Praise for A Killing in the Sun
One year ago during the Storymoja Festival, I launched my book, A Killing in the Sun , a collection of short speculative stories, featuring African science fiction, fantasy and horror. The reception of the book has been, surprisingly, warm, at times awed, and at times an outright 'oh wow! Unbelievable!' I did not expect this. I thought it would be only me sweating it out to sweet talk people into buying it, but somehow the book has marketed itself. To celebrate a year in print, here are a few of the reviews, some from renown African writers like Binyavanga Wainaina, Zukiswa Wanner, and Beverly Nambozo. "...punchy and awkward and well worth reading." K. Kamo, in Strange Horizons Me, at the launch in Storymoja Festival 2014 "perfectly poised between the robustness of genre fiction and the more literary concern" Mark Bould, in LA Review of Books "From the first page of the of the first story, I felt that surge of anticipation of the possibility of s...