Monday, March 17, 2025

Lost Ark DreamingLost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Clim-SF AfroPunk.

This is a '25 Nebula nom for best novella and I'm honestly impressed at the depth of worldbuilding. It's never really enough to carry a Silo or a Ballardian High Rise feel to an African climate dysfunction. Just these two in a juxtaposition is nice, but if we add stories within stories, an attempt to wrest meaning from a hard, unjust life--it simply elevates it all.

If I were to re-comp this, I'd say it's Binti meets High Rise.

Definitely worth the read.


My synesthesia smells the pervasive damp, the cloying sourness of packed bodies and darkness.


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