Nnedi Okorafor – författare

Nnedi Okorafors hyllade och prisbelönade Bintitrilogi äntligen på svenska. När den unga himba-flickan Binti antas till det prestigefyllda intergalaktiska Oomza-universitetet blir det början på ett äventyr inom den genre som Okorafor själv kallar för African futurism. Trilogin har tilldelats Nebula Award och Hugo Award. De två första delarna utkommer i juni och del 3 i september. Sagt Binti-trilogin: "Prepare to fall in love with Binti." Neil Gaiman "There´s more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor´s work than in whole volumes of ordinary fatasy epics." Ursula K. Le Guin Nnedi Okorafor (f. 1974) är en nigeriansk-amerikansk författare. I sina berättarteman blandar hon amerikansk kultur med influenser från västra Afrika. På svenska finns också Vem fruktar döden ( Palaver press, 2020). Boken tilldelades World Fantasy Award för bästa roman.

"Binti-trilogin är bättre än all sci-fi på netflix", skriver Rasmus Landström i Aftonbladet.

"Nnedi Okorafors trilogi om Binti innehåller så många märkliga saker att jag till slut tappar räkningen. Havande rymdskepp, högteknologiska jättemaneter, diamantkrabbor som studerar på universitet och män i gethudar som kör stålblanka rymdskepp. Det kan låta komiskt, som om C-3PO plötsligt skulle dyka upp runt hörnet med en ”babbelfisk” i handen. Men Okorafor talar med en stämma som är djupt allvarlig, till och med i dråpliga situationer. Den för tankarna till Ursula K. Le Guins intervjustudier av skogsfolk från främmande galaxer: en sorts antropologi i science fiction-form.

Okorafor är en nigeriansk-amerikansk författare vars böcker om Binti gjort sitt segertåg över världen. Den första delen, Ensam, kom 2015 och belönades med både Nebula- och Hugopriset. Därefter publicerades Hemkomsten 2017 och Nattens magiska mask 2018 – böcker som lovordades av giganter som Neil Gaiman och just Le Guin. I år har samtliga kortromaner översatts till välstämd svenska av Maria Lundgren. Det är bara att gratulera, för så här bra science fiction når sällan backstugor och torp."

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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 her home to distant Oomza University.

In her Hugo- and Nebula-winning novella, Nnedi Okorafor introduced us to Binti, a young Himba girl with the chance of a lifetime: to attend the prestigious Oomza University. Despite her family's concerns, Binti's talent for mathematics and her aptitude with astrolabes make her a prime candidate to undertake this interstellar journey.

But everything changes when the jellyfish-like Medusae attack Binti's spaceship, leaving her the only survivor. Now, Binti must fend for herself, alone on a ship full of the beings who murdered her crew, with five days until she reaches her destination.

There is more to the history of the Medusaeand their war with the Khoushthan first meets the eye.

If Binti is to survive this voyage and save the inhabitants of the unsuspecting planet that houses Oomza Uni, it will take all of her knowledge and talents to broker the peace.

But even if Binti achieves this remarkable feat, it's not the end of her story. For this lone Himba woman, now bonded with a Medusa and forever changed by this bond, still must find a way to survive and thrive at Oomza University amid swirling interspecies biases. And eventually, she must return home to test the strength of the fragilepeace she worked so hard to win.

Collected now for the first time in omnibus formand introducing a new Binti storyfollow Binti's journey in this groundbreaking sci-fi trilogy.

I ett framtida Ghana vandrar en tonårig flicka från stad till stad, med en skygg räv som enda sällskap. Det sägs att hon är Dödens adoptivdotter, och hennes livsförgörande krafter sprider skräck vart hon går. Hon har glömt sitt riktiga namn men kallar sig Sankofa – efter fågelsymbolen som påminner om att vi måste minnas det förflutna för att skapa en bättre framtid. 

Sankofa är på jakt efter föremålet som en gång föll ur skyn och gav henne en kraft som hon ännu inte riktigt har lärt sig att kontrollera. Alla hon möter på sin vandring är rädda för henne. Och dessutom verkar storbolaget LifeGen vara ute efter samma sak som hon . . .

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Recommended by New York Times Book Review - People - NPR - Rolling Stone - Los Angeles Times - Reader's Digest - and more!

"This one has it all." -- George R.R. Martin - "As delicious as it is disorienting." -- Zakiya Dalila Harris - "Suspenseful, timely, and heartfelt." -- People - "Mind-bending." -- New York Times Book Review

In this exhilarating tale by New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor, a disabled Nigerian American woman pens a wildly successful Sci-Fi novel, but as her fame rises, she loses control of the narrative--a surprisingly cutting, yet heartfelt drama about art and love, identity and connection, and, ultimately, what makes us human. The future of storytelling is here.

Disabled, disinclined to marry, and more interested in writing than a lucrative career in medicine or law, Zelu has always felt like the outcast of her large Nigerian family. Then her life is upended when, in the middle of her sister's lavish Caribbean wedding, she's unceremoniously fired from her university job and, to add insult to injury, her novel is rejected by yet another publisher. With her career and dreams crushed in one fell swoop, she decides to write something just for herself. What comes out is nothing like the quiet, literary novels that have so far peppered her unremarkable career. It's a far-future epic where androids and AI wage war in the grown-over ruins of human civilization. She calls it Rusted Robots.

When Zelu finds the courage to share her strange novel, she does not realize she is about to embark on a life-altering journey--one that will catapult her into literary stardom, but also perhaps obliterate everything her book was meant to be. From Chicago to Lagos to the far reaches of space, Zelu's novel will change the future not only for humanity, but for the robots who come next.

A book-within-a-book that blends the line between writing and being written, Death of the Author is a masterpiece of metafiction that manages to combine the razor-sharp commentary of Yellowface with the heartfelt humanity of Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. Surprisingly funny, deeply poignant, and endlessly discussable, this is at once the tale of a woman on the margins risking everything to be heard and a testament to the power of storytelling to shape the world as we know it.

"An ambitious, inventive tribute to the power of storytelling itself." -- Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure

"A deeply felt dazzle. A blaze. It is true deep to the bones." -- Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist and bestselling author of The House of Broken Angels

"There's more vivid imagination in a page of Nnedi Okorafor's work than in whole volumes." -- Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin and John Green are Nnedi Okorafor fans. As soon as you start reading Akata Witch, you will be, too!