If what gripped you in Africa Risen was how one collection could jump from ancestor-guided futures to folktale-haunted cities, you’ll love how New Suns gathers equally bold voices tackling everything from haunted space stations to intimate, land-rooted magic. The same way Africa Risen pairs a near-future political council with an ancestor-channeling intelligence and, elsewhere, conjures coastal spirits with sharp contemporary stakes, New Suns keeps surprising you—new voice, new lens, new world—while holding tight to that sense of cultural specificity and wonder.

You were drawn to the way Africa Risen reimagines folklore—water spirits, ancestor-messengers, tricksters—into fresh speculative modes. Black Leopard, Red Wolf dives even deeper: Tracker teams up with the enigmatic Leopard through forests of vampires, thieves’ cities, and griot-guarded secrets, where truth itself is contested. If those tales in Africa Risen that fused spirit-beings with perilous journeys stuck with you, James’s hallucinatory hunt—complete with blood-magic gates and memory-bending testimony—delivers that same mythic intensity at novel scale.

If you loved how Africa Risen let you step from one startling idea to the next—one story invoking a river deity, the next speculating about ancestor-linked tech—Kabu Kabu offers that same hit of discovery, story after story. You’ll hop a not-quite-ordinary taxi that slips between realities, meet deities who meddle in modern life, and find near-future riffs with teeth. That brisk, anthology-driven rhythm you enjoyed—new voice, sharp twist, lingering aftertaste—is exactly what Okorafor delivers here.

If the stranger, dreamlike stories in Africa Risen thrilled you—the ones where reality warps as spirits, aliens, or AI-ancestral voices brush against everyday streets—Lagoon channels that energy into an explosive first contact in Lagos. When Ayodele arrives from the ocean, the city tilts: roads roil, myths stir, and music, mobs, and marine beings all surge into a heady, uncanny mix. That same disorienting shimmer you enjoyed—where the fantastical feels both inevitable and unpredictable—is here in full force.

If the anti-imperial undercurrent in Africa Risen resonated—the stories reclaiming history, turning extraction-era wounds into futures with agency—Everfair offers a sweeping alternate Congo where revolutionaries, refugees, and inventors build aircanoes and a new society to defy Leopold’s rule. As in those Africa Risen pieces where resistance couples with spirituality or clever tech, Shawl’s cast navigates culture, creed, and power while asking who the future truly serves.