Oware Mozaic

Book excerpt: Bram Stoker Winner for Best Young Adult Novel In the Metaverse, No One Knows the Dead Better than Feeni Xo The story is set on alternate Earth and follows the life of Feeni Xo, a teenage enhuman girl who wants to become an investigative forensic coroner. Similar to vampires, “enhumans” need human blood for sustenance but thanks to the creation of synthetic blood, don’t need to break enhuman laws by harming humans for survival. One night, coming home from a party, Feeni seems to kill a young girl. Her brother, who is a police officer, helps her cover it up, but when Feeni retreats to the metaverse to play a virtual reality game that uses data from police cold cases, she discovers the dead girl in real life is actually the younger sister of her neighbor, who also happens to be a police officer. Overwhelmed with guilt, she’s forced to help her neighbor investigate her sister’s death in a case that becomes ominous when they play the House of Oware game that’s been reprogrammed to kill every participant. *** Praise for Oware Mosaic “He is a brilliant writer, one readers and critics should be watching.” —Pete Nowalk, creator of ABC’s hit show How To Get Away With Murder “If you’re looking for a story that’s daringly imaginative, Oware Mosiac will scratch that itch.” —Alma Katsu, New York Times bestselling author of Red London “I loved, loved, loved this novel by Nzondi! Breath-taking SF adventure!!” —Linda Addison, author of How To Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend “Nzondi’s Oware Mosaic is real Afrofuturism, speculative fiction actually set on the continent itself. This is the future of SF, and the future is looking good.” —Steven Barnes, author of Lion’s Blood