When I interviewed Dr Samatar in March of 2016, I said I thought it resembled a Restoration world, rather like the London of Samuel Pepys, with its newspapers, coffee houses, and cigars.ĭr Samatar: “I think the Restoration is a good guess! I sort of had the Ottoman Empire in my head-the Ottoman Empire of the Tulip Era, if the printing press had taken off. The empire of Olondria, and its capital city Bain, bear little resemblance to Africa. Indeed it seems to use literature rather like Tolkien uses his fictional languages-as a basis for speculation and world building. It has a map in front, and like Tolkien it gives us quotes from the literature of its world. This article was first published in a French version in Galaxies SF no 46 “Sp é cial SF Africaine.” The interview with Sofia Samatar took place in Ventura, California, USA in March 2016.Ī Stranger in Olondria by Sofia Samatar looks like a generic fantasy from the West.
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