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Buchtipps - Sci-Fi / Fantasy

Sucher, der Jäger mit dem besonderen Sinn, wird vor seine schwierigste Aufgabe gestellt. Er muss einen Jungen aufspüren, der vor drei Jahren spurlos verschwand. Seine Fährte führt ihn durch Wälder und Städte, zu Gestaltwandlern, Ausgestoßenen und Hexen. Aber kann er den Jungen retten und die Welten wieder in Einklang bringen? »Man Booker Prize«-Träger Marlon James legt mit »Schwarzer Leopard, roter Wolf« den Auftakt zu einer Trilogie vor, die afrikanische Geschichte und Mythen zu einem gewaltigen Fantasy-Epos verflicht.  

From the award-winning writer of The Reactive, Triangulum is an ambitious, often philosophical and genre-bending novel that covers a period of over 40 years in South Africa's recent past and near future -- starting from the collapse of the apartheid homeland system in the early 1990s, to the economic corrosion of the 2010s, and on to the looming, large-scale ecological disasters of the 2040s.

He’s the Agency’s newest recruit, eager to leap through his first gate into an unfamiliar time. In Enver’s home city of Johannesburg, fair-skinned people are a rarity and have been for centuries. The people of Johannesburg were spared the ravages of the apocalypse because of the thousands of miles of mining tunnels running beneath it. The Agency’s thinking machines have set his first mission for Marrakesh, circa 1955. His handler is the tough and taciturn Shanumi Six. Their mission: prevent the apocalypse from happening again.

Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York’s Tower 7. She is an “accelerated woman”—only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix’s abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human of Tower 7.

Since the Orisha War that rained thousands of deities down on the streets of Lagos, David Mogo, demigod, scours Eko’s dank underbelly for a living wage as a freelance Godhunter. Despite pulling his biggest feat yet by capturing a high god for a renowned Eko wizard, David knows his job’s bad luck. He’s proved right when the wizard conjures a legion of Taboos-feral godling-child hybrids-to seize Lagos for himself. To fix his mistake and keep Lagos standing, David teams up with his foster wizard, the high god’s twin sister and a speech-impaired Muslim teenage girl to defeat the wizard.

In a future Africa. The subjects or Occupants of Azotus' kingdom each live alone in their comfortable homes, their every need catered for by comprehensive housekeeping services. When Kamoto, Occupant of house number G8, ventures outdoors for the first time, he begins to question why he has spent his entire life inside and without human contact, connected to the world only by his TC, his Telecommunications Curtain.

New York nach der Apokalypse: Es gibt nur noch zwei Sorten von Menschen, Nicht-Infizierte und Infizierte, die als Zombies ihr Unwesen treiben. In Zone One, dem südlichen Teil von Manhattan, soll Mark Spitz, ein Held von konkurrenzloser Mittelmäßigkeit, mit einem Trupp Zivilisten die Zombies bekämpfen und die Menschheit retten. Doch ist er vielleicht selbst schon einer von ihnen?

From the winner of the Caine Prize comes the Great Zambian novel you didn’t know you were waiting for Namwali Serpell’s ground-shaking debut novel is an epic story of three generations of three Zambian families – one black, one brown and one white. Unfolding over 200 years, but set mainly in the twentieth century, one family begins in Italy, another in England and the third in Zambia.

Sunny Nwazue is back in this gripping sequel to Nnedi Okorafor's What Sunny Saw in the Flames. Sunny has settled into life at the Leopard Society, with friends Orlu, Chichi and Sasha. Her magic powers continue to grow under the tutelage of her mentor Sugar Cream, as Sunny studies her strange Nsidi book and begins to understand her spirit face, Anyanwu. But Sunny cannot escape from her destiny, and she soon finds she must travel to the shadowy town of Osisi. The journey is fraught with danger, taking Sunny through unseen worlds, and awaiting her is a battle to determine humanity's fate.

Ein besonderer Lesegenuss für Liebhaber*innen von Fantasy und Sci-Fi. HBO hat sich bereits die Rechte an „Wer fürchtet den Tod“ der Nebula Award Gewinnerin Nnedi Okorafor gesichert und arbeitet mit der Autorin und „Game of Thrones“-Schöpfer G. R. R. Martin an einer Romanverfilmung im Serienformat.