The Book of Lost Saints
A ghost narrating family history.
Speculative fiction from across the world, catalogued by region and — where the connection is documented — by the storytelling or cosmological tradition it draws from.
60 works 36 regions 13 linked to a tradition
A ghost narrating family history.
Alternate history of the Congo.
Cyclical planetary catastrophe. The Broken Earth trilogy structures history as recurrence rather than progress.
Speculative stories rooted in Delta and diaspora traditions.
A century of speculative fiction from the African diaspora.
Water-breathing descendants of pregnant women thrown from slave ships. Memory held by one historian for all.
Stories moving between Chinese tradition and speculative form.
A Himba girl leaves for a galactic university. Otjize, ancestry and mathematics as one system.
A curse across five centuries of Ganda history. Cyclical return rather than linear resolution.
First contact through the Cultural Revolution. Cosmic sociology as its central idea.
The Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy concludes at cosmological scale.
A city that folds itself into shifts by class.
Contemporary Chinese SF in translation.
A second volume of Chinese SF in translation.
Earth moved from its orbit.
Two worlds running in parallel.
Structural inversion — the crime is known, the shape is not.
A post-scarcity health state and the cost of harmony.
Calendrical warfare — reality shaped by which calendar is observed.
Transformation as refusal.
An ocean that cannot be understood on human terms.
Alien visitation as litter.
An experiment city with no explanation.
The dystopia that preceded the genre's canon.
A long-running series collecting world SF.
The anthology that named Indigenous futurism.
Latin American and Spanish science fiction anthologised.
A Maya death god in Jazz Age Mexico. Xibalba as a real place reached by road.
Colonial horror in the Mexican highlands.
Magic worked through vinyl records in 1980s Mexico City.
Epic fantasy built on pre-Columbian American cultures rather than medieval Europe.
A body assembled from bombing victims.
Iraqi writers imagining 2103.
Palestinian writers imagining 2048.
Class-segregated Egypt in 2023.
Bureaucratic authoritarianism as a queue that never moves.
A northern Anishinaabe community after the grid fails.
Post-flood Dinétah. Diné monsterslayer tradition drives the structure.
Raising the ghosts of animals.
Indigenous people hunted for their bone marrow, which holds dreams.
Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer speculative fiction.
Colonisation retold as science fiction.
Interstellar war and Indigenous conscription.
Ancestral inheritance and the whale-rider tradition.
Māori and Pasifika writing including speculative work.
The first pan-African science fiction anthology.
Cannibalism legalised after an animal plague.
Speculative autobiography.
South Asian SF collected.
Counter-science and knowledge held outside the record.
Shapeshifters across Mughal India.
Dystopia after the elimination of women.
Epic fantasy on a West-Africa-inspired continent.
First contact in Lagos. Multiple voices including a swordfish and a road deity.
An alien biodome in Nigeria. Xenosphere as a shared psychic layer.
Rosewater and its sequels.
An abiku spirit-child who keeps returning. Yoruba cosmology as narrative physics.
Orisha fallen into Lagos. Yoruba pantheon as urban fantasy.
Abiku twin mythology in a contemporary frame.
Post-apocalyptic Africa. Draws on Igbo and Sudanese cultural material; the structure moves through initiation rather than escalation.
Nothing matches that.
The tradition field is filled only where the connection is documented or stated by the author. Where it is empty, no claim is being made.