We’re thrilled to share the cover for Tobi Ogundiran’s In the Shadow of the Fall, the first of two novellas in the epic fantasy Guardians of the Gods duology. In the Shadow of the Fall is forthcoming from Tordotcom Publishing in July, 2024, with Book 2 following in Winter 2025.
A cosmic war reignites and the fate of the orisha lie in the hands of an untried acolyte in this first entry of a new epic fantasy novella duology by Tobi Ogundiran, for fans of N. K. Jemisin and Suyi Davies Okungbowa.
“The novella of the year has arrived!”—Mark Oshiro, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Ashâke is an acolyte in the temple of Ifa, yearning for the day she is made a priest and sent out into the world to serve the orisha. But of all the acolytes, she is the only one the orisha refuse to speak to. For years she has watched from the sidelines as peer after peer passes her by and ascends to full priesthood.
Desperate, Ashâke attempts to summon and trap an orisha—any orisha. Instead, she experiences a vision so terrible it draws the attention of a powerful enemy sect and thrusts Ashâke into the center of a centuries-old war that will shatter the very foundations of her world.
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In the Shadow of the Fall
Tobi Ogundiran is the British Science Fiction Association, Nommo, Shirley Jackson, and Igynte Award-nominated author of Jackal, Jackal, a collection of 18 wondrous tales of magic and the dark fantastic. His work has appeared in journals such as Lightspeed, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies; and in several Year’s Best anthologies. Born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria, he spent seven years in Russia, where he trained as a medical doctor, and now resides in Oxford, pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi. Find him at tobiogundiran.com
