6/27/2023 0 Comments Riot Baby by Tochi Onyebuchi![]() ![]() ![]() If the best of science fiction and speculative fiction involve taking a familiar world and changing one detail in order to explore broader truths about human experience – both good and bad – Tochi Onyebuchi masterfully accomplishes that goal.īut "Riot Baby" goes far beyond the counterfactual and the speculative premise of, "What if black people gained superpowers, and then what happens?" Onyebuchi's depiction of a black American with god-like powers is a powerful meditation on black people's humanity and what it means to be fully human outside of the narrow and flattening expectations of the White Gaze. ![]() "Riot Baby" is a tightly written, provocative, and exciting exploration of humanity, race, justice, and resistance through a familial story about an African American brother and sister – and yes, superpowers. ![]() Stevens called the story "wholly captivating" in her review. Stark, sharp, and brutal." And Salon's Ashlie D. "Riot Baby" has also been praised for its "fantastical originality with his incredible worldbuilding and devastating prose. Tochi Onyebuchi's new book " Riot Baby" has been described as a "staggering story" and "political speculative fiction at its finest". ![]()
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