Let's Read and Discuss 'This World is Not Yours' By Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Join me to discuss 'This World is Not Yours' by Kemi Ashing-Giwa! This World is Not Yours by USA Today bestseller Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the perfect blend of S.A. Barnes' space horror and Cassandra Khaw's beautiful but macabre worlds. An action-packed, inventive novella about a toxic polycule consumed by jealousy and their attempts to survive on a hostile planet. After fleeing her controlling and murderous family with her fiancée Vinh, Amara embarks on a colonization project, New Belaforme, along with her childhood friend, Jesse. The planet, beautiful and lethal, produces the Gray, a “self-cleaning” mechanism that New Belaforme’s scientists are certain only attacks invasive organisms, consuming them. Humans have been careful to do nothing to call attention to themselves until a rival colony wakes the Gray. As Amara, Vinh, and Jesse work to carve out a new life together, each is haunted by past betrayals that surface, expounded by the need to survive the rival colony and the planet itself. There’s more than one way to be eaten alive (goodreads.com). Kemi Ashing-Giwa is an author and scientist-in-training. Her work includes The Splinter in the Sky, which won the Compton Crook Award and was a USA Today bestseller; This World Is Not Yours; and The King Must Die. Her short fiction, which has been nominated for an Ignyte Award and featured on the Locus Recommended Reading List, has been reprinted in Some of the Best from Tor.com: 15th Anniversary Edition, The Year’s Top Tales of Space and Time, and The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction. She is now pursuing a PhD in the Earth & Planetary Sciences department at Stanford (https://kashinggiwa.com/about/). 📅: Saturday, September 26th ⏰: 11 AM - 1 PM 📍: Qahwah House, 2869 Broadway Please RSVP only if you plan to come, and if your plans change, please update your RSVP! As this group grows, we want to make sure we can plan accordingly to provide a good experience for everyone. Three no-shows may result in temporary probation and/or removal from the group at the admins’ discretion.