“Tochi Onyebuchi was a wonderfully engaging and enthusiastic speaker for a diverse group of teen book club participants at several schools and libraries across the U.S. He was very generous with his time and attention and answered all of the teens’ questions. His shared anecdotes about his life and writing process, and offered advice and inspiration for the aspiring readers and writers in the room. Tochi’s sincerity and sense of humor shined through and made the readers’ experience with “War Girls” even more meaningful.” — American Library Association, 2023

“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

“Goliath contains a sprawling collection of characters making their way across a future Earth—already abandoned by the wealthy—that feels vividly, grimly real. This is an arrival.” — John Scalzi

“Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality, and brings a crumbling city and an all too plausible future to vibrant life. Riveting, disturbing, and rendered in masterful detail.” — Leigh Bardugo

“A work of stunningly careful craftsmanship on every level. A vision of a future so plausible it’s frightening. Onyebuchi’s at his best here.” — R. F. Kuang

“Harrowing, visionary. . . . it’s urgent, gorgeous work.” — Publishers Weekly

“An ingenious premise: Onyebuchi suburbanizes outer space and makes battered, almost uninhabitable provincial America the frontier. . . . [He] showcases an impressive range. . .” — The New York Times

“Onyebuchi weaves together disparate tales about those living both on Earth and above it. And through those stories we question who gets to be the hero of any history. This is an epic of biblical proportions, the kind of sci-fi storytelling that feels ever more vital.” — Nerdist

“With interweaving timelines and characters, this is a dense read that, like the best dystopias, critiques current political and social problems.” — Buzzfeed

“One of our favorite SFF books of 2022.” — Polygon

“Goliath is a haunting and incisive look at a world that could very much be our own.” — Los Angeles Review of Books

“The premise is wry and au courant. In a lesser writer’s hands, it could lead to lazy and cynical caricatures, but Onyebuchi uses it only as a jumping off point into a deeper examination of the idea of home, and what we will do to get there.” — The New Scientist

“This brainy, brawny sci-fi story that uses futuristic concepts to comment on 2022 and eternal issues of class, disenfranchisement, and cold, hard capitalism.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Onyebuchi’s adult novel debut is a full sensory experience of language and imagery, readers are given a near-future world where race, class, and gentrification still drives the narrative, both on Earth and in the stars.” — Library Journal

“Onyebuchi masterfully pivots through a range of perspectives in nonlinear fashion to create this entirely believable landscape of future history.” — WBUR