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Setting labels used: West Africa, Niger, Sahara, future Earth, 2070s, post-apocalyptic, parallel worlds, alternate world, distant future, Africanfuturism
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An anthology of 32 African and African-diasporic speculative stories spanning fantasy, sci-fi, horror, myth, and futurism.
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Setting labels: Africa · African diaspora · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · near-future · far-future · mythic · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.1295
A scientist in a collapsing Lagos uncovers multiverse travel and is pulled into a war between worlds, AIs, and rival civilizations.
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Setting labels: near future · Lagos · alternate Lagos · alternate Earths · multiverse · post-apocalyptic Earth · climate collapse · resource war · distant realities
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Distance: 0.1350
A grieving middle-aged sorcerer-in-training seeks power and revenge in a transformed world that no longer remembers her daughter.
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Setting labels: desert world · post-apocalyptic future · shared universe · African-inspired setting · new world order · mythic future · alternate reality
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Distance: 0.1468
A mixed-race outcast in post-apocalyptic Africa awakens magic and sets out to stop genocide and confront her origins.
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Setting labels: Post-apocalyptic Africa · Post-apocalyptic Sudan · Desert landscape · Far future · Alternate Africa · Low-tech future · Magical world · Spirit world · African cultures · War-torn setting · Quasi-postapocalyptic
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Distance: 0.1470
Four linked Butler novels trace telepathy, mutation, and power struggles across centuries in a bleak, visionary saga.
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Setting labels: ancient Africa · colonial America · modern-day Los Angeles · near future · distant future · postapocalyptic · dystopian future · alternate history · speculative future · cosmic invasion
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Distance: 0.1475
An anthology of original speculative stories by writers of color, spanning sci-fi, fantasy, horror, satire, and myth.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · alternate history · secondary world · post-apocalyptic · dystopian · alien world · urban future · Caribbean setting · African setting · mythic setting
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Distance: 0.1487
Sentient bamboo on future Earth must stay hidden, then help humans survive war, robots, and a deadly plague.
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Setting labels: Earth · future Earth · distant future · post-apocalyptic world · global scale · Bayonne, France · Nigeria · Siberia · Spain · France
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Distance: 0.1494
Two sisters are torn onto opposite sides of a future civil war in Nigeria, fighting to survive and reunite.
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Setting labels: future Nigeria · war-torn nation · post-nuclear world · climate disaster · radiation-heavy climate · space colonies · refugee camp · African future · near-future dystopia · post-apocalyptic earth
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Distance: 0.1520
Nine idea-driven SF stories probe time, memory, AI, faith, and free will through inventive speculative scenarios.
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Setting labels: near future · historical past · alternate reality · medieval Islamic world · ancient Baghdad · robot society · colonial-era Africa · alternate Earth · speculative worlds
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Distance: 0.1541
A near-future nanotech cure for cancer opens into centuries of AI, poetry, and posthuman questions about being human.
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Setting labels: near future · far future · distant future · global · South Africa · Antarctica · Korea · Portugal · interstellar · posthuman · dystopian future · speculative future
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Distance: 0.1591
A cyber-enhanced infantry commander in a near-future war begins hearing warnings that may be God, AI, or something worse.
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Setting labels: near future · Earth · Sahel · Sub-Saharan Africa · North Africa · United States · remote outpost · border forts · dystopian future · information age · high-tech battlefield
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Distance: 0.1594
In flooded future Lagos, three tower residents uncover a hidden threat that could upend a rigid class society.
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Setting labels: near future · future Nigeria · future Lagos · West Africa · off the coast of West Africa · post-flood world · flooded city · ocean towers · partially submerged towers · vertical society · underwater levels · post-climate disaster world · post-apocalyptic world · closed system
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Distance: 0.1608
