Goliath wins a Connecticut Book Award!

This past weekend, Goliath was awarded the Connecticut Book Award for Fiction.

I can’t express enough what an honor this was. This book is very much a love-letter (in the most fraught and exacting fashion) to my home-state and to have it given this garland is beyond imagining. I will be forever grateful.

Tochi’s writing a newsletter: Italics

That’s right, folks. I’ve officially joined the masses. I finally have a newsletter.

Titled Italics, it will be less a place for updates and where to find me (though there will be that) and more a place for me to write and opine on whatever strikes my fancy. I used to write quite a bit on a variety of topics in a way that felt fun and freeing, and this is an attempt to get back to that. You can see that exact sentiment elaborated on in the very first entry here. Anyway, expect to find pieces (essays and much less structured ramblings) on subjects ranging from video games to macroeconomics to constitutional law to anime. The idea is to go wherever the spirit takes me. And I hope you’ll come along for the ride.

(Spoiler alert: I have no idea what I’m doing.)

Goliath, out now!

Today has been a Day™. Goliath is officially out. In stores, on shelves, in the hands of readers, and in quite a few other places.

• Publishers Weekly called Goliath “harrowing, visionary”.

• From Booklist: “Onyebuchi’s first full-length novel for adults is a fascinating combination of parable and prophecy.”

• The New York Times: “In its scale and ambition, “Goliath” has the feel of a Tom Wolfe novel”.

• The New Scientist says: “The premise is wry and au courant. In a lesser writer’s hands, it could lead to lazy and cynical caricatures, but Onyebuchi uses it only as a jumping off point into a deeper examination of the idea of home, and what we will do to get there.”

• This from Tor.com: “Whatever Goliath is, however you interpret and experience it, it’s clear that Tochi Onyebuchi is one hell of a writer. This is a visceral and bracing text, as layered as an archaeological dig.”

• Late last year, Publishers Weekly put out this wonderful profile.

• I had a wonderful conversation with the Los Angeles Review of Books about Goliath and so much more for their podcast series.

• Poets & Writers asked me a few questions about it.

• For Fantasy Magazine, I got to talk to Arley Sorg about the book.

• My conversation with Steve Dunk of We Need Diverse Books was so capacious, we had to divide it into two parts.

• Diya Chacko from the Orange County Register asked me about anime and climate change and Goliath.

• And, finally, here is where you can buy the dang book.

Captain America and a dream come true.

Announced recently in Entertainment Weekly, I will be writing Captain America: Symbol of Truth, a new ongoing Captain America book for Marvel starring Sam Wilson as Captain America with art by the extraordinary and inimitable R.B. Silva. This marks the beginning of a Brave New Era, according to Marvel.

The book will run alongside Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty co-written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly.

We all teamed up to write Captain America #0, which serves as a launching pad for both of our books and which features some of the most stunning art I’ve ever seen from Mattia Di Iulis. Also, we get Alex Ross covers, and that is a sentence I never thought I’d ever be typing. Click below to read more of the interview and see a little bit more of just how we’re going to be pulling this incredible thing off.

Riot Baby wins a World Fantasy Award!

The results are here on Tor.com, and I am still after all this time in shock. Honored and humbled beyond measure.

Ignyte Awards Hat Trick!

The winners for the 2021 Ignyte Awards have been announced.

I cannot believe this. Riot Baby won Best Novella, “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: The Duty of the Black Writer During Times of American Unrest” won Best in Creative Non-Fiction, and fellow author L.L. McKinney and I took home the Community Award for our efforts in the summer of 2020 starting the #PublishingPaidMe campaign.

I can’t say enough how meaningful this is. Getting love from your own, it hits different.

Riot Baby is a World Fantasy Award finalist!

We’re up for a moon-tree, and I actually cannot believe it. The briefest of glances at this ballot is evidence enough of just how much really dope work saw the light of day last year.

Appearance in Best American SFF!

“How to Pay Reparations: a Documentary” is officially in the Table of Contents of a Best American anthology! The series is such an august tradition that I am completely gobsmacked to now be a part of it. Honored beyond words.

From the official description:

This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph Adams and bestselling author of the Divergent series Veronica Roth, showcases a crop of authors that are willing to experiment and tantalize readers with new takes on classic themes and exchanges the ordinary for the avant-garde. Folktales and lore come alive, the dead rise, the depths of space are traversed, and magic threads itself through singular moments of love, loss, and the circulatory nature of life, death, the in-between, and the after. The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 captures the all-too-real cataclysm of human nature, as it claims its place in the series with compelling prose, lyrical composition, and curiosity’s never-ending pursuit of discovering the unknown.

NEW BOOK ALERT: GOLIATH

We are officially live. The stunning cover by Jamie Stafford-Hill took my breath away when I first saw it and holds in its four corners so much of what this tremendous book contains. Tordotcom unveiled the masterpiece, as well as an official synopsis. Finally, what does this mean? It means we are available for PRE-ORDER!

Riot Baby is a Locus Awards Finalist!

There is some tremendous work in these lists, and I’m honored that my book gets to keep this company.

IGNYTE AWARD NOMINATIONS

I am absolutely bowled over. The FIYAHCON 2021 Committee has announced the finalists for this years Ignyte Awards, and my name appears 4 times across 3 separate categories. I’m so grateful for the love being shown to Riot Baby, but what fills me with particular gratitude is to see some of last year’s essays in the Creative Non-Fiction category. On top of that, to see the work L.L. McKinney and I did with the #PublishingPaidMe campaign is blowing me away.

Click below to see the full list of nominees.

(S)KINFOLK OUT NOW!

I love this book. And so does Publishers Weekly!

From the review:

Themes of identity are weighed, as well, with Onyebuchi concluding “if, as an American African, I cannot share a history with African Americans, then maybe we can share a future.” Readers familiar with Americanah will appreciate the author’s insight, and those new to it will find Onyebuchi’s masterful integration of anecdote and criticism accessible. Full of fresh perspective, this is an eye-opener.

More on the book here. To everyone who has bought and who intends to buy a copy, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

2021 Hugo Award Finalists Announced

I’ve worked for over a decade to be able to type the following sentence: I’m a finalist for a Hugo Award.

I’m a finalist for a freaking Hugo Award.

Both Locus Magazine and Tor.com have posted announcements.

Nebulae

Riot Baby is officially a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella. I don’t have the words to adequately convey just what this means to me. This one’s really special.

Appearance in Year’s Best!

“How to Pay Reparations: A Documentary” has been selected to appear in “The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Volume 2,” an anthology of the best short science fiction and speculative fiction of 2020, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. Look for it September 14th from Saga Press. The announcement was made on Tor.com, and I could not be more chuffed.

New Book Alert: (S)kinfolk

I couldn’t let a year go by without dropping a book. This book is about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, but it’s also about my political education, my love life, Palestine, Paris, and Mom. I couldn’t be more excited for my non-fiction debut from Fiction Advocate. Now available for pre-order.

Riot Baby Nominated for an NAACP Image Award!

So that happened.

Riot Baby wins an Alex Award

The Alex Award is given each year by the American Library Association to ten titles written for adults that hold strong appeal for young readers. This is a particularly meaningful distinction for this book, as it concerns many issues that affect young adults today. Every time I’ve seen Riot Baby pushed in the direction of a kid, my heart soars. And that librarians see it as a title meant for these readers is especially edifying.

A Universe of Wishes out now!

This anthology from We Need Diverse Books, which contains my short story “Habibi,” is officially out in the world! Available just about anywhere books are sold!

Special Collaboration with the Gagosian

In the Fall 2020 issue of the Gagosian Quarterly is a short story I did to go with a painting exhibit by friend and literal Genius Titus Kaphar. The series, From a Tropical Space, is haunting and on display at the Gagosian through December 19. It was really cool to be a part of this. Click through for an excerpt below. The full story is available in the print issue.

I’m writing a Marvel comic!

Dream. Come. True.

February 2021, Marvel will be celebrating Black History Month with the release of this special collection of one-shots, including a story by yours truly. MARVEL’S VOICES: LEGACY #1 has me in here with such incredible storytellers as Danny Lore and Nnedi Okorafor and the artwork is just chef’s kiss. The cover here is by Taurin Clarke, and I cannot wait for you all to get your hands on this.

It’s lit.

TIME 100 LIST

A dream I didn’t even know it was possible to have: Beasts Made of Night is one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time. On that same list are classics like The Arabian Nights and A Wizard of Earthsea. What’s especially beautiful to see is how, as the list gets closer and closer to the present, it becomes more and more colorful, more and more postcolonial. An incredible thing to be a part of.

Anthology Appearance!

I have a story in this upcoming YA sci-fi/fantasy anthology from We Need Need Diverse Books, and it’s about a young boy from Long Beach and a young boy from Gaza. I couldn’t be prouder. And look at the company it’s in!

In the fourth collaboration between We Need Diverse Books and Crown Publishing, fifteen award-winning and celebrated diverse authors deliver stories about a princess without need of a prince, a monster long misunderstood, memories that vanish with a spell, and voices that refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. This powerful and inclusive collection contains a universe of wishes for a braver and more beautiful world.

Dhonielle Clayton, our anthology captain, has an excerpt up on Teen Vogue.

And, what a cover!

Out January 5, 2021

Awards News for Riot Baby

Riot Baby is a finalist for the New England Book Awards in the category of Fiction! As a born-and-raised New Englander, this honor hits particularly close to the heart. My gratitude to the New England Independent Booksellers Association for including Riot Baby in such wonderful company.

More Awards News for War Girls

So War Girls has both made the shortlist in the Open Category for the Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award and become a LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!

I’m so proud of this book and the reception it has gotten. You truly love to see it.

Shakespeare Anthology Appearance

I wrote a story based Coriolanus, one of the last tragedies Shakespeare wrote before his death. This anthology of Shakespeare retellings was put together by Dahlia Adler and I am particularly proud of my story in it.

I can’t wait for y’all to read it, and it is now available for pre-order!

On Recent Events

The past week has been a very, very difficult week for Black Americans. And I’ve spent much of that time trying to figure out my role, and the role of Black creatives in general, in the midst of the turmoil set off by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Uprising and social justice are everlasting endeavors. We are always working to improve the world we live in. It lasts beyond the on-the-street protests to include efforts to combat bail, abolish police departments and redistribute neighborhood resources, address housing segregation and disparities in education equity in America. The fight for racial justice isn’t a battle, nor is it a war. It is quest, passed on from generation to generation to generation, and I have spent much of this past week thinking of my place as a writer in it.

Tor.com gave me space to work through these feelings, to talk about what I felt when I first started writing Riot Baby five years ago, and what I feel now, having written it and still feeling the same.

You can read the piece below. It is also linked on my site. I hope it does something for you.

Riot Baby in The New York Times!

One of my favorite prose stylists, Amal El-Mohtar, reviewed Riot Baby in the Times, and it’s one of the most stunning things I’ve ever read written about my book.

From the review:

Onyebuchi’s voice work is magnificent, sharp and whipping, and he shifts from macro to micro with confident flexibility. Ella’s sections are written in the third person, and through her Thing-ridden eyes we see decades of cruelty toward black people; meanwhile, Kevin’s first-person narration roots us in the immediacy and hopelessness of his contemporary experience. Though it’s ostensibly centered on Ella’s and Kevin’s coming-of-age, “Riot Baby” isn’t a bildungsroman so much as a reversal of one: an elegiac portrait of how white supremacy strips the future from black children, violence by violence, across generations and individual lives.

2020 Nommo Award Shortlist

The finalists for the 2020 Nommo Awards were recently announced, and one of the nominees for Best Novel is War Girls! It’s in absolutely fantastic company. I could not be more thrilled and honored.

Rebel Sisters Revealed!!!

The sequel to War Girls, titled Rebel Sisters, now has a cover I can tell you about and pre-order links as well!

I am immensely proud of this book and cannot wait to get it into your hands. Truly a labor of love. Here, we dive deeper not only into the universe that the first book unveiled but deeper as well into the themes and questions I sought to explore with War Girls. (With, of course, robots and chase scenes.)

After war, what comes next?

War Girls honored with Children’s Africana Book Award

War Girls has just been announced as an Honor Book for Older Readers by Africa Access and the African Studies Association. Every year, the Children’s Africana Book Awards aim to celebrate young adult literature on Africa. War Girls is near and dear to my heart for many reasons, among them its Africa-centricity. To be honored in this way is such a privilege, and I am immensely grateful.

Podcast Appearance: Coode Street Episode 374: Ten Minutes with Tochi Onyebuchi

Jonathan Strahan (who edited my story “The Hurt Pattern” in the anthology Made to Order) sat down with me over Skype, and we had a wonderful conversation. About The Three-Body Problem, the writing of Alexander Chee, and my upcoming work.

Spoiler Alert: The convo was a bit longer than 10 minutes.

Podcast Appearance: First Draft with Sarah Enni

Had the pleasure of sitting down with friend and fellow author Sarah Enni for a Opening the Mailbag episode of her incredible podcast, First Draft. This episode, I answer all sorts of questions from readers on teaching to my Daily Show appearance to managing your social media presence.

The episode is available on the First Draft website, iTunes, and Spotify. Head on over for a listen, and even leave a review. Let us know how you liked it!

New Short Story: “The Hurt Pattern”

Jonathan Strahan has put together an incredible anthology on robots and revolution, and I’m honored to have my story, “The Hurt Pattern,” appear alongside work by John Chu, Daryl Gregory, Rich Larson, Ken Liu, Ian R. Macleod, Annalee Newitz, Suzanne Palmer, Vina Jie-Min Prasad, Alastair Reynolds, Sofia Samatar, Peter Watts, Brooke Bolander, Peter F Hamilton, Saad Z Hossain, Tochi Onyebuchi and Sarah Pinsker.

New Essay: A Review of N.K. Jemisin’s new novel, The City We Became

Got to read Jemisin’s newest novel early and Tor.com let me write about it and Lovecraft and Robert Moses and bodegas and cities as (in)organic things. Head on over to give it a read.

Daily Show TV Appearance

Earlier this week, I got to go on national TV and talk about the special tools SFF has to explore intense issues of identity and trauma, superpowers, and, of course, Riot Baby. It was a wonderful conversation and I was all too happy to rep the genre in such a venue. Trevor Noah is a fantastic conversationalist. Check out the full interview below!

2019 Locus Recommended Reading List

Look closely under the “Young Adult Novels” category, and you may see a familiar face. War Girls made the 2019 Locus Recommended Reading List! It’s in some pretty awesome company.

People are talking about Riot Baby

More specifically, people are talking to me about Riot Baby.

With NPR, Petra Mayer and I talked about the elasticity of time in the book, the perils of letting algorithms define your life, and police violence, among other things. You can read our conversation here.

I was profiled by WBUR, and you can read the wonderful piece here.

I finally scored a feature in my college paper, the Yale Daily News!

And I had a wonderful conversation with Jenn Baker over at Electric Literature about superheroes and anger and power.

Reminder that Riot Baby is available for purchase just about everywhere books are sold!

New Tor.com piece!

For Tor.com, I wrote about adventures in Mock Trial, authorial intent, and what that all has to do with worldbuilding. It was a very fun piece to put together.

Riot Baby out today!

Today is our baby’s book birthday! It’s been a day, a day filled with quiet moments, laughter in small rooms, explosions of congratulations online, reunions with people I haven’t seen in over a decade, and book-love. So much book-love. Thank you to everyone who has shouted or whispered or even just spoken in an even-keeled voice about this very special book of mine. I am over the moon. I saw copies in the bookstore I worked in almost 13 years ago, and RJ Julia Booksellers in Madison, CT hosted me for what turned out to be an intimate and expansive discussion about social justice and faith and anime. I could not have asked for a better start to this book’s time in the world.

Thank you. All of you.

Interviews!

A few interviews I’ve done and a piece I’ve written in the lead up to Riot Baby’s release have all gone up in a neat bit of synchronicity this morning.

Here’s me at Electric Literature, talking about apocalypse and 7 books that devastated and remade me.

And here’s my Q&A with The Nerd Daily.

And, finally, I was privileged to answer Lily Philpott’s incredible questions at PEN America as part of their PEN Ten series.

Most Anticipated of 2020!

Riot Baby launches in less than a week, and the internet, like myself, has been buzzing. I couldn’t be happier about all the kind things people are saying about it.

Book Marks has included my book on its list of 5 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Start Your New Year Right.

Book Riot says Riot Baby is one of its 20 MUST-READ 2020 SFF BOOKS.

Salon says, “Equal parts provocative and riveting, […] what all speculative fiction should strive to be: wholly captivating.”

Polygon has included Riot Baby on its list of 15 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out in January.

Buzzfeed says Riot Baby is “impossible to put down.”

SYFY Wire includes Riot Baby on its EIGHT SFF BOOKS TO PICK UP THIS JANUARY list.

Paste Magazine says “Riot Baby weaves a gripping narrative about a girl with unique powers.”

WBUR says Riot Baby is one of those 10 Books That Will Give You An Excuse To Stay Home This Winter.

And Star Trek calls Riot Baby a “gut-punch of a dystopian novella”.

So you don’t have to take my word for it when I say you should pick up a copy.

Deadline City Guest Appearance!

Deadline City, a podcast hosted by authors extraordinaire, Dhonielle Clayton and Zoraida Córdova, is absolutely necessary listening for anyone who wants a glimpse at the inner workings of writers and writing. One thing I love so much about this podcast is how much they focus on craft, so when I was asked to appear as a guest for their episode about worldbuilding, it was the easiest thing in the world to say yes to. Give it a listen and prepare for laughs.

Read an Excerpt From Riot Baby

Tor.com has posted the opening to my upcoming novella Riot Baby, the story of two gifted siblings with extraordinary power whose childhoods are destroyed by structural racism and brutality and whose futures might alter the world. The book is available for pre-order everywhere books are sold (just head to the Books section of this here site), and if all the reviews and blurbs haven’t been enough . to get you to push that button, here’s a taste of the thing itself.

Enjoy!

Podcasting with Trevor Noah

Earlier this month, I got to sit down with Trevor Noah and David Kibuuka and chat about superheroes and Puppies and orcs for Trevor’s “On Second Thought” podcast. It was a fantastic time. Hilarious and meaningful conversation was had. You can find the episode below.

WAR GIRLS IN THE NEW YORK TIMES

The New York Times has put up a review of War Girls that has had me cheesing all day. I’ve stared at it for hours, posted about it on social media, texted the link and sent it over WhatsApp to countless people, and I still can’t believe it. The Gray Lady is saying all these wonderful things about my beautiful Biafra book!

From the review:

“War Girls” bravely depicts the full spectrum of war — the boots-on-the-ground thrill and the deadening psychological toll — in a way rarely seen in literature for young adults, or much literature at all. In his author’s note, Onyebuchi says “War Girls” is meant as a corrective to “the frightening lack of literature” about this period of Nigerian history. No doubt “War Girls” will be revelatory, especially for many young Americans who know war only as a distant, televised event.

I’ll be holding onto that for a long time coming.

Baby’s First Trade Review

Publishers Weekly has given Riot Baby A STARRED REVIEW!

This staggering story is political speculative fiction at its finest.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Onyebuchi’s ‘Goliath’ Attacks Tor

It’s official! I’m doing two full-length novels with Tor.com. Perhaps the sweetest part of the deal for me is that I get to work with the inimitable Ruoxi Chen once again. This is going to be so much fun.

From Publishers Weekly:

In a world English rights agreement, Tor.com Publishing’s Ruoxi Chen paid six figures for Tochi Onyebuchi’s novel Goliath. The two-book deal was brokered by Noah Ballard at Curtis Brown Ltd. The publisher (a print division of Tor Books) compared Goliath to Emily St. John Mandel’s 2014 novel Station Eleven, describing it as “a post-apocalyptic epic... focused on a diverse cast of characters living in and around the once-thriving metropolis of New Haven, Conn.” Tor said the second book, which is currently untitled, was “pitched as a fantasy Get Out meets The Secret History.”

OUT TODAY!!!

War Girls, with starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist, is officially out in the world today!

This really is the book of my heart. So seeing people Instagram their unboxings or tweet out pictures of the copies they’ve bought in stores has been particularly meaningful. I often find myself so deep in the work and the business of it all that I can forget what the dream feels like. So it is always wonderful that, on days like these, I can be reminded of the miracle. This thing that I wrote and that I’m supremely proud of is out in the world.

I hope you enjoy it.

New Essay: A Review of the new Ta-Nehisi Coates novel

Tor.com was gracious enough to give me space to talk about Ta-Nehisi Coates’s new novel The Water Dancer. There was a lot to talk about. I came out the other end immensely grateful that this book made its way to me and am excited to see what Coates does next.

PW Picks: Books of the Week, October 14, 2019

War Girls is a Publishers Weekly Pick for Books of the Week of Oct. 14!

It comes out on the 15th (which is literally upon us), and PW had some very kind things to say about War Girls in their starred review.

Onyebuchi’s action-packed, high-stakes tale of loyalty, sisterhood, and the transformative power of love and hope brims with imaginative future tech and asks important questions about the human cost of war, mechanization, and artificial intelligence. Set amid the horrors of war in a world ravaged by climate change and nuclear disaster, this heart-wrenching and complex page-turner, drawn from the 1960s Nigerian civil war, will leave readers stunned and awaiting the second installment.

Paste Magazine: Best Audiobooks of Oct. 2019

The War Girls audiobook, narrated by the incredible Adepero Oduye, was included in Paste Magazine’s Best Audiobooks of October 2019!

I’d known her from her previous work in 12 Years a Slave and Pariah and only recently found out that she’d narrated My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite.

When I found out we’d gotten her to work on the book, I was over the moon. She really brings it home and makes listening to Onyii’s and Ify’s story a truly unique experience.

Here’s a sample in case you don’t want to take my word for it.

Interview with Den of Geek

At New York Comic-Con 2019, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Den of Geek in the midst of the madness and talking about my two upcoming books, War Girls and Riot Baby. We also got to talk about climate change, Gundam Wing, and LA in the 90s. It was lit.

New Short Story: The Fifth Day

I have a new short story in Uncanny Magazine’s special “Disabled People Destroy Fantasy!” issue. It’s like nothing I’ve ever written before, and it’s an honor to have been included in such a fine collection of work. “The Fifth Day” is about loss and bargaining and duty and more things than I could possibly include in this brief summary, so you’ll just have to click through and read it for yourself.

New Essay: Select Difficulty

It’s been a busy summer. The good kind of busy. I’ve been lucky enough to have another essay up at Tor.com, this one about grief and zombies and violent video games. I’m really proud of this essay and what it’s allowed me to say about coping and the video games I’ve loved and why I love them. And I hope you enjoy it.

New Essay: White Bears in Sugar Land

For Juneteenth, I wrote an essay for Tor.com about cages, that episode of Black Mirror, and the broken promise of freedom that was announced on June 19, 1865. It was a tough thing to write, but it articulates a lot of what I think about when I think of the distance (or lack thereof) between then and now.

Reprint: “Dust to Dust - A Novella”

I have a reprint in Lightspeed Magazine! “Dust to Dust,” a story about the Cold War and alchemy and trying to do your job while the world is falling apart around you, began as a short story in a college fiction writing class, then grew into a novella a year later, then languished for about three years before being picked up by Panverse Three, an anthology showcasing only novellas. It has found another home here in Lightspeed, a place I think I’ve been querying for the greater half of a decade now, as an exclusive e-book in their June 2019 issue! Enjoy!

Electric Literature Interview with Ted Chiang

So excited that I got to talk with one of my favorite writers, Ted Chiang, about some of the themes and craft elements at work in his new short story collection, Exhalation. It’s a remarkable collection, and Chiang is a veritable fount of wisdom.

New Essay Alert: Pretty Woman

I’ve a new essay up on Tor.com about androids and misogyny and French Symbolism. I left Blade Runner 2049 with a jumble of thoughts in my head about the android as a science-fictional conceit. And, at long last, I’ve managed to organize some of those thoughts. I hope you enjoy!

Riot Baby Cover Reveal!

Tor.com has finally unveiled the gorgeous cover for my January 2020 novella, Riot Baby, including a (slightly embarrassing) video of my reaction upon seeing it for the first time. It is an extraordinary piece of work with cover design from the incredible Jaya Miceli, photo by Aaron Ansarov and art direction from Christine Foltzer. They really knocked this one out the park.

Electric Literature Interview with Victor LaValle

Had a wonderful, fun time talking with the ever-insightful Victor LaValle about the mind-busting anthology he co-edited with John Joseph Adams, A People’s Future of the United States.

War Girls Cover Reveal and Excerpt!

At io9, we dropped a huge bomb. We revealed the gorgeous cover of my new book War Girls, coming Oct. 15, 2019, along with pre-order links and…

An excerpt!

Electric Literature Interview with Marlon James

Got to talk with one of my idols and one of the titans of the game, Booker Prize-winning author Marlon James, about his new book, Black Leopard Red Wolf, the first in a mind-busting planned trilogy.