James Nicoll Reviews

Kemi Ashing-Giwa’s 2025 The King Must Die is a stand-alone science fiction revolutionary thriller.

The alien Makers offered escape from Terrestrial ecological calamity¹ and space-based corporate dystopia. The nigh-godlike Makers transported humans to Newearth, provided the means to terraform the planet, as well as other high-tech trinkets, and after providing the settlers with clear (and inflexibly enforced) guidelines, left the humans to their own devices.

Unsurprisingly, in just a few centuries, things have gone to crap.

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Kemi Ashing-Giwa’s 2024 This World Is Not Yours is an upcoming science fiction horror novel.

Amara’s powerful family resolved to sabotage Amara’s romance with the socially unsuitable Vinh. Amara and Vinh did what any pair of forbidden lovers might do in their place. They fled to join the New Belaforme colony on a planet a hundred light-years distant. Einstein will protect their relationship from Amara’s interfering relatives.

What will protect the pair from more local challenges is less clear.

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