The novel explores themes of race, class, gentrification, and who gets to be considered a hero in history, creating a mosaic of urgent and richly layered narratives. It follows a space-dweller who hopes to reconnect with his troubled lover in New Haven, Connecticut, a group of laborers striving to revitalize Earth's decaying cities, a journalist capturing the violence on the streets, and a marshal investigating a kidnapping. "Goliath" is a futuristic, biblical epic that interweaves different storylines.
The abandoned cities are being stripped for resources, with houses dismantled and sent to space as a reminder of the destruction caused by those who left.
In the 2050s, Earth is experiencing a mass exodus as those who are privileged and wealthy leave the crumbling cities of the United States for space colonies. It is his first adult science fiction novel and it was published on 25 January 2022 by Tor Books.
Brick by brick, their houses are sent to the colonies, what was once a home now a quaint reminder for the colonists of the world that they wrecked.Ī primal biblical epic flung into the future, Goliath weaves together disparate narratives-a space-dweller looking at New Haven, Connecticut as a chance to reconnect with his spiraling lover a group of laborers attempting to renew the promises of Earth's crumbling cities a journalist attempting to capture the violence of the streets a marshal trying to solve a kidnapping-into a richly urgent mosaic about race, class, gentrification, and who is allowed to be the hero of any history.Goliath is a 2022 science fiction novel by Nigerian American writer Tochi Onyebuchi. As they eke out an existence, their neighborhoods are being cannibalized. Those left behind salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. In his adult novel debut, Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and NAACP Image Award finalist and ALA Alex and New England Book Award winner Tochi Onyebuchi delivers a sweeping science fiction epic in the vein of Samuel R. "In this ambitious novel, dense with perspectives and social commentary, Onyebuchi dreams up disparate lives in a crumbling future America-with gentrifiers returning to Earth from space colonies and laborers trying to make a precarious living-while leaving room for moments of beauty and humor."- The New York Times, Editors' Choice A Best Book of the Year for Time NPR The Guardian Gizmodo Portalist New York Public LibraryĪ Most Anticipated Pick for USA Today Bustle Buzzfeed Goodreads Nerdist io9 WBUR Polygon The New ScientistĬonnecticut Book Award for Fiction winner! Dragon Award Finalist!
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