Eugen Bacon's Blog
November 5, 2025
LibraryThing exclusive author interview!
LibraryThing: Author Interview: “In terms of Afrofuturism itself, there’s much discord about this term. It is for me, simply, Afrocentric representation in a kind of fiction that engages with difference. Afrofuturism is to reimagine Africa in all its diversity, to expand and extrapolate it through literature, music, the visual arts, religion, even philosophy. It is that which haunts imagination and transmutes itself into a craving for revolution.” Read the full interview at LibraryThing: Eugen Bacon.
October 12, 2025
Winner! Ignyte Award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction
Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction by Bloomsbury Academic has won the 2025 Ignyte Award for Outstanding Creative Nonfiction. Earlier this year, the edited anthology won the 2025 Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction. Congratulations to all contributors and finalists!
September 26, 2025
NOVIC – reviews, reveals!
See the NOVIC blog tour, insightful reviews and intimate articles!
Authortunities – interview: “I feel things deeply. I have short-term urgency, always.”
Big Indie Books – guest post: who to play Novic? “Michael David Brown has eyes to die for and Taye Diggs is a pure heart attack. We haven’t got to Idris Elba… Feels a bit hot in here, whadya reckon?”
TKentWrites – review: “Bacon’s prose is a character in itself—a poetic and unsettling force that wraps the reader in a haunting atmosphere… Novic is a beautifully disturbing gem.“
Volume 1 Brooklyn – article, ‘Collaboration: Nah, Yeah‘: “You can’t write or edit with someone you think is a boofhead, damn right. You gotta respect them.”
September 18, 2025
NOVIC blog tour – Collaboration: Nah, yeah
“Imagine you’re a fly on the wall in the writers’ room for The Last of Us. Even awesome, what if you’re one of the writers toughing it out, deciding if Ellie lives or Joel carks it, and how to reckon with Abby before she does anyone in? Putting in the yards with others can be ace in the right environment.” Read more.
See also: Eugen Bacon’s blog tour
September 8, 2025
Sauúti Terrors! Simon & Schuster
A powerful dark science fiction collection in a stunning edition, bringing back the revolutionary Afrocentric Sauútiverse. Co-edited by Eugen Bacon, Cheryl S. Ntumy and Stephen Embleton. Order now.
See also: Sauútiverse
September 1, 2025
The Nga’phandileh Whisperer is here!
Meet Chan’zu, our precocious protagonist in my latest Afrocentric novel set in the Sauútiverse. The Nga’phandileh Whisperer, out now by Stars and Sabers.
Cover image by Stephen Embleton
July 3, 2025
Cover reveal: MUNTU!
MUNTU is available now for pre-order with signed bookplates.
June 24, 2025
Locus, Shirley Jackson, Ignyte Awards!
Wowee! Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction has WON a 2025 Locus Award for Non-Fiction and has been nominated for an Ignyte Award. My collection A Place Between Waking and Forgetting has been announced as a Shirley Jackson Award nominee!
