Description
| Product ID: | 9781950774319 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | American Reader Series |
| Title: | Alien Stories |
| Authors: | Author: E.C. Osondu |
| Page Count: | 200 |
| Subjects: | Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Science fiction, Short stories, Science fiction, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Short Fiction Prize-winning collection of short stories that use science fiction to explore immigration, diaspora, and the concept of otherness. “A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity." Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories. These eighteen startling stories, each centered around an encounter with the unexpected, explore what it means to be an alien. With a nod to the dual meaning of alien as both foreigner and extraterrestrial, Osondu turns familiar science-fiction tropes and immigration narratives on their heads, blending one with the other to call forth a whirlwind of otherness. With wry observations about society and human nature, in shifting landscapes from Africa to America to outer space and back again, Alien Stories breaks down the concept of foreignness to reveal what unites us all as ‘aliens’ within a complex and interconnected universe. |
| Imprint Name: | BOA Editions, Limited |
| Publisher Name: | BOA Editions, Limited |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2021-06-24 |