Accidents happen in the strange realms of the African Union system. One of them sends two humans to the far side of a star gate in a thrilling short story of hope, survival, and new dimensions.
Co-pilots Msizi and Tariro are testing a newly constructed wormhole jump that presumably leads to unsettled habitable worlds. Then an explosion sends them off course, far from where they started and with little chance of ever making it back. Now they're stranded on their new home for the diaspora. It's called Malcolm X-b. But they're beginning to wonder how many light-years from civilization they really are.
C.T. Rwizi's These Alien Skies is part of Black Stars, a multi-dimensional collection of speculative fiction from Black authors. Each story is a world much like our own. Read or listen to them in a single sitting.
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Our transit through the Einstein-Rosen bridge from the Mahali system is only several minutes long.
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(Amazon Original Stories, 31 August 2021, ebook, 25 pages, borrowed from @AmazonKindle, #PrimeReading)
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This is a new author for me. I really enjoyed These Alien Skie. The story has quite dark undertones and the more I read the story and got into the world Msizi and Tariro find themselves in the more unsettled I became. There's a sense of menace running through the pages even though the species they encounter appear welcoming at first. I enjoyed the world-building in the story and would have liked to spend hundreds of pages on Malcolm X-b with Msizi and Tariro. I really enjoyed this.
