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Ivor W. Hartmann

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Ivor W. Hartmann is a Zimbabwean writer, editor, publisher, and visual artist. Awarded The Golden Baobab Prize (2009), finalist for the Yvonne Vera Award (2011), selected for The 20 in Twenty: The Best Short Stories of South Africa’s Democracy (2014), and awarded Bronze in the Jalada Prize for Literature (2015). His works have appeared in many publications. He runs the StoryTime micro-press, publisher of the African Roar and AfroSF series of anthologies. He is a founding member of the African Speculative Fiction Society, and on the advisory board of Writers International Network Zimbabwe.

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ZamaShort (short story series) (StoryTime, Ed. & Publisher, May 2025-)

AfroSFv3 (anthology) (StoryTime, Ed. & Publisher, December 2018)

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	AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers by Ivor W. Hartmann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nnedi Okorafor (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Sarah Lotz (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.95 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 2012 — 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 Apex Book of World SF 2 (Apex Book of World SF #2) by Lavie Tidhar (Editor), Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Anabel Enríquez Piñeiro 3.78 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 2012 — 9 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
	AfroSFv3 by Ivor W. Hartmann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), T.L. Huchu, Cristy Zinn (Goodreads Author) 3.70 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
	AfroSFv2 by Ivor W. Hartmann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tade Thompson, Nick Wood 3.58 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2015 — 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
	Afrofuturos by Suleiman Agbonkhianmen Buhari, Ivor W. Hartmann (Goodreads Author), Sheree Renée Thomas 3.23 avg rating — 26 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
	আগামী রাত্রির উপাখ্যান- সমকালীন আফ্রিকান স্পেকুলেটিভ ফিকশন by Wole Talabi (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Sudeep Chatterjee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nick Wood (Contributor) 3.95 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2023	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
	Something Wicked Anthology, Vol One by Joe Vaz (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Vianne Venter (Editor), Michael Bailey (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2006 — 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
	African Roar by Emmanuel Sigauke (Editor/Contributor), Ivor W. Hartmann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (Contributor) 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2010 — 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
	African Roar 2014 by Ivor W. Hartmann (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jayne Bauling (Goodreads Author), Obinna Ozoigbo it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2014	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
	Mr. Goop 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010	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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“She danced alone with her eyes closed, and seemed to move to a beat more powerful than what ears alone could hear.”
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“Look at the children of the land leaving in droves, leaving their own land with bleeding wounds on their bodies and shock on their faces and blood in their hearts and hunger in their stomachs and grief in their footsteps. Leaving their mothers and fathers and children behind, leaving their umbilical cords underneath the soil, leaving the bones of their ancestors in the earth, leaving everything that makes them who and what they are, leaving because it is no longer possible to stay. They will never be the same again because you cannot be the same once you leave behind who and what you are, you just cannot be the same.”
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