← Back to Sci-Fi rankings
Sky Full of Elephants cover

Sky Full of Elephants

Cebo Campbell · Sci-Fi

29 Pulse Score

Based on recommendations from independent creators

dystopian societypost apocalypticpolitical intrigue
dystopian
🌶️🌶️Mild — romantic tension, kissing, nothing explicit

#172 All Time

About this book

In this “bold and imaginative” (Tananarive Due) “truly powerful and riveting story” (Booklist) set in a world where white people no longer exist, college professor Charlie Brunton receives a call from his estranged daughter Sidney, setting off a chain of events as they journey across a truly “post-racial” America in search of answers. In a world without white people, what does it mean to be Black? One day, a cataclysmic event occurs: all of the white people in America walk into the nearest body of water. A year later, Charlie Brunton is a Black man living in an entirely new world. Having served his time in prison for a wrongful conviction, he’s now a professor of electric and solar power systems at Howard University when he receives a call from someone he wasn’t even sure existed: his daughter Sidney, a nineteen-year-old left behind by her white mother and step-family. Traumatized by the event, and terrified of the outside world, Sidney has spent a year in isolation in Wisconsin. Despe

Check your library

Books with similar tropes

Last refreshed just now