NOW AVAILABLE: The Nga'phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon
We are delighted to announce the release of The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella by Solstice, British Fantasy, Locus, and Foreword Indies Award winner, Eugen Bacon!
We are delighted to announce the release of The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella by Solstice, British Fantasy, Locus, and Foreword Indies Award winner, Eugen Bacon!
About the Book
The Nga’phandileh Whisperer: A Sauútiverse Novella is a genre-bending science fiction, horror, and fabulism novella set in the Sauútiverse, an Afro-centric universe rooted in African mythologies, languages, and cultures.
When a precocious Guardian in Sector Z in New Inku’lulu—an elite space outpost—misuses her sound magic, the Guardians punish her by stripping away her magical ability.
Now Chant’L is exiled to Savage Mound, a sound island on planet Wiimb-ó, and grows increasingly vengeful—until she discovers that magic is inborn, never truly lost or taken. She channels energy from two spirit moons and reclaims her sound magic.
Chant’L summons the Nga’phandileh, creatures of unreality. But her magic is more than she bargained for when an uncontained trinity of the hive mind slips from unreality and brings peril to the federation of planets.
Now the Guardians in Sector Z find themselves with a massive catastrophe they must not only keep secret, but resolve.
A science fiction horror from an award-winning queen of Afro-Irreal genre bending.
A glossary of Bantu, Afrocentric and authorly-crafted words complements this genre-bending, cross-cultural novella. Something beautiful, something dark in lyrical language packed with affection, dread, anguish and hope.
Praise for The Nga'phandileh Whisperer
Here is a selection of review blurbs for The Nga'phandileh Whisper by Eugen Bacon:
“The Nga’phandileh Whisperer is mythic and ancient, feverish and insistent, lyrical and atmospheric, eerie yet enchanting—an enticingly strange exploration of the power of sound by a poetic storyteller.”
—Ai Jiang, Nebula and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Linghun
“The Nga’phandileh Whisperer by Eugen Bacon is bursting with imagination, culture, magic, and the mystique of distant worlds. This enchanting yarn blends science-fiction, fantasy, and horror to create a beautiful and timeless song.”
– Pedro Iniguez, Bram Stoker Award winner, and author of Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories
“Eugen Bacon is a master of using bold, evocative prose to guide the reader through a uniquely speculative world. It’s clear the author has selected each word with great care, artfully arranging them throughout the narrative with an almost musical quality that begs to be read aloud in order to fully experience Bacon’s own brand of sound magic.”
– P.A. Cornell, Nebula finalist author of “Once Upon a Time at The Oakmont” and Shoeshine Boy & Cigarette Girl
More Information and Where To Buy
We encourage you to order from your favorite bookseller! And should you need any purchasing links, we have some collected on the dedicated book page here:
Jendia Gammon
We are enthralled by the immersive, dreamlike, imaginative, captivating, resonant, and mythic world and words crafted by Eugen Bacon, who is one of the top speculative fiction voices of our time.
Ad astra per fabulas,
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Jendia Gammon, Editor-in-Chief
Gareth L. Powell, Managing Editor
Scarlett R. Algee, Associate Editor
Helen Glynn Jones, Editorial Assistant
