After the Flare: Book Two of the Nigerians in Space Trilogy [Paperback]

Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and Special Citation Winner
A catastrophic solar flare reshapes our world order as we know it  in an instant, electricity grids are crippled, followed by devastating cyberattacks that paralyze all communication. With America in chaos, former NASA employee Kwesi Bracket works at the only functioning space program in the world, which just happens to be in Nigeria. With Europe, Asia, and the U.S. knocked off-line, and thousands of dead satellites about to plummet to Earth, the planets only hope rests with the Nigerian Space Programs plan to launch a daring rescue mission to the International Space Station. Bracket and his team are already up against a serious deadline, but life on the ground is just as disastrous after the flare.Nigeria has been flooded with advanced biohacking technologies, and the scramble for space supremacy has attracted dangerous peoples from all over Africa. Whats more: the militant Islamic group Boko Haram is slowly encroaching on the spaceport, leaving a trail of destruction, while a group of nomads has discovered an ancient technology more powerful than anything Brackets ever imagined.With the clock ticking down, Bracket  helped by a brilliant scientist from India and an eccentric lunar geologist  must confront the looming threats to the spaceport in order to launch a harrowing rescue mission into space.In this sequel to Nigerians in Space, Deji Bryce Olukotun poses deep questions about technology, international ambition, identity, and space exploration in the 21st century.-Deji is well established in the NYC literary scene-Sequel to the first book we ever published, Nigerians in Space-Nigerians in Space developed a strong following that we can now build on-Outreach to major newspapers and literary websites-Outreach to Science Fiction / Fantasy reviewers and bloggers-Support from PEN and Center for FictionIn a deceptively slim novel, Olukotun (Nigerians in Space, 2014) orchestrates a complex dystol£Ý