6 best African sci-fi and fantasy books to read this holiday: Speculative fiction is booming and several African authors are staking a claim in the market. Donald Iain Smith/Getty Images Science fiction, fantasy, horror and other forms of speculative fiction are breathing new life into African writing. International awards, TV deals, new publishing imprints, a …
African sci-fi: body hopping, artificial wombs and angry ghosts in a future Botswana: Tlotlo Tsamaase has already proved her talent for African science fiction. Her masterly short stories, one previously shortlisted for the Caine Prize, are helping put Botswana on the literary map. Her debut novel, Womb City, interweaves the mythological and digital expanses of …
How Alien mutated from a sci-fi horror film into a multimedia universe: A new life form was born on May 25 1979 when an alien exploded from the chest of a bewildered officer aboard the commercial towing vessel, Nostromo. The alien that comes to be known as the xenomorph escapes, grows, stalks and kills all …
The Sheep Look Up: cult 1970s sci-fi novel predicted today’s climate crisis: Extreme flooding in Germany caused roads and railways to be cut off. Bear productions/Shutterstock Smog-ridden cities. Endless war. Water so polluted it cannot be drunk. Crop failure. Acid rain. A pandemic of antibiotic-resistant diseases. Declining life expectancy and human fertility. Endangered bees, collapsing …
South Africa in the news: This Isn’t Sci-Fi: How AI Is About To Disrupt This Trillion Industry: You get one of the best bets on disrupting the virtual medicine industry to date. You get Big Tech built by doctors for doctors in the Global Library of Medicine (GLM). You get Cara, the new, …: “South …
China is using mythology and sci-fi to convince the world it belongs in space: The Wandering Earth is a Chinese sci-fi film which the government promoted abroad. Netflix On the morning of June 17, China launched its long-awaited Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, carrying three Chinese astronauts – or taikonauts – towards the Tianhe core module. The module …
South Africa in the news: Disney+ Sets Animated Sci-Fi Anthology ‘Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire’, Picks Up ‘Kiya And The Kimoja Heroes’ – Annecy: Disney EMEA Animation Studio this morning unveiled a group of new and returning animated kids projects out of Europe and Africa. Among the new titles is Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, a 10-part …
Aliens in Lagos: sci-fi novel Lagoon offers a bold new future: Detail from the cover of Lagoon, a novel by Nnedi Okorafor. © Joey Hi-Fi/Hodder & Stoughton In his satirical essay How to Write About Africa, the late Kenyan writer and journalist Binyavanga Wainaina advocated for a rethinking of clichéd and stereotypical representations of the …
Not one, but two robot astronauts straight out of sci-fi are headed to Boston … R5 (also known as Valkyrie, which isn't a super reassuring name for a giant space robot if you know anything about Norse mythology) didn't make the cut for the last DARPA challenge. But that's arguably because the robot was built …