@booklet {11739, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Oyarsu--Terraforming Earth{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine}, volume = {no. 22}, year = {2022}, month = {July 2022}, pages = {28-37}, abstract = {

The protagonist of the story is an old woman living in tunnels under countries in northeast Africa where her people went many years ago to escape the heat and devastation brought about by climate change and war. In the story, people from the Overground of Libya want to negotiate to buy a Nuclear Fusion reactor that the people of the Underground had recently developed.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, Nigerian author, Zambian author}, url = {https://omenana.com/2022/07/03/oyarsu-terraforming-earth-dooshima-tsee/}, author = {Dooshima Tsee} } @booklet {11750, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The UmLosinga Tree (The Fever Tree){\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine,}, volume = {no. 23}, year = {2022}, month = {September 2022}, abstract = {

In the story a man living in a hierarchically structured dome is outside planning to cut down the last remaining tree in \“what used to be called Afrika.\” Selling the wood will enable to retire and move up one level in the dome and live with the Elite.\ 2022 Wood \“The White Necked Ravens of Camissa\” is a sequel.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, South African author, Zambian author}, url = {https://omenana.com/2022/09/24/the-umhlosinga-tree-the-fever-tree-nick-wood/}, author = {Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023)} } @booklet {11398, title = {"Baartman"}, howpublished = {Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine}, volume = {No. 19}, year = {2021}, month = {October 31, 2021}, abstract = {

The story is set in South Africa in a future where corporations have\  destroyed the environment while pretending to be green. A movement of Africans, led by Saartjie Baartman, has been destroying all such corporations in southern Africa and has reached the last holdout on the south coast. Sara Baartman (c. 1789-1815) was the \“Hottentot Venus\” exhibited in freak shows in Europe.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, South African author, Zambian author}, url = {https://omenana.com/2021/10/31/baartman-nick-wood/}, author = {Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023)} } @booklet {11630, title = {"Mama Wata"}, howpublished = {Unlimited Futures: Speculative, Visionary Blak and Black Fiction}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {257-274}, publisher = {Fremantle Press in association with Djed Press}, address = {North Fremantle, WA, Australia}, abstract = {

The story details the destruction of the environment, especially water, from the perspective of the last surviving mermaid.

}, keywords = {Australian author, Canadian author, Female author, Kenyan author, South African author, US author, Zambian author}, isbn = {978-1-760990701}, author = {Sisonke Msimang}, editor = {Rafeif Ismail and Ellen van Neerven (b. 1990)} } @booklet {10862, title = {Water Must Fall}, year = {2020}, month = {2020}, pages = {281 pp.}, publisher = {NewCon Press}, address = {Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

A complex novel with a number of intersecting storylines set in a future where much of the world is experiencing a drought and the corporation that control most of the water supply is all-powerful.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, South African author, Zambian author}, isbn = {978-1-912950-61-4}, author = {Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023)} } @booklet {10175, title = {The Old Drift. A Novel}, year = {2019}, month = {2019}, pages = {566 pp.}, publisher = {Hogarth}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Much of the novel traces the lives of three African families (black, brown, and white) over four generations from the colonial era into the future, with the fourth generation living in a totalitarian dystopia.\ 

}, keywords = {Female author, US author, Zambian author}, author = {Namwali Serpell (b. 1980)} } @booklet {9644, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Thirstlands{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation}, year = {2017}, note = {

Rpt. in his Learning Monkey and Crocodile (Edinburgh, Scot.: Luna Press, 2019), 129-42, with a note on the story on 177.

}, month = {2017}, pages = {175-84}, publisher = {Upper Rubber Boot}, address = {Nashville, TN}, abstract = {

Climate-change dystopia set in a drought-stricken Africa.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, South African author, Zambian author}, isbn = {‎ 978-1937794750 9781911143956}, author = {Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023)}, editor = {Phoebe Wagner and Bront{\"e} Christopher Wieland} } @booklet {8723, title = {Azanian Bridges}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, publisher = {New Con Press}, address = {Weston, Eng.}, abstract = {

Alternative history dystopia of South Africa in which Apartheid survives.\ A related story is \“Azania.\”\ AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers. Ed. Ivor W. Hartmann (Np: StoryTime Press, 2012), 80-99.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, South African author, Zambian author}, author = {Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023)} } @booklet {10776, title = {{\textquotedblleft}The Paragon of Knowledge{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {The Future Fire: Social Political \& Speculative Cyber-Fiction}, volume = {no. 33}, year = {2015}, month = {July 2015}, pages = {65-84}, abstract = {

A flawed utopia in which everything is supposedly neatly ordered, and everyone cared for, but the old are warehoused in Sunny Senile Centres.\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Male author, South African author, Zambian author}, issn = {1746-1839}, url = {http://futurefire.net/2015.33/fiction/paragonofknowledge.html}, author = {Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023)} }