• Who is in the garden?
• On the lost tribes of the black world
• Love affair
• The home companion
• All our earthly possessions.