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Ten years after the publication of Kirinyaga, the most-awarded science fiction book in history, comes this companion novella by 5-time Hugo winner Mike Resnick.

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.

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Hailed for his grandeur of imagination and superb worldbuilding, winner of and nominee for more than fifty awards for his outstanding work, Mike Resnick has rightfully won a place as one of science fiction's master storytellers. Now, in Kirinyaga, Resnick presents the haunting and utterly compelling tale of one man's utopia.

By the twentieth second century in the African nation of Kenya, polluted cities sprawl up the flanks of sacred Mount Kirinyaga. Great animal herds are but distant memories. European crops now grow on the sweeping savannas. But Koriba, a distinguished, educated man of Kikuyu ancestry, knows that life was different for his people centuries ago--and he is determined to build a utopian colony, not on earth, but on the terraformed planetoid he proudly names Kirinyaga.

As the mundumugu--witch doctor--Koriba leads the colonists. Reinstating the ancient customs and stringent laws of the Kikuyu people, he alone decides their fate. He must face many challenges to the struggling colony's survival: from a brilliant young girl whose radiant intellect could threaten their traditional ways to the interference of "Maintenance" which holds the power to revoke the colony's charter. All the while, only Koriba--unbeknownst to his people--maintains the computer link to the rest of humanity.

Ironically, the Kirinyaga experiment threatens to collapse--not from violence or greed--but from humankind's insatiable desire for knowledge. The Kikuyu people can no more stand still in time than their planet can stop revolving around its sun.

Deeply moving, swiftly paced, and profound in its implications, Kirinyaga is Mike Resnick's most triumphant work to date. His Fable of Utopia is the book every science fiction reader will want to own and savor for years to come.

Table of Contents

• One Perfect Morning, with Jackals (1991)
• Kirinyaga - (1988)
• For I Have Touched the Sky - (1989)
• Bwana - (1990)
• The Manamouki - (1990)
• Song of a Dry River - (1992)
• The Lotus and the Spear - (1992)
• A Little Knowledge - (1994)
• When the Old Gods Die - (1995)
• The Land of Nod - (1996)
• Author's Afterword

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1991. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collections The Alien Heart (1991), Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

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Hugo Award winning and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November 1988. The story can also be found in the anthologies:

• The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixth Annual Collection (1989), edited by Gardner Dozois
• The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993), edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery
• The New Hugo Winners, Volume III: (1989-91) (1994), edited by Connie Willis
• The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 45th Anniversary Anthology (1994), edited by Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Edward L. Ferman
• Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois

The story is included in the collections Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1989. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Seventh Annual Collection (1990), edited by Gardner Dozois, Nebula Awards 25 (1991), edited by Michael Bishop, and Future Earths: Under African Skies (1993), edited by Gardner Dozois and Mike Resnick. It is included in the collections Will the Last Person to Leave the Planet Please Shut off the Sun? (1992), Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998), New Dreams for Old (2006) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

Read the full story for free at the Baen website.

Hugo Award winning and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, July 1990. The story can also be found in the anthology The New Hugo Winners, Volume III: (1989-91) (1994), edited by Connie Willis. It is included in the collections Stalking the Wild Resnick (1991), Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, August 1992. The story is included in the collections Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1994. The story is included in the collections Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998), A Safari of the Mind (1999) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).

Locus Award winning and Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April 1995. It can also be found in the anthology Galileo's Children: Tales Of Science vs. Superstition (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collections Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some (2012).

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1996. The story can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fourteenth Annual Collection (1997), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collections Kirinyaga: A Fable of Utopia (1998) and Win Some, Lose Some: The Hugo Award Winning (and Nominated) Short Science Fiction and Fantasy of Mike Resnick (2012).