New Books in Science Fiction — Tochi Onyebuchi, "Riot Baby" (Tor.com, 2020)

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Tochi Onyebuchi, "Riot Baby" (Tor.com, 2020)

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Tochi Onyebuchi’s Riot Baby (Tor.com, 2020) tells the story of two siblings—Ella, who is gifted with powers of precognition and telekinesis, and her younger brother Kevin, whose exuberant resistance to systemic racism earns him a one-way ticket to jail. Onyebuchi’s first novel for adults is as much a tale of the…

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