Ten years after the publication of Kirinyaga, which Subterranean Press calls “the most-awarded science fiction book in history,” author Mike Resnick is writing a new novella in that world, to be titled Kilimanjaro: a Fable of Utopia. Subterranean will publish that novella as a 1,000-copy, limited, signed, numbered edition for $35 (pre-orders received by the end of 14 March can have it for $17.50).
For those who haven’t read it (either the book, or the stories when they first appeared separately in the magazines, mostly Asimov’s), Subterranean describes it:
The Kikuyu tribe of East Africa attempted to create a Utopia on the terraformed planetoid Kirinyaga, which was named for the mountain where their god lives. Things went wrong. Now, a century later, the Maasai tribe has studied Kirinyaga’s history, has analyzed their mistakes, and is ready to create a Maasai Utopia on the planetoid Kilimanjaro, named for the mountain where their god lives.
This is the story of that experiment.
To order, either early for the discount, or later, see this page. And for those who need to read the story, but don’t need to own the book, they’ll be publishing it in an upcoming issue of Subterranean Online.