"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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