“The Liminal Books deserve a place on the bookshelf alongside ambitious fantasy series like Marlon James’s Dark Star Trilogy and N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy. Big, ambitious, wildly inventive and full of heart. Heroes of an Unknown World displays the voice and verve that are staples of Ayize Jama-Everett’s work. Dive in, you will love what you discover.”
—Victor LaValle, author of The Changeling
“Ayize Jama-Everett is a towering talent and one of the best
genre-writers working today. His final installment of his masterfully
told Liminal Series; Heroes of an Unknown World is a taut, textured feast for the minds of any ravenous reader who’s looking for something fresh and exciting to experience.”
— John Jennings, co-author of My Superhero is Black
“A rollicking, irreverent action sci-fi filled with anime-esque
feats, a deep appreciation for culture, and sparkling humanity.
Jama-Everett’s final book in the Liminal series is the kind of grandiose
battle against despair I’ll gladly sign up for. Put on your favorite
record, crack this one open, and tell the darkness: ‘Get out!’”
— Elwin Cotman, author of Dance on Saturday
“Therapist and theologian Jama-Everett takes his group of Black
superheroes from 1970s London to contemporary Morocco in the fascinating
and action-packed final Liminal novel (after The Liminal War). . . . Series fans and new readers
alike are sure to be drawn in.” — Publishers Weekly
Praise for Ayize Jama-Everett's Liminal Novels
“Like Ursula K. Le Guin and Octavia Butler before him, Jama-Everett has a
knack for braiding issues of spirituality and race throughout a
compelling fantasy landscape.”—Leilani Clark, KQED
“In Ayize Jama-Everett’s The Liminal War, the family one chooses is just as important as the one a person is born into.”—Nancy Hightower, Washington Post
“A vitality to the voice and a weirdness that, while not always controlled or intentional, is highly appealing for just that reason.”—Charles Yu, New York Times Book Review
“Rooted in Chabi’s voice, the story is spare, fierce, and rich, and readers will care just as much about the delicate, damaged relationship between Chabi and her mother as the threat of world destruction.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A fun and fast-paced thriller. Recommended for: Mutants, misfits, anyone who’s ever felt partway between one thing and another.”—The Ladies of Comicazi
“You’ll be sucked into a fast-paced story about superpowered people struggling for control of the underground cultures they inhabit. . . . The novel is a damn good read. It’s a smart actioner that will entertain you while also enticing you to think about matters beyond the physical realm.”—Annalee Newitz, io9
“A great piece of genre fiction. But picking which genre to place it in isn’t easy. The first in a planned series, it’s got the twists and taut pacing of a thriller, the world-warping expansiveness of a fantasy yarn, and even the love-as-redemption arc of a romance. Oh yeah, a lot of the characters in it have superhuman powers, too.”—The Rumpus
“The action sequences are smartly orchestrated, but it is Taggert’s quest to retrieve his own soul that gives The Liminal People its oomph. Jama-Everett has done a stellar job of creating a setup that promises even greater rewards in future volumes.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“The story’s setup . . . takes next to no time to relate in Jama-Everett’s brisk prose. With flat-voiced, sharp-edged humor reminiscent of the razors his fellow thugs wear around their necks, Taggert claims to read bodies ‘the way pretentious East Coast Americans read The New Yorker ... I’ve got skills,’ he adds. ‘What I don’t have is patience.’”—Nisi Shawl, The Seattle Times
“Every once in awhile, a first novel catches you by surprise. Sometimes it’s the style and sometimes it’s the pure originality or unique mixing of influences. In the case of Ayize Jama-Everett’s The Liminal People, the pleasure comes from all of the above.”—Jeff VanderMeer, Omnivoracious
“Razor. Plush. Fast.”—Tân, City Lights Books
“Ayize Jama-Everett has brewed a voodoo cauldron of Sci-Fi, Romance, Crime, and Superhero Comic, to provide us with a true gestalt of understanding, offering us both a new definition of “family” and a world view on the universality of human conduct. The Liminal People—as obviously intended—will draw different reactions from different readers. But none of them will stop reading until its cataclysmic ending.”—Andrew Vachss
“Ayize’s imagination will mess with yours, and the world won’t ever look quite the same again.”—Nalo Hopkinson
“The Liminal People has the pleasures of classic sf while being astonishingly contemporary and savvy.”—Maureen F. McHugh
