A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick! A Best Book of the Year for Time NPR The Guardian
Gizmodo Portalist New York Public Library A Most Anticipated Pick for USA Today Bustle Buzzfeed
Goodreads Nerdist io9 WBUR Polygon The New Scientist Locus Award Finalist! Connecticut Book
Award for Fiction winner! Dragon Award Finalist! Legacy Award Finalist! 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 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. Delany and Station Eleven. In the 2050s
Earth has begun to empty. Those with the means and the privilege have departed the great cities
of the United States for the more comfortable confines of space colonies. Those left behind
salvage what they can from the collapsing infrastructure. As they eke out an existence their
neighborhoods are being cannibalized. 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. A
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.
