![]() ![]() Okorafor's writing is even more beautiful than I remember it being in Binti, evocative and sharply elegant in its economy. There's more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor's work than in whole volumes of ordinary fantasy epics. Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor 4.5 (11) Hardcover 19.99 Hardcover 19.99 eBook 11.99 Audiobook 0. ![]() The details of world-building-including Binti's rich culture of origin, living spaceships, and maths that read almost like music-are complex and fascinating -Veronica Roth ![]() Her worlds open your mind to new things, always rooted in the red clay of reality. Nnedi Okorafor writes glorious futures and fabulous fantasies. This imaginative, thought-provoking story uses elements of the fantastic to investigate the complexities of gender and community outside of a European, colonial imagination. Okorafor builds a stunning landscape of futuristic technology and African culture, with prose that will grab readers from the first sentence. Her childrens book Long Juju Man won the 2007-08 Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa, and her adult novel Who Fears Death was a Tiptree Honor Book. I implore you to discover this lovely, captivating story for yourself. Nnedi Okorafor, born to Igbo Nigerian parents in Cincinnati, Ohio on April 8, 1974, is an author of fantasy and science fiction for both adults and younger readers. KirkusĪ beautiful, sad, enthralling novella set in a futuristic Africa, Remote Control is a refreshing oasis of creativity. A captivating world, a tragic tale, and a dangerous future. has a rare ability to open the reader's mind to various futures while creating complex characters and communities. ![]()
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