Shortlist For The 2022 NOMMO Awards Announced by the ASFS

The shortlist for the 2022 NOMMO Awards have been announced by the ASFS (African Speculative Fiction Society), an organization of African writers, artists, editors, and publishers in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and related genres.

The NOMMO Awards recognize works of speculative fiction by Africans, defined as "Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the broadest possible definition of speculative/fantastical fiction including horror, slipstream, interstitial, stories based on traditional beliefs, alternate history etc. An inclusive rather than exclusive term designed to include most especially any distinctively African forms that may develop."

The awards take their name from Dogon cosmology, and the ancestral spirits / deities who take a variety of forms, including appearing on land as fish, walking on their tails.

Best Novel (The Ilube Nommo Award for Best Speculative Fiction Novel by an African)

• THEY MADE US BLOOD AND FURY by Cheryl S Ntumy (Amazon KDP, 2021)
• THE GILDED ONES by Namina Forna (Delacorte Press, 2021)
• SON OF THE STORM by Suyi Davies Okungbowa (Orbit US/Orbit UK, 2021)
• FAR FROM THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN by Tade Thompson (Orbit Books 2021)
• THE MADHOUSE by T J Benson (Masobe Books 2021)
• THE LIBRARY OF THE DEAD by TL Huchu (Tor Books 2021)

Best Novella

• THE FUTURE GOD OF LOVE by Dilman Dila (Luna Press, February 2021)
• NOT SEEING IS A FLOWER by Erhu Kome (Eraserhead Press, 2021)
• AN EXPLORATION OF NICHOLE OTIENO’S EARLY FILMOGRAPHY (1232-1246) by Kola Heyward-Rotimi (Strange Horizons September 2021)
• REMOTE CONTROL by Nnedi Okorafor (Tor/Forge, Tordotcom, 2021)
• THE ABOMINATION by Nuzo Onoh (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September-October 2021)

Best Short Story

• THE BROTHER by Makena Onjerika (Professor Charlatan Bardot’s Travel Anthology to the Most (Fictional) Haunted Buildings in the Weird, Wild World ed. Eric J Guinard; Dark Moon Books, 2021)
• SHELTER by Mbozi Haimbre
• O2 ARENA by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki (Galaxy’s Edge, November 2021)
• MASQUERADE SEASON by ‘Pemi Aguda (tor.com, March 2021)
• AND THIS IS HOW TO STAY ALIVE 1111 by Shingai Njeri Kagunda (Fantasy Magazine, November 2020)
• DREAMPORTS by Tlotlo Tsamaase (Apex Magazine, December 2021)
• THE MANY LIVES OF AN ABIKU by Tobi Ogundiran (Beneath Ceaseless Skies, issue 309 July 2021)
• AN ARC OF ELECTRIC SKIN by Wole Talabi (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, September 2021, Reprinted in Apex Magazine, April 2022)

Best Graphic Novel

• THE iJOURNAL - Awele Emili
• IYANU: CHILD OF WONDER VOL 2 - Roye Okupe, Godwin Akpan (YouNeek Studios/Dark Horse Comic)