TY - BOOK AU - Newland,Courttia TI - Cosmogramma SN - 1617759783 PY - 2021///] CY - Brookly, NY PB - Akashic Books KW - Speculative fiction KW - Short stories KW - lcgft KW - Science fiction KW - Apocalyptic fiction N1 - "Published in Great Britain by Canongate Books"--Title page verso; Percipi --; Cirrostratus --; Scarecrow --; Cosmogramma --; Buck --; Control --; You meets you --; Seed --; Dark matters --; Nocturne --; Nommo --; The Sankofa principle --; Link --; The difference between me and you --; Utoma N2 - "In his exquisite first collection of speculative fiction, Courttia Newland envisages an alternate future as lived by the African diaspora. Kill parties roam the streets of a post-apocalyptic world; a matriarchal race of mer creatures depends on interbreeding with mortals to survive; mysterious seeds appear in cities across the world, growing into the likeness of people in their vicinity. Through transfigured bodies and impossible encounters, Newland brings a sharp, fresh eye to age-old themes of the human capacity for greed, ambition, and self-destruction, but ultimately of our strength and resilience"--Inside jacket ER -