The polluted, overcrowded earth, one and a half centuries from now, is dying. Benny de Vos discovers as a twelve-year-old that he was born in this future time and has been sent back by his scientist father in a time...
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Sixteen-year-old Alfeera Julies, living in the (fictitious) working class suburb of Flower Vale on the sprawling flatlands outside Cape Town, mentally creates an imaginary storybook world into which she escapes, peopling it with characters mainly based on familiars in the...
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Kim Hastings, a freelance editor living in Cape Town, undertakes a gruelling and lifechanging journey with her eleven-year-old son, Gregory, to the war-torn Horn of Africa, in search of the boy’s half-Somali, half-Arab father, Gregor, who has been missing since...
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Congratulations to PEN SA member Jill Morsbach, who has won the 2017 Nova Award for her story “The Last Baby”. Jill wins R2000 as part of the prize. The Nova Short Story Competition is [Science Fiction and Fantasy South Africa’s] annual competition...
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This is the story of a teenage girl living in a fictitious Boland village who is trying to come to terms with an adult world full of hypocrisy and lies. Her path to the truth is not made easier by...
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