With 25 original stories and 11 unique pieces of dark speculative poetry, Sauúti Terrors tells of the doomed, the damned, the shunned, the cunning, the destroyers, the noxious, and more, in the worlds of the living, the in-between and the dead. Unravel the darkest stories in the deepest parts of the Sauúti five-planet system with its two suns, and orbiting a binary star:
- Zezépfeni (the self-appointed leader with its twin suns)
- Ekwukwe (the echo planet with its hollows, caverns and tunnels)
- Wiimbo-ó (the Earth analogue with its five continents and spirit moons)
- Órino-Rin (the dense planet with its sonic storms)
- Pinaa (the low-gravity inhabited moon of Mahwé, the dead planet, hosting AI and other populace in fortified clusters).
Unfurl fate, mishap, calamity, disease, obsession, wickedness, greed, malice and manipulations lurking in this Afrocentric intergalactic world with its space travel, humanoid and non-humanoid creatures, artificial intelligence and intricate magic system based on sound, oral traditions, and music.
WHO’S IN IT?
Five-time Bram Stoker Award winner and recipient of the Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award Linda D. Addison, Caine Prize for African Writing winner Mame Bougouma Diene and other prominent speculative fiction authors, including Adelehin Ijasan, Akua Lezli Hope, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss, Cheryl Ntumy, Mazi Nwonwu (co-founder and managing editor of the award-winning Omenana Magazine), Chikodili Emelumadu, Dare Segun Falowo, DaVaun Sanders (executive editor of the award-winning Fiyah Magazine), Dilman Dila, Eugen Bacon, Ishola Abdulwasiu Ayodele, Jamal Hodge, Kofi Nyameye, Jude Umeh, Mame Bougouma Diene, Mandisi Nkomo, Miguel Mitchell, Moustapha Mbacké Diop, Nerine Dorman, Osahon Ize-iyamu, Shingai Njeri Kagunda, Somto Ihezue, Stephen Embleton, T. L. Huchu, Tobi Ongundiran, Wole Talabi and Xan van Rooyen.