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Womb City

By Tlotlo Tsamaase
Womb City by Tlotlo Tsamaase digital book - Fable

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This genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid’s Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman’s right to her own body.

Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah’s perfect life is precarious. After a drug-fueled evening culminates in an eerie car accident, Nelah commits a desperate crime and buries the body, daring to hope that she can keep one last secret.

The truth claws its way into Nelah’s life from the grave. 

As the ghost of her victim viciously hunts down the people Nelah holds dear, she is thrust into a race against the clock: in order to save any of her remaining loved ones, Nelah must unravel the political conspiracy her victim was on the verge of exposing—or risk losing everyone. 

Set in a cruel futuristic surveillance state where bodies are a government-issued resource, this harrowing story is a twisty, nail-biting commentary on power, monstrosity, and bodily autonomy. In sickeningly evocative prose, Womb City interrogates how patriarchy pits women against each other as unwitting collaborators in their own oppression. In this devastatingly timely debut novel, acclaimed short fiction writer Tlotlo Tsamaase brings a searing intelligence and Botswana’s cultural sensibility to the question: just how far must a woman go to bring the whole system crashing down?

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302 Reviews

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Thumbs Up“Really enjoyed this read! The world building and concept is amazing, terrifying but amazing. The stakes are so high and I loved every second of it. Exciting the whole way through with so many twists and turns along the way.”
Thinking Face“This was a weird one. Genre bending is an understatement, as this story tackles and meshes *so much* into a (quite broad) story. It feels heavy handed for a dystopian, and disjointed for a sci-fi horror, but the give and take... did something unique and quite valuable. Def locking this down for a reread in a few years, and I really wish there were more forums about this book. I've got.... thoughts.”
Expressionless Face“Let me start by saying that I am very particular about my sci-fi, and this book just wasn't for me. I will admit that I was grateful to get a decent conclusion, but this story dragged on what seemed like forever. I wouldn't call it predictable... but I will say that some of the things eventually revealed were like..... really? That is way too much of a coincidence, and in that sense, it made the book feel....uninspired. Of course, I had to finish just because I made it past the 50% mark, but I don't think I would personally recommend this book to anyone.”

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