TY - ABST T1 - “The UmLosinga Tree (The Fever Tree)” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

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.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine, VL - no. 23 UR - https://omenana.com/2022/09/24/the-umhlosinga-tree-the-fever-tree-nick-wood/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The White Necked Ravens of Camissa” Y1 - 2022 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - African author KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author AB -

Sequel to of 2022 Wood “The UmLosinga Tree (The Fever Tree)” in which the protagonist struggles with his past in concert with friends who are trying to destroy the dome described in the first story. 

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine UR - https://omenana.com/2022/12/23/the-white-necked-ravens-of-camissa-nick-wood/ U2 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - "Baartman" Y1 - 2021 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

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.

JF - Omenana Speculative Fiction Magazine VL - No. 19 UR - https://omenana.com/2021/10/31/baartman-nick-wood/ ER - TY - ABST T1 - Water Must Fall Y1 - 2020 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

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. 

PB - NewCon Press CY - Weston, Eng. SN - 978-1-912950-61-4 U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “Thirstlands” Y1 - 2017 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) ED - Phoebe Wagner ED - Brontë Christopher Wieland KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

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

JF - Sunvault: Stories of Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation PB - Upper Rubber Boot CY - Nashville, TN SN - ‎ 978-1937794750 9781911143956 N1 -

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

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - Azanian Bridges Y1 - 2016 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

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. 

PB - New Con Press CY - Weston, Eng. U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Paragon of Knowledge” Y1 - 2015 A1 - Nick [Nicholas] Wood (1961-2023) KW - English author KW - Male author KW - South African author KW - Zambian author AB -

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

JF - The Future Fire: Social Political & Speculative Cyber-Fiction VL - no. 33 UR - http://futurefire.net/2015.33/fiction/paragonofknowledge.html U2 -

Illus. Callum Bishop

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