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Nnedi Okorafor
"An intimate glimpse into the life of a teenager whose coming of age will herald a new age for her world. Set in the universe Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor first…
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Amazon Editor's Pick, Best SFF September 2023 * The Strand, Science Fiction Pick of the Month October 2023
Deluxe, expanded edition of an out-of-print early novel from Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi…
Ursula K Le Guin
A companion to Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning Hainish novels--including The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed--Five Ways to Forgiveness tells the story of the planet Werel and its…
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Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns that she has latent magical powers which she and three…
"Her best work yet... about fame and family, culture and change, the power of story, the writer's life... and robots. This one has it all." -- George R.R. Martin
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Preorder now and receive the stunning DELUXE LIMITED EDITION while supplies last-featuring a special alternate cover design on the hardcover case, gorgeous sprayed edges, and exclusive endpapers. This breathtaking edition…
Multi-award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor presents a sweeping story about a disabled Nigerian American who writes a science fiction novel that becomes a global phenomenon - but at a price. A…
Set in the universe Africanfuturist luminary Nnedi Okorafor first introduced in the World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death, One Way Witch is the second in the She Who Knows trilogy
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Amazon Editors' Pick - August 2024 Gizmodo's New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Releasing in August Screenrant #1 Most Anticipated Book in Sci-fi Coming Out in August
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Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she’s albino. There seems to be no place where she fits. And then she discovers…
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In this gripping sequel to ‘What Sunny Saw in the Flames’, Sunny Nwazue must learn to master her magic powers, while uncovering the mysteries of the shadowy town of Osisi…
The stunning stand-alone prequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning Who Fears Death by the author of Lagoon.
Includes a brand-new Binti story!
Collected for the first time in a trade paperback omnibus edition, the Hugo- and Nebula-award-winning Binti trilogy, the story of one extraordinary girl’s journey from…
When everything goes wrong on a trip to the local market, AO, a woman with a ton of major and necessary body augmentations, must race against time across the deserts…
She left her home for the stars, but found more adventure than she bargained for. A tense and intimate coming-of-age story in space.
This brand-new sequel to Nnedi Okorafor's Shadow Speaker contains the powerful prose and compelling stories that have made Nnedi Okorafor a star of the literary science fiction and fantasy space…
Sandra J. Lindow
Provides the first book-length scholarly treatment of Nnedi Okorafor’s critically acclaimed fiction. Written for an audience that includes serious fans as well as scholars, this is an introduction to Okorafor’s…
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Following her journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, acclaimed sci-fi writer Nnedi Okorafor reveals that what we perceive as limitations have the potential to become our…
In a post-apocalyptic Africa, the world has changed in many ways, yet in one region genocide between tribes still bloodies the land. A woman who has survived the annihilation of…
Nnedi Okorafor’s acclaimed first novel that introduces a boy who can access super powers with the help of the magical Ikenga.
With the help of her friends, fifteen-year-old Sunny embarks on a mission to find a precious object and return it to the spider deity Udide, but defeating the guardians of…
Kabu kabu - unregistered illegal Nigerian taxis - generally get you where you need to go. The author takes the reader to occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations you didn’t…
An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death’s adopted daughter in this tale of community and female empowerment by Binti’s Nnedi Okorafor. She’s the adopted daughter of the Angel…
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It’s been a year since Binti left her home for the stars, but found more adventure than she bargained for.
In the midst of war Binti discovers unimagined aspects of herself.
A powerful journey from star athlete to sudden paralysis to creative awakening, award-winning science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor shows that what we think are our limitations have the potential to…
A star falls from the sky. A woman rises from the sea. The world will never be the same.
An award-winning literary author enters the world of magical realism with her World Fantasy Award-winning novel of a remarkable woman in post-apocalyptic Africa. Now optioned as a TV series for…
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Age range 4 to 8 What would you do if you woke up to find the shadow of a giant chicken passing your bedroom door? Go and investigate, of course!
Award-winning author Okorafor delivers the sequel to Akata Witch. SunnyNwazue and her friends from the Leopard Society travel to the mysterious townof Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle…
Born into post-apocalyptic Africa to a mother who was raped after the slaughter of her entire tribe, Onyesonwu is tutored by a shaman and discovers that her magical destiny is…
In West Africa in 2074, after fifteen-year-old "shadow speaker" Ejii witnesses her father's beheading, she embarks on a dangerous journey across the Sahara to find Jaa, her father's killer.
Aneka Brunssen
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: 2,0, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: Nnedi Okorafor’s novel ‘Lagoon’ is a work of speculative fiction…
Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
In the northern Ooni Kingdom, fear of the unknown runs deep, and children born dada are rumored to have special powers. Thirteen-year-old Zahrah Tsami feels like a normal girl–she grows…
What would you do if you woke up one night to find the shadow of a giant chicken passing your bedroom door? Go and investigate of course! A hugely entertaining…
