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Science-fiction, fantasy, horror and other forms of speculative fiction are breathing new life into African writing.

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New novels by Peter F. Hamilton, Lavanya Lakshminarayan and Maurice Broaddus bring us to the stars and beyond.

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It has been a sadly light year for epic-scale science fiction, but casual readers and ... galaxy-sized saga called The Captive’s War. The first book in the series, “The Mercy of Gods ...

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