(Cover Designer: Adam Auerbach ) I have a review of Adam Oyebanji's novel, Esperance , out in the most recent issue of Strange Horizons , which can be read at this link . Oyebanji's first novel, Braking Day , was a book which I was lucky enough to review for Strange Horizons back in 2023, and it was exciting to have the opportunity to return to this author's work and discuss what ultimately turned out to be a very different narrative. While Braking Day was a hard SF space opera that dealt with the social upheaval experienced by the crew of a decaying generational starship, Esperance is more of a surrealist modern-day crime thriller with sci-fi elements. The book's plot in part follows a police detective named Ethan Krol who, as the story opens, is assigned the task of investigating a bizarre murder. Concurrent to this story however is what at first seems an unrelated narrative following an enigmatic woman named Abi Eniola, who as her half of the novel begi...
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