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The Splinter in the Sky
AuthorKemi Ashing-Giwa
LanguageEnglish
GenreScience fiction
PublisherSimon & Schuster
Publication dateJuly 11, 2023
Publication placeUnited States
Pages350
AwardCompton Crook Award (2024)
ISBN9781668008478

The Splinter in the Sky is the debut novel of American writer Kemi Ashing-Giwa. Written at 19 during the author’s sophomore year at Harvard University, the book was published by Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, in July 2023. It appeared on the USA Today Bestseller list and won the 2024 Compton Crook Award.

Reception

The Splinter in the Sky earning starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and BookPage. It won the 2024 Compton Crook Award and appeared on the 2023 Locus Recommended Reading List alongside Ashing-Giwa's short story "Thin Ice" in Clarkesworld Magazine.

The novel was highlighted as one of the best debuts of that year by BookPage and Booklist, and was named one of the best science fiction books of 2023 by BiblioLifestyle, and of July by Amazon and New Scientist. It was further featured in Ebony, Tor.com/Reactor, Ms. Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Gizmodo, Goodreads, Literary Hub, and Brittle Paper.

Critic Aigner Loren Wilson, writing for Lightspeed Magazine, called the debut "intriguing and enthralling," highlighting the "cultural divides, setting, and bigotry in the world in a way that mimics... what marginalized people from colonized cultures in the real-world face."

Natalie Zutter, writing for Reactor Magazine, wrote that Ashing-Giwa had discovered "inventive new ways to critique colonialism through a sci-fi lens, in a standalone novel that nonetheless has an eye toward a hopeful future." Though she noted that the novel at times "resembles a rushed tea ceremony," she concluded that "if you look into its figurative dregs at the end, you’ll still find a profound message that will stick with you long after you’re done."

References

  1. The Splinter in the Sky. 2023-07-11. ISBN 978-1-6680-0847-8.
  2. "Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy". Clarkesworld Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
  3. "Ashing-Giwa Wins Compton Crook Award". Locus Online. 2024-04-16. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  4. "The Splinter in the Sky". Kirkus Reviews.
  5. "The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  6. "Splinter in the Sky, by Kemi Ashing-Giwa". Booklist Online.
  7. Hubbard, Laura (2023-07-10). "Book review of The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa". BookPage. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  8. "Ashing-Giwa Wins Compton Crook Award". Locus Online. 2024-04-16. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  9. "2023 Recommended Reading List". Locus Online. 2024-02-01. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  10. "The 23 best debut novels so far in 2023 Archives". BookPage. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  11. "Top 10 SF/Fantasy & Horror Debuts: 2023, by Susan Maguire". Booklist Online.
  12. BiblioLifestyle (2023-01-13). "The Best 2023 Science Fiction Fantasy Books". BiblioLifestyle. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  13. "Best Books of the Month: Science Fiction & Fantasy @ Amazon.com". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  14. "The best new science fiction books of July 2023". New Scientist. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  15. Dixon, Delaina. "Required Reading: Colson Whitehead's Next Harlem-Centered Novel and Other Great Books To Read This July". Ebony. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  16. Orlando, Christina (2023-07-19). "30 More SFF Titles to Look Forward to in 2023". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  17. Strand, Karla J. (2023-07-07). "July 2023 Reads for the Rest of Us". Ms. Magazine. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  18. "PW Picks: Books of the Week, July 10, 2023". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  19. "62 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books to Put on Your Radar for July". Gizmodo. 2023-06-30. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  20. "Readers' 54 Most Anticipated Books of Summer". Goodreads. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  21. "The Big Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror Books of Summer". Goodreads. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  22. Zutter, Natalie (2023-01-04). "21 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward to in 2023". Literary Hub. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  23. "Kemi Ashing-Giwa's Sci-fi Debut The Splinter in the Sky is a Multicultural Space Opera". brittlepaper.com. Retrieved 2024-04-16.
  24. ^ Wagner, Wendy (2023-08-17). "Book Review: The Splinter in the Sky by Kemi Ashing-Giwa". Lightspeed Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  25. Zutter, Natalie (2023-09-25). "Kemi Ashing-Giwa's The Splinter in the Sky Gets Under Your Skin in a Good Way". Reactor. Retrieved 2024-12-04.

External links

  1. Excerpt of The Splinter in the Sky in Reactor.
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