Cosmogramma

Author

Courttia Newland

Call Number

• SCIENCE FICTION NEWL (CEN)

Publication Information

Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2021]

Physical Description

278 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

"In his exquisite first collection of speculative fiction, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora. 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. 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"--Inside jacket.

Notes

"Published in Great Britain by Canongate Books"--Title page verso.

Contents

• Percipi
• Cirrostratus
• Scarecrow
• Cosmogramma
• Buck
• Control
• You meets you
• Seed
• Dark matters
• Nocturne
• Nommo
• The Sankofa principle
• Link
• The difference between me and you
• Utoma.