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Stephen Embleton

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Born

Durban, South Africa

Website

http://stephen.embleton.co.za/

Twitter

https://twitter.com/spembleton

Genre

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Fiction

Influences

Wole Soyinka, Bessie Head, Nadine Gordimer, Iain Banks, John Steinbeck ...more

Member Since

September 2016

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/stephenembleton

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Stephen was born in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and is now a resident in Oxford, United Kingdom, since being the 2022 James Currey Fellow at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University. His background is Graphic Design, Creative Direction and Film.

His first short story was published in 2015 in the "Imagine Africa 500" speculative fiction anthology, followed by more in the “Beneath This Skin” 2016 Edition of Aké Review, “The Short Story is Dead, Long Live the Short Story! Vol.2”, the debut edition of Enkare Review 2017, The Bloody Parchment, AfroSFv3, The Kalahari Review, Burning House Press, Omenana Magazine, and The Shallow Tales Review. He was featured in Part 11 of the 100 African Writers of SFF on Strange Horizons.

His debut speculat ...more

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Stephen Embleton's Blog

BRITTLE PAPER FEATURE: Sauút Terrors

Thanks to Ainehi Edoro and Brittle Paper (from the start of this Sauúti journey) for this Sauúti Terrors feature and the opportunity to go into the Sauúti Collective more deeply.

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We covered building a shared African sci-fi/fantasy world from scratch, the five planets, two suns, sound magic, and our Story Bible that lets writers step in and create.

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Stephen Embleton’s books

Average rating: 3.84 · 91 ratings · 32 reviews · 8 distinct works

	AfroSFv3 by Ivor W. Hartmann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.L. Huchu, Cristy Zinn (Goodreads Author) 3.64 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Soul Searching 3.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MOTHERSOUND: The Sauútiverse Anthology by Wole Talabi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author), Tobias S. Buckell (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imagine Africa 500 by Billy Kahora (Editor), Shadreck Chikoti (Editor), Bertan Selim (Foreword) 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sauúti Terrors by Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Cheryl S. Ntumy (Editor), Stephen Embleton (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bloody Parchment: Remains of an Old World by Nerine Dorman (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Brett Rex Bruton (Goodreads Author), Janine Milne 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bones and Runes really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The James Currey Anthology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Stephen Embleton wrote a new blog post BRITTLE PAPER FEATURE: Sauút Terrors Thanks to Ainehi Edoro and Brittle Paper (from the start of this Sauúti journey) for this Sauúti Terrors feature and the opportunity to go into the Read more of this blog post »
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Stephen Embleton and 46 other people liked Gerhard's review of It Doesn't Have to Be This Way: "Uh oh, there is a Fredric Jameson quote in the epigraph to the latest South African SF novel, that old sawhorse that “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than an end to capitalism”, I told my friend, a Professor of English at Unisa. Both of " Read more of this review »
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