ZELDA KNIGHT is a USA Today Bestselling author of spicy and diverse sci-fi and fantasy romances. She’s also an award-winning editor (Locus, British Fantasy & World Fantasy). Zelda co-edited Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora (Crowne Books, 2020) and Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction (Tordotcom, 2022), which have received critical acclaim. Africa Risen was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in 2023. Her hobbies include reading books and comics, raving to the grave, and ranting about her book boyfriends.
CHRONICLES OF ZAIRE
Omegaverse Mermaid Romantasy
Black Pearl by Zelda Knight
Book one in the Chronicles of Zaire series, featuring mermaids, mermen, sky pirates, and more in an epic fantasy romance with omegaverse elements.
ANTHOLOGIES
Africa Risen edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki & Zelda Knight
Winner of the 2023 World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology
Winner of the 2023 Locus Award for Best Anthology
A 2023 NAACP Image Award Nominee
A 2023 British Fantasy Award Nominee
A NPR Best of the Year pick
A Book Riot Best SFF of the Year pick
“[A] magnificent and wide-ranging anthology . . . A must-read for all genre fans.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
From award-winning editorial team Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, and Zelda Knight comes an anthology of thirty-two original stories showcasing the breadth of fantasy and science fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora.
A group of cabinet ministers query a supercomputer containing the minds of the country’s ancestors. A child robot on a dying planet uncovers signs of fragile new life. A descendent of a rain goddess inherits her grandmother’s ability to change her appearance—and perhaps the world.
Created in the legacy of the seminal, award-winning anthology series Dark Matter, Africa Risen celebrates the vibrancy, diversity, and reach of African and Afro-Diasporic SFF and reaffirms that Africa is not rising—it’s already here.
Dominion: An Anthology of Speculative Fiction from Africa and the African Diaspora edited by Zelda Knight & Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki
Dominion is the first anthology of speculative fiction and poetry by Africans and the African Diaspora. An old god rises up each fall to test his subjects. Once an old woman’s pet, a robot sent to mine an asteroid faces an existential crisis. A magician and his son time-travel to Ngoni country and try to change the course of history. A dead child returns to haunt his grieving mother with terrifying consequences. Candace, an ambitious middle manager, is handed a project that will force her to confront the ethical ramifications of her company’s latest project—the monetization of human memory. Osupa, a newborn village in pre-colonial Yorubaland populated by refugees of war, is recovering after a great storm when a young man and woman are struck by lightning, causing three priests to divine the coming intrusion of a titanic object from beyond the sky.
A magician teams up with a disgruntled civil servant to find his missing wand. A taboo error in a black market trade brings a man face-to-face with his deceased father—literally. The death of a King sets off a chain of events that ensnare a trickster, an insane killing machine, and a princess, threatening to upend their post-apocalyptic world. Africa is caught in the tug-of-war between two warring Chinas, and for Ibrahima torn between the lashings of his soul and the pain of the world around him, what will emerge? When the Goddess of Vengeance locates the souls of her stolen believers, she comes to a midwestern town with a terrible past, seeking the darkest reparations. In a post-apocalyptic world devastated by nuclear war, survivors gather in Ife-Iyoku, the spiritual capital of the ancient Oyo Empire, where they are altered in fantastic ways by its magic and power.