James Nicoll Reviews

2025’s The Memory of the Ogisi is the third volume in Moses Ose Utomi’s secondary universe fantasy series, The Forever Desert.

The scholars of the City of a Thousand Stories’ scholars are called ogisi. Most of them focus on tales of Obasa the Wise. Ogisi Ethike has long studied the insignificant Osi, a choice that has made Ethike something of a pariah.

Ethike’s diligent research is rewarded with revelation.

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The Truth of the Aleke is the second and apparently final volume of Moses Ose Utomi’s secondary-universe fantasy series, Forever Desert.

Thanks to its Peacekeepers and Truthseekers, The City of Truth has withstood the Cult of Tutu’s relentless attacks for centuries. Now, it falls to resolute teenage Junior Peacekeeper Osi to end the conflict.

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The Lies of the Ajungo is the first volume in Moses Ose Utomi’s debut novella; it is the first entry in his projected Forever Desert series.

Faced with an unending drought, the people of a desperate city accepted aid from the Ajungo Empire. The Empire provided just enough water to sustain life, or perhaps a smidgen less. There was, of course, a price.

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