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3.5 

Lost Ark Dreaming

By Suyi Davies Okungbowa
Lost Ark Dreaming by Suyi Davies Okungbowa digital book - Fable

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"Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a scholar of place and a master of worlds—his grasp of how we are shaped by the spaces we occupy makes him one of the most exciting authors writing in SFF."—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six

A Most Anticipated in 2024 Pick for Goodreads | BookBub | She Reads | Men's Health | FanFiAddict | Screen Rant

A Library Journal May 2024 Prepub Alert Pick


The brutally engineered class divisions of Snowpiercer meets Rivers Solomon’s The Deep in this high-octane post-climate disaster novella written by Nommo Award-winning author Suyi Davies Okungbowa


Off the coast of West Africa, decades after the dangerous rise of the Atlantic Ocean, the region’s survivors live inside five partially submerged, kilometers-high towers originally created as a playground for the wealthy. Now the towers’ most affluent rule from their lofty perch at the top while the rest are crammed into the dark, fetid floors below sea level.

There are also those who were left for dead in the Atlantic, only to be reawakened by an ancient power, and who seek vengeance on those who offered them up to the waves.

Three lives within the towers are pulled to the fore of this conflict: Yekini, an earnest, mid-level rookie analyst; Tuoyo, an undersea mechanic mourning a tremendous loss; and Ngozi, an egotistical bureaucrat from the highest levels of governance. They will need to work together if there is to be any hope of a future that is worth living—for everyone.

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19 Reviews

3.5
Thumbs Up““Snowpiercer” meets “Babel” with a sprinkle of “The Shape of Water”. After reading many a post apocalyptic novel over the years, one big difference I’ve noted with people of color writing these stories and white people writing these stories, is POC writers have characters who know their choices will end in death or capture, while white writers always find a way to get their characters out of long term danger / suffering and somehow become heroes while they are still alive. To me, that’s seems pretty indicative of white privilege. We have the benefit of imaging that we might survive a fight against the ruling regime. But the reality for many who fight against their government / ruling powers is death or capture even if what they do ultimately leads to greater change later on. Very interesting read.”
Believable charactersEasy to readFast-pacedSuspensefulThought-provoking
“Probably closer to 3.5, Doing my best to not compare it to Snowpiercer (which is acknowledges) or Silo. I really like the characters and their motivations but I feel like we're left filling in too many gaps in the story from those prior arts. Filling them in isn't hard really but it being them missing doesn't seem to have a purpose and it shows the fabric of the story as starting worn; and if deeper meaning is expected from any part (the Children) then its going to be lost on most readers. I especially liked page 107 in the hardback and wanted more, I wanted to know why this mattered to the characters and not just me as a reader. "Every story you believe, that you incorporate within the self, decides who you are. And the greatest weapon against freedom is to believe stories that plant a seed in your heart yet have no place growing there."”
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Diverse charactersDescriptive writingTwistyThought-provokingPredictable
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Characters change and growDiverse charactersDescriptive writingDark settingImmersive settingRealistic settingDarkThought-provokingPredictableUnsatisfying plot

About Suyi Davies Okungbowa

Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a Nigerian author of fantasy, science fiction and general speculative work. His recent books include the novel Son of the Storm, first in the epic fantasy trilogy, The Nameless Republic. His debut godpunk fantasy novel David Mogo, Godhunter (Abaddon, 2019), won the 2020 Nommo Ilube Award for Best Speculative Novel by an African. His shorter works have appeared in various periodicals and anthologies and have been nominated for various awards. He earned his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Arizona, and currently teaches at the University of Ottawa.

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