Kirinyaga

Across ten linked stories first published between 1988 and 1996, Mike Resnick builds a continuous narrative that reads much like a novel. At its center is Koriba, a Kikuyu mundumugu, a spiritual figure who serves as both healer and sage. Disturbed by how European technology has reshaped his people, he sets out to found Kirinyaga, a small world where the Kikuyu can live off the land and honor the god Ngai, free from outside technological and cultural pressure.

Koriba's experiment does not run smoothly. The colony faces trouble from within and from beyond its borders, and each crisis is explored in its own chapter. Taken together, the stories examine what a perfect society costs and whether one can be sustained at all.

The collection includes One Perfect Morning, with Jackals, Kirinyaga, For I Have Touched the Sky, Bwana, The Manamouki, Song of a Dry River, The Lotus and the Spear, A Little Knowledge, When the Old Gods Die, and The Land of Nod. Mike Resnick is an American science fiction writer.