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Goliath: A Novel Hardcover – January 25, 2022
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A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick!
A Best Book of the Year for Time | NPR | The Guardian | Gizmodo| Portalist | New York Public Library
A Most Anticipated Pick for USA Today | Bustle | Buzzfeed | Goodreads | Nerdist | io9 | WBUR | Polygon | The New Scientist
Locus Award Finalist! Connecticut Book Award for Fiction winner! Dragon Award Finalist! Legacy Award Finalist!
"In this ambitious novel, dense with perspectives and social commentary, Onyebuchi dreams up disparate lives in a crumbling future America―with gentrifiers returning to Earth from space colonies and laborers trying to make a precarious living―while leaving room for moments of beauty and humor."―The New York Times, Editors' Choice
In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and ALA Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. Delany and Station Eleven.
In the 2050s, Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked.
A primal biblical epic flung into the future, Goliath weaves together disparate narratives―a space-dweller looking at New Haven, Connecticut as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover; a group of laborers attempting to renew the promises of Earth’s crumbling cities; a journalist attempting to capture the violence of the streets; a marshal trying to solve a kidnapping―into a richly urgent mosaic about race, class, gentrification, and who is allowed to be the hero of any history.
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Print length336 pages
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LanguageEnglish
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PublisherTordotcom
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Publication dateJanuary 25, 2022
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Dimensions5.74 x 1.36 x 8.47 inches
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ISBN-101250782953
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ISBN-13978-1250782953
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A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick!
A Most Anticipated Pick for USA Today | Bustle | Buzzfeed | Goodreads | Nerdist | io9 | WBUR | Polygon | The New Scientist
"In this ambitious novel, dense with perspectives and social commentary, Onyebuchi dreams up disparate lives in a crumbling future America―with gentrifiers returning to Earth from space colonies and laborers trying to make a precarious living―while leaving room for moments of beauty and humor."―The New York Times, Editors' Choice
"Goliath contains a sprawling collection of characters making their way across a future Earth―already abandoned by the wealthy―that feels vividly, grimly real. This is an arrival."―John Scalzi
“Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail.”―Leigh Bardugo
"A work of stunningly careful craftsmanship on every level. A vision of a future so plausible it’s frightening. Onyebuchi’s at his best here."―R. F. Kuang
“A big, bold future history. . . . Expertly orchestrated detail and scope . . . . a structurally ambitious novel . . . . Goliath is a giant achievement.”--The Guardian
"[A] sprawling work of futuristic science fiction...Onyebuchi’s tightly packed prose gives a look into the unimaginable desperation of living in a post-apocalyptic world."--Time
“A bleak but fruitful novelistic landscape.”--NY Mag
“Tochi Onyebuchi’s searing prose is an emotional journey in every sentence, and Goliathproves that he can take on vast systems of inequality on an interstellar scale.”--Gizmodo
“Harrowing, visionary. . . . it's urgent, gorgeous work.”―Publishers Weekly
"An ingenious premise: Onyebuchi suburbanizes outer space and makes battered, almost uninhabitable provincial America the frontier. . . . [He] showcases an impressive range. . ."―The New York Times
"Onyebuchi weaves together disparate tales about those living both on Earth and above it. And through those stories we question who gets to be the hero of any history. This is an epic of biblical proportions, the kind of sci-fi storytelling that feels ever more vital."―Nerdist
"With interweaving timelines and characters, this is a dense read that, like the best dystopias, critiques current political and social problems."―Buzzfeed
"One of our favorite SFF books of 2022 . . . Impressive in its scale, ambition, and range of voice, Goliath is a shattering work that is so much more than the sum of its parts.”―Polygon
“Goliath is a haunting and incisive look at a world that could very much be our own.”―Los Angeles Review of Books
“The premise is wry and au courant. In a lesser writer’s hands, it could lead to lazy and cynical caricatures, but Onyebuchi uses it only as a jumping off point into a deeper examination of the idea of home, and what we will do to get there.”―The New Scientist
“This brainy, brawny sci-fi story that uses futuristic concepts to comment on 2022 and eternal issues of class, disenfranchisement, and cold, hard capitalism.”―The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Onyebuchi's adult novel debut is a full sensory experience of language and imagery, readers are given a near-future world where race, class, and gentrification still drives the narrative, both on Earth and in the stars.”―Library Journal
"Onyebuchi masterfully pivots through a range of perspectives in nonlinear fashion to create this entirely believable landscape of future history."―WBUR
Praise for Riot Baby | An Alex Award Winner | Winner of the New England Book Award | A World Fantasy Award Winner | An Ignyte Award Winner | A Hugo Award Finalist | Nebula Award Finalist
“Onyebuchi’s voice work is magnificent, sharp and whipping. . . . This book recognizes that intimate knowledge of suffering can be a source of strength, can be sustaining as well as depressing ― that we can grieve the inheritance of generations of ancestors’ pain while marveling at their endurance, and recognize that resilience as part of their legacy.”―The New York Times
“Riot Baby bursts at the seams of story with so much fire, passion and power that in the end it turns what we call a narrative into something different altogether.”―Marlon James
“Onyebuchi has woven a story as uplifting as it is heartbreaking, an epic ode to the future and past, tiny acts of resistance, love, and the wild unstoppable sweep of revolution.”―Daniel José Older
“Equal parts provocative and riveting, Riot Baby is what all speculative fiction should strive to be: wholly captivating.”―Salon
“At its core, Riot Baby’s about sibling love, broken communities, loss, sacrifice and harnessing one’s power to break free. . . . An experience and an absolute must-read.”―FIYAH
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- Publisher : Tordotcom (January 25, 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 336 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1250782953
- ISBN-13 : 978-1250782953
- Item Weight : 14.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.74 x 1.36 x 8.47 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #862,858 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Tochi Onyebuchi is the award-winning author of Goliath; Riot Baby, winner of the World Fantasy Award and a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Awards; the Beasts Made of Night series; the War Girls series; Marvel’s Black Panther: Legends limited series; and the nonfiction book (S)kinfolk.
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I read Tochi Onyebuchi because I am personally and abidingly angry at the American quote-on-quote justice system in ways that middle-class white people mostly don't talk about. (Grand sweep of ideas? Yes. Background-radiation family trauma? Not so much.) This puts me in an odd position as a reviewer, because on one hand there are huge swathes of this book that are familiar in the sense of familial, and on the other hand I'm white and this book isn't for me, in ways it makes painstakingly clear.
This book is also not for Jonathan. That might be less obvious, because Jonathan is a prominent viewpoint character, especially in the early sections. Jonathan grew up on a space station, safely away from polluted, climate-crashing Earth, but he has working-class New Haven roots, and he yearns to go back. He also yearns for his boyfriend David.
Basic English-lit-class training tells you that if you're reading a book called Goliath about characters named David and Jonathan, tragedy is coming. This is perfectly true. Goliath is a tragedy in the technical sense--someday, a high school student is going to write an essay on hubris and catharsis in this novel, and when they do, I hope they get an A. But neither David nor Jonathan is the tragic hero.
At the center of Goliath are the stackers. Most of New Haven--the parts not under domes--will kill you if you're not wearing a breath mask. But the houses are still beautiful. A drone can reduce a house to its components in seconds. Then a crew of humans collects the lovely, weathered brick. It's tough, physical, satisfying work, if you don't think too hard about the symbolism.
In the space of a year, the team--Bishop, Linc, Mercedes, Bugs, Timeica, Sydney, and their colleagues--becomes a sort of family. Much of Goliath is a sort of literary collage, telling you who the stackers are, where they came from, what kinds of grief they carry, what kinds of grief are impossible to carry--and what they find that is beautiful, and what happens in the spring.
It wasn't.
Not recommended.