“What the Dead Man Said”

Title“What the Dead Man Said”
Year for Search2019
AuthorsOnwualu, Chinelo
Secondary TitleSlate
Date PublishedAugust 24, 2019
ISBN Number978-1-5344-4959-6
KeywordsCanadian author, Female author, Nigerian author
Annotation

The story is set in New Biafra after rising seas obliterated much of Nigeria. The protagonist is a woman returning for her father’s funeral from what is left of Canada, where she and her mother, had moved. 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 507-22, with an editor’s note on 507; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 107-24.

URLhttps://slate.com/technology/2019/08/chinelo-onwualu-what-the-dead-man-said.html
Illustration

Illus. Franco Zacharzewski

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Nigerian female author living in Canada

Full Text

2019 Onwualu, Chinelo. “What the Dead Man Said.” Illus. Franco Zacharzewski. Slate (August 24, 2019). https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/chinelo-onwualu-what-the-dead-man-said.html. Rpt. in The Year’s Best Science Fiction Volume 1. Ed. Jonathan Strahan (New York: Saga Press, 2020), 507-22, with an editor’s note on 507; and in The Best of World SF: Volume 1. Ed. Lavie Tidhar (London: Ad Astra/Head of Zeus, 2021), 107-24. PSt

The story is set in New Biafra after rising seas obliterated much of Nigeria. The protagonist is a woman returning for her father’s funeral from what is left of Canada, where she and her mother, had moved. Nigerian female author living in Canada.