Remembered Tomorrows
with Suyi Davies Okungbowa and Nalo Hopkinson
Hosted by Adrian Harewood
In Person Streaming Fiction
SFWA Grand Master Hopkinson (Falling in Love with Hominids) serves up a rich stew of folklore and history in this delightfully delirious fairy tale of a magical island resisting reconquest...A triumph.
Join Carleton University’s Adrian Harewood for a deep dive into the ways speculative fiction speaks to the present tense from possible tomorrows and imagined histories with two masters of the craft, Nommo Ilube Award-winner Suyi Davies Okungbowa and World Fantasy Award-winner Nalo Hopkinson.
Suyi Davies Okungbowa makes his Festival debut with Lost Ark Dreaming, a high-octane post-climate disaster novella, set off the coast of West Africa. Decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region’s survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometres-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Three lives within the towers are pulled to the fore of this conflict: Yekini, an earnest, mid-level rookie analyst; Tuoyo, an undersea mechanic mourning a tremendous loss; and Ngozi, an egotistical bureaucrat from the highest levels of governance. They will need to work together if there is to be any hope of a future that is worth living?for everyone.
The magical island of Chynchin is facing conquerors from abroad and something sinister from within in Nalo Hopkinson’s Blackheart Man. Veycosi, in training as a griot (an historian and musician), hopes to sail off to examine the rare Alamat Book of Light when fifteen Ymisen galleons arrive in the harbour to force a trade agreement. Bad turns to worse when malign forces start stirring, including the fearsome demon known as the Blackheart Man.
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