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Alien Stories
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Alien Stories Paperback - 2021

by Osondu, E. C

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Details

  • Title Alien Stories
  • Author Osondu, E. C
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 200
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher BOA Editions
  • Date 2021
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G1950774317I5N10
  • ISBN 9781950774319 / 1950774317
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5.2 x 0.6 in (20.32 x 13.21 x 1.52 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Science fiction, Immigrants
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2020048760
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.914

From the publisher

"A vital voice in the short story, telling us new truths with deep humanity."
-George Saunders

Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories.

These eighteen startling stories, each centered around an encounter with the unexpected, explore what it means to be an alien. With a nod to the dual meaning of alien as both foreigner and extraterrestrial, Osondu turns familiar science-fiction tropes and immigration narratives on their heads, blending one with the other to call forth a whirlwind of otherness. With wry observations about society and human nature, in shifting landscapes from Africa to America to outer space and back again, Alien Stories breaks down the concept of foreignness to reveal what unites us all as 'aliens' within a complex and interconnected universe.

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Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 03/01/2021, Page 0

About the author

E.C. Osondu is the author of Alien Stories (BOA, 2020), which won the BOA Short Fiction Prize; Voice of America (HarperCollins, 2011); and the novel This House Is Not For Sale (HarperCollins, 2015). He is a winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing and the Allen and Nirelle Galso Prize for Fiction, among other awards. He earned his M.F.A. from Syracuse University, where he was a Syracuse University Fellow. His fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, AGNI, n+1, Guernica, Kenyon Review, McSweeney's, Zyzzyva, The Threepenny Review, Lapham's Quarterly, New Statesman, and many other places, and his work has been translated into over half a dozen languages including Icelandic, Japanese, and Belarusian. He lives in Rhode Island and teaches at Providence College.