The Nga'phandileh Whisperer

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>2025 Foreword INDIES Gold Winner for Multicultural (Adult Fiction)</strong></p><p><strong>2025 </strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Foreword INDIES Finalist for Fantasy (Adult Fiction)</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Aurealis Awards Finalist for Best Horror Novella</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Shortlisted for British Fantasy Award for Best Novella</strong></p><p><strong>Longlisted for the BSFA Award</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When a precocious Guardian in Sector Z in New Inku'lulu-an elite space outpost-misuses her sound magic the Guardians punish her by stripping away her magical ability. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Chant'L is exiled to Savage Mound a sound island on planet Wiimb-ó. She discovers that magic is inborn never truly lost or taken and summons the Nga'phandileh creatures of unreality. But her magic is more than she bargained for.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Now the Guardians in Sector Z find themselves with a massive catastrophe they must not only keep secret but resolve.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A science fiction horror from an award-winning queen of Afro-Irreal genre bending.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A glossary of Bantu Afrocentric and authorly-crafted words complements this genre-bending cross-cultural novella. Something beautiful something dark in lyrical language packed with affection dread anguish and hope.</em></p>